Melbourne bar and grill tops number of restaurant inspection violations

Rob Landers, Florida Today
·9 min read

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Florida's restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you.

For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Brevard County restaurant inspections site.

Here's the breakdown for recent health inspections in Brevard County, Florida, for the week of Dec. 4-10, 2023. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.

Disclaimer: The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation describes an inspection report as a 'snapshot' of conditions present at the time of the inspection. On any given day, an establishment may have fewer or more violations than noted in their most recent inspection. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.

For full restaurant inspection details, visit our Brevard County restaurant inspection site.

Which Brevard County restaurants got perfect scores on their health inspections?

These restaurants met all standards during their Dec. 4-10 inspections and no violations were found.

Note: The ** indicates restaurants that failed an inspection and aced a follow-up inspection in the same week

Which Brevard County restaurants had high priority violations?

China Garden

801 Dixon Blvd., Suite 1137, Cocoa

Routine Inspection on Dec. 6

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

15 total violations, with three high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Ran unit three times and primed unit, all at 0 ppm chlorine for the Dish Washing Machine, operator changed 5 gallon bucket with new product **Warning**

  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Observed server/ wait staff come from dining room after handling soiled items, and go to kitchen and start to cut watermelon without first hand washing and applying gloves, she then went to just apply gloves without first hand washing, and then went to hand wash in the prep sink, all were corrected and re-educated employee

  • High Priority - Food placed in soiled container/equipment. Observed Fresh broccoli on ice pulled from cases to remove ice before being placed in walk in cooler, broccoli was placed in drain sink of soiled dishes side of dishwashing area. Spoke with operator to change this procedure for removing the ice from the cases.

Crane Creek Reserve Golf Course

475 W. New Haven Ave., Melbourne

Routine Inspection on Dec. 8

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

12 total violations, with three high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. * hot dogs (48F - Cold Holding); cooked hamburger Pattie's (46F - Cold Holding); cheese slices (46F-48F - Cold Holding) **Warning**

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees, see stop sale **Warning**

  • High Priority - Warewashing sanitizing solution exceeding the maximum concentration allowed. 500++ ppm diluted water until reached 400ppm **Corrected On-Site**

El Tucan

225 Sykes Creek Parkway, Merritt Island

Routine Inspection on Dec. 4

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

Five total violations, with two high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Dish washer handled soiled dishes and then began touching clean dishes without washing hands

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In bus tub next to stovetop cook area. cut tomatoes (53F - Cold Holding)

Fujiyama Steak House Inc

5000 N. Wickham Road, Suite 111, Melbourne

Routine Inspection on Dec. 8

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

Seven total violations, with one high-priority violation

  • High Priority - Observed employee coming back in from outside and not washing hands before handling with food. Operator corrected and re-educated **Corrected On-Site**

Golden Dragon

291 E. Eau Gallie Blvd., Indian Harbour Beach

Routine Inspection on Dec. 6

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

14 total violations, with two high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw egg in bowl stored over snow peas in roll top cooler **Corrected On-Site**

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale.

Isle Bar and Grill

6800 Legacy Blvd., Melbourne

Routine Inspection on Dec. 7

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

17 total violations, with three high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw beef patty open package in reach in freezer stored over ready to eat fries and cheese sticks. Two-door reach-in freezer unit by back door, on bottom of unit, repackaged chicken, pork bacon and ready to eat gnocchi all stored together, corrected. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**

  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food marked with a date that exceeds 7 days after opening/preparation. See stop sale, fully cooked Italian sausage dated 11-28-23, 1/4 # discarded. **Warning**

  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. See stop sale. Fully cooked Italian sausage piece dated 11-28-23: today 11-7-23: .25 # discarded. **Warning**

Mugsy's

901-903 E. New Haven Ave. Melbourne

Routine Inspection on Dec. 7

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

Five total violations, with two high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. In walk in cooler raw fish and raw beef stored over ready to eat foods. In stand up reach in cooler to left of cook line. Raw chicken stored over queso and vegetables. Operator moved **Corrected On-Site**

  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. No vacuum breaker installed on hose bib next to cook line. No vacuum breaker installed on the non chemical side of the split at mop sink. Mugsys mop sink

The Dove III

836 E. New Haven Ave., Melbourne

Routine Inspection on Dec. 7

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

10 total violations, with four high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Dish machine at 0ppm **Warning**

  • High Priority - Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Dish washer handled soiled dishes and then handled washed dishes without washing hands

  • High Priority - Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. In reach in cooler nearest walk in cooler. whipped cream (52F - Cold Holding); mozzarella (52F - Cold Holding). Foods have been in unit over night

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In reach in cooler nearest walk in cooler. whipped cream (52F - Cold Holding); mozzarella (52F - Cold Holding). Foods have been in unit over night. SEE STOP SALE

The Outer Space

142 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach

Food-Licensing Inspection Inspection on Dec. 6

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

13 total violations, with one high-priority violation

  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw shelled eggs stored over pickles in walk in cooler. Raw fish and raw beef stored over cooked chicken in kitchen reach in cooler **Corrected On-Site**

Vine & Olive

3350 S Washington Ave, Titusville

Routine Inspection on Dec. 8

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

11 total violations, with one high-priority violation

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Tomato basil soup on cooling rack but was holding for immediate service 102-139, reheated to 192° within 15 mins **Warning**

What agency inspects restaurants in Florida?

Routine regulation and inspection of restaurants is conducted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Department of Health is responsible for investigation and control of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with all food establishments.

How do I report a dirty restaurant in Florida?

If you see abuses of state standards, report them and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation will send inspectors. Call the Florida DBPR at 850-487-1395 or report a restaurant for health violations online.

Get the whole story at our restaurant inspection database.

What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?

Basic violations are those considered against best practices.

A warning is issued after an inspector documents violations that must be corrected by a certain date or within a specified number of days from receipt of the inspection report.

An administrative complaint is a form of legal action taken by the division. Insufficient compliance after a warning, a pattern of repeat violations or existence of serious conditions that warrant immediate action may result in the division initiating an administrative complaint against the establishment. Says the division website: "Correcting the violations is important, but penalties may still result from violations corrected after the warning time was over."

An emergency order — when a restaurant is closed by the inspector — is based on an immediate threat to the public. Here, the Division of Hotels and Restaurants director has determined that the establishment must stop doing business and any division license is suspended to protect health, safety or welfare of the public.

A 24-hour call-back inspection will be performed after an emergency closure or suspension of license.

This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Brevard County Space Coast restaurant and food truck inspections