UK Food Hygiene Ratings & New Restaurant Leads

Every food business in the UK with its official food hygiene rating, straight from the Food Standards Agency (FSA): restaurants, cafés, takeaways, pubs, hotels, mobile caterers, supermarkets and shops, for any council, postcode or town. And the list nobody else has: new food businesses that registered with the council and are still awaiting their first inspection, mostly new openings and new owners.

No login, no API key, no proxies: the data is open (Open Government Licence v3.0) and updated daily by the councils.

Who uses it

• Suppliers and B2B sales teams (food and drink wholesalers, POS and payments, delivery apps, linen, waste, pest control, insurance, accountants): a fresh list of new restaurants and takeaways in your area every week.
• Restaurant chains and franchises: monitor the hygiene ratings of your own sites, or of your competitors, and get every new inspection.
• Property, retail and market research: how many takeaways, pubs or cafés an area has, and how they are rated.
• Data teams and apps: UK food businesses with coordinates, ready for maps and dashboards.

What you get

Field	Example
businessName, businessType	Tregarthens Hotel, Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house
rating	0 to 5 (England, Wales, Northern Ireland), Pass / Improvement Required (Scotland), Awaiting Inspection, Exempt
ratingDate	2025-06-13, the date of the inspection
awaitingInspection	true for a business not rated yet: a new opening or new owner
hygieneScore, structuralScore, confidenceInManagementScore	The inspection's scores (lower is better)
address, addressLines, postcode, latitude, longitude	Where it is
localAuthority, localAuthorityEmail, localAuthorityWebsite	The council that inspects it
rightToReply	The business's published answer to its rating, as plain text
ratingsUrl	Its page on ratings.food.gov.uk
change, previousRating	With Only new: new or new rating, and the rating before

The run's OUTPUT record has the totals per search, the count per rating and per business type, and the attribution.

Input

{
  "localAuthorities": ["Manchester"],
  "businessTypes": ["restaurant-cafe", "takeaway"],
  "onlyAwaitingInspection": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Field	What it does
localAuthorities	Councils, as you would write them: Manchester, Westminster, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast. 363 in the UK.
places	Searched in the address: a postcode (M1 1AE), an outward code (SW1A) or a place (Soho).
businessNames	Businesses whose name contains these, e.g. Greggs. Without an area, across the whole UK.
businessTypes	Restaurant/cafe, takeaway, pub/bar, hotel, mobile caterer, supermarket, other retailer, school, care, manufacturer, distributor and more.
onlyAwaitingInspection	Only new food businesses awaiting their first inspection.
ratings	Keep only these ratings, e.g. ["0", "1", "2"] for the worst rated.
ratedWithinDays	Only ratings given in the last N days: recent inspections.
maxResults	Newest first: businesses awaiting inspection, then the latest ratings (1,000 by default).
onlyNew + memoryName	For scheduled runs: only businesses not saved by an earlier run of the same search, or whose rating changed since.

Every pub and bar in Westminster rated 2 or less:

{
  "localAuthorities": ["Westminster"],
  "businessTypes": ["pub-bar"],
  "ratings": ["0", "1", "2"]
}

Every Greggs in the UK with its rating:

{
  "businessNames": ["Greggs"],
  "maxResults": 5000
}

A weekly feed of new food businesses in Birmingham and Leeds (schedule it in Schedules):

{
  "localAuthorities": ["Birmingham", "Leeds"],
  "onlyAwaitingInspection": true,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Only new or re-rated businesses

Turn on Only new and schedule the task weekly. Each run saves only the businesses that earlier runs of the same search did not save, plus the ones whose rating changed since (with the previous rating). The memory is kept for 400 days in a key-value store named uk-food-hygiene-ratings-state in your own Apify account. Give a Memory name to share it between tasks, or a new one to start over.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay only for businesses saved to the dataset. Businesses left out by your filters and businesses already saved by an earlier run are free. Set a maximum cost for a run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. On 2026-10-01, Manchester had 512 restaurants, cafés and takeaways awaiting their first inspection.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client can run this Actor as a tool: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=digital_influx/uk-food-hygiene-ratings as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. It is also one of the tools of US & UK Public Records MCP (digital_influx/public-records-mcp), by the same author, made for agents.

Good to know

• Awaiting inspection is filtered here, after reading the whole area. The FSA's own filter for it missed some businesses (65 of 72 in Oadby and Wigston, 116 of 154 in Westminster, 2026-10-01), so the Actor reads every business of the area and checks each one. A big council takes a few seconds (Manchester, 6,597 businesses: about 9 s).
• A search of the whole UK needs a filter the FSA applies: a business name, one business type or one rating (not "awaiting inspection"). All restaurants of the UK are about 141,000 businesses and take 2 to 3 minutes.
• Scotland rates Pass or Improvement Required; England, Wales and Northern Ireland rate 0 to 5.
• Ratings reflect the standards found on the date of the inspection. Always show the rating with its date (ratingDate) or refresh it: the FSA's terms say using an out-of-date rating can be an offence. Ratings images and logos are not included.
• Phones are almost never published by the councils. The business name, full address, postcode and coordinates are.
• Businesses awaiting inspection carry no rating date: the FSA uses placeholder dates (1900, 1901, 1999), shown here as null.

Licence and attribution

Contains Food Standards Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The FSA does not endorse this Actor or any business in its results.

Questions or ideas?

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