Birmingham Restaurant Inspection Data: Ratings, Areas & Freshness

A live, data-backed report on Birmingham restaurant inspection results: current rating distribution, record freshness, local-area concentrations and repeated-name locations.

Live report. The measurements below are calculated from Cooked’s current copy of the official UK Food Standards Agency + West Midlands councils feed and refresh after new data is ingested.

How to read this report

One row means one operating establishment or permit in the source—not necessarily one company. A restaurant with several separately permitted counters can appear more than once, while a business the authority marks as gone is excluded. Health-department closures remain included because they are active inspection facts.

“Clean”, “mid” and “cooked” are Cooked’s comparison bands; the authority’s own rating remains the source of truth. the FSA rates 0–5 (higher is better): clean = 4 or 5, mid = 3, cooked = 2 or below.

UK Food Standards Agency + West Midlands councils does not publish itemized findings in this feed, so this report never guesses what an inspector found. The local-area table uses only areas with a meaningful rated sample, and the repeated-name table describes matching public names rather than claiming common ownership.

Citywide snapshot

Calculated from the official feed as stored by Cooked on 7 October 2026.

Current bandRecordsShare of rated
Clean10,50483.1%
Mid1,2559.9%
Cooked8807%
Unknown / unrated2,925excluded from rated shares

15,564 operating records are in the source snapshot; 12,639 carry a current clean, mid or cooked result.

How fresh are the records?

2,302 records (14.8%) have an inspection or rating date in the last 180 days; 4,982 (32%) are within one year. The median latest-record age is 472 days.

Where cooked records are most concentrated

This ranks only local areas with at least 20 rated records and at least one cooked result. It is a current-record comparison, not a claim about every meal or every business in the area.

AreaCookedRatedShare
Birmingham (B9)207327.4%
Balsall Heath / Sparkbrook (B12)4822021.8%
Digbeth (B5)5927421.5%
Birmingham (B19)199021.1%
Birmingham (B21)2914520%

Repeated public names with cooked locations

These are exact same-name groups with at least three operating locations, at least two rated locations and at least one cooked result. A shared municipal name does not prove shared ownership.

Public nameCleanMidCookedTotal
Dixy chicken197938
Classic fish bar2139
Chicken.com2237
Uk Fried Chicken2339
DFC Chicken1023

Corrections and updates

Published 9 August 2026. No corrections recorded.

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