Cockroaches crawling around a dining room and a host stand, and rodents leaving feces on the floor and inside a mason jar were among the issues cited at three South Florida restaurants last week.

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

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Ordered shut: Oct. 4-5; reopened Oct. 5

Why: Eight violations (four high-priority), including at least 29 cockroaches found crawling inside a “bag holding burner unit for stove” underneath the kitchen’s cook line, as well as on the wall and on the ground under a flip-top cooler and a reach-in freezer in the same cooking area. (The operator later removed the bag.)

Meanwhile, the state also found 23 dead roaches “on ground at wait station directly across from cook line,” behind the ice machine nearby, on the ground beneath the kitchen sink, chemical storage and dishwashing areas, and “under sushi line reach-in cooler.” The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and trash its loose boxed and packaged sprouts; cream cheese; cream; cooked duck; butter; tofu; and raw fish, beef and steak “due to temperature abuse.” Dead and live roaches continued to plague Moon Thai during its reinspection on Oct. 5, but it was allowed to reopen that day despite a third inspection finding a high-priority violation.

Ordered shut: Oct. 5; reopened Oct. 6

Why: Six violations, (one high-priority), including three cockroaches discovered crawling “in dining room under table next [to] kitchen entrance,” on “dish rack in kitchen across from cook line” and “next to hostess stand next to bar.”

Four dead roaches, meanwhile, were found “in hallway leading to restrooms,” under the sink, in a kitchen storage area, and “at front entrance next to hostess stand” near the bar. Finally, an inspector spotted an employee’s “open bottle of water” on a kitchen storage rack near clean equipment and utensils. A reinspection on Oct. 6 found two live cockroaches, but the state green-lit Baroli’s reopening.

Ordered shut: Oct. 4; reopened Oct. 5

Why: Four violations (two high-priority), including 13 rodent droppings found under the kitchen sink, “on floor next to ice machine,” “in a mason jar on shelf in dry storage area,” “on electrical box in dry storage area,” and inside a basket on a shelf and on the windowsill in the same area.

Inspectors also red-flagged raw shell eggs “not properly separated” from milk. Saxies reopened the following day after the second inspection yielded zero issues.