Yahoo News Marco Pierre White restaurant gets one star hygiene rating after inspection
AMarco Pierre White restaurant has been given a one star hygiene rating in its latest standards failure.
The Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill in Birmingham was found not to be storing or handling food hygienically after an inspection by environmental health officers on March 12. Dirty sponges, extensive dirt and mould in the utensil trays in the pot wash and old food debris encrusting the extendable tap were some of the findings.
The report concluded that the rooftop restaurant, which in March 2014 received a zero rating by the council, required "major improvement" in the way food was handled and prepared as well as the way it was safely monitored to ensure it was safe to eat.
Dirty sponges, extensive dirt and mould in the utensil trays in the pot wash as well as old food debris encrusting the extendable tap were some of the findings
Last year White's New York Italian restaurant in Bloomsbury received a hygiene score of 2 out of 5 following an investigation by the Food Standards Agency.
A spokeswoman for the restaurant confirmed they will be appealing the rating, noting that prior to this visit they "held a five-star rating". She said: "We have appealed the latest EHO score due to the disparity between this score and that of our independent external auditors, Shield Safety Group, who also carried out an unannounced kitchen audit on the same day as the EHO and scored us four stars."
