Roaches and Rodents in Local Italian Restaurant

In our latest restaurant report inspectors found roaches and rodent droppings in the kitchen of a large Italian restaurant popular with West Boca residents. Our report covers 33 inspections.

The. woes continue for Delray Marketplace restaurants as Terra Fiamma tops this week’s report with 20 violations, 7 marked high priority, and an emergency order shutting the place down for a day.

The high priority violations were:

• Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area..one fly in dining area landing on the plate…two small flying flying around at server station.
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit….butter 71° at server station by the pizza station being held less than an hour. Manager time marked on food at time of inspection……pasta 56°, eggplant 45°, calamari 50°, lasagna 50°, raw chicken 48° in reach in drawer across from burner at kitchen. Per manager food being held less than four hours. Employee moved food to walk freezer at time of inspection. **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cooked/heated yesterday/on a previous day not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within a total of 6 hours. Food has been cooling overnight. …tomato sauce 61° in a dipper than 4 inches container with covered in walk in cooler . Per manager food was cooked yesterday. See stop sale issue . Employee discarded food at time of inspection
• Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found…4 live roaches inside shelf at expo line at kitchen.
• Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found….approximately over 50 dry rodent droppings 2 fresh droppings inside shelf at expo line at kitchen….6 fresh rodent droppings in a container underneath prep table and approximately 50 dry droppings in the shelf at server station by the Dishmachine….4 fresh rodent droppings and approximately 30 dry rodent droppings underneath booth at dining area.
• Shell eggs in use or stored with cracks or broken shells. Employee discarded egg at time of inspection. **Corrected On-Site**
• Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse…. Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cooked/heated yesterday/on a previous day not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within a total of 6 hours. Food has been cooling overnight. …tomato sauce 61° in a dipper than 4 inches container with covered in walk in cooler . Per manager food was cooked yesterday. **Repeat Violation**

If the pests weren’t bad enough, inspectors also stopped the sale of tomato sauce not kept at the right temperature, a serious issue for an Italian restaurant. A follow-up inspection the next day showed all issues cleared.

Back in the real of not so bad, Maggiano’s near Town Center had 9 violations. Butcher Block Grill (Camino Real and Powerline) and Cooper’s Hawk at Promenade had 8 violations each. Tijuana Flats at 441 and Hillsboro had 7 violations.

Turning to the good news, the new Kekoa had a perfect inspection. Coincidentally we were invited for lunch today and enjoyed our meal. See our pictures on our Facebook post.

Also perfect was Chuck E Cheese in West Boca Square (the Target plaza), and we saw a perfect licensing inspection for a new place, ZenZero, which should open in East Boca in early June.

Kee Grill on Military Trail did pretty well with 3 violations. Outback Steakhouse on SW 18th and Cannoli Kitchen on Powerline had 4 violations each.

As usual our spreadsheet is below: