{"id":277152,"date":"2026-05-19T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:57:11","slug":"1-south-florida-restaurant-shut-fly-lands-on-inspector-live-roaches-found-under-grills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277152\/","title":{"rendered":"1 South Florida restaurant shut: Fly lands on inspector, live roaches found under grills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Florida taco spot was forced to temporarily shut after an inspection revealed flies landing on raw onions and soda syrup boxes \u2014 and on the inspector \u2014 among other violations.<\/p>\n<p>It was the only Broward County restaurant that faced an emergency closure order from the state last week. There were no Palm Beach County restaurants shut during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We cull through inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for violations such as improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.<\/p>\n<p>Any restaurant that fails a state inspection must stay closed until it passes a follow-up. If you spot a possible violation and wish to file a complaint, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalicense.com\/complaintwizard_cont.asp?SID=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">myfloridalicense.com<\/a>. (But please don\u2019t contact us: The Sun Sentinel doesn\u2019t inspect restaurants.)<\/p>\n<p>Broward County<\/p>\n<p>Tacocraft Taqueria &amp; Tequila Bar\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>301 N. University Drive, Plantation<\/p>\n<p>Ordered shut: May 11<\/p>\n<p>Why: 10 violations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalicense.com\/inspectionDetail.asp?InspVisitID=13692699&amp;licid=9843043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">four high-priority<\/a>), including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 About 18 live roaches in areas such as \u201con the ground under the grills,\u201d \u201cby the reach-in freezer on the floor\u201d and \u201cunder the lowboy\/handwashing sink in the kitchen crawling on the floors and walls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 About 43 live flies \u201cnear the soda dispensers landing on the boxes with soda syrup and walls,\u201d \u201cby mop sink area landing on walls, floors and cleaning equipment,\u201d \u201clanding on raw onions by the walk-in cooler,\u201d \u201clanding on inspector while writing up the report\u201d and \u201cin the produce prep area landing on clean surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cRaw tuna stored over ready-to-eat potatoes in the walk-in cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cHandwashing sink blocked with a table with a rice cooker on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cInsect control device installed over food preparation area near the walk-in cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Status: Reopened May 12 after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalicense.com\/inspectionDetail.asp?InspVisitID=13692700&amp;licid=9843043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">follow-up inspection<\/a> found one basic violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida taco spot was forced to temporarily shut after an inspection revealed flies landing on raw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,28,30,29,688,114,5074,687,109,685,106],"class_list":["post-277152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-food-and-drink","tag-latest-headlines","tag-plantation","tag-restaurants","tag-social","tag-the-eat-beat","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}