Outback and Snappers among Miami and Florida Keys restaurant inspection fails
This week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants closed by failed inspection comes fat with roaches and chain restaurants.
Also, this is a special 305 version of our weekly list, covering only Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys.
As always, if you want to file a complaint about a restaurant, contact the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, not the Miami Herald. The xepartment handles everything to do with inspections. We just tell you want the inspectors find.
Restaurants reopen after passing re-inspection, which is usually done the next day.
In alphabetical order:
Chicken Kitchen, 13521 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami Beach
Complaint inspection, three total violations, one High Priority violation
The inspector’s apparently superhuman vision counted over 23 flies on the ceiling of the kitchen food prep area and over 85 flies on the ceiling in the dining area.
No superpowers needed to see that the kitchen handwash sink didn’t have soap.
Iron Sushi, 9030 SW 72nd Pl., Kendall
Complaint inspection, 20 total violations, four High Priority violations
Give it up for this Iron Sushi, finally getting back open by passing re-inspection No. 7, thus ending its fourth shutdown since July.
Last week, we detailed the issues with this Downtown Dadeland business. Some vermin, living and dead, proved harder to get out of the house than your Minecraft-addicted teen.
MORE: Why has this Kendall sushi place been closed by inspectors 4 times since July?
Outback Steakhouse, 15490 NW 77th Ct., Miami Lakes
Complaint inspection, eight total violations, two High Priority violations
Three dead roaches lay under the cooking equipment and another seven dead ones were on the floor under food storage room shelves.
As for the living and moving, three roaches crawled on the floor, one under the grill, another by a kitchen reach-in cooler and another under the food storage room shelves.
The inspector also didn’t like an “accumulation of old food debris under the cooking equipments at the cookline.”
Snappers Key Largo/Turtle Club, 139 Seaside Ave., Key Largo
Complaint inspection, 18 total violations, six High Priority violations
Snappers’ roach graveyard was under a reach-in cooler next to the food exposition area in the kitchen, where 15 corpses were counted.
One roach strutted across a cutting board in that area while another four roaches got together under cookline equipment.
Crab sat on a reach-in cooler for more than four hours, the reason it measured 50 degrees. That’s nine degrees too warm for something that’s been out of a cooler for that long. Stop Sale on the crab.
A can opener counted as a “food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”
A cookline employee wasn’t wearing a hair restraint.
“Several cloths at cookline weren’t in sanitizer solution” between uses.
The paper towel dispenser at the cookine handwash sink couldn’t dispense paper towels.
Yume Ramen, 9019 SW 107th Ave., Kendall
Routine inspection, 20 total violations, seven High Priority violations
An unused reach-in cooler had two dead roaches and one live roach. Under the food prep area reach-in freezer, five roaches lay dead and one still had life. Behind the stove, one roach lived while one expired.
Raw shrimp thawed in standing water in the three-compartment sink and raw chicken thawed at room temperature — an invitation to a foodborne bacteria festival — in a prep sink. Neither got hit with a Stop Sale.
Tuna thawing in reduced oxygen packaging when it’s supposed to be taken out of that packaging before any thawing got smashed with a Stop Sale.
There was a “heavy grease buildup” between the fryer and a steamer on the cookline.
“Soiled” walls bordered the prep table next to the walk-in cooler, a prep table next to the cookline and the cookline handwash sink.
A trash can blocked the handwash sink in the dishwasher area.
This story was originally published December 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM with the headline "Outback and Snappers among Miami and Florida Keys restaurant inspection fails."
