Amore Ristorante is located inside the Kings Arms Hotel in Berwick (Image: Google Streetview)

A Northumberland restaurant has been hit with a fine for selling a meal containing traces of milk protein, even though the buyer specifically asked for a meal without. Amore Ristorante Ltd, located on Hide Hill, Berwick Upon Tweed, pleaded guilty to offences under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and under the Food Safety Act 1990.

The business, which is located inside The Kings Arms Hotel, was fined £4,000 which was reduced to £1,600 for mitigation and an early guilty plea and ordered to pay £2140.44 costs at South Tyneside Magistrates Court. It follows a test purchase carried out by Northumberland Trading Standards in August last year, after a complaint about milk

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