Manchester Restaurant Inspection Data: Ratings, Areas & Freshness

A live, data-backed report on Manchester 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 + Greater Manchester 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 + Greater Manchester 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
Clean12,04185.5%
Mid1,2919.2%
Cooked7515.3%
Unknown / unrated2,548excluded from rated shares

16,631 operating records are in the source snapshot; 14,083 carry a current clean, mid or cooked result.

How fresh are the records?

2,675 records (16.1%) have an inspection or rating date in the last 180 days; 5,748 (34.6%) are within one year. The median latest-record age is 441 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
Fallowfield / Rusholme (M14)3118816.5%
Wigan (M46)149315.1%
Bolton (BL4)1711414.9%
Manchester (M19)1812714.2%
Manchester (M12)118113.6%

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 Chicken92516
The Canadian Charcoal Pit1023
Golden Dragon5128
Taj Mahal1013
Mooboo2014

Corrections and updates

Published 9 August 2026. No corrections recorded.

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