CUTLER BAY, FL. State inspectors walked into Yume LLC on South Dixie Highway on August 6, 2026, and found a restaurant serving fish without any documentation that parasites had been destroyed, a violation that puts every customer who ordered raw or lightly cooked fish at direct risk of infection.
That was one of nine high-severity violations inspectors cited that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The parasite-destruction violation is particularly acute for a restaurant that serves raw or lightly cooked fish. Fish served without proper freezing or cooking protocols can harbor Anisakis roundworms and tapeworm larvae, organisms that survive in the flesh until destroyed by sustained low temperatures or heat.
The food-source violation compounds that risk. When ingredients arrive from unapproved or unknown suppliers, they bypass federal USDA and FDA inspection checkpoints entirely. If a customer got sick, investigators would have no supply chain to trace.
Inspectors also found no shell stock identification records for shellfish on the premises. Oysters, clams, and mussels are frequently consumed raw, and the harvest tags required by state law exist specifically so health officials can trace a contamination outbreak to its source within hours. No tags means no traceability.
The restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory, the menu notice required when raw or undercooked animal products are served. Without it, customers with compromised immune systems, pregnant women, the elderly, and young children have no way of knowing they are ordering food that carries elevated risk.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled near food areas, a separate high-severity citation. Inspectors issued two distinct violations related to chemical storage, one for improper labeling and one for improper use or identification, indicating the problem was not a single misplaced bottle.
The five intermediate violations included multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, single-use items being reused, improper wiping cloth handling, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities.
What These Violations Mean
The parasite-destruction and unapproved-source violations together represent a compounded food-safety failure rarely seen in a single inspection. A restaurant serving raw fish from an unknown supplier, without documentation that the fish was ever frozen to parasite-killing temperatures, is presenting customers with a risk they cannot see and were not told about.
The missing consumer advisory makes that worse. Customers who are immunocompromised, elderly, or pregnant are the population most likely to develop serious illness from raw shellfish or undercooked fish. State law requires a written menu advisory precisely because those customers cannot identify the risk themselves.
The allergen-awareness violation adds a third layer. Food allergies send roughly 30,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year, and a restaurant where staff cannot demonstrate basic allergen knowledge is one where a customer with a shellfish or soy allergy is ordering without a safety net.
The dual chemical-storage citations, covering both improper labeling and improper use, indicate that toxic substances were not isolated from food preparation areas in the way state code requires. Mislabeled chemicals near food create an acute poisoning risk that does not require a large exposure to cause serious harm.
The Longer Record
Yume LLC Inspection History, 2023-2026
August 6, 2026, was not Yume LLC's worst inspection on record. January 30, 2026, produced an identical count: 9 high-severity violations, 5 intermediate. The restaurant has now hit that same severity threshold twice in seven months.
Across ten inspections on record, the facility has accumulated 95 total violations. High-severity citations have appeared in every single inspection since August 2023, ranging from one to nine per visit. The count has never reached zero.
The January 2026 inspection required a follow-up visit the very next day, January 31, at which inspectors still found two high-severity violations. The underlying problems that produced nine violations one day were not fully resolved within 24 hours.
Despite that pattern, 95 cumulative violations, high-severity citations in every inspection, and two separate inspections reaching the nine-high-severity mark, the restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
It remained open after August 6 as well.
