TAMPA, Florida - Over the past 10 months, the state of Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation has conducted over 25,000 restaurant inspections across the Bay Area. A majority of restaurants, 66 percent, have fewer than five critical violations per inspection.

But there are a small percentage of restaurants with violations that number far into the double digits.

Here is our Spring 2012 "Terrible 10" list of restaurants with the most critical violations on a single inspection over the past year:

See images of The "Terrible 10" here.

1       -  Golden Phoenix (Tampa)

2       -  Seminole Family Restaurant

3       -  China Buffet (Avon Park)

4       -  Cali Viejo (Brandon)

5       -  Hiro's Tokyo Japanese Steak House & Sushi Bar (St. Pete)

6       -  Classic Homestyle Buffet (Tampa)

7       -  China Palace (Valrico)

8       -  Tapas Garden & Wine Bar (Indian Rocks Beach)

9       -  Suzie Q's Diner (Seminole)

10    -  Homer's Original Smorgasbord (Sebring)

More information on each restaurant's state inspection:

 

Homer's Original Smorgasbord

February Inspection

25 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Temperature violations with blue cheese & macaroni salad

-Slime on the soda nozzles

-Unclean ice chute

 

 

Suzie Q's Diner

November Inspection

26 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

- Ham, cooked spinach & cheese temperatures violations

- Roaches throughout the kitchen.

 

 

Tapas Garden & Wine Bar

April Inspection

26 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Employees not washing hands or using soap

- Ants on the cook line.

 

 

China Palace

March Inspection

26 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Employee scooping out cooked rice with bare hands

-Employees not washing hands

-Slime in the ice machine...

 

 

The Classic Homestyle Buffet (Home Like Buffet)

December Inspection

26 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-54 total for the most in Tampa Bay on a single inspection

 

 

Hiro's Tokyo Japanese Steak House & Sushi Bar

October Inspection

27 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Food temperature abuse

-No soap at the sink.

 

 

Cali Viejo Restaurant

March Inspection

27 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Showed impressive improvement.

 

 

China Buffet

March Inspection

28 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Sushi at 54 degrees on buffet

-Slime in the ice machine.

 

 

Seminole Family Restaurant

April Inspection

28 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Fly strips over the food prep area

-Dirty kitchen equipment.

 

 

Golden Phoenix

April Inspection

29 CRITICAL VIOLATIONS

-Food stored in the ice used for drinks

-Temperature violations on cooked duck

-Employees not properly washing hands/changing gloves

Outrageous Restaurant Red Alert reports:

Band Aid Soup: Customer served soup - with a band aid in it!

Terrible 10: 10 Tampa Bay restaurants with the WORST critical violations

Ceiling Roaches: McDonalds cited when roach falls from ceiling onto diner's food

Finger in salad: Pizza customer claims there was a fingertip in his salad

Baked Roaches: Roaches found baked into Pizza Supreme

More Restaurant Red Alert Reports:

Classic Homestyle Buffet, Tampa 1/11/12 

Frank's Family Restaurant, Hernando 1/18/12 

Big Easy Cajun, Brandon TownCenter 1/25/12 

CiCi's Pizza, Kenneth City 2/1/12 

China Express, Brandon 2/8/12

Daiquiri Deck, Maderia Beach 2/15/12 

Athenian Garden, Tyrone Area, St. Pete 2/22/12

Bob Evans (Ulmerton Road), Pho 97 (Pinellas Park), Kobe Japanese Steak House (New Tampa) 2/29/12 

China Jade, Carrollwood, 3/7/12 

Nicki's West 59th (Bradenton), Top's China Buffet (Brandon), 400 Beach (St. Petersburg) 3/14/12 

Hamburger Mary's Bar & Grille (Ybor City) 3/21/12 

Sandy's Restaurant, Indian Rocks Beach 3/28/12