Indian restaurant in Northampton fined £5,000 after dirt, grease and food debris found on kitchen equipment

Food hygiene inspectors visited Mumbai Dreams Indian Restaurants Limited in Earl Street, Northampton, last June and found a number of kitchen surfaces had not been cleaned properly.

A large amount of dirt and grease was found on a cooker and food debris was found on kitchen shelves.

The restaurant was charged with two breaches of Food Safety & Hygiene Regulations 2013 and the case was heard at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

No one from the restaurant appeared at the hearing where Mumbai Indian Restaurants Limited was fined £2500 for each of the two food hygiene offences and the director Abdul Kaium, was also fined £2500 for each of the two food hygiene offences.

The restaurant must also pay costs of £1000.

Councillor Alan Bottwood, cabinet member for environment, said: “Northampton Borough Council takes food hygiene and public health very seriously and all food businesses in Northampton are visited on a regular basis.

“The Environmental Health team ensure that businesses in the town are in a fit and proper state to act as commercial premises. Unfortunately this restaurant did not meet food hygiene safety standards when our Environmental Health team inspected the premises, therefore a prosecution was made.

The restaurant was taken over by a new owner in October last year who has said that hygiene rules there have been followed, but that the restaurant will now close.