{"id":433941,"date":"2026-10-21T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433941\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:26:08","slug":"inspector-finds-rodent-poop-foul-smells-at-miami-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433941\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspector finds rodent poop, foul smells at Miami restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sign is for the previous restaurant at 8770 SW 24th St. The current restaurant, bar and bakery is Habana 1900.<\/p>\n

DAVID J. NEAL<\/p>\n

dneal@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

A West Miami-Dade restaurant so new that the signage for the previous restaurant remains up had an even newer \u201cobjectionable odor\u201d and rodent doo-doo dots when a state inspector stopped by Monday.<\/p>\n

That visit briefly put a sign of inspection-related closure on Habana 1990, a restaurant and bakery at 8770 SW 24th St. that you might miss because the sign on the building screams \u201cTasca De Espa\u00f1a.\u201d Monday\u2019s routine inspection, the first since Habana 1900 became licensed on July 9<\/a>, turned up 29 total violations, including seven high-priority violations.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Did a Doral cheese maker deal with roaches, other issues in an FDA warning letter?<\/a><\/p>\n

The inspector noted an \u201cobjectionable odor in the first men\u2019s bathroom.\u201d There was no further description of the olfactory offense.<\/p>\n

Rodents used other spots in Habana 1900 as their restroom, leaving over 10 rodent droppings behind a kitchen reach-in freezer; more than five droppings \u201con a shelf where kitchen equipment is stored;\u201d more than seven on a storage-area floor \u201cwhere utensils, dishes and kitchen equipment are stored;\u201d three-plus on the kitchen floor next to the mixer; and more than five droppings on a dishwasher leg support.<\/p>\n

A swarm of around 10 flies were \u201con top of clean cups near the front service area.\u201d<\/p>\n

One roach died on the bar-area floor. Another died on the kitchen floor. Nobody cleaned up the corpses.<\/p>\n

An ice scoop was \u201cstored on a dirty surface, outside of the ice machine by the kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other kitchen equipment was stashed \u201cin a non-fully enclosed room that is exposed to the outside, located by the kitchen exit door.\u201d<\/p>\n

To get to the walk-in freezer, you had to walk through standing water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWet wiping cloths were stored in detergent and sanitizer mixed together.\u201d That\u2019s just supposed to be sanitizer.<\/p>\n

The bar-area handwash sink didn\u2019t have any paper towels, and the kitchen handwash sink didn\u2019t have paper towels or soap.<\/p>\n

A can of sweetened condensed creamer was \u201cdented at the seam\u201d so a Stop Sale order was issued on the creamer.<\/p>\n

Commercially processed reduced-oxygen packaged fish come with a label declaring the fish needs to stay in the packaging and frozen until it\u2019s to be used. So when the inspector saw the fish not frozen, but thawing in the walk-in cooler, the fish got hit with a Stop Sale.<\/p>\n

Habana 1900 passed re-inspection Tuesday to re-open.<\/p>\n

\"The The sign is for the previous restaurant at 8770 SW 24th St. The current restaurant, bar and bakery is Habana 1900. DAVID J. NEAL dneal@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n


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Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sign is for the previous restaurant at 8770 SW 24th St. The current restaurant, bar and bakery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-433941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433941","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=433941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}