The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Saturday raided Tao Café, one of the oldest restaurants in Lal Chowk, and seized substandard eating and cooking material from its premises.

The health officer of SMC, Shaqat Ahmad Khan, said an SMC team along with food safety officers and sub divisional police officer (SDPO) of Kothi Bagh raided the restaurant which is a famous hangout place among many people in Srinagar, after receiving a complaint from three persons, who had fallen ill after consuming food from the restaurant.

“We recovered five kilograms of stale fish, 10 kilograms of meat, stale chicken, five litres of used oil which was totally black in colour, stale noodles and low grade plastic and aluminium utensils,” he said.