Two popular Sheffield fish and chip restaurants ordered to improve after one-star food hygiene rating

Woodhouse Fish Bar and and Queenies near Shiregreen were both told that their food hygiene standards need improvement by the Food Standards Agency.

However the owner of Woodhouse Fish Bar explained that the rating was nothing to do with the hygiene in their kitchen, and was in fact down to some repair work that was being done at the time of the inspection. The repair work is now completed.

Christina Savva said: “We had some repair work in the back and outside, that was all. They are done now and I have been ringing the Food Standards Agency so that they can come round and and reassess.

“The rating was did not have anything to do with the standards of the food itself.”

The Star attempted to contact Queenies but did not get an answer.

Both businesses were inspected in October this year, with the results published by the agency since then.

Other Sheffield businesses to be pulled up on their hygiene included Orient Express on Glossop Road, which was awarded a zero, and Flavours on Whitham Road, which was given a rating of one.

At the inspection, the officer will check how hygienically the food is handled, prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored.

It looks at the physical condition of the business including cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation, pest control and other facilities.

The last thing it checks is how the business manages ways of keeping food safe.