Flies on cookies. Roach poop. Dead rodent. Miami Beach to Palm Beach restaurant filth

This week’s Sick and Shut Down list isn’t long but it does include list regular Dunkin’ Donuts and a Miami Beach place with a dry storage area out of that creepy dream scene in “The Craft.”

So, let’s get started.

What follows comes from Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation restaurant inspections in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. A restaurant that fails inspection remains closed until passing an inspection.

If you see a problem and want a place inspected, contact the DBPR. We don’t do the inspections, control who gets inspected nor how strictly the inspector inspects.

We don’t include all violations, just the most moving, whether internally or literally moving (because it’s alive or once was alive). Some violations get corrected immediately after the inspector points them out. But in those situations, ask yourself, why did the violations exist in the first place? And, how long would they have remained if not for the inspection?

We report without passion or prejudice, but with a side dish of humor.

In alphabetical order...

Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins, 14305 Miramar Pkwy., Miramar: Complaint inspection, four total violations, one High Priority violation.

The inspector seemed extremely bothered by “three dead flies by the front counter floor at the end of the ice cream area.”

“Clean utensils or equipment stored in a dirty drawer or rack. Baking trays stored on dirty surface.” That just won’t do.

Plenty of food that needed to be at 41 degrees or under before it started to grow things that make you go “HUUUL” wasn’t close, but didn’t get tossed. Instead, getting moved to the walk-in freezer for a quick chill were milk, butter, American cheese, hash browns, cream cheese, fried eggs, turkey burgers, sliced yellow and white cheeses.

This kindergartner’s dream (donuts and ice cream) passed re-inspection the next day.

Taquiza, 7450 Ocean Terr., Miami Beach: Routine inspection, 21 total violations, four High Priority violations.

We open with this inspector’s interesting pairing of observations, putting “live roach crawling on a prep table located in the back prep area” with “Also, a can opener was soiled and rusted.”

As for the other living roaches, five crawled on the floor behind the reach-in cooler, more than 10 were running around the dry food storage area and “50-plus were on the floor and prep table in the back, side prepping area.”

They left an “accumulation of roach droppings around the water heater, next to the ice machine.”

The water was running. You could tell by the way it was standing, as in “floor area(s) covered with standing water...accumulation of water on the floor.”

Also, there was an “accumulation of food debris on walk-in cooler shelves.”

Ah, the ice machine! But, this wasn’t the normal violation regular Sick and Shut Down List readers have come to expect out of at least one place each week. Here, the ice scoop sat directly on the top of the ice machine and the “surface was not clean and sanitized.”

“Observed dry storage area very disorganized and with vermin infestation.” What kind of infestation? “Observed onion bags inside contaminated area with roach infestation.”

To once again paraphrase Redd Foxx, “You got to clean yo’ traps!”

Over 12 roaches were in a trap under the aforementioned prep table while their friend above crawled on their graves. Another 20 were in a trap inside the dry food storage area. We’re not going in that dry storage area without a pistol with all those roaches and a “rodent animal on a sticky trap underneath shelving” in that area.

That’s also where there were more than 10 pieces of rodent regularity while another five or more were around the air conditioning unit.

There’s no online notation that Taquiza has passed a re-inspection.

Way Beyond Bagels, 16850 Jog Rd., Delray Beach: Complaint inspection, three total violations, two High Priority violations.

Way Beyond passed a routine inspection on Oct. 18 — although the inspector did note tuna salad was uncovered and sitting near a sink, exposed to splash” — but a complaint brought the inspector back on Oct. 21.

Stop Sales rained on cookies, cinnamon rolls and bagels like the swarm of flies counted by the inspector.

“Approximately 10 live flies inside the desert case at front counter landing on cookies and cinnamon rolls. Approximately 10 live flies landing on bagels at front counter. Approximately five live flies on the menu board over the bagels.”

Another 10 flies chilled on dry storage shelving in a prep kitchen.

Way Beyond was back in business after Oct. 22 re-inspection.