Roaches on prep tables, sewage water, bad odors among 43 violations at a Miami-Dade grill

Bad smells smacking the inspector in the face, roaches running near food on a prep table, standing sewage water at the counter, and knives in nasty cracks are just some of the violations that closed Homestead's Royal Palm Grill & Deli last week.

A re-inspection got the retro eatery at 806 N. Krome Ave. back open on Thursday with a required follow-up inspection. But that didn't erase the whopping 43 violations, eight of which were High Priority violations the inspector found the day before.

And the inspector's nose suffered an assault right at the front with "objectionable odors throughout the front counter and kitchen area."

Perhaps that was coming from the "standing sewage water at the front counter ... and next to the dishwasher machine in the kitchen area."

There was more standing water behind a kitchen reach-in freezer.

Of the 10 roach corpses that the inspector saw, five were "on a preparation table above clean dishes" in the kitchen. Another prep table had two dead roaches.

As for the living and moving roaches, eight were "crawling on a preparation table in kitchen ... near cooked potatoes" and another one was on a prep table near a mixer in the kitchen.

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Above one of those prep tables, three ceiling tiles were missing.

A cutting board had "cut marks and is no longer cleanable."

"In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment ... knife stored between a wall and a preparation table at the front counter."

"In-use ice scoop stored on soiled surface between uses ... .ice scoop was stored on drink machine at front counter.

A box of raw chicken sat on a walk-in cooler floor. Ten boxes of cups and to-go containers sat on a dry storage floor "by the bathroom."

Speaking of dry storage, there was a hole in the wall there.

Wet wiping cloths are supposed to be in a sanitizing solution when they aren't being used, not "on preparation tables throughout the kitchen."

No wonder "wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment, food and non-food contact surfaces were not clean."

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Stop Sales came down on two cracked shell eggs in a reach-in cooler; 51-degree beef (it needed to be 41); 48-degree roast beef; 48-degree beef patties; and 64-degree butter with garlic.

"Preparation tables in the back of the kitchen were soiled with old food debris. Also, the microwave interior was soiled at front counter."

The handwash sink in the back near the bathroom didn't have soap or any way to dry your hands.