Flies on pizzas. Rodent poop on the bar. Sewage. Miami to Palm Beach restaurant filth

All the usual vermin — roaches, flies, rodents — appear on this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of South Florida restaurants that failed inspection, but joined in a couple of places by sewage backups.

So, let’s get to it.

HOUSE RULES: What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. A restaurant that fails inspection remains closed until passing an inspection.

If you see a problem and want a place inspected, contact the DBPR. We don’t do the inspections, control who gets inspected nor how strictly the inspector inspects.

We don’t include all violations, just the most moving, whether internally or literally moving (because it’s alive or once was alive). Some violations get corrected immediately after the inspector points them out. But in those situations, ask yourself why the violations exist in the first place? And, how long would they have remained if not for the inspection?

We report without passion or prejudice, but with a side dish of humor.

In alphabetical order...

Boca Bagel Bar, 4251 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton: Complaint inspection, five total violations, three High Priority violations.

The cream cheese had no markings of who made it, where they made it or what it was.

No trouble identifying the 25 flies under the dishwashing machine (25 flies). Another 10 flies were landing on a rack with bagel boards.

Guess what the inspector found inside a box of parchment paper used for sheet trays? The paper and five live roaches. The dry storage room had five roaches climbing a wall and 10 running on the floor.

The bagel joint was back open the next day after re-inspection.

El Parador Food by the Pound, 14744 SW 56th St., West Miami-Dade: Routine inspection, 11 total violations, one High Priority violation.

Sometimes, it’s nice when they forget about you or you slip through the cracks, like all the crumbs and gunk between your stove and counter. This was a follow-up inspection...from February.

None of the wiping cloths used at the steam table, the prep table or the coffee station were in sanitizer water.

The ovens, including the pizza ovens, were “soiled with food debris.” That’s one of those things that you might shrug about at home, but doesn’t fly in professional food selling.

“Ceiling tiles and vents soiled throughout kitchen” and “no hair restraint on employees” means those specs in your food might not be seasoning. Especially if they taste like Pantene.

It took another two inspections for El Parador to pass muster.

Griot Caribbean Take Out, 15558 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach: Routine inspection, eight violations, six High Priority violations.

The name might sound familiar, not just because you could pack Aventura Mall with all the South Florida restaurants with “Griot” in their names, but because this place made the Sick and Shut Down List over the summer with violations that included a roach crawling across a prep table with food.

This time the roaches had competition for the standout violation from this problem, as described by the inspector: “When you let the water run from the handwash sink, sewage backs up on the kitchen floor by the three-compartment sink.”

Not that there weren’t roaches, such as the 22 live ones behind a flip top refrigerator, two live ones living dangerously under a kitchen fryer, one on a countertop by a microwave oven and four dead ones under the front counter handwashing sink.

The cooked cabbage in the walk-in refrigerator measured 62 degrees and got hit with a Stop Sale order for not being under 41 degrees.

After not getting it done on a same-day re-inspection, the Griot Caribbean got it together on the re-re-inspection.

Jaydine Creole Restaurant & Bar, 6815 Johnson St., Hollywood: Complaint inspection, eight total violations, one High Priority violation.

The water wasn’t hot enough at the cookline handwashing sink and you needed to flap your hands, everybody, everybody flap your hands, if you wanted to dry them.

But that problem and the cooked turkey that wasn’t covered while sitting in a cooler paled next to the rodent poop that would’ve been 46 pieces high if stacked.

And these little buggers were brazen — three pieces were next to bar stools in the dining room, and another three were on top of the bar counter.

This was Sept. 20. There’s no online record of a passed re-inspection.

Mariscos El Oceano, 23 S. Dixie Hwy., Lake Worth: Routine inspection, seven total violations, three High Priority violations.

Serving raw tilapia in the ceviche got them dinged for “nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked so has not undergone proper parasite destruction.”

They lacked a probe thermometer for measuring food temperature. So, they’re kind of going by the hypothesis that they’ve cooked food enough to kill the E. coli and other foodborne illness bacteria. That’s something you can get away with at home, not in a restaurant.

Three live roaches shared a shelf with sauce bottles on the dining room front counter. One of the other five live roaches seen were on a nearby wall. The kitchen handwashing sink had a dead roach on the floor in front of it and a dead roach in it.

Mariscos waited four days, then passed re-inspection on Monday.

Punjab Indian Restaurant, 1801 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton: Complaint inspection, five total violations, three High Priority violations.

The dishwasher sanitizing strength measured at zero. Management took care of that problem, but needed the Roto-Rooter man or copious amounts of Liquid Plumr to deal with the real problem.

“Raw sewage on the ground of the establishment. Outside, behind the kitchen, running up through grease trap, a pool of wastewater in a hole around the drain pipe...employees are tracking water into the kitchen.”

“Sewage/wastewater backing up through the floor drains. In the dish area, when emptying the dishwasher or running the water in the triple sink. Employees tracking water from dish area into kitchen.”

They got the plumbing problem under control in time to pass a same-day re-inspection.

Zazzy’s Pizza, 2525 NW Second Ave., Miami: Complaint inspection, 13 total violations, five High Priority violations.

“Nonfood-grade basting brush used on food.” Here at the Sick and Shut Down List, where we’ve seen a paint brush used for basting, can’t help but wonder exactly what kind of brush that was.

Which of these violations that brought the Stop Sale lightning on the pizza should also bring some form of lightning on the pizza chef?

Pepperoni pizza, cheese pizza, Nutella pizza, pesto pizza, chicken pizza at a lukewarm 80 degrees (and not being served to hungover college students for breakfast)?

Or “live flies landing on cooked pizzas in the front counter display case.”

Zazzy’s passed inspection the next day.