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Evening Standard
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Adrian Zorzut

Soho restaurant fined £9,000 after 'active and widespread' cockroach infestation

A Soho restaurant has been ordered to pay £9,800 after pleading guilty to breaching food hygiene laws following the discovery of cockroaches running across the floor near food chillers.

Alfonso Bragaglia, 29, director of La Porchetta Pollo Bar on Old Compton Street, pleaded guilty to four offences of failing to comply with EU food safety and hygiene regulation and was fined at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

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