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Food hygiene in Bexley by area

In the last month 28 food places across Bexley were given a hygiene score, and 82% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 13 places scored 2 or below, and 35 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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28hygiene scoreslast 31 days
82%scored 523 places, last 31 days
13scored 0 to 2last 3 months
35waiting for a first inspectionusually new or under new owners

Darker means more hygiene scores published. Tap an area for its page.

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Most inspected this month: Bexleyheath (12), Lamorbey (7) and Sidcup (7). The middle Bexley area had 1. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Upper Belvedere (100%), Lessness Heath (83%) and North End (83%).

Every area, ranked

1BexleyheathDA6125565%311
2LamorbeyDA1574959%67
3SidcupDA1473667%47
4ErithDA843474%49
5Foots CrayDA1442972%16
6CrayfordDA141369%02
7Braeburn ParkDA141164%02
8Belle GroveDA1632352%13
9WellingDA1631958%13
10BlackfenDA1531527%42
11BexleyDA531060%00
12Lower BelvedereDA1731040%22
13Lessness HeathDA173683%13
14Halfway StreetDA152667%11
15Upper BelvedereDA1725100%02
16Crook LogDA71967%04
17North EndDA81683%00
18Barnes CrayDA11580%01
19FalconwoodDA161540%04
20Northumberland HeathDA81560%03
21PenhillDA50944%02
22UptonDA60863%00
23BlendonDA50743%01
24HurstDA150743%01
25BridgenDA50560%00
26East WickhamDA160540%13
27BarnehurstDA70475%12
28ColdblowDA50450%01
29HowburyDA804100%00
30Slade GreenDA804100%01
31Albany ParkDA50367%01
32West HeathSE202–03
33North CrayDA1401–00

“Last month” and “3 months” count the hygiene scores published within each area’s circle. “Scored 5” is the share of the last three months’ scores that were a 5; it needs at least three. “Waiting” is food places registered but not yet inspected. Areas overlap, so one place can count in more than one. Tap a column to sort.

Scored 0 to 2 in the last three months

A score shows how things were on the day of the inspection. Businesses can appeal, and can ask for a new inspection once they have made improvements, so check the Food Standards Agency’s page for the latest.

Top marks this month

23 places scored 5 in the last 31 days; the latest 20 are shown.

New food places

35 food places across Bexley are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Bexleyheath (11), Erith (9), Lamorbey (7), Sidcup (7) and Foots Cray (6). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés4576%3
Takeaways and sandwich shops4137%4
Care homes and nurseries2391%0
Shops1932%6
Schools and colleges12100%0
Other caterers683%0
Pubs, bars and clubs667%0
Supermarkets333%0
Mobile caterers1–0

Bexley, last three months. The share scoring 5 needs at least three scores.

How food hygiene ratings work

Every place that serves, sells or makes food is inspected by its council’s food safety officers, and the Food Standards Agency publishes the score. Officers look at how food is handled and stored, the state of the building and its cleaning, and how the business manages food safety. The score runs from 0 to 5:

  • 5: very good
  • 4: good
  • 3: generally satisfactory
  • 2: improvement necessary
  • 1: major improvement necessary
  • 0: urgent improvement necessary

How often a place is inspected depends on the risk, so a busy kitchen is visited more often than a shop selling packaged food. New businesses wait for a first visit before they get a score.

Where the figures come from

Scores come from the Food Standards Agency’s food hygiene rating data, published under the Open Government Licence, for every council we cover. Figures for Bexley as a whole count the food places whose nearest area is in Bexley. Each area is a circle round its middle, the same as on its MeBabber page. A score appears here when the agency publishes it, which can be a few weeks after the inspection.

See our sources and their licences. Figures update every night.

Food hygiene in every area

Questions people ask

Which areas of Bexley had the most food hygiene inspections?

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Bexleyheath (12), Lamorbey (7), Sidcup (7), Erith (4) and Foots Cray (4). The middle Bexley area had 1.

How many Bexley food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 156 food places in Bexley given a score in the last three months, 98 (63%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

Have any Bexley food places scored 0, 1 or 2 recently?

Yes. In the last three months 13 places in Bexley were given 2 or below: 1 scored 0, 5 scored 1 and 7 scored 2. Each is listed on this page with its date. A low score shows how things were on the day of the inspection.

What do food hygiene ratings mean?

Food Standards Agency scores run from 0 to 5: 5 is very good, 4 good, 3 generally satisfactory, 2 improvement necessary, 1 major improvement necessary and 0 urgent improvement necessary. Council officers give the score after an inspection of hygiene, the building and how food safety is managed.