Several restaurants, cafes, and takeaways in Southampton have been handed new hygiene ratings this month.

A café which has been told ‘major improvement is necessary’ and a restaurant with a top score are among those included in the round-up.

Every week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspects businesses across the country, assessing hygiene and safety, structural compliance and confidence in management.

Across the country, every food outlet including convenience stores, restaurants, hospitals and care homes are given a hygiene rating.

Five businesses in the city were handed new ratings this month.

What each hygiene rating means:

0 - Urgent improvement necessary

1 - Major improvement necessary

2 - Some improvement necessary

3 - Hygiene standards generally satisfactory

4 - Hygiene standards good

5 - Hygiene standards very good

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Scores given by the FSA this month so far

Rated 1:

Southern La Vita at 157 High Street, Southampton was handed a one-out-of-five rating on September 12.

Rated 4:

Herbies Pizza at 11 West End Road, Bitterne, Southampton was given a score of four on September 12.

Chick O Land at 110a Bevois Valley Road, Southampton was given the score on September 20.

Rated 5:

Bacaro at Canute Road, Southampton was given the maximum score on September 29.

Milan at 44 Commercial Road, Southampton was also given the high score following an inspection on September 27.