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Cafés in Braintree

We know of 152 cafés across Braintree. 111 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 94% of those are rated 4 or 5, 88 with the top score of 5. 3 are rated 2 or below. That covers coffee shops and tea rooms too: anywhere serving food or drink is inspected the same way.

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152cafésacross Braintree
94%rated 4 or 5of 111 with a rating
88rated 5very good
3rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at cafés across Braintree

588Very good
416Good
34Generally satisfactory
23Improvement necessary
10Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

111 of the 152 cafés have a rating. 3 are waiting for a first inspection, usually because they have just opened. The rest aren’t matched to the register yet.

Rated 5, most recently inspected

Rated 2 or below

Cafés by area

Black Notley 2Bocking 41Bocking Churchstreet 2Braintree 45Castle Hedingham 2Coggeshall 5Cressing 3Earls Colne 1Feering 1Finchingfield 2Gosfield 4Great Bardfield 1Great Notley 19Great Yeldham 2Greenstead Green 1Halstead 11Hatfield Peverel 2Kelvedon 4Pebmarsh 1Rayne 2Rivenhall End 5Sible Hedingham 2Steeple Bumpstead 1Sturmer 1Terling 1Wethersfield 4Witham 26

A few to start with

Questions people ask

Do coffee shops get food hygiene ratings?

Yes. A café or coffee shop is a food business, so the council inspects it and rates it from 0 to 5 like any restaurant. The very lowest-risk places, selling only drinks and packaged snacks, may be marked exempt instead.

Which cafés in Braintree have the top hygiene rating?

88 of the 111 rated cafés across Braintree scored 5, “very good”, when they were last inspected. They include Toast, Greggs Plc and Costa Coffee.

What does “awaiting inspection” mean?

A new food business has to register with the council at least 28 days before it opens, and is rated at its first inspection, which can be some weeks after opening. Until then the register shows it as awaiting inspection. 3 of the cafés across Braintree are in that position.

Where do I find a café’s rating?

Many cafés put the sticker in the window or by the till, but in England they don’t have to. Every rating is on the Food Standards Agency’s website, and on each café’s page here.

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Food hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency, checked every night. Listings from Overture Maps, the Food Standards Agency and © OpenStreetMap contributors. Missing one? Tell us.