A NUMBER of cafés, pubs, restaurants and takeaways across Dorset and the New Forest have been handed new food hygiene ratings recently.  

Each week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspects businesses across the country, assessing hygiene and safety, structural compliance and confidence in management.      

Across the UK, every food outlet including convenience stores, restaurants, hospitals and care homes are given a hygiene rating.  

What each hygiene rating means:    

0 - Urgent improvement necessary    

1 - Major improvement necessary  

2 - Some improvement necessary      

3 - Hygiene standards generally satisfactory        

4 - Hygiene standards good     

5 - Hygiene standards very good          

Here is a roundup of scores given by the FSA this week: 

Rated 4: 

Caffe Nero in Saxon Square, Christchurch was given the score after assessment on June 13. 

Rated 5: 

Rosie Lea House in Southampton Road, Boldre, Lymington was given the maximum score after assessment on June 26. 

Monkey Brewhouse in Southampton Road, Lymington was rated on July 2 

The Gun Inn in Keyhaven Road, Keyhaven, Lymington was rated on July 9  

The Boat Shed in Main Road, West Lulworth was rated on July 2 

Bournemouth Kawasaki in Wimborne Road, Bournemouth was rated on July 5 

Coffee at Adorned in Commercial Road, Poole was rated on July 4 

Costa Coffee in Safety Drive, Poole was rated on July 4 

Isabels Brasserrie in Penn Hill Avenue, Poole was rated on July 4 

Royal Motor Yacht Club at R M Y C S Enchantress, Panorama Road, Poole was rated on July 4 

Toby Carvery in The Fleetsbridge, Wimborne Road, Poole was rated on July 10 

Christchurch Conservative Club in Bargates, Christchurch was rated on July 5 

Kinson Conservative Club in Wimborne Road, Bournemouth was rated on July 3 

Fairmile Fisheries in Fairmile Parade, Fairmile Road, Christchurch was rated on July 4 

Jade Orchid in St Catherines Parade, Fairmile Road, Christchurch was rated on July 4