Living Ventures’ Australasia venue scores four on hygiene re-check after failure: Living Ventures, which saw the head chef at its fine-dining outlet Australasia in Manchester depart after hygiene inspectors scored it just one out of five, has seen the restaurant re-scored at four after a re-visit. Living Ventures chief Tim Bacon told Propel that the company had not “sacked” its head chef, as reported in local media, but rather had parted company “by mutual consent”. The inspectors had uncovered problems with the restaurants pest control systems, and found it had a sub-standard immersion heater and patchy record keeping. Procedures had not been followed to document sous-vide cooking, when food is sealed in plastic bags and slowly cooked in water baths. If not performed at the right temperatures and for long enough the method can encourage botulism-causing bacteria. Living Ventures managing director, Paul Moran, told the Manchester Evening News that failures identified in the inspectors report had been fixed within days.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:10:21 +0000
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