Food Hygiene Ratings. Scores on the Doors.

[ringway]

Before you fork out, check out your favourite pubs, clubs, takeaways and restaurants.

I'll bet some of you have eaten at some right dodgy places without knowing. I have!

You are able to search for a specific establishment.
However, I found it more interesting to search a borough or town and then see all who had been subjected to the inspections and then filter for the poor or good results.


So, get stuck in! LINK.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Take it with a pinch of salt (no pun intended).

A takeaway getting a poor rating can be down to not labeling boxes correctly etc. There is a Michelin star place near me that has a 1 star, however they don't agree with the food standards agency practice. Inside is a very clean working kitchen

(I've done the food safety course)

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

Nice link! Place we've just been to for lunch is a 4

 

[renault12ts]

Pleased to say our restaurant is a ...5.

 

[Meldrew2]

I've eaten rubbish in a 5, and regularly have an excellent curry in a 1.

A 5 is more about paperwork, procedures, protocol and pratting about.

It's easy for a big concern to get a 5 - look how many McDonalds, motorway services and KFC have 5. Does that recommend them to me?

 

[moonloops]

THis one has 4 stars: https://www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk/business/passage-to-india-north-yorkshire-539429.html

And yet:

£6,000 fine for restaurant after hygiene offences - Whitby Gazette

 

[renault12ts]

No...but I'd rather have a 5 than a 1.

 

[tangey]

I've eaten rubbish in a 5, and regularly have an excellent curry in a 1.

It's a hygiene / safety rating, not a food quality/excellence rating

 

[ringway]

I think a good indicator as to the general wellbeing of an eatery is a quick visit to the toilets before sitting down and committing to order.
A badly kept loo doesn't augur well for the rest of the set up.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Nice link! Place we've just been to for lunch is a 4

You been to Nando's again Ash?

 

[tali]

My fave takeaways had a 0 - ain't been there since i found out.And if it is a 0 -how come they haven't had a closure notice ?
My local great value chippy(where i have been a customer for over 15 yrs) had 4 - but i had bust up with some teenagers- and the owners backed them- so i ain't been there - and don't intend do

 

[daveenty]

Well, just had a look for my favourite takeaway on your link and it seems they haven't exactly excelled themselves: -

"(Name removed by me) Tandoori was awarded a Food Hygiene Rating of 0 (Urgent Improvement Necessary) by (my local) Metropolitan Borough Council on 28th April, 2016."

Ah well, I'll still be using them tomorrow night after a few scoops.

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

You been to Nando's again Ash?

Nope, Dry Dock in Leicester

5 plates of food for £9.99- Cumberland Sausages and mustard dip/beer battered onion rings/twisty fries topped with cheese and bacon/cheesey garlic bread/chicken goujons and BBQ sauce

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Nope, Dry Dock in Leicester

5 plates of food for £9.99- Cumberland Sausages and mustard dip/beer battered onion rings/twisty fries topped with cheese and bacon/cheesey garlic bread/chicken goujons and BBQ sauce

and there's me with a Pot Noodle & a packet of Seabrook.

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

and there's me with a Pot Noodle & a packet of Seabrook.

I love Seabrook!

 

[lisa110rry]

We were returning home from our holiday on 24/09 and stopped at a "Burger King/Little Chef" to get some lunch. As I walked past I saw the food hygiene rating of 1 star, turned around immediately and instead we stayed on the road until we got to Blythe where the eatery had five stars.

Yeurg!

 

[AMGeed]

Coming from someone who has picked up a part eaten kebab (still hot I add) and devoured it, it makes no odds to me. (I was intoxicated at the time in my defence)

I would avoid somewhere with obvious food hygene issues that are visible, but in a restaurant, nobody has an idea of what goes on in every kitchen.

I once walked past the rear of a restaurant in Southampton many years ago and it was a hot day and the rear kitchen doors were open. I looked in to catch a "chef" picking up potatoes he'd just dropped on the floor and putting them back on the plate

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

There's a very well known and respected large hotel in London that I wouldn't touch the food of

We had to survey the building, so expensive to stay there etc. Public areas very plush, but I'd even be suprised if they had a -1.0 hygiene rating. It was disgusting, massive rat problem, heaps of faeces laid above suspended ceiling tiles in the kitchen. Pure grot

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Many years ago there was a curry house in our nearest town called the Asian Grill (or Asian Swill as it was known), it's long gone now but I recall going to the toilet there and walking past a bath full of defrosting chickens in the corridor.

I never got ill from eating there.

 

[W124newbie]

Nice to know about that site, I usually use Food Standards Agency - Search for food hygiene ratings

I remember opposite my old work place there was a chicken shop which proudly displayed a 5 rating inside but not on the door. When I looked them up on the site above, they actually had a 1. I reported it but not sure anything happened.