The Canterbury premises branded with the name of Gidleigh Park chef Michael Caines have been awarded bottom marks for hygiene after a surprise inspection, reports the Daily Telegraph.
As the newspaper gleefully reports, “the £60-a-head Michael Caines restaurant, featured in the four-star ABode Hotel in Canterbury, Kent, was ranked below the city's Age Concern day centre”, having received a one-star rating indicating “a poor level of compliance with food safety legislation - much more effort required”.
It is upon Mr Caines’s success at Gidleigh Park that his reputation rests. That restaurant has Harden’s highest rating, and has two Michelin stars. Inevitably, however, he is now seeking to cash in on his fame, and is rolling his name out across the dining rooms of the growing ABode group of hotels.
It goes without saying that all these ‘signature’ restaurants never even begin to live up to Gidleigh Park, and are sometimes really poor. Mr Caines’s Canterbury property receives the lowest possible rating in the current edition of Harden’s UK Restaurants, which says it “fails to deliver”.
Read our earlier comments on Michael Caines, and his lacklustre empire.
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