The owner of an up-market restaurant favoured by the Royals and A-listers has been hit with a £31,000 fine for serious food and hygiene breaches.
Conor George Thomson-Moore, the owner of Beach Blanket Babylon in Notting Hill, west London, was sentenced on Monday and ordered to pay a £7,000 fine, £2,000 victim surcharge and the Council's legal costs of £22,000.
The 30-year-old was also banned from operating a food business for ten years.
It comes after the renowned eatery was forced to close when it was found to have a serious infestation of mice, rats and cockroaches - with food contaminated by mouse droppings.
Kensington and Chelsea Council officers inspected the restaurant in September 2022 and found poor cleaning, inadequate pest control procedures and a failure to comply with a Hygiene Improvement Notice under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013.
