Neighbourhood
Dunnellon34432
Restaurants39
Spotless inspections5%
Ordered shut1
Fines$7k
A 11B 7C 7D 5F 5Not rated 4
Grades describe each kitchen's last twelve months. The spotless figure above counts every inspection ever recorded here that ended with the inspector writing nothing down at all — a much harder bar than an A.
Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. Egg mix on time but not time marked. Egg mix had been prepared 90 minutes earlier.
High priorityDUNNELLON GRILL →Aug 21, 2026
Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license. Establishment observed preparing, serving, and selling food to customers with an expired license from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants dated June 1, 2026
High priorityGAETANOS SUBS & MORE →Aug 21, 2026
Spray hose at dish sink lower than flood rim of sink. Three-compartment sink spray hose falls below the flood rim of the sink.
High priorityGAETANOS SUBS & MORE →Aug 21, 2026
Raw animal food stored over or with unwashed produce. Raw fish stored over cut mushrooms and cilantro in walk-in-cooler. Employee removed fish
High priorityRIVIERA MAYA →Aug 14, 2026
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 wearing one glove, wiped ungloved hand on apron the touched the bread they were putting butter on.
High priorityBREAKFAST STATION →Aug 14, 2026
Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Cook wearing gloves dropped knife on the floor picked it up and took to dishwash area. Selected another clean knife and returned to cookline, without removing gloves, washing hands and putting on clean gloves. Discussed with Manager.
High priorityBREAKFAST STATION →Aug 14, 2026
Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Male employee touched face then placed napkins in bag without washing hands.
High priorityKENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN →Jul 31, 2026
Live, small flying insects found. 1. Four flies crawling on three-compartment sink and prep table. 2. Four flies crawling on prep table and boxes of break in back of kitchen. Manager had an employee sanitize the areas during this inspection.
High priorityBLUE GATOR OF DUNNELLON →Jul 23, 2026
Date marked combined ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food not consumed/sold within 7 days of preparing/opening the earliest ready-to-eat time/temperature for safety ingredient. See stop sale. Pan containing open hotdogs with date mark of 7/7-7/14. On shelf inside reach-in cooler at cookline. Stop sale issued.
High priorityBLUE GATOR OF DUNNELLON →Jul 21, 2026
Employee touched soiled apron/clothes and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. An employee entered the kitchen from outdoors, rubbed hands on his shirt, then put on gloves and handled sliced lemons. The manager had the employee wash hands and put on new gloves during this inspection.
High priorityBLUE GATOR OF DUNNELLON →Jul 21, 2026
Live, small flying insects found. 1. Five flies flying in kitchen at cookline. 2. Two live flies crawling on shelf at pickup window by cookline. 3. One fly crawling on cutting board at refrigerated make-table in kitchen. 4. Three flies crawling on dirty dishes by dish machine. 5. Three flies crawling on beer cooler jn bar area. 6. Two flies crawling on floor in bar area. Immediate administrative complaint and following day callback per Robert Protomastro.
High priorityBLUE GATOR OF DUNNELLON →Jul 21, 2026
Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside beer cooler in bar area: half and half (48F - Cold Holding); half and half (49F - Cold Holding). An employee stated she removed all items from the cooler and placed them outside of refrigeration while she cleaned the cooler this morning, about two hours prior. Manager discarded the half and half during this inspection.
High priorityBLUE GATOR OF DUNNELLON →Jul 21, 2026