Michael Caines restaurant in Canterbury gets poor food hygiene rating

26 June 2009 by
Michael Caines restaurant in Canterbury gets poor food hygiene rating

The Michael Caines restaurant at the four-star Abode Hotel in Canterbury was given a one-star food hygiene rating, putting it below an elderly day centre café.

The two-Michelin starred chef's restaurant at the property, run by head chef Mark Rossi, was ranked below the city's Age Concern day centre, which received a full five-star rating by hygiene inspectors, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The one-star rating means "a poor level of compliance with food safety legislation - much more effort required".

Declan Kelly, the hotel's general manager, explained that the restaurant was in the process of changing health and safety consultants at the time of the inspection in February.

"I am afraid procedures were not adhered to as strictly as we would have liked and we did not perform as well as we should have," he told the Telegraph.

"The issues have been addressed and I am very happy with the systems we now have in place. I just wish we could be re-assessed because I am very confident we would score very well.

Caines heads up the kitchen at two-Michelin starred Gidleigh Park in Devon as well as overseeing signature restaurants at four Abode Hotels. He relaunched the restaurant at the Bath Priory in March, taking his eponymous restaurant total to six.

In an interview with Caterer earlier this year, Caines revealed plans to bring his restaurant empire to 10 by 2012.

Michael Caines calls on Michelin to hand out new stars >>

Michael Caines targeted by activists over foie gras >>

Abode Hotels - two years on >>

By Daniel Thomas

E-mail your comments to Daniel Thomas here.

Caterersearch.com jobs
Looking for a new job? Find your next restaurant job here with Caterersearch.com jobs

Blogs on Caterersearch.com](http://www.caterersearch.com/blogs) Catch up with more news and gossip on all Caterer's blogs
[Newsletters For the latest hospitality news, sign up for our e-mail newsletters.
The Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email

Start the working day with The Caterer’s free breakfast briefing email

Sign Up and manage your preferences below

Check mark icon
Thank you

You have successfully signed up for the Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email and will hear from us soon!

Jacobs Media is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Read more.

close

Ad Blocker detected

We have noticed you are using an adblocker and – although we support freedom of choice – we would like to ask you to enable ads on our site. They are an important revenue source which supports free access of our website's content, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

trade tracker pixel tracking