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Is Riders Rest Still Open? The Hotel Inspector Update (Wellow, UK)

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As of October 2026, Riders Rest is listed open on hygienescore.co.uk, reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

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Secondary source
TheTVDB ·

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What the source shows: A food-hygiene directory lists Riders Rest Cafe at Wellow Trekking Centre with a council inspection dated 2026-01-28, showing a cafe operating under that name at the stable-yard address in January 2026.

  • Season / episode Season 19, Episode 1
  • Original air date
  • Address Wellow Trekking Centre, Little Horse Croft Farm, Ford Road, Wellow BA2 8QF

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What happened after The Hotel Inspector?

Riders Rest was a cafe beside a stable yard in a small Somerset village, featured in series 19, episode 1 of The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5), which aired on 2024-03-28. According to TheTVDB's episode overview, the cafe was run by a married couple, Michelle and Mimmo. Their Italian-inspired food was well regarded, but the cafe drew very little foot traffic and was not making a profit, and the couple were shown working long days for modest pay. The overview describes host Alex Polizzi suggesting a dramatic change and frames it as a risky gamble. The sources read for this entry do not say what that change was or what happened afterward.

The food-hygiene directory hygienescore.co.uk lists a Riders Rest Cafe at Wellow Trekking Centre, Little Horse Croft Farm, Ford Road, Wellow BA2 8QF, in the Bath and North East Somerset area. It shows a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5 from an inspection by Bath and North East Somerset council dated 2026-01-28. An OpenStreetMap record for Riders Rest Tea Rooms sits at the same postcode. The name, the stable-yard setting and the Somerset village all match the episode overview. None of the sources read names the couple at the Wellow address, so the link between the episode and this address rests on those matching details.

Wikipedia's list of The Hotel Inspector episodes records the episode as Riders Rest, aired 28 March 2024, overall episode 156.

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Season / episode
Season 19, Episode 1
Original air date
Episode title
Riders Rest
What was featured
Italian-run cafe beside a Somerset stable yard short of customers; Alex proposes a dramatic change
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Riders Rest

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Visit info

Address
Wellow Trekking Centre, Little Horse Croft Farm, Ford Road, Wellow BA2 8QF
Venue type
cafe
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • hygienescore.co.uk — https://www.hygienescore.co.uk/business/the-riders-rest-cafe-ba2-8qf
  • TheTVDB — https://thetvdb.com/series/the-hotel-inspector/episodes/10410710
  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes

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