A wide range of scores have been dished out to Island shops, restaurants, bars and pubs after environmental health inspectors’ latest batch of food hygiene standards ratings.
Whilst nowhere scored a score of 0 (urgent improvement necessary), 2 establishments scored poorly with Wight Grill in Newport and Hotel Maria in Sandown scoring a lowly 1 out of 5.
Restaurants, cafes and food production companies on the Isle of Wight are rated on a scale from 0 ‘Urgent Improvement Necessary’ to 5 ‘Very Good’, in line with government guidance under the Food Standards Agency.
The inspections are carried out by the Isle of Wight Council’s environmental health officers where establishments are ranked across three categories — hygienic food handling, cleanliness and condition of facilities and food safety management.
A score is then given to the business to determine how safe and clean they are.
The results after the latest set of inspections are:
5 – Very Good
- Hambledon Hotel, Shanklin
- Blackgang Chine Theme Park
- Pioneer Café, Lake
- The Beach Shack, Sandown
- Chester Lodge, Sandown
- JR Zone, Newport
- Appley Lodge, Shanklin
- Town Choice, Newport
- Eversley Hotel, Ventnor
- YMCA Day Nursery, St Mary’s Hospital, Newport
- McDonald’s, Newport
- Village Inn, Shanklin
- Tops Day Nursery, Newport
- Little Acres Pre School, Newport
- Luccombe Manor Country House Hotel, Shanklin
- B and Q, Newport
- Hunnyhill Primary School (Compass)
- Medina College VI Form Campus, Newport (Compass)
- Isle Love Sweets, Newport
- Seabreeze, East Cowes
- Tradewinds Beach Café, Sandown
- Isle of Wight Cheese Company (production facility), Newchurch
- ADA Mediterranean Kitchen, Ryde
- Little French Franks, Cowes
- Boojum and Snark, Sandown
- Newport C of E Primary School Kitchen
- Elixir Freshly Frozen, Gurnard Pines
- Briddlesford Lodge Farm (Dairy and Chees production)
- Ryde Superbowl
- Little John Takeaway, Ryde
- House of Zabre Cafe Bar, Ryde
- Ryde Bakery
4 – Good
- Pavarottis Restaurant, Shanklin
- Hungry Caterpillar, Newport
- Nine Acres Primary School (Compass)
- Premier Inn, Lake
- Besty & Spinky’s, Ventnor
3 – Generally Satisfactory
- Crab and Lobster, Bembridge
- Chocolate Island, Godshill
- The Kebab House, Newport
- Fishermans Cottage, Shanklin
- The White Horse Inn, Whitwell
- Ocean View Hotel, Shanklin
2 – Improvement Necessary
- Royal Pier Hotel, Sandown
- Nisa, Lower Hyde Holiday Park, Shanklin
- Saint Pizza, Newport
1 – Major Improvement Necessary
- Hotel Maria, Sandown
- Wight Grill House, Newport
0 – Urgent Improvement Necessary
- None.
(All scores are correct as of publication)
Eat at home if you live here.
Rip off prices, fake welcome IF at all, as the only welcome is your wallets content, and the risk of shoddy practices now that all staff have vanished from the planet, meaning they will employ anything with a pulse up’s the risk of a poor experience and paying OTT for it.
Leave eating out to those who come here to get ripped off as we all do when on hols.
Gotta be some cheap grub going there then!
Inspections are carried out by Isle of Wight council’s health inspectors. That explains why Hotel Maria was not closed down immediately, more council incompetence. Should have guessed.
is business not hard enough without the council targeting businesses and then publishing details, the fact is those caught will probably be better than the 5* rated places who will ,more than likely gloat and become complacent
Any business serving food should be stopped from trading if their score is 2 or less until they can show they have made required improvements, these places are putting peoples health at risk.
Don’t surprise me Hotel Maria got 1 star, I’ve seen them put cooked meat straight from oven to freezer and drop food on the floor and still serve it to guests
YUCK!!!
Have you read George Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London”?