TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson’s Oxfordshire restaurant received a two-star food hygiene rating
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson is upset after his Oxfordshire restaurant was given a two-star food hygiene rating.
- Antony Worrall Thompson owns The Greyhound restaurant on Peppard Common
- The venue received a new food hygiene rating of just two stars out of five
When TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson competed on the second series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! he nearly brought the hugely popular ITV1 reality show to a halt by inciting starving contestants to get up and leave camp after being given what they deemed inadequate food.
He now faces a similar uproar at his restaurant in Oxfordshire after it was given a new hygiene rating of just two stars out of five. The verdict of the food safety officers has left him boiling.
“It’s not normal,” says Worrall Thompson, 71. We have a very clean kitchen.
The Greyhound, on Peppard Common near Henley, bills itself as a destination spot for “high-quality” food, where mains are priced from £20-£27 and starters £13. However, inspectors who visited last month gave the verdict of ‘needed improvement’ to the ‘cleanliness and condition of the facilities and the building’.
Former Ready Steady Cook star Worrall Thompson says: “Personally I thought it was really harsh, and we’ll be calling the inspectors back in a couple of days.”
When TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson competed on the second series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! he nearly brought the hugely popular ITV1 reality show to a halt by inciting starving contestants to get up and leave camp after being given what they deemed inadequate food.
He now faces a similar uproar at his restaurant in Oxfordshire after it was given a new hygiene rating of just two stars out of five. The verdict of food safety officers has left him boiling
The Greyhound, on Peppard Common near Henley, bills itself as a “high-quality” dining destination, where mains are priced from £20-£27 and starters £13.
‘We felt it was nothing that could affect the hygiene of the food. We are making the improvements you suggest and everything has been fixed.’ Worrall Thompson’s career hit a snag in 2012 when he was booked by police for stealing items, including wine and cheese, from Tesco’s Henley-on-Thames branch on a total of five occasions.
Worrall Thompson, the author of a few dozen cookbooks, said in 2015 that he was writing a book about the shoplifting incident. ‘It’s called Why?’ he said. “I hope it’s instructive, not on how to shoplift, but on how to deal with it.”
In I’m a Celebrity, Worrall Thompson completed a Bushtucker test in which she had to retrieve ten food stars surrounded by snakes, spiders, and bugs. Hopefully getting those food hygiene stars back is less of a challenge.