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 3: 

Tatnam Tandoori in Tatnam Crescent, Poole was given the score after assessment on September 26 

Cafe Aroma in High Street, Poole was handed a three-out-of-five rating after assessment on September 24. 

Dolce Vita in Commercial Road, Poole was also given a score of three on September 24. 

Rated 4:  

The Salt Pig in North Street, Wareham was rated on September 26 

The White Swan in High Street, Swanage was rated on September 26 

Pizzarella in Turbary Road, Ferndown was rated on September 26 

Rated 5:  

LCP Catering/Cafe Parisien in High Street, Lyndhurst was rated on October 29 

Sammy’s in High Street, Milford-On-Sea, Lymington was rated on October 29 

Coffee and Drift in Admirals Court, Quay Road, Lymington was rated on October 23 

Pantry Barn at Breamore House, Upper Street, Breamore, Fordingbridge was rated on October 22 

Cafe 3 at Lymington Enterprise Centre, Ampress Lane, Lymington was rated on October 15 

Babelas in High Street, Lymington was rated on October 5 

Inn on the Furlong in Meeting House Lane, Ringwood was rated on October 21 

The Burley Inn at The Cross, Burley, Ringwood was rated on October 19 

The Rising Sun in Bashley Common Road, New Milton was rated on October 19 

The Ferryman in Undershore Road, Lymington was rated on October 18 

Hoburne Bashley in Sway Road, New Milton was rated on October 8