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 band | Records | Share of rated |
|---|---|---|
| Clean | 12,041 | 85.5% |
| Mid | 1,291 | 9.2% |
| Cooked | 751 | 5.3% |
| Unknown / unrated | 2,548 | excluded 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.
| Area | Cooked | Rated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fallowfield / Rusholme (M14) | 31 | 188 | 16.5% |
| Wigan (M46) | 14 | 93 | 15.1% |
| Bolton (BL4) | 17 | 114 | 14.9% |
| Manchester (M19) | 18 | 127 | 14.2% |
| Manchester (M12) | 11 | 81 | 13.6% |
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 name | Clean | Mid | Cooked | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixy Chicken | 9 | 2 | 5 | 16 |
| The Canadian Charcoal Pit | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Golden Dragon | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Taj Mahal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mooboo | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Corrections and updates
Published 9 August 2026. No corrections recorded.