One-star food hygiene rating for family venue Agility Parks

Agility Parks on the London Ebor Business Park, Nether Poppleton, received the rating, meaning ‘major improvement necessary’ following a visit by City of York hygiene inspectors on March 9.

For hygienic food handling, the inspectors determined ‘improvement necessary.’

For cleanliness and condition of the facilities and the building, it was also a matter of ‘improvement necessary.’

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And for management of food safety, inspectors rated ‘major improvement necessary.’

Agility Parks opened around six years ago as a fitness park with two Ninja Warrior obstacle courses for children of five years up to adults.

With more than 100 linear meters of obstacle course and more than 30 obstacles the park says there is something to challenge all ages and abilities. 

The venue has received great reviews, with Google awarding 4.6 stars out of five, based on 335 reviews.

TripAdvisor awards 4.4 stars out of five, based on 51 reviews. TripAdvisor notes the venue has a large café and bar on two floors catering to a wide range of parties, functions, events and group sessions.

The Shack Café offers jalapeños cheese dogs, salads, loaded fries and stone baked pizzas, plus real espresso coffee. A new cafe bar has also just opened serving a range of beers wines and non alcoholic drinks, the reviews website also said.

The most recent review on TripAdvisor awarded five stars for ‘an excellent birthday party.’

It also said: “My daughter had the best 9th birthday party. Roz & Fin were great! Thank you so much. Everything went very well. Food was great.”

One recent comment on Google said: “This place is miles ahead of the similar sorts of options in York. The staff are brilliant, and genuinely look after the kids (and adults, too). They actually seemed to want to be there!

“Leon was excellent in overseeing my 10-year-old daughter’s birthday party – he was fun, and kind, and helpful, and they thought he was great. Kitchen staff and others went out of their way to make sure we were ok. Very impressed – thank you!”

The Press has requested a copy of the food hygiene inspector’s report under the Freedom of Information Act, which we have yet to receive.

Agility Parks did not respond to our request for comment.