One St. Lucie County restaurant gets perfect score; 7 fail inspection

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

Here's the breakdown for recent health inspections in St. Lucie County, Florida, for the week of April 22-28, 2024. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.

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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 St. Lucie County restaurant inspection site.

Which St. Lucie County restaurants got perfect scores on their health inspections?

These restaurants met all standards during their April 22-28 inspections and no violations were found.

** Restaurants that failed an inspection and aced a follow-up inspection in the same week

Which St. Lucie County restaurants had high priority violations?

Bagel Brothers Of New York Inc

10802 SW Tradition Pkwy, Port St Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 22

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

21 total violations, with 4 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Employee switched from working with raw food to ready-to-eat food without washing hands. Employee cooking with raw eggs.

  • High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. 3 flys by storage areas 2 flys in dinning area. **Warning**

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. cheese shredded 45f cold holding

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. sausage patties 97f hot holding, manager is adding to time plan

Frank and Al's Pizza

2088 NW Courtyard Cir, Port St Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 26

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

18 total violations, with 6 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - 1 live fly on cook line not landing on food. 2 live flies in mop sink area. 4 live flies in the dish washing area.

  • 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. 0 ppm

  • 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. **Corrected On-Site**

  • High Priority - Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license.

  • High Priority - Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse.

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees shredded cheese (46F - Cold Holding); meatballs (47F - Cold Holding); sausages (46F - Cold Holding); ricotta (45F - Cold Holding); (45F); pizza sauce (46F - Cold Holding)

La Granja Chicken Steak and Seafood

10814 SW Tradition Pkwy, Port St. Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 22

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

7 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. 6 live flies near prep / storage area. **Warning**

  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Fish over chicken, and eggs over raw beef

La Granja Chicken Steak and Seafood

10814 SW Tradition Pkwy, Port St. Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 23

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

3 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - - From initial inspection : High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. 6 live flies near prep / storage area. **Warning** - From follow-up inspection 2024-04-23: 6-7 flys in kitchen and storage area. **Admin Complaint**

  • High Priority - - From initial inspection : High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Fish over chicken, and eggs over raw beef - From follow-up inspection 2024-04-23: Chicken over beef in walk in cooler **Time Extended**

Little Caesars

1099 SE Port St Lucie Blvd, Port St Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 25

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

6 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cheese shredded 46-47f cold holding, was out less than 30 minutes manager moved to walk in cooler to chill **Corrective Action Taken**

  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet.

Miller's Ale House

1775 NW St Lucie W Blvd, Port St. Lucie

Complaint Inspection on April 24

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

11 total violations, with 4 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - 5 Live, small flying in the bar area.

  • 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. Patio Bar 0 ppm

  • High Priority - Server handled soiled dishes or utensils and then picked up plated food, served food, or prepared a beverage without washing hands.

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooler drawers ; raw shrimp (60F - Cold Holding); raw salmon (57F - Cold Holding); raw mahi (57F - Cold Holding); raw chicken (57F - Cold Holding); raw steak (49F - Cold Holding); raw ground beef (46F - Cold Holding) cook states stocked at 9:00 found at 12:20 **Warning**

Taiyo Sushi and Thai

1662 SE Port St Lucie Blvd, Port St. Lucie

Routine Inspection on April 25

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

7 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations

  • High Priority - Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Rice in walk in cooler **Warning**

  • High Priority - Shell eggs not stored at an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or less. Ambient 50f in walk in cooler. Manager states food was at temperature of 40 and below this am. **Warning**

  • High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken raw 49f cold holding , tofu 50f cold holding , sandwich station on cooks line- tomato cut 50f cold holding , shrimp 49f cold holding , cut cabbage 54f cold holding. Manager states all foods were placed in here less than 2 hours ago. Walk in cooler - Cream cheese 50f cold holding , tofu 50f cold holding , chicken 33f cold holding , butter 56f cold holding , shrimp frozen, rice 60f cold holding , ginger dressing 50f cold holding , shrimp 55f cold holding. Manager states that cooler was reading below 40 this am and temperature was good. **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 Treasure Coast Newspapers: Port Saint Lucie area restaurant and food truck inspections April 22-28: Restaurant inspection: One St. Lucie is perfect; 7 fail