‘Accumulation of black substance’ in oven/microwave, plus roach activity, shut 1 South Florida restaurant

Roaches — dead and alive — in the kitchen, along with a soiled floor and wall on the cook line, led the state to shut one South Florida restaurant last week. There were also “temperature abuse” issues.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We cull through inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for “high-priority violations,” such as improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.

Any restaurant that fails a state inspection must stay closed until it passes a follow-up. If you spotted a possible violation and wish to file a complaint, contact Florida DBPR . (But please don’t contact us: The Sun Sentinel doesn’t inspect restaurants.)

Bawarchi Biryanis

10190 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs

Ordered shut: May 1; reopened May 3

Why: 15 violations ( three high-priority ), including about 17 live roaches found around kitchen and ware-washing areas such as “on ground under cook line equipment,” “in between wall and two-compartment sink on cook line,” and “in between wall and triple sink.”

Approximately 10 dead roaches were also spotted, in areas such as on the ground “in ware-washing area directly across from cook line in kitchen,” “at kitchen door entrance” and “under two-compartment sink on cook line.”

Stop sales were ordered due to “temperature abuse” for cooked foods including chicken, onions and peppers, goat, lamb and cauliflower, as well as for cut tomatoes, cream, cheese, onion sauce, chick peas and vegetable samosas.

The inspection also found: “floor heavily soiled under cook line equipment,” a cook line “wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust” and an “accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris in the interior of oven/microwave.”

It also cited “in-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment.”

A follow-up inspection two days later found two basic and intermediate violations, but the restaurant was allowed to reopen.