UK Food Hygiene Ratings, FSA

Food hygiene ratings for every food business in the UK, straight from the official Food Standards Agency register. Restaurants, cafes, takeaways, pubs, hotels, schools, care homes, shops and manufacturers.

No API key needed. Search by council, postcode, coordinates, business name, business type or rating.

The useful bit

Set actionableOnly and you get only businesses rated 2 or below, meaning the FSA has told them to improve. Those are the businesses actively looking to fix something right now.

That matters if you sell:

• Food hygiene consultancy, audits or Level 2 and 3 training
• Pest control
• Commercial kitchen deep cleaning or equipment
• HACCP software or temperature monitoring
• EPOS and compliance systems

Every record includes the address, postcode, coordinates, and the council's own environmental health contact.

Other uses

Market research. Rating distribution by area or business type.

Property and franchise. Check hygiene history before signing a site or a franchisee.

Journalism. Find the worst rated venues in any council area in one query.

Consumer apps. Enrich a restaurant listing with its official rating.

Input

The FSA rejects unfiltered queries, so set at least one of localAuthorityId, name, postcodeOrAddress, latitude and longitude, businessTypeId or ratingValue.

Field	Description
localAuthorityId	One of 363 councils. Full list at api.ratings.food.gov.uk/Authorities
postcodeOrAddress	Free text address or postcode
latitude, longitude, radiusMiles	Radius search
name	Business name contains
businessTypeId	Numeric type id. List at api.ratings.food.gov.uk/BusinessTypes
ratingValue	Exact rating, 0 to 5
actionableOnly	Keep only businesses rated 2 or below
sortBy	rating, alpha or distance
maxResults	Hard cap on billable results

{
  "postcodeOrAddress": "M1 1AE",
  "radiusMiles": 5,
  "ratingValue": "2",
  "actionableOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Field	Type	Default	What it does
postcodeOrAddress	string	M1 1AE	Free text address or postcode
name	string		Business name contains
businessTypeId	integer		Numeric business type id
ratingValue	string		Exact rating, 0 to 5
actionableOnly	boolean	false	Keep only businesses rated 2 or below
radiusMiles	integer	1	Radius around the postcode or coordinates
maxResults	integer	500	Hard cap on billable results

Output

One item per establishment.

Field	Description
fhrsId	FSA establishment id
businessName, businessType, businessTypeId	Business and its category
address, postcode, phone	Location and contact where published
latitude, longitude	Coordinates
ratingValue	Rating as published, 0 to 5, or Pass and Improvement Required in Scotland
ratingNumeric	Numeric rating, null for Scottish ratings
ratingDate	When the rating was given
newRatingPending	A re-inspection result is due
isActionable	True when rated 2 or below
hygieneScore, structuralScore, managementConfidenceScore	Component scores, lower is better
schemeType	FHRS for England, Wales and NI, FHIS for Scotland
localAuthority, localAuthorityEmail, localAuthorityWebsite	Responsible council
fsaUrl	Link to the public FSA record
retrievedAt	Retrieval timestamp

Note that Scotland uses a different scheme with Pass and Improvement Required rather than 0 to 5, so ratingNumeric and isActionable are null and false for Scottish records.

A typical row:

{
  "businessName": "Abaseen",
  "businessType": "Takeaway/sandwich shop",
  "ratingValue": "2",
  "ratingDate": "2025-04-18T00:00:00.000Z",
  "address": "484 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester",
  "postcode": "M8 9JW",
  "localAuthority": "Manchester City Council",
  "fsaUrl": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/1820175",
  "fhrsId": 1820175
}

Download it from the run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it straight from the API.

Run it from the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/spookyweb~uk-food-hygiene-ratings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postcodeOrAddress": "M1 1AE", "radiusMiles": 5, "ratingValue": "2", "actionableOnly": true, "maxResults": 200}'

Or with the Apify client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('spookyweb/uk-food-hygiene-ratings').call({
  postcodeOrAddress: 'M1 1AE',
  radiusMiles: 5,
  ratingValue: '2',
  actionableOnly: true,
  maxResults: 200,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Data source

Food Standards Agency, ratings.food.gov.uk, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Ratings are a snapshot of the last inspection and can change. Always link back to fsaUrl for the current position.

Postcode formats

Type the postcode however you have it. All of these reach the same place:

M1 1AE       m1 1ae       M11AE        m11ae
M1-1AE       M1.1AE       "M1 1AE"     M1 1AE.

Case, spacing and surrounding punctuation are all normalised before the lookup runs. This matters more than it looks: the postcode is geocoded so that the radius is honoured, and a postcode that fails to resolve falls back to being matched as literal address text, which quietly returns a single business instead of the surrounding area.

GIR 0AA is handled as the special case it is. Anything that is not a postcode, such as a place name or a full address, is matched as address text instead.