Various animals, some insects and a few recidivist restaurants lowlight this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach metropolitan area.
Quick reminders: This list covers restaurants closed by inspection, and state inspectors do the inspecting. We don’t choose where they go or what they do. We don’t list every violation. You can file a complaint with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation about a restaurant you think should be checked.
We do this without passion or prejudice, but lots of humor and some judgment.
In alphabetical order…
The Breakfast Shack, 3469 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., Boynton Beach: Complaint inspection, two total violations, one High Priority violation.
Welcome back to The Shack, where the roach count dropped from last week’s 150 to this week’s 22, still enough to close The Shack on Jan. 18.
Behind a reach-in freezer, a little roach cemetery contained 10 dead roaches and five live ones, perhaps pouring out some for the homies who couldn’t be there. Three live roaches collected around the wheel of a kitchen cooler. Two dead roaches were next to a prep table with dry storage food items.