Norwich Restaurants with poor Food Hygiene Ratings

Norwich has been chosen to be the first city to implement the new food hygiene ratings and business merit listings system. This was put in place on September 15th and is controlled by Food Standards Agency (FSA). These new ratings will then be nationalised at a later date.

I love food and I love to eat out (money permitting) so on finding out about this i was eager to see how my favourite Norwich restaurants faired.

Let’s look at how the ratings work first. The food hygiene ratings are simple to understand. It’s worth bearing in mind that the figures do cover three disciplines though (so it’s not just an indication of a dirty kitchen!):

• food hygiene
• structure and cleanliness
• confidence in management

Basically i wouldn’t consider going to anything with a 0. I’d also think twice about anything from 1 to 2.

Food hygiene ratings

I was going to sort and list all the restaurants here but seeing as they’re likely to change their ways it’s unfair. Instead i’ll point out some shockers below from the Norwich restaurant ratings list:

(Correct as of 22nd Novmber 2010)

Rated 0

• BB’s Coffee & Muffins  (Castle Mall) – 0
• Black Horse (Earlham Road) – 0
• Comfortably Numb – 0 (Update – 22 November 2010 – This establish has been removed from the list)
• Dragon Chinese Takeaway – 0
• Italia Nostra (St Giles Street) – 0
• Kathy’s Plaice – 0
• Ketts Hill Bakery (25 Ketts Hill) – 0
• Master Chef (Prince of Wales Road) – 0
• Quality Indian Takeaway – 0
• Sir Juiced Catering – 0
• St Benedicts Restaurant – 0
• The Rose Inn – 0
• UK Pizza Parlour – 0

Rated 1

• Ali Tandoori – 1
• Bedfords Bar & Restaurant – 1
• Coachmakers Arms – 1
• Costa Coffee (White Lion Street) – 1
• DFC Chicken – 1
• Golden City – 1
• Great Wall – 1
• Havana – 1 (no real surprise)
• Papa Johns – 1 (how could you Papa Jonathan!)
• Passage To India – 1
• Pinocchios – 1
• Pizza One – 1
• Planet Wok (Dereham Road) – 1
• Royal Plaza -1
• Royal Tandoori – 1
• Spice Land – 1
• Thai On The River – 1
• The City Spice -1
• The Georgian House Hotel – 1
• The Langtry – 1
• The Last Wine Bar & Restaurant – 1  :(
• The Nelson – 1

Rated 2

• Bar Tapas – 2
• Bella Italia (Red Lion Street) – 2
• By Appointment – 2
• The Cidershed – 2
• Torero – 2

To see a list of updated food safety ratings see the full list of Norwich ratings on the Norwich City Council website. The full list also contains business merit listings which show whether the company uses local produce, allows breastfeeding, provides healthier meals and has wheelchair access. The list also has full expection reports (in PDF) and right to reply options so that owners can ask for rating to be reviewed should there be an update.

Let’s hope some of the restaurants above take action to get up to speed!

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