UK Food Hygiene Ratings

Search the official Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene ratings by town, postcode, name and business type. Get restaurants, takeaways, cafes, pubs and shops with address, rating, inspection date, local authority and coordinates: ready-made leads for POS, card terminal and payments sales, or due diligence on food merchants.

How it works

Uses the official FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), no key needed. Data is published under the UK Open Government Licence v3.0, so commercial reuse is allowed with attribution ('Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0'). Covers England, Wales, Northern Ireland (FHRS) and Scotland (FHIS: Pass / Improvement Required). Bad or empty searches are reported as rows with ok: false and are not charged.

Output

businessName, businessType, address, postcode, rating, ratingDate, localAuthority, latitude, longitude, fhrsId, url, ok

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• establishment: $0.001 per result ($1 / 1,000). Platform usage is included; you pay only for results.

Example input

{
  "searches": [
    {
      "location": "Manchester",
      "businessType": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen"
    },
    {
      "postcode": "LS1"
    }
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100
}

Example output

{
  "businessName": "Chopstix",
  "businessType": "Takeaway/sandwich shop",
  "address": "16 Leeds Skelton Lake Services, Leeds",
  "postcode": "LS9 0AS",
  "rating": "5",
  "ratingDate": "2024-03-12",
  "localAuthority": "Leeds",
  "latitude": "53.79",
  "longitude": "-1.46",
  "fhrsId": 1271708,
  "url": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/1271708",
  "ok": true
}

Disclaimer

Ratings reflect the last inspection and can change. Records are businesses, not individuals, but some sole traders appear under a personal name: if you use this for marketing, follow UK GDPR and PECR (B2B rules). Not affiliated with the Food Standards Agency.

Part of the SterlingVerify UK payments & compliance toolkit. See also: UK Company Check, UK Sanctions Screener, Merchant Compliance Checker, Payments Stack Detector, PSP Status Monitor.