A pair of comfort-food diners — one in Broward, one in Palm Beach County — were among three South Florida restaurants ordered shut last week by state inspectors.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We cull through inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for “high-priority violations,” such as improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.

Sun Sentinel readers may browse full Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade county reports through our state inspection map, updated weekly (usually Mondays) with fresh data pulled from the Florida DBPR website.

Any restaurant that fails a state inspection must stay closed until it passes a follow-up. If you spotted a possible violation and wish to file a complaint, contact Florida DBPR here. (But please don’t contact us: The Sun Sentinel doesn’t inspect restaurants.

Moonlite Diner, Fort Lauderdale

6201 N. Andrews Ave.

Ordered shut: April 3; reopened April 4

Why: 22 violations (seven high-priority), including 32 flies swarming and landing “on open bag of bread and container of flour,” “around ice machine” near a kitchen sink, “around tool box” near the storage shelf by a walk-in cooler, and “around coffee machine” on the front counter.

The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and toss the bread and flour. It was also ordered to trash its ham steak, onion soup, cooked turkey, corned beef, sliced ham, sliced turkey and sliced cheese “due to temperature abuse.”

Finally, inspectors red-flagged an “open dumpster lid” behind the restaurant and other sanitary issues, such as “soiled wiping cloths on cutting board” and “raw beef steaks being stored inside freezer not protected or covered.”

The state’s next-day inspection found one high-priority violation, and the diner was cleared to reopen.

Pamonhas do Goiás, Deerfield Beach

3232 W. Hillsboro Blvd.

Ordered shut: April 5; reopened April 6

Why: Eight violations (five high-priority), including at least seven live cockroaches found “in dry storage room,” “inside of front bottom kick plate of residential fridge in kitchen” and on ground next to a fridge and kitchen sink.

The report found five rodent droppings inside of a refrigerator drip tray and about 17 dead roaches in spots including the ground next to a kitchen refrigerator and “under side of residential reach-in cooler in kitchen.” It also noted improper storage of cream cheese underneath raw salmon in a reach-in cooler, which was corrected on-site.

Additionally, the restaurant was ordered to stop selling and trash its sushi rice “due to temperature abuse.”

After finding zero new issues during its visit on April 6, the state gave Pamonhas the green light to reopen.

Bees Knees Diner, West Palm Beach

3027 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite A1

Ordered shut: April 4; reopened April 5

Why: Nine violations (six high-priority), including a live fly “on food in trash can on cook line” and 10 live cockroaches “on floor … by soda station in the kitchen,” “under dishwasher rack by soda station” and “under dishwasher rack dolly.”

The restaurant was ordered to stop selling and throw out pancake mix, butter packets, milk, cooked short ribs and spare ribs “due to temperature abuse,” as the reach-in cooler where they were stored “was unplugged.”

The diner reopened the following day without a single follow-up issue.