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 1: 

Burgshake Bournemouth, in Wimborne Road, Bournemouth was given the score after assessment on July 16 

Rated 4: 

Naked Coffee in the Dolphin Centre, High Street, Poole was given the score after assessment on July 17 

Rated 5:  

The 1859 Pier Cafe & Bistro in Swanage was rated on August 20 

Skippers Sherborne in Terrace View Horsecastles, Sherborne was rated on August 16 

Brewery Shop & Visitors Centre at The Brewery Bournemouth Road, Blandford St Mary was rated on August 14 

Isle of Purbeck Golf Club in Corfe Road, Studland was rated on August 13 

Studland Bay House in Ferry Road, Studland was rated on August 13 

Forest Edge Coffee Shop in Station Road, Alderholt was rated on August 7 

Weavers Sports and Social Club in Sherborne was rated on August 16 

Saffron Ferndown in Wimborne Road East, Ferndown was rated on August 8 

Lotus Chinese Takeaway in East Street, Wareham was rated on June 24 

The Vibrant Tap in High Street, Lyndhurst was handed a five-out-of-five rating after assessment on August 6. 

The Royal Oak in Ringwood Road, North Gorley, Fordingbridge was also given a score of five on May 13. 

The Dog House, in Lydfords Lane, Gillingham, Dorset was given the maximum score after assessment on July 9