A Jacksonville Thai restaurant was temporarily shut down after a state inspection documented a dead rodent, live and dead roaches, food-temperature violations and other sanitation problems. The action follows other recent Florida enforcement cases, including a Starke cafe’s one-day closure over rodent and roach signs.
Thai Cuisine & Noodle House, at 11701 San Jose Boulevard, Suite 28, was ordered to stop operating on October 7, 2026. Florida inspectors returned the next day and kept the temporary closure in place before the restaurant met inspection standards on October 9.
What inspectors found
During the October 7 inspection, an inspector reported one dead rodent beneath a table in a partitioned section of the dining room that was being used to store disposable service items. The person in charge discarded it during the visit.
The inspector also documented five dead roaches in several areas, including behind a handwashing-sink faucet and beneath shelving near the main food-preparation line. One live roach was found on a glue trap under a shelf. The report listed six high-priority, three intermediate and nine basic violations in all.
Other high-priority findings included raw ground pork stored above a bag of whole carrots, other raw foods stored above ready-to-eat products, and bean sprouts and pooled egg held at 54 to 56 degrees instead of 41 degrees or colder. The restaurant began rearranging food and moved the temperature-controlled items into a cooler during the inspection.
Inspectors also cited bare-hand contact with a parsley garnish, an employee handling food after touching their glasses without washing their hands, a slow-draining handwashing sink, debris along floors and beneath equipment, and gaps or holes near a door, wall and ceiling. Several problems were corrected or addressed while the inspector was present.
The restaurant passed its second follow-up
At the October 8 callback, the dead-rodent violation was no longer observed. However, the inspector reported about five dead roaches in areas that included an oven and storage equipment, plus one live roach near a reach-in cooler. The operator cleaned or discarded the insects as they were pointed out, but the state again recorded the facility as temporarily closed.
On October 9, the restaurant met inspection standards. The only violation listed on that visit was one dead roach beneath a boxed-soda station in dry storage, which the person in charge discarded on site. The state currently lists the restaurant’s license as active, and the business’s online ordering page remains available.
A temporary closure, not a permanent shutdown
Florida describes restaurant inspections as snapshots of conditions at the time of a visit rather than long-term grades. In this case, serious findings prompted a two-day enforcement action, while the October 9 result shows the restaurant satisfied the state’s standard on its second follow-up. The inspection records do not identify a foodborne-illness outbreak connected with the restaurant.
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