Your Café in Polegate handed one star food hygiene rating.
An “family-run” restaurant has received a one-star food hygiene rating following an inspection. Your Café & Bakery at 43 Farmlands Way in Polegate was inspected on October 14, 2025.
The one-star rating is the second lowest of the six possible ratings, indicating that “major improvement is required.” The evaluations are organised into three primary categories:
food hygiene, facility cleanliness and condition, and food safety management.
The cafe was inspected in October (I
This includes evaluating food preparation, cooking, reheating, chilling, and storage, the cleanliness and condition of premises, including layout, ventilation, and pest control, and the management systems or checks in place to maintain food safety.
Your café and bakery were deemed to need improvement in all three areas.
The restaurant received the “improvement necessary” rating for its hygienic food handling, which covers food preparation, cooking, reheating, cooling, and storage.
The cleanliness and condition of the facilities and building, including layout, ventilation, hand-washing facilities, and pest management, were also assessed as “improvement necessary”.
The most serious issues were discovered in food safety management, with the inspection showing that “major improvement” was required.
The cafe is located on Farmlands Way in Hailsham (Image: Google)
This refers to whether processes or checks are in place to ensure food safety, whether employees are aware about food safety, and whether the food safety officer has confidence that standards will be maintained in the future.
Your Café & Bakery promotes itself as “a local family-run cafe, offering great food at great prices”.
A representative for the Food Standards Agency stated that establishments with low cleanliness ratings must make major or urgent modifications to reach the required standards.
Local authority food safety officers can use a variety of enforcement tactics to ensure compliance, as well as provide advice and information to businesses to help them make the necessary changes.
Officers will determine how quickly improvements must be made, based on the nature and severity of the problems detected.
Officers must take action to safeguard consumers when hygiene standards are regarded extremely poor and there is an imminent risk to public health, such as when food is hazardous to eat.
This could entail stopping some operations or closing the entire firm until it is safe to reopen.
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