Whale Fail? 27 Violations in Restaurant Inspection Report

ByWarren Redlich

The Whale in Parkland, image by Google
The Whale in Parkland, image by Google

The Whale Raw Bar leads off our latest restaurant inspection report with a total of 27 violations. This is a double whammy for the restaurant, which had a shooting just a couple weeks ago.
Four of the violations were marked high priority:

  • All potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) foods in reach-in cooler cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken ,burger, fish 46-48°F. Operator transfer to walk in cooler. **Corrective Action Taken**
  • Employee failed to wash hands before changing gloves and/or putting on gloves to work with food. Cook not washing hands before putting gloves on. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Shrimp chowder,clam chowder , Loster soup found 120°, operator increase temperature on steam table. **Corrective Action Taken**
  • Toxic substance/chemical stored by or with clean or in-use utensils. WD40 stored with clean utensils. **Corrected On-Site**

Their follow-up inspection the next day still had 12 violations, one of them high priority.
Davinci’s of Boca in Town Center only had 9 violations but 6 of them were high priority including a stop sale:

  • Cooked potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours, Osso buco 48°-49°. Chef stated food cooled since last night, over 6 hours. (See Stop Sale)
  • 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, server plating bread. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit, Cheese, butter, squid ink, cooked eggplant, all between 48° and 50°. True unit across from salamander. All TCS food in cooler since last night. (See stop Sale)
  • Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food, raw salmon and cooked octopus in same container on cookline. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse.
  • Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed, test strip tuned black immediately.

Other notable inspections include:
Cheesecake Factory with 7 violations including 4 high priority on a complaint
Chen’s Yokohama in Boca Lyons Plaza with 7 violation, 4 high priority on a callback, leading to an administrative complaint
Ichiyami Buffet near Royal Palm in East Boca (7 violations, 2 high priority)
Maggiano’s near Town Center (6, 2)
California Pizza Kitchen in Town Center (5, 2)
La Granja Town Center (5, 3)
Madison’s New York Grill (5, 3)
Nick’s New Haven Pizza near Town Center (5, 0)
McDonald’s in Sandalfoot (5, 2)
Sushi Yoshee on 441 near SW 18th (4, 2)
El Balcon de las Americas at 441 and Sandalfoot (4, 1)
Carrabba’s on SW 18th (3, 1)
TooJay’s near Town Center (3, 1)
Davito’s in Boca Greens (2, 0)
Seasons 52 near Town Center (2, 1)
Jasper’s on 18th near Howard’s Market (1, 0)
Abe & Louie’s on Glades (1, 1)
Our spreadsheet from this report is below:
[gview file=”https://westbocanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/allinsp-9-18-2016.pdf”]