London Restaurant Inspection Data: Ratings, Areas & Freshness
A live, data-backed report on London 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 + London borough 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 + London borough 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 band | Records | Share of rated |
|---|---|---|
| Clean | 41,070 | 85.4% |
| Mid | 4,300 | 8.9% |
| Cooked | 2,706 | 5.6% |
| Unknown / unrated | 6,336 | excluded from rated shares |
54,412 operating records are in the source snapshot; 48,076 carry a current clean, mid or cooked result.
How fresh are the records?
10,097 records (18.6%) have an inspection or rating date in the last 180 days; 21,833 (40.1%) are within one year. The median latest-record age is 400 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.
| Area | Cooked | Rated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ealing (UB2) | 45 | 147 | 30.6% |
| Ealing (UB1) | 51 | 177 | 28.8% |
| Newham (E12) | 33 | 135 | 24.4% |
| Hillingdon (UB7) | 20 | 94 | 21.3% |
| Ealing (W13) | 34 | 172 | 19.8% |
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 name | Clean | Mid | Cooked | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perfect fried chicken | 16 | 3 | 6 | 25 |
| Chicken world | 10 | 6 | 4 | 20 |
| Dixy Fried Chicken | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Samosa Haus | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Chicken Hut | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
Corrections and updates
Published 9 August 2026. No corrections recorded.