CAFES, 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 1:  

Peking Restaurant in Bridge Street, Fordingbridge was rated on March 27 

Murati’s in Seabourne Road, Bournemouth was rated on March 25  

Rated 3: 

Efes Restaurant, in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth was given the score after assessment on March 26, the Food Standards Agency's website shows. 

Kebab and Pizza Hot, in Ringwood Road, Verwood was given the score after assessment on March 26. 

Brockenhurst Football Club in Grigg Lane, Brockenhurst was given a score of three on March 23 

Rated 4: 

Mi Ya Japanese Restaurant, in Poole Road, Bournemouth was handed a four-out-of-five rating after assessment on March 27. 

Hard Brock Cafe at Brockenhurst College, Lyndhurst Road, Brockenhurst was given the score after assessment on March 26. 

Loch & Quay Bistro in Church Street, Christchurch was rated on March 7  

Rated 5: 

Cat and Fiddle in Lyndhurst Road, Hinton was rated on April 27 

Bistro My Way in Lymington Road, Highcliffe was rated on April 25 

Harbour Heights Hotel in Haven Road, Poole was rated on April 23 

Coffee #1 in Commercial Road, Poole was rated on April 18 

Prezzo in Bh2, Exeter Road, Bournemouth was rated on April 18 

Nans Place Cafe in Wimborne Road, Bournemouth was rated on April 17 

The Neptune in Undercliff Drive, Bournemouth was rated on April 17 

O'Neill's in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth was rated on April 15 

Revolution in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth was rated on April 15 

The Other Guys Kitchen in Poole Quay, Poole was rated on April 23 

The Wood Oven in Undercliff Drive, Bournemouth was rated on April 19 

Xinwang Chinese takeaway in Palmerston Road, Bournemouth was rated on April 17