Which restaurants in Shropshire have zero-star hygiene ratings? The answer is none
Big cities like London and Birmingham may have most of the famous chefs – but the restaurants of Shropshire are streets ahead when it comes to health and hygiene.
Figures released by the Food Standards Agency revealed that more than 90 per cent of Shropshire's cafes and restaurants were rated as either "good" or "very good" – and also told of how not a single one had received a zero-star rating, which means a venue "requires urgent improvement".
Cafes and restaurants in Telford & Wrekin also did very well in the report, with 86.3 per cent scoring either good or very good ratings, with just 1.83 per cent being deemed to require urgent improvement.
The figures come from local authority inspections, where all venues serving food are given ratings up to a maximum of five stars, which denotes "very good" standards of hygiene.
A total of 724 eating venues in Shropshire were inspected during the course of the survey, while 219 came under scrutiny in Telford & Wrekin.
In Shropshire, less than two per cent of dining venues were identified as having one or two-star ratings, which mean improvements are required, while nearly 73 per cent were given the maximum five-star rating.
In Telford & Wrekin, a total of 219 premises were visited, and nearly 72 per cent were given top ratings.
Just under six per cent were told they needed improvement.
Over the border in Powys, the figures showed that just over five per cent of eating venues required improvement, with 1.72 per cent requiring urgent improvement.
Nearly 86 per cent were rated as good or very good.
A league table found the worst-performing areas were in London, with Newham and Ealing having the first and second highest proportion of establishments needing improvement, while Harrow had the lowest percentage of four and five-star ratings.
Outside the capital, Birmingham and the Isles of Scilly fared the worst in England. Birmingham had the most premises rated zero. Birmingham also had the fourth lowest percentage of good or very good ratings.
At the other end of the table, in Wolverhampton nearly 90 per cent of cafes and restaurants scored the maximum five stars.
