Portsmouth · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Portsmouth kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth City Council rates around 1,830 restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Portsmouth eats out around the water: the waterfront dining of Gunwharf Quays, the independents of Albert Road and Palmerston Road in Southsea, the nightlife of Guildhall Walk, and the historic pubs of Old Portsmouth and Spice Island. Add the university, Queen Alexandra Hospital and Fratton Park, and you have thousands of kitchens on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Portsmouth inspector calls. We go well past a nightly wipe-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the fabric of the room, from a grease-laden canopy over an Albert Road range to the grout under a Gunwharf Quays kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer awards a Portsmouth kitchen is built from three things on the day, and a deep clean moves two of them.
How food is prepped, cooked, cooled and stored on your line - your practice, but it stands on genuinely clean surfaces and equipment underneath it.
The state of the structure and equipment - the pillar a deep clean lifts directly, from a carbonised Albert Road range wall to the grouting in a Gunwharf Quays kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Portsmouth EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Portsmouth cooks on - not a surface wipe.
Cook lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges emptied and cleaned through, canopy and baffle filters cleared, stainless brought back to a shine, walls and ceilings washed off, cold rooms and fridges sanitised, and the baked grease behind the hot line that a closing wipe never reaches. From one Castle Road range to a seafront-hotel production kitchen, we fit the work around service - overnight or on a rest day - and hand over a dated record of every job done.
On the ground in Portsmouth
We are in Portsmouth's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A seafront hotel kitchen in Portsmouth had salt-air and grease films over the stainless benches, grime up the splashbacks and dirty cold-room shelving. We cleaned all the walls, floors and ceilings, deep-cleaned the hot lines and sanitised the walk-in shelving - finishing the stainless with an anti-corrosive polish to hold off the coastal air.
When to book
Usually before the inspector, not after.
Before an FHRS re-inspection, after a rating that needs lifting off a 2 or 3, at an Old Portsmouth handover or a new Gunwharf Quays opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Portsmouth kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Portsmouth City Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Portsmouth kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Castle Road kitchen has to reopen the next day.
Surfaces, equipment and structure - deep, and behind the hot line where the grease hides.
A dated record of what was cleaned, for your file and the next Portsmouth EHO visit.
Questions
Daily cleaning keeps surfaces usable between services. A deep clean reaches what that never does - behind and beneath fixed equipment, inside ovens, fryers and extraction canopies, and across walls, ceilings and floor junctions. It is the part of a Castle Road or Gunwharf Quays kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Albert Road line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to an Old Portsmouth landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Castle Road or Gunwharf Quays site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - ranges, ovens, fryers, griddles, extraction canopies, fridges and cold rooms, plus the structure around them. Portsmouth kitchens span the full range, from a single Castle Road independent to a seafront-hotel production line.
Yes - from Castle Road and Gunwharf Quays to the suburbs, and across the wider Hampshire.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Old Portsmouth opening, a change of operator or a Gunwharf Quays lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
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