The Cabana Club
425 Ocean Drive East, PO Box 510144, Key Colony Beach, FL 33051 · Permanent Food Service · License 5428279
What drove the grade
Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse.
How the score was calculated
- Starting score100
- Violations at the Sep 9 routine inspection5 high priority (no follow-up needed), 2 intermediate, 5 basic-26
- Safety score74
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Inspection history
1 inspection · 1 visitRoutine inspection
- First visitSep 9, 2026 No follow-up needed
Met the state's inspection standards; the inspector didn't need to come back. Any violations cited still count toward the grade.
12 violations found:
Official report, on the Florida DBPR websiteWhat the inspector cited
High priority5
Code 01, Approved source; food safe and unadulterated: Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse.
Observed 5 pieces raw mahi thawed in unopened vacuum packaging in stand up cooler. Observed 5 pieces of raw tuna thawed in unopened vacuum packaging. Label states do not thaw in the packaging.
Stop Sale issued due to adulteration of food product.
Ice in bar ice been has black mold like debris through the ice.
Code 08, Food protection and cross-contamination: Bottled drink stored in ice used for drinks.
See stop sale.
Code 29, Plumbing and backflow prevention: Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb.
Inside front entrance left side.
Code 41, Chemicals and toxic substances: Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored hanging over butter spreader wheel
Intermediate2
Code 31, Handwash sinks and supplies: Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing.
Lid stored in hand washing sink
Code 41, Chemicals and toxic substances: Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled.
Basic5
Code 06, Food properly thawed: Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package.
See stop sale. Observed 5 pieces of raw mahi thawed in unopened vacuum packaging. Observed 5 pieces of raw tuna thawed in unopened vacuum packaging. Label states do not thaw in the packaging.
Code 10, In-use utensils properly stored: In-use ice scoop stored on soiled surface between uses.
Code 21, Wiping cloths and linens: Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
Code 22, Food-contact surfaces clean and sanitized: Accumulation of mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.
Code 25, Single-service items: Single-service cups improperly stored on the floor in dry storage room
Reading this report
Priority levels
- High priority The problems most likely to make someone sick directly.
- Intermediate Could lead to a high-priority problem if not fixed.
- Basic Best practices and general upkeep.
Terms in the inspectors’ reports
- Time/temperature control for safety food
- Food that has to be kept hot, at 135°F or above, or cold, at 41°F or below, to stay safe: meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, cooked rice and beans, cut melons and the like.
- Stop sale
- An order that the food can’t be sold or served.
- Vacuum breaker, backflow
- Plumbing parts that keep dirty water, such as from a mop sink hose, from flowing back into the clean water supply.