Food hygiene
How clean are the kitchens near you?
Every restaurant, takeaway, pub, cafe, shop, school and care home that handles food is inspected by its council and given a hygiene rating by the Food Standards Agency. This page reads the register for the streets around one postcode: how the ratings spread, which places need improvement and why, who was inspected most recently, and what the nearest kitchens scored.
- Restaurants & takeaways
- Shops & supermarkets
- Schools & care homes
- Points lost, by area
How this works
Council food safety officers inspect food businesses and score three things: how hygienically food is handled, the condition of the building and equipment, and how well the business manages food safety. The points lost across the three set the rating, from 5 (very good) down to 0 (urgent improvement necessary), under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland runs the Food Hygiene Information Scheme instead, which gives a Pass or an Improvement Required. This page asks the Food Standards Agency’s ratings API for the nearest 500 places within the radius and summarises them; the Agency refreshes the register daily and the page keeps an answer for six hours. A rating is what was found on the day of the last inspection, which can be years ago for a low-risk business; a business can appeal a rating or ask for a re-visit, and “new rating pending” means an inspection has happened whose result is not published yet. Displaying the sticker is compulsory in Wales and Northern Ireland and voluntary in England, so the register is the reliable place to look.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and Food Hygiene Information Scheme data via the FSA ratings API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Postcodes: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).