Roach excrement and roach corpses on walls and employees not knowing when or how to wash their hands were among the reasons a popular West Miami-Dade Japanese restaurant failed inspection Wednesday.
Matsuri’s is at 5759 Bird Rd., in the Red Bird Center strip mall across Red Road from Coral Gables proper. If they needed, now management has something besides Red Bird Center rent to talk about with next door neighbor Milam’s Market, which failed its state inspection the week before.
But, where Milam’s is a supermarket, thus inspected by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Matsuri is a restaurant, so it gets inspected by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. A failed Ag Department inspection isn’t an automatic shutdown. A failed DBPR restaurant inspection gets you put in restaurant time out, as Matsuri was before passing re-inspection on Thursday…