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UK food hygiene · Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire.
4,760 food venues,
fully inspected.

Every restaurant, pub, takeaway and cafe in Buckinghamshire with its official FSA hygiene rating. 80.6% score a 5. 30 need urgent improvement, and we show you which.

4.71
Avg FSA
3,190
venues scored 5/5
30
scored 0 or 1

Buckinghamshire food hygiene in one minute

  • 4,760 food venues tracked in Buckinghamshire, including restaurants, pubs, takeaways and cafes.
  • Average FSA score: 4.71 out of 5 across 3,960 rated venues.
  • 3,190 venues scored 5/5 (80.6%).
  • 30 venues scored 0 or 1 and require urgent improvement.
  • Data sourced from the UK Food Standards Agency, refreshed every 24 hours.

Buckinghamshire in context

Buckinghamshire runs ahead of the UK national average of 4.65, with a weighted FSA score of 4.71 across 3,960 rated venues.

80.6% of Buckinghamshire venues hold a 5/5, runs hotter on 5-star venues than the UK average (78% nationally).

30 Buckinghamshire venues currently score 0 or 1, 0.76% of rated stock, which keeps Buckinghamshire below the national 0/1 prevalence of 1.24%.

Within Buckinghamshire itself, the typical takeaway/sandwich shop averages 4.4/5 while a typical mobile caterer averages 4.9/5, the local hygiene gap that drags the city headline number.

Computed from FSA open data on . National benchmarks: avg 4.65/5, 78% at 5/5, 1.24% at 0/1.

How Buckinghamshire scores

3,960 rated · 800 awaiting
5
3,190 venues
80.6%
4
514 venues
13.0%
3
179 venues
4.5%
2
47 venues
1.2%
1
29 venues
0.7%
0
1 venues
0.0%
Lowest rated

The 10 we'd skip.

Lowest score first, most recent inspection. The FSA's own data.

Highest rated

Most recent 5/5s.

Inspected in the last few months and kept a perfect score.

Overdue inspection

Buckinghamshire venues not inspected in 18 months or more.

The FSA recommends re-inspection every 6 to 24 months based on risk. These venues' last visit was a while ago. A good sticker from 2022 means less than a good sticker from last month.

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    The Drawingroom

    stale · 1516mo

    Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen · HP5 1DG

    Jan 1900

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    The Baking Shed

    stale · 1504mo

    Other catering premises · HP5

    Jan 1901

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    The Ark Nursery

    stale · 1504mo

    Caring Premises · HP12 3JQ

    Jan 1901

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    The Amersham Fair Organ Museum

    stale · 1504mo

    Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen · HP6 6HJ

    Jan 1901

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    Blidano's

    stale · 1504mo

    Mobile caterer · HP13

    Jan 1901

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    Aylesbury Catering

    stale · 1504mo

    Other catering premises · HP19

    Jan 1901

By type

What's in Buckinghamshire.

Breakdown by business type. Average FSA score next to volume.

Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen

890 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.6
avg score

Other catering premises

865 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.9
avg score

Retailers - other

777 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.5
avg score

Pub/bar/nightclub

419 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.7
avg score

Caring Premises

418 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.8
avg score

School/college/university

407 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.9
avg score

Mobile caterer

351 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.9
avg score

Takeaway/sandwich shop

333 venues in Buckinghamshire

4.4
avg score
Just inspected

Most recent inspections in Buckinghamshire.

Common questions

Food hygiene in Buckinghamshire, questions answered.

How many food venues are rated in Buckinghamshire?

RatingCafe tracks 4,760 Food Standards Agency-rated food businesses in Buckinghamshire, including restaurants, pubs, takeaways, cafes, schools and retail food outlets. The dataset is refreshed every 24 hours from the FSA open-data feed.

What is the average FSA hygiene score in Buckinghamshire?

The average FSA hygiene score across Buckinghamshire is 4.71 out of 5. 80.6% of rated venues score a 5, and 30 venues are currently at 0 or 1, meaning urgent improvement required.

Which Buckinghamshire venues failed their FSA inspection?

Buckinghamshire currently has 30 venues rated 0 or 1 by the Food Standards Agency, which means the inspector found urgent hygiene shortcomings. The ten lowest-rated venues in Buckinghamshire are listed on this page with inspection dates, and the full list including stale inspections is surfaced in the worst-rated section.

Where does RatingCafe get Buckinghamshire hygiene data?

All Buckinghamshire ratings come directly from the Food Standards Agency open-data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), reused under the UK Open Government Licence v3.0. RatingCafe never modifies scores, only republishes them in a searchable format.

Across the UK

Other cities on RatingCafe.

All cities

Birmingham

10,108 venues

4.29 avg

Leeds

7,251 venues

4.67 avg

North Yorkshire

6,975 venues

4.78 avg

Glasgow

6,528 venues

4.6 avg

Manchester

6,452 venues

4.5 avg

Somerset

6,027 venues

4.84 avg

Highland

5,792 venues

4.56 avg

Westminster

5,561 venues

4.45 avg
Primary sources

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RatingCafe mirrors public FSA open data. The score on this page is the same one the inspector filed, but you can verify it at the source right now.

JT

Edited by James Thornton, Food Safety & Regulation editor.

Last refresh: 14 April 2026. Reviewed against FSA guidance and the FSA scoring matrix.

All Buckinghamshire data sourced from the Food Standards Agency under the Open Government Licence v3.0. RatingCafe never modifies scores. Full methodology.