Sizzle & Grill on Cowbridge Road East.

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Benefits cheat escapes jail after running filthy Man v Food-style kitchen serving food 'unfit for human consumption'

Paul Stevens pleaded guilty to 18 food hygiene offences and two counts of benefit fraud over the Sizzle and Grill restaurant in Cardiff.

Paul Stevens, 54, of Kenmuir Road, Splott, Cardiff, admitting claiming nearly £40,000 in benefits and running a filthy kitchen at his Canton steak house.

Food hygiene inspectors found an opened bag of “foul-smelling” raw frogs’ legs, dirt-encrusted taps, “green, slimy, smelly” raw meat and grease-smeared walls and floors at the Sizzle and Grill on Cowbridge Road East.

The fast food restaurant – whose delicacies include kangaroo testicles, scorpions, ants, and mealworms – claims to be the only place in Britain that serves huge mega-meals inspired by American TV show Man v Food, where host Adam Richman takes on a series of gut-busting gastronomic challenges.

Stevens – who has worked in the catering industry for nearly 30 years – continued his culinary career working at the Country Kitchen cafe on Cowbridge Road East before taking over management at the Sizzle and Grill.

Despite his new-found employment, Stevens failed to declare a change of circumstances and continued claiming housing benefit, council tax benefit, carers’ allowance and incapacity benefit as the main carer for his disabled wife Cheryl. Over three and a half years, Stevens racked up £37,830 worth of illegal housing benefit and income support.

During the time he was falsely claiming benefits, Stevens was running a filth-ridden kitchen serving “exotic meat challenges” featuring camel, crocodile, python, zebra, crickets and chocolate-covered ants for up to £69 a dish.

In a series of inspections spanning eight months, Cardiff council’s environmental health team found raw chicken stored alongside bread rolls, raw meat and fish stored with ready-to-eat foods, inadequate disinfectant and cleaning facilities, filthy floors and walls covered in grease and food debris, out-of-date meat and duck pate, dirty cutlery, cobwebs and a food-splattered microwave.
Staff were also failing to wash their hands while preparing food, but instead wiped them on a cloth left strewn on food surfaces.

There was also no soap at the sinks in the men’s toilets and the toilet seat, pan and flush were described as needing a “thorough clean” by inspectors. The women’s toilet was also found in a filthy state, with cracked, dirty tiles.

Christian Jowett, prosecuting, said Stevens was “confrontational and uncooperative” during a follow-up inspection despite serving food that was “likely to be unfit for human consumption”.

“There was no cleaning schedule and there was no training procedure for staff, although Stevens said he was the only food handler,” said Mr Jowett. “Meat was found out of date and green, slimy and smelly.”

Inspectors gave the Sizzle and Grill a food hygiene rating of 0, which means urgent improvement is necessary. The restaurant, where Stevens still works and employ six members of staff, has now improved its rating to 2, meaning improvement necessary. Ruth Smith, defending, urged the recorder of Cardiff, Mr PK Lewis QC, to consider a suspended sentence for Stevens as he not only cares for his disabled wife, but also his mother, who has Alzheimer’s.

“I don’t agree that he said he didn’t do anything wrong,” said Ms Smith. “He said ‘I know our cleanliness is not up to scratch. We will get it done. I am not going to kid and say it’s the cleanest place.’”

Ms Smith added that no-one reported being ill after eating at Sizzle and Grill.

“He realises what jeopardy he’s put himself into and all those around him,” she said.

Stevens pleaded guilty to 18 food hygiene offences and two counts of failing to notify changes in circumstances when claiming benefits.

Mr PK Lewis, sentencing, said inspectors found his restaurant in a “shameful condition”. “The fact that no member of the public was made unwell was a stroke of good fortune.”

Mr PK Lewis sentenced Stevens to a two-year suspended sentence for the food hygiene regulation breaches and a two-year conditional discharge for his benefit fraud. He was also ordered to complete 150 hours of community service.

Mr PK Lewis said: “I bear in mind that you employ a number of people at the restaurant and if I were to send you to prison they would lose their livelihood and that concerns me. When I read these papers my intention was to send you to prison.”

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Disgrace, the guy should be in jail!!

1 week ago.

Not for the faint-hearted! 'Man vs Food' restaurant challenges diners with a whole menu of heart-stopping feasts including a 96oz steak and a six-pound burger - and no one's ever finished either

Sizzle And Grill in Cardiff, South Wales, serves up 40 different mega-meals
Owner Paul Stevens was inspired by U.S TV show Man Vs Food
Menu now beefed up after seven people completed a mixed-grill challenge
They had to eat a 69oz mixed grill in one hour - one did it in 22 minutes


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Basically an advert in the mail must have cost a fair wack.

Disgrace, the guy should be in jail!!

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Disgrace, the guy should be in jail!!

He was previously for mortgage fraud , .......

Disgrace, the guy should be in jail!!

Change that avatar , it's freaky

Better?

Disgrace, the guy should be in jail!!

Change that avatar , it's freaky

Better?

NO

" no one complained about feeling I'll "

Ha ha ha

That's because they all dead

No complaints about being ill because those that were ill probably thought it was because they ate too much or they were sick from eating too much and saved themselves from food poisoning instead.

Not good. That said, I will miss their signature dish of Bute Blackened Antelopes Arse with deep fried Otters Nipples, Pickled Spiders, served on a bed of Rhino Eye Mash with a Wasp Piss Jus.

That is how he defrosted chicken.

I tried the Kangaroo & Scorpion curry once. It had quite a kick but also made my ring sting.

That is how he defrosted chicken.

That is amazing. The guy is made for life if he can turn cauliflour into chicken.

That is how he defrosted chicken.

That is amazing. The guy is made for life if he can turn cauliflour into chicken.

Ye he is quite talented.

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