Slime and Mold in East Boca Japanese Restaurant

A popular East Boca Japanese restaurant tops this week’s inspection report with the most violations and one of the more disgusting lines we’ve read in an inspection.

Plenty of good news this week as well including a perfect inspection at a West Boca Italian restaurant.

Ice in ice machine with slime and mold like particles imbedded into the ice.

Kanpai had 18 violations including 8 marked high priority, the biggest numbers this week. They also had the above quote in a stop-sale violation along with multiple hazardous food references. The full list of high-priority violations included:

• Employee handled soiled dishes or utensils and then handled clean dishes or utensils without washing hands. Bartender handled dirty dishes then handled clean cups, napkins and utensils without washing hands first. Employee washed hands. **Corrected On-Site**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter 61F at cookline under no temperature control. Food placed in cooler to quick chill. **Corrective Action Taken**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Shrimp tempura 121-132F at sushi bar. Time marked. **Corrective Action Taken**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Sushi rice held under time not time marked in rear prep area and at sushi bar. Food time marked **Corrective Action Taken**
• Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw fish over cooked fish cakes at True freezer in storage room area.
• Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer – all products not commercially packaged. Raw chicken over raw shrimp at Atosta freezer in cookline area. Raw beef over scallops at Premium freezer near ice machine.
• Self-service salad bar/buffet lacking adequate sneezeguards or other proper protection from contamination. Sushi boat area with plates of sushi not protected . Food is uncovered and no sneezeguard protection available.
• Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Ice in ice machine with slime and mold like particles imbedded into the ice. See Stop Sale.

Fortunately that was the only really bad inspection. Most of the rest were either good or not too bad.

Best of the week was a perfect inspection for Dominic’s by Home Depot – zero violations.

The near-perfect group this week included Town Center Mall’s California Pizza Kitchen and in-store cafes at Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom’s.

Aloha Poke near Home Depot was close with 2 violations, as was the Sandalfoot Taco Bell.

Also doing pretty well were:

• Anzo in Shadowood and the new Osprey Point restaurant each had 3 minor violations
• Cheesecake Factory and Capital Grille had 3 each; Grand Lux had 4 violations

As usual our full spreadsheet is below.