There’s nothing quite like a zero hygiene rating to whet the appetite before reviewing a new Bristol restaurant for the first time.
Downend restaurant Forage opened at the end of last year and it received rave reviews from locals but not from South Gloucestershire Council, which gave the upmarket eatery a zero star hygiene rating, declaring that there was “urgent improvement necessary”.
For a newly opened restaurant still finding its feet, that’s the sort of news that can quickly damage the reputation but by the time I visited this week, the hygiene rating had been upgraded from zero stars to five stars.
