Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's £100-a-head restaurant risked an E.coli outbreak while mouldy cheese was found in the kitchen as it was slapped with a one-star hygiene rating.
The chef's flagship restaurant, River Cottage, in Musbury, Devon, was told its hygiene needed major improvements in a damning report by East Devon district council.
Mouldy cheese was found by food safety inspectors, while there was no date on opened goat curd and yoghurt during an inspection on August 7.
There was also a risk of an E.coli outbreak, which can be deadly, as chefs were placing raw food in the cooked food vacuum-packing machine.
'Young chefs' had 'little knowledge or understanding of the high risk imposed by E.coli', the report said.
