Restaurants - hygiene stars

[edanna]

Not sure if anyone has posted about this before, but on the Scores on the doors site you can search for local restaurants and find out how they did in their last hygiene inspection. There are 5 possible stars, with 5 being the best and 1 (or 0!) being the worst. I've just wasted loads of time searching.... Le Chandelier and Tandoori Nights both only get 1 star......

[lozzyloz]

On a positive note McDonalds gets 5 Stars as does KFC, Pizza Express and all the other chains.

Still you can also rest assured that an excellent 4 out of 5 on Lordship Lane and close by goes to:

Thai Corner Cafe

Sea Cow

Black Cherry

Kebab & Wine

Le Chardon

Springers Wine Bar

Blue Mountain

Anatolia

Domino's Pizza

Bubble & Squeak Cafe

The Lane Cafe

Pavilion Cafe Dulwich Park

Cafe Rouge

Mr Lui

Pizza Pan

Franklins

Curry Cabin

Cafe Nero

Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Plough Cafe

Starbucks

Cafe el Passo

[jollybaby]

I had a take away from Tandoori nights tonight - do you think I should stay at home tomorrow just in case? Wouldn't want a dicky tummy on the no 12 bus!

[Muttley]

Tandoori Nights....oh no, say it is not so. I finally got to eat there last week, first time in years, and loved it. Best Indian on Lordship, whatever I've said in the past. Interesting that the Curry Cabin is the only Indian in that four star list (if it's complete).

[CamberwellOz]

*Face of horror* What Green and Blue didn't make the cut?

[bon3yard]

The Dulwich Cafe always strikes me as a pretty clean place with staff who seem genuinely pleased to have your custom and their prices are nothing to be sniffed at.

[edanna]

Don't worry CamberwellOz, Green and Blue also gets 4 stars....

[david_carnell]

Liquorish, The Mag and Spice Republic all also only get 1 star.

[Keef]

I don't care, I still like the mag's pizza!

[Muttley]

So now we are presented with these figures, what are we supposed to do with them? William Rose scores lower than Iceland, but looking at the scoring system this might simply be because WR deals with riskier food, i.e. fresh meat, versus processed frozen. Bellamy's newsagent gets 5 stars, maybe I should buy my meat there. Note also that many of the reports are over a year old.

Take this whole thing with a pinch of salt (but try to keep the salt to less than 6g per day or the diet police will be on to you.)

[macroban]

Iceland sells fresh meat.

[annaj]

Reading through this thread I've tried really hard to find some part of me that might care about food hygiene stars, but I just can't.

Perhaps I'll get a horirble case of food poisoning, perhaps I deserve to, but I can't imagine ever looking up the hygiene rating of a restaurant I like or changing my behaviour because of it.

Just me?

[Muttley]

macroban Wrote:

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> Iceland sells fresh meat.

True. All their fresh food and their veg is sealed in plastic. I'm sure that's more hygienic. What happens to it when it's being processed before it gets to Iceland I've no idea. All round which fresh meat do I have more faith in? William Rose.

[georgia]

No annaj I am also with you on this one. Have eaten at Tandoori Nights many times and have survived!

[jrussel]

This is an excellent scheme. It is most important to check the hygiene standards of any restaurant you eat at. By publishing this information, perhaps we can try and cut down on some of the terribly lax standards prevalent in so many eateries.

I have a friend who works in a fairly well-known restaurant in Soho. She tells me that on one occasion, a rat ran across a shelf and fell into a cooking pot! The head chef ordered someone to fish it out with a sieve and then the food in that pot was served to customers anyway! Apparently the chef said the heat would kill the germs!

[edanna]

I think we should care - the sad thing is that so many managers of catering businesses don't care about food hygiene or their customers' health. Remember that some people eating in cafes and restaurants could be very seriously affected by food poisoning - children, the elderly etc. Yes, some of the reports may be quite old and things could have improved, but if the business wasn't that bothered about food hygiene at the last inspection......

[HonaloochieB]

Are the inspections carried out by Mr Carnegie?

[HonaloochieB]

I'm a dirty sod like annaj and georgia. I unhygienically spit on these stars.

Edited because of a filthy spelling error

[sidll]

The main difference between 4 and 5 star premises is that the 5 star ones have all had an independent hygiene audit of their premises. This does not make them any cleaner than the 4 star premises and as can be seen from the lists above, it is something that is much more cost effective for multinationals than small independents.

[SeanMacGabhann]

and yet when people go travelling in the east, most of the "genuine" food raved about is the authentic stuff served up by locals, on a manky old one ring gaz, with the local vermin watching on... or is that just me?

Sterile environments scare me - it must erode at our ability to fight germs - a bit of rough is fine by me

[Moos]

I like a bit of rough too.

Er...:-$

[tiger ranks]

PLOUGH CAFE

i love the decking outside (tu)B)

very clean inside

[HonaloochieB]

I wonder what Rock Steady Eddie's in Camberwell got? Do they award minus stars?

Black holes? Not a criticism by the way, I use the place and love it.

[annaj]

Students of food hygiene and karma will be interested to know that, since my last post, I have had a high fever, been unable to stand for more than five minutes and nothing solid has gone in or out of me.

I haven't checked the hygiene stars of the takeaway pizza place I used on Wednesday.

Still, silver lining, it's shifted the last stubborn 5lbs that I've been wanting to lose for ages!

[Michael Palaeologus]

If it hasnt got a bit of mouse poo in it, its not proper food.