DECIDING where to dine out can be a hard task when there's so much variety to choose from, but it could be worth checking this list to see where it might be worth avoiding.

Hygiene and food safety is always important when it comes to picking a restaurant, especially with Covid concerns still in the back of people's minds.

And with hygiene important now more than ever, we've compiled a list of the restaurants and cafes with the lowest food hygiene scores in the borough of Slough, which has a total of 152 venues within its local authority.

The following list was calculated on the Food Standards Agency's 0-5 tier system, and features all restaurants featuring on the agency's website listed under '0' or '1' in Slough.

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To be as update to date as possible, the list only includes reviews since the beginning of 2019, up until August 27, 2021.

The agency says '0' ratings = "Urgent Improvement Necessary".

Inspectors from the agency who review food hygiene in restaurants to later apply the ratings check the following three elements:

How hygienically the food is handled: how it is prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored

The condition of the structure of the buildings: the cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation and other facilities.

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How the business manages what it does to make sure food is safe and so that the officer can be confident standards will be maintained in the future.

The below list '1'-rated restaurants includes their listed address and the date of their last inspection by the Food Standards Agency.

1 rating

Jimmy's Cafe

Address: Kennedy Parade, Twist Way

Last inspected: October 18, 2019

Confidence in management: Generally satisfactory

Food hygiene and safety: Very good

Structural compliance: Major improvement necessary

Karahi Kings

Address: 296 Farnham Road

Rating awarded: July 13, 2021

Confidence in management: Little

Food hygiene and safety: Poor

Structural compliance: Fair

Pizza Delite

Address: 51 Cheviot Road

Rating awarded: July 12, 2021

Confidence in management: Little

Food hygiene and safety: Poor

Structural compliance: Fair

Meghna Tandoori

Rating awarded: October 9, 2019

Upton Lea Parade

Confidence in management: Improvement necessary

Food hygiene and safety: Improvement necessary

Structural compliance: Improvement necessary

SFC Peri Peri Chicken Original

Baylis Parade Slough

Last inspected: December 2, 2019

Confidence in management: Improvement necessary

Food hygiene and safety: Generally satisfactory

Structural compliance: Major improvement necessary

T & T Cafe at Regus

Bath Road, Slough

Last inspected: February 17, 2020

Confidence in management: Generally satisfactory

Food hygiene and safety: Major improvement necessary

Structural compliance: Major improvement necessary