How dirty is your Michelin-starred restaurant?
Michelin stars were pitted against hygiene scores when Gareth Ward, chef-patron of the two-Michelin starred restaurant Ynyshir, was recently given a hygiene rating of… one. Ynyshir, which sits on the edge of Eryri national park near Machynlleth in Ceredigion, has held its second Michelin star since 2022, making it the first restaurant in Wales to receive two of the accolades. The restaurant offers a single 30-course tasting menu, to which changes cannot be made for allergies or preferences, at a cost of £468 per person. Its most recent food hygiene inspection found that its management of food safety required ‘major improvement’. The cleanliness and condition of facilities and the building also needed ‘improvement’, while their food
