A PUB in Rhuddlan has been handed a one-out-of-five food hygiene rating, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.
The New Inn, at High Street, received the minimum score after assessment on June 9.
At the time, the pub told the Journal that they had arranged an immediate re-inspection and claimed they had been informed by hygiene inspectors that they had been marked too harshly.
This appears to have not been the case, with no new rating handed out at the site since - the business did not respond to a second Journal query.
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The pub’s management of food safety, which refers to the system or checks in place to ensure that food sold or served is safe to eat and evidence that staff know about food safety, was rated ‘major improvement necessary’.
Its hygienic food handling, related to the handling of food including preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage, was rated ‘improvement necessary’.
The cleanliness and condition of its facilities and building was rated ‘generally satisfactory’.
The result will likely come as a surprise to many, with the pub having a TripAdvisor rating of 4.0 based on 51 reviews, the most recent calling the pub "perfect".
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