Popular Chattingham Curry House Receives Two-Star Hygiene Rating

We rang the Steaming Turban Curry House in Chattingham and said we’d write something nice about them if they gave us a free takeaway.

But they told us to bugger off.

The Steaming Turban: two-star rating...

So we went through the archives and found that a few years ago, the restaurant had been given a two star hygiene rating after food hygiene inspectors found “dirty” facilities and a build-up of dead insects.

The Steaming Turban has a five-out-of-five score on Tripadvisor but three years ago council officers gave it a two-star rating for hygiene standards outlining “some improvement is necessary”.

The inspection on October 25 2021 by officials from Midway Borough Council (MBC) also discovered leaky kitchen sinks and a pile of cardboard waste that inspectors warned would attract rodents and poor hand-washing practices in place.

“The fly killer unit has a build-up of dead insects and requires cleaning".

Inspection records also detail a greasy fly chain full of dust and debris and a bathroom “dirty and scaled”.

As officers walked through the main kitchen, water was collecting on the flood due to a leak in the plumbing and drainage system for the main washing-up sink.

Inspectors cautioned: “Sinks must be adequately plumbed to ensure that water does not collect on the floor of a food business, floors must be free of water and kept clean at all times."

Stock photo of rubbish...

“At the time of my inspection, there was a large amount of waste packaging outside the kitchen near the outside store - waste that could attract pests in particular rodents to this area and encourages them to enter the food preparation area.”

Officials ordered the restaurant managers to clean the facilities, make the necessary repairs and arrange for staff members to have refresher training in food safety.

When they returned to the Chattingham restaurant in December 2021, inspectors found all issues had been resolved and awarded the business top marks for hygiene and cleanliness.

The Grott Street eatery has since been re-inspected and was awarded a five-out-of-five rating, according to an update published on December 12 on the Food Standards Agency (FSA) register.

So we haven’t really got a story.

But we’re not going to be laughed at by a bloody Indian restaurant that refuses to give us freebies when we ask for them.

So watch this space for a totally honest and unbiased restaurant review. 

In the real world, what turns out to be a complete non-story about a small family restaurant doesn’t first mention the successful re-inspection until about half-way through, a single sentence buried in a load of out-of-date condemnations. But then this sort of stuff about “forren” restaurants being dirty always gets the clicks, by hook or crook…

 Comments:

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Aunt Nartsie wrote:
Here we go again... the same type of food outlet, doubtless staffed by illegal immigrants who don’t even speak English, let alone work to English hygiene standards. Close them down permanently when inspected if they don’t comply with hygiene standards. Why give them extra chances to give customers food poisoning?!

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TheSteamingTurban replied:
Mrs Nartsie our restaurant was started by my father 50 years ago. It is now run by my son and his wife. My family are as “English” as you are and judging by your comment, I think we have far more pride in our English values of tolerance and respect than you do. Yes, we got careless with our hygiene practices a few years ago due to family problems. However, we admitted our mistakes, worked hard to address them and have since had five-star ratings. We are a small family business and we are proud to serve our local community. Why not come and visit us instead of writing nasty (this comment has been cut because it does not meet our community standards – The Editor).

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Aunt Nartsie replied:
A likely story. If I had my way you lot would be on a plane to Rwanda!

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Gonads replied:
Wow, for once, some down-votes for Aunt Nartsie’s bigoted fascist drivel. Obviously her fellow right-wing trolls couldn’t up-vote it fast enough. Or maybe the bots have shut down for Xmas. Expect the MORON team to wade in with a block vote to get things back to normal…

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Gonads replied:
Thanks lads, business as usual!

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Neil Barse replied:
A typically stupid reply from Gonads, a typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, you are a blight on society and as such are unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.

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PhilTheMentallyIll wrote
The original poor restaurant hygiene inspection result was undoubtedly the fault of Ke*r St*rmer and the anti-business policies of his Labo*r lackies R*chel Re*ves and Ang*la R*yner, who are using a combination of the food hygiene regulations, the ULEZ and inheritance tax changes to drive all small restaurants out of business so that they can be replaced by woke vegan nut cutlet outlets for socialist snowflakes.

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Super Small Dick wrote:
If I die of cold this winter, who do my children sue? We can afford to give money to the immigrants but can't keep me warm! Disgusted.

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Pseudocreem 2 wrote:
Comrades, dear Mr. Putin says for you to vote REFORM in next elections because all political England parties are anti-democratic police state dictatorships unlike truly free Russia as run by champion of democratic freedoms dear Mr. Putin and his Russian oligarch friends whose money is good for UK.

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