Know before you bite.
Every restaurant, pub, takeaway and cafe in Britain has an FSA hygiene rating — from 0 to 5. Some proudly display it. Others hide it. We show it for all 617,000.
The FSA scale
Recent inspections, sampled live. Search yours →
Some scores never make it to the window.
In England, displaying the FSA sticker is voluntary. Venues with a 5 show it off. Venues with a 0 or 1 quietly don't.
The data is public. But no one had bothered to build an honest, searchable front-end for it — until now.
The proud one
Sticker in the window. Photo on Instagram.
The quiet one
No sticker anywhere. "We just forgot to print it."
The one hiding
You will never see the certificate. We'll show you.
The sticker in the window
is a suggestion.
In England, displaying the FSA hygiene sticker is voluntary. Not a typo. The country responsible for inventing the health inspection, politely asking venues to display their own score.
The venues with a 5 love the rule. They print posters, they tag Instagram, they pin the certificate behind the till.
The venues with a 1, predictably, do not.
Around seven out of ten of England's worst-rated takeaways and restaurants choose, quite legally, not to show you their score on the way in. We built RatingCafe because the data has been public for fifteen years, and somehow nobody had made it easy to check before ordering. So we did.
No venue pays to be listed. No venue pays to be delisted. No ranking we publish is influenced by anything other than what the Environmental Health Officer wrote down that morning.
James Thornton
Editor, RatingCafe · Food safety & regulatory journalist
We don't rate venues.
We just stop them hiding it.
Every single venue
617,000 UK restaurants, pubs, takeaways and cafes. All FSA-rated, searchable by postcode, city or chain.
Updated every day
Fresh FSA data pulled daily. New inspections show up within 24 hours of publication.
Worst-rated lists
See the 20 worst-scored venues in your city — the ones you'll never see promoted anywhere else.
Chain analysis
How hygienic is McDonald's across all 1,300 UK branches? We compute the average and the outliers.
Inspection history
Track how a venue's score changes over time. Consistent 5? Recovering from a 1? See the arc.
Zero trackers
No Google Analytics. No Facebook pixel. We use our own lightweight tracker and we don't sell your visits.
The things you find
when you actually look.
We're building an editorial layer on top of the data. Stories that the spreadsheet doesn't tell on its own.
A national coffee chain with a 1,300-branch range from 5 to 1.
On paper, it's one brand. In practice, one branch in Leeds has aced every inspection since 2014. Another, twenty miles away, has been a 1 since March. Same logo. Same menu. Very different sink.
The Soho takeaway that buried a 1 for two years.
No sticker at the door. No mention on their Instagram. TikToked by a food influencer with 400K followers last month. The FSA rating has been public since May 2023.
From a 0 in 2022 to a 5 in 2025 — the Manchester comeback.
Closed, reopened, re-inspected. The full arc of how a kitchen claws back its licence is buried in the FSA's quarterly updates. We surface it on every venue page.
FSA inspects. We publish.
FSA inspects
Every UK food business is inspected every 6 to 24 months by its local authority, following the official FSA scheme.
Score gets published
A 0 to 5 score is assigned. The FSA publishes it as open data the next working day.
We surface it all
We pull the full dataset daily and publish a page for every single venue — displayed or not.
Start with the biggest British markets.
Answers, not marketing.
What is the FSA hygiene rating?
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) rates every UK food business on a 0–5 scale after inspection. 5 means very good hygiene standards, 0 means urgent improvement is required. The scheme is mandatory in Wales and Northern Ireland, voluntary display in England.
Is this data official?
Yes. RatingCafe pulls directly from the FSA's public open data API and refreshes every 24 hours. We never modify a score — we only make it easier to find and compare.
Why do some restaurants hide their rating?
In England, displaying the sticker is voluntary. Establishments with low scores often choose not to display. RatingCafe surfaces the score regardless.
Can a rating be out of date?
FSA inspections happen every 6 to 24 months depending on risk. Each venue page shows the last inspection date. A very old date can be a flag — we highlight it.
How do I report a missing venue?
We follow the FSA dataset. If a venue is missing, it likely hasn't been inspected yet or was recently registered. Contact us and we'll investigate.
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Free, forever. 617,000 venues, sourced daily from the Food Standards Agency.