A restaurant owned by a celebrity chef has been handed a new two-out-of-five food hygiene rating.
The Greyhound in Peppard Common, near Henley, was given the score after an assessment on February 1, the Food Standards Agency's website shows.
The restaurant is owned by English restaurateur Antony Worrall Thompson.
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He has appeared on TV's shows such as Ready Steady Cook and Saturday Kitchen, as well as the second series of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
The restaurant has since hit back at the rating, saying the inspection was 'harsh'.
The owner of The Greyhound said: "It's not normal. We run a really clean kitchen.
"Personally, I thought it was really harsh and we will be calling them back in [the inspectors] in a couple of days.
"We felt it was nothing that would affect the hygiene of the food.
"We are making the improvements that they suggest and everything has been addressed."
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The restaurant is a destination for "high quality food" and has a 4.5 star ranking on TripAdvisor.
Main courses at The Greyhound range from £20 to £27.
Starters reach the £13 price mark.
According to the website, Antony and Jay Worrall Thompson describe The Greyhound as their "perfect local."
The new rating suggests that some improvement in hygiene standards is necessary at The Greyhound.
It means that of South Oxfordshire's 273 restaurants, cafes and canteens with ratings, 139 (51 per cent) have ratings of five and none have zero ratings.
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