Health inspectors ordered the New Tabak restaurant on Rusholme's curry mile to close down after finding disgusting conditions in July 2007.
Manchester magistrates were told public protection officers went to the business following complaints of un-hygienic conditions.
They found 'filthy' storerooms and 'extremely dirty' kitchen areas, with missing or cracked wall tiles and a large build up of grease, the court heard.
A dead mouse was found as well as mouse faeces hidden under kitchen equipment and more dead mice were discovered in the 'filthy' storerooms.
Rotting mildew and vegetables were found in a fridge and ready-to-eat food was found next to raw meat including chicken. The court heard the restaurant was immediately closed down, but the manager called three days later to say it had been cleaned and was ready for business.
Health inspectors made a second visit and again found dirty equipment and mouse faeces. It was finally allowed to re-open after a third inspection found the premises clean.
However, inspectors carried out a follow-up visit in October and found missing wall tiles, grease and food debris on kitchen equipment, the court heard.
They also found a dirty fridge, a wash-basin hanging off a wall, no hot water, soap or towels. A drain was blocked with food while mouse faeces were found in a food store. An infestation of fruit flies was also discovered.
Restaurant manager, Gopal Dangol, 63, of Buxton Road, Stockport, pleaded guilty to five hygiene offences and was fined £700 plus £790 costs.
The business was also fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £800 costs.
Chairman of the bench, Rev J Ordman, viewed pictures of the inside of the restaurant taken by the inspectors and concluded they were `upsetting'.
He said he could have imposed a much higher fine but gave the restaurant credit for the guilty pleas.
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I had a rat droppings curry there last year... it was very nice.
Here we go again, slap on the wrist with a fine that won't hurt. I've said it before and will repeat it, close these filth pits down and bar the owners and those involved from ever working in catering again.
Surprise surprise another Rusholme restaurant infested with vermin!!!!!!!!!
MCC should take the planning from theses places and refuse the premises to be used for foods ever again two strikes and your out of business....with a prison sentence and a heavy fine .maybe then they will start to clean these places up....
LAWYERS ARE STRUCK OFF,DOCTORS SIMILAR.
CURRY HOUSE BOSSES JUST PAY THE FINE AND MOVE ON.
CURRY MILE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE.
The Curry Mile is getting a bad name, as these reports are all too regular. It's about time the decent restaurateurs there got together and started policing each other. Trade will become even less with the money problems people are having. They don't need this as well.
"A dead mouse was found as well as mouse faeces hidden under kitchen equipment and more dead mice were discovered in the 'filthy' storerooms."
Must have been filthy if it killed the mice
Here we go again the chairman of the bench reduced the fine because they had pleaded guilty .They had three goes at this and still flouted the regulations ,and they do this because some clever lawyer as told them that if they plead guilty when caught they get a lighter punishment.Its time the people elected to sit on the bench were streetwise.
No surprise.
I've worked in this place many times as a contractor and I wouldn't dream of eating there or at many of the other "restaurants" I've worked at on the curry mile...
"LAWYERS ARE STRUCK OFF,DOCTORS SIMILAR. CURRY HOUSE BOSSES JUST PAY THE FINE AND MOVE ON. CURRY MILE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE." - steve grimsley, Macclesfield
... unfortuntely, it is.
The 'restaurants' have, since 'day one', always been manky. People with no conception of propere hygiene, don't see a bit of dirt and grime as an issue.
More inspections, please.
Laura Norder, Didsbury
Im in full agreement with you.These places who sell food etc should pay a six monthly licence for hygeine checks and if they dont pass the test every six months they pay a heavy fine and if found in breach of those tests get shut down and planning refused.MCC Its not rocket science to police these places.
Laura Norder, Didsbury Village:
Whilst you are pleading for more immigration, bear in mind that the restaurants you are whinging about are, for the most part, run/owned by .... immigrants!
All this and the worry about what the meat producers put in the meat and what they feed the livestock.
"Whilst you are pleading for more immigration, bear in mind that the restaurants you are whinging about are, for the most part, run/owned by .... immigrants!" - Bean B4, manchester
Use the archive and show me one post where I have been 'pleading' for more immigration.
While I may not be against immigrants coming to these shores; I believe that we should only accept those in fear for their lives, and those who will enrich our collective way of life.
For some of these restaurants, there really is no excuse for dirty conditions. Back in my younger days, I used to help out my builder uncle by labouring. Once place we worked on, not on the curry mile but further up Oxford Road near to the BBC, was selling more than 250 pizzas a day. At £5 a go, that's a good turnover for a small store, not to mention all the other 'healthy' goodies that were on display.
Totally stomach churning,
but it's not the first case of this kind and it won't be the last until the authorities come down hard the owners,
a 10k fine sounds like a lot, but it isn't to a restaurant owner,
maybe instead of a fine, they could close the place down for a month, and impose a 3 strikes and u are out system, the thought of losing their "curry house" for good should wake them up a bit,
Imagine what would be going on behind the scenes in the kitchen if there were taleban working there.
I haven't eaten in an Indian restaurant in Rusholme for about 10 years, i've never returned since becoming violently ill after the last visit. I would never recommend any restaurants on the curry mile to anyone. I think if we all boycott these dirty infested places, it will hit these lazy restaurant owners hard! Money is all they think about, not the customers well being.
Minced mouse kebab with plenty of chile sauce
Did the health inspecters check the building next door surely that would have been affected aswell.
Any one eating one this stretch of road needs their heads feeling with the amount of prosections it receives for food hygiene.
Laura Norder, Didsbury:
LAst week. Can't remember the exact line but it was something like 'Immigration - more please'
How do you use the archive?
The archives don't know I just type a word in the search bar like knife or bus and so on then it gives me a list
Bean, Laura actually called for more integration, not immigration.
the story is here...
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/c/1065604_were_the_capital_for_loyal_migrants?page=2