THERE are nearly 600 businesses serving food in the borough, and the Food Standards Agency's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme shows customers which ones are maintaining top standards when it comes to preparing food.

Fortunately, more than 500 of the businesses in the borough have been rated as four or five out of five, which is good or very good.

But that leaves 72 which scored between nought and three.

So if you are thinking of going out for a meal this weekend, you might want to check our list below first. 

Those rated as nought means urgent improvements are necessary, one means major improvements are necessary, two means improvements are necessary while three is generally satisfactory.

None of the businesses in Basingstoke and Deane scored nought, eight scored one, five scored two and 59 scored three.

The local authority, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, carries out the inspection and the score reflects the standards of food hygiene found on the date of the inspection - it is not a guide to the quality of the food.

It applies to all businesses serving food, including restaurants, pubs, cafes, takeaways, hotels, supermarkets and other food shops.

Inspectors look at how hygienically the food is handled, including how it is prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored; the conditions of the structure of the building including cleanliness, layout, lighting and ventilation; and how the business manages and records what it does to make sure food is safe.

Some businesses which present a low risk to people's health - for example pubs that sell only drinks and crisps but not cooked meals - may have been inspected some time ago.

Whereas those that present the greatest risk to people's health will be inspected more frequently, for example a takeaway preparing dishes using raw and cooked ingredients.

The Gazette has attempted to contact all the businesses which are rated as one, to offer them the opportunity to comment.

Any comments provided have been added below.

Have a look at our list below to see if your favourite restaurant is on it.

Any business which scored four or five has not been included on the list.

The information is correct as of February 15, 2016.

RATED AS ONE

China Garden

42 Woodlands

Penwood

Highclere

No one available to comment

George And Horn

Basingstoke Road

Kingsclere

Declined to comment

King Of Wessex

Winchester Road

Basingstoke

No one available to comment

Little Chef

Tot Hill Services

A34 Newbury Bypass

Burghclere

Declined to comment

Tasty House

Adjacent To 1 The Old Forge

Heath End Road

Baughurst

Declined to comment

The Cricketers

Heath End Road

Baughurst

Tadley

No one available to comment

The New Dynasty

70 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

Declined to comment

The Oriental Break

Academy West Ham Lane

Basingstoke

No one available to comment

RATED AS TWO

Bengal Brasserie

Restaurant 4 Winchester Street

Basingstoke

British Home Stores

Festival Place

Basingstoke

Kings Furlong Takeaway

Kings Furlong Centre

Basingstoke

The Pineapple

Little Knowl Hill

Brimpton Common

Towers Restaurant

Viables Craft Centre

The Harrow Way

Basingstoke

RATED AS THREE

Ali Baba Ali Baba Take Away

3 The Parade

Mulfords Hill

Tadley

Anu's Kitchen

4 Queens Parade

New Street

Basingstoke

Auntie Anne's

K14 Festival Place

Basingstoke

Badgers Wood

The Badgers Wood

Wolverton Road

Baughurst

Tadley

Bakers Arms

15 - 15A Winchester Street

Basingstoke

Beechdown Club

Beechdown Health And Leisure Club

Winchester Road

Basingstoke

Bowlplex

Basingstoke Leisure Park

Worting Road

Basingstoke

Breakfast And After School Club

Marnel Infant School

Shetland Road

Basingstoke

Cafe Retreat

4 The Parade

Mulfords Hill

Tadley

Cater(UK)

Unit 1 Cufaude Business Park

Cufaude Lane

Bramley

Chineham Indian Cuisine

Reading Road

Chineham

Basingstoke

Delta Food

4 Feathers Lane

Basingstoke

Fastfare Dev Vyas Ltd Shop 1

600 Abbey Road

Basingstoke

Food On The Move

Pitchorn Farm

Newbury Road

Kingsclere

Franklin Special Fry

78 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

Gar Ho Gar Ho Takeaway

10A George Street

Kingsclere

Grillz Emit House

28 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

Happy Valley Fish & Chips

21 Heath End Road

Baughurst

Tadley

Hasan's Kebabs

Crockford Lane

Basingstoke

Herbies Pizza Tops Pizza

7 New Street

Basingstoke Hampshire

JJ's

Unit B Morse Road

Basingstoke

JJ's Chatterbox Nursery J J's

Unit B Morse Road

Basingstoke

Joe's Kebabs

Grafton Way

Basingstoke

Kingsclere Training Stables

Park House Hostel

Winchester Road

Kingsclere

Koala

28 Herriard Way

Tadley

Kremes

Unit 3 Emit House

28 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

Le Caffe Aroma At Computer 2000

Computer 2000

2 Redwood Crockford Lane

Basingstoke

Mango Grove

12A London Street

Basingstoke

Martin McColl

3 Swan Street

Kingsclere  

Mayflower Chinese Restaurant

May Place

Basingstoke

McColls

Giles Court

Tadley

Mortimer West End Chapel

Chapel Of The Countess Of Huntingdon 

Chapel Lane

Padworth Common  

New Inn 

Sarum Hill

Basingstoke

New Inn 

Rowan Road

Tadley

Palace Ng

68 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

Oakridge Fish And Chips

2 Vivian Road

Basingstoke

The Purefoy Arms

Alresford Road

Preston Candover

Basingstoke

Raj Of Blackdam

1 Rucstall Centre

Holbein Close

Basingstoke

Red Lion Hotel

Red Lion Lane

Basingstoke

Sandford Springs Golf Club

Wolverton

Tadley

Sunny Chinese Takeaway

3 Downsland Parade

Basingstoke

Swan Street Stores

5 - 5A Swan Street

Kingsclere

Sycamore Cottage

Skippetts Lane West

Basingstoke  

Tadley Community Primary School

The Green

Tadley

The Tea Bar

9 - 13 London Street

Basingstoke

The Four Horseshoes

Reading Road

Sherfield-on-Loddon

The Golden Lion

Jays Close

Basingstoke

The Parlour Tearoom

Units 14B - 14C Viables Craft Centre

The Harrow Way

Basingstoke

The Plough

Silchester Road

Little London

The Red Lion Italian Gastro Pub 

Church Road

Mortimer West End

The Sandwich Shack

2 Summerhurst Plastow Green

Headley

The Southern Co-Operative

98 Franklin Avenue

Tadley

The Village Cafe

3 Swan Street

Kingsclere

Tuli Tandoori

19A London Street

Basingstoke

Turgis Green Filling Station

Simon Smith Filling Station

Turgis Green

UK Best Kebabs

Winchester Road

North Waltham 

Willowdene At Sherfield Park

Sherfield Park Community Centre

Sunwood Drive

Sherfield-on-Loddon

Wok U Like

6 The Parade

Basing View

Basingstoke