MIAMI — A sports bar inside the popular Brickell City Centre has been ordered shut for the second time in just over two months after a state inspector found a live rodent during a complaint investigation.
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The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation temporarily closed CMX Brickell Stone Sports Bar, located at 701 S. Miami Ave., Suite 401A, on July 14 after inspectors documented 30 violations, including eight high priority violations.
Among the most serious findings, inspectors reported seeing one live rodent on a glue trap inside a cabinet in the upstairs bar. They also found more than 100 dead flies on the floor near an old bar area by the kitchen and two live flies in storage areas.
Inspectors also discovered the upstairs bar dish machine was not sanitizing dishes because it registered zero parts per million of chlorine sanitizer. The report ordered the restaurant to discontinue using the machine for sanitizing until it is repaired and to manually sanitize dishes instead.
Other violations included raw shell eggs stored over cooked peppers, chemicals stored above drinking straws, food stored on the floor, standing water on the cook line, torn refrigerator door gaskets, damaged ceiling tiles, missing floor tiles, exposed insulation inside a cooler, carbon dioxide tanks that were not secured, and expired food safety training certificates for multiple employees.
The closure marks the second time the restaurant has been ordered to stop operations this year.
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On May 13, state inspectors also temporarily closed CMX Brickell Stone Sports Bar after finding a dead rodent on a trap near the bar area.
That inspection also cited an employee who failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to handle food, a handwashing sink with no soap, a soiled can opener blade, dirty walk-in cooler shelves, standing water in a hand sink and a slow draining sink.
Local 10 News visited the restaurant following the May closure, but management declined to comment.
Restaurants ordered closed by the state are allowed to reopen after correcting the violations and passing a follow-up inspection.
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