Ceviche By The Sea, 2823 E Oakland Park Blvd, Oakland Park, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: CEVICHE BY THE SEA
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 2823 E Oakland Park Blvd, Oakland Park, FL 33306
License #: 1617268
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 6/23/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • No Violations Were Observed
6/23/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Bathroom door not self-closing. Employee restroom
  • Basic - Covered waste receptacle not provided in women''s bathroom. Employee restroom
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.
  • Basic - Hole in ceiling. Drystorage area, dis washing area
  • High Priority - Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. No proof of parasite destruction for corvina served raw as ceviche and for salmon served undercooked. Proof of parasite destruction provided for corvina on 04/24/14
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. Outdoors
  • Intermediate - Clam/mussel/oyster tags not marked with last date served. Mussels
4/24/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Extension given, pending
  • Basic - Bathroom door left open other than during cleaning or maintenance. Employee restroom **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Bathroom door not self-closing. Employee restroom
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. No handled cups inside salt and sugar containers. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Kitchen shelves
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in dry storage area. Potatoes. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Next to oven
  • Basic - Covered waste receptacle not provided in women's bathroom. Employee restroom
  • Basic - Dead roaches on premises. 3 dead roaches on storage room floor.
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Cookline
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.
  • Basic - Hole in ceiling. Drystorage area, dis washing area
  • Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Spoons **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Spray bottle containing a food product not labeled. Oil
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Live flies in kitchen.
  • High Priority - Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. No proof of parasite destruction for corvina served raw as ceviche and for salmon served undercooked.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooked corn at 79°f on the prep area. Discarded. Explained time control procedure.
  • High Priority - Raw meat/poultry cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Raw beef and poultry at 46°f in the three door TRUE refrigerator lower shelves, operator relocated the food on the upper shelves.
  • High Priority - Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 30 live roaches next to soda reach in cooler in waitress/bar area around a broken soda bag box. The box was removed from premises and the area sprayed with roach killer. No live activity observed at the end of the inspection.
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. Outdoors
  • Intermediate - Clam/mussel/oyster tags not marked with last date served. Mussels
  • Intermediate - Required employee training provided by a third-party employee training program and operator unable to provide original certificate for employees trained. Some of the certificates provided are photocopies.
  • Intermediate - Slicer blade guard soiled with old food debris.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Bleach.
4/23/2014Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Chef drinking coffee, **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Spoons at cookline **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation. Kitchen back door.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature. Seafood on counter in kitchen.
  • Basic - Wall in disrepair, behind hand sink in kitchen, and next to ice machine.
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. Chefs **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 46-51° seafood, beef, chicken, octopus. Icing down **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Beef over seafood true 3 door cooler, AND Maxx freezer, chicken over fruit. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance on/around soda dispensing nozzles, bar.
  • Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine. DM
  • Intermediate - Reach-in cooler not maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. 3 door at cookline 46-51°.
11/22/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
7/17/2013Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Dish wash racks stored on floor next to kitchen hand wash sink.
  • Basic - Employee beverage container without a lid on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. On shelf over food prep counter on cookline. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold and on the sides of the kitchen backdoor that opens to the outside.
  • Basic - Food stored in a location that is exposed to splash. Seafoods in chest coolers stored on floor in dishwash area. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. On cook line.
  • Basic - Three-compartment sink used for warewashing not cleaned before use as a food preparation sink.
  • High Priority - Nonexempt fish in question offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction or is farm raised. Unable to show proof that fish in question sold on 6/18 was farm raised or has undergone parasite destruction. NOTE: Fish currently sold does show proof of being farm raised. The establishment changed supplier in July.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit. Raw chicken over raw seafoods in cookline reach on cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Certified Food Manager or person in charge lacks knowledge of foodborne illnesses and symptoms of illness that would prevent an employee from working with food, clean equipment and utensils, and single-service items.
  • Intermediate - Certified food manager fails to exhibit active managerial control. No food temperatures taken, no thermometer, person in charge unable to answer basic questions about food safety and food source.
  • Intermediate - No metal stem-type thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Marked exit/path to marked exit blocked. Kitchen backdoor blocked by rolling cart. For reporting purposes only.
7/17/2013Complaint FullInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Clean spoons stored next to / behind handwash sink at bar and under paper towel dispenser and soap dispenser exposed to splash when washing hands. Cross contamination ! **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee eating while preparing food. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. 2 in kitchen. **Warning**
  • Basic - Gaskets/seals on holding unit in poor repair. On true-brand single door reaching cooler on cookline next to Imperial Oven. **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Cookline. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Standing water inside of tall 3 door reach in cooler on cookline. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on or/ changing gloves to work with food. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Cook touching plantains, touching ready to eat food items when plating and garnishing plates with bare hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Raw beef over cooked plantains and raw seafoods in tall 3 door reach in cooler on cookline. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw fish cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Several fish items in single door true-brand reach in cooler next to Imperial Oven at 46-48?f. All raw fish items must be cooked immediately. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black slimy mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. True-brand single door reaching cooler on cookline next to Imperial Oven at 48?f ambient air temperature. **Warning**
5/21/2013Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Observed employee engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands. When putting on or changing gloves. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw shell eggs over dressing and sauces in cookline reach in cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
12/13/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle cleaning pr9duct in storage room.
9/25/2012Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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