UK Food Hygiene Ratings (FSA) Search

Search the Food Standards Agency's ratings for every food business in the UK: restaurants, cafés, takeaways, pubs, hotels, shops, caterers, schools and care homes. Filter by name, postcode radius, council, business type, rating or inspection date, and get a clean, flat dataset with the 0–5 rating, the three inspection scores, the address and coordinates.

It uses the FSA's official ratings API, not page scraping, so it's fast, cheap and doesn't break when the website changes.

What it's for

• Lead generation: find newly opened food businesses (rating "Awaiting inspection") in an area, by type. Ideal for food suppliers, EPOS and card terminal sellers, insurers, accountants, delivery platforms and pest control firms.
• Compliance and due diligence: check the hygiene ratings of suppliers, franchisees or acquisition targets.
• Local journalism and research: list every business rated 0 or 1 in a council area this month.
• Restaurant groups and franchises: monitor every site's rating in one table.
• Property and retail analysis: map the food businesses around a postcode.

Input

Field	What it does
businessName	Part of the business name, e.g. Greggs or pizza.
postcode + radiusMiles	Businesses within the radius of a postcode (0.1–25 miles), nearest first.
address	Text in the address, e.g. a street or town.
localAuthorities	Council names, e.g. Leeds, Westminster, Brighton and Hove.
businessTypes	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, Takeaway/sandwich shop, Pub/bar/nightclub, Mobile caterer and 10 more.
ratings	5 to 0, AwaitingInspection, AwaitingPublication, Exempt, or Scotland's Pass / ImprovementRequired.
ratedSince	Only businesses inspected on or after this date.
maxResults	Stop after this many (default 1,000).

You need at least one of business name, address, postcode or local authority.

New takeaways in Leeds awaiting their first inspection:

{
    "localAuthorities": ["Leeds"],
    "businessTypes": ["Takeaway/sandwich shop"],
    "ratings": ["AwaitingInspection"]
}

Everything rated 0–2 within half a mile of Westminster:

{
    "postcode": "SW1A 1AA",
    "radiusMiles": 0.5,
    "ratings": ["0", "1", "2"]
}

Output

{
    "fhrsId": 414154,
    "businessName": "Grab And Go",
    "businessType": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen",
    "address": "19 STRUTTON GROUND, LONDON",
    "addressLine1": "19 STRUTTON GROUND",
    "addressLine2": null,
    "addressLine3": "LONDON",
    "addressLine4": null,
    "postcode": "SW1P 2HY",
    "latitude": 51.4972879,
    "longitude": -0.1336749,
    "distanceMiles": 0.43,
    "rating": "0",
    "ratingNumeric": 0,
    "ratingDate": "2025-10-07",
    "awaitingInspection": false,
    "newRatingPending": false,
    "hygieneScore": 15,
    "structuralScore": 20,
    "confidenceInManagementScore": 20,
    "scheme": "FHRS",
    "localAuthority": "Westminster",
    "localAuthorityEmail": "foodsafety@westminster.gov.uk",
    "rightToReply": null,
    "ratingUrl": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/414154",
    "source": "Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

The inspection scores are penalty points, so lower is better: hygiene 0–25, structural 0–25, confidence in management 0–30.

Pricing

$0.0015 per business returned, plus a token $0.00005 per run. 1,000 businesses cost about $1.50.

Good to know

• England, Wales and Northern Ireland use the 0–5 Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS). Scotland uses the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS) with Pass / Improvement Required. Both are included.
• "Awaiting inspection" businesses have no rating date yet. The FSA's placeholder date is returned as null.
• Ratings are updated by councils and published by the FSA daily, so every run returns the current rating.
• The FSA's own distance limit is loose, so the radius is enforced again on our side: you only get (and pay for) businesses inside it.

Use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (MCP)

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https://mcp.apify.com?tools=onibaku/uk-food-hygiene-ratings

Data source and licence

Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating data, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Each row's ratingUrl links to the business's official page on ratings.food.gov.uk.

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