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Restaurants in Braintree

We know of 273 restaurants across Braintree. 178 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 90% of those are rated 4 or 5, 132 with the top score of 5. 6 are rated 2 or below. A rating tells you how clean and careful the kitchen was on the day of the inspection, not how good the cooking is.

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273restaurantsacross Braintree
90%rated 4 or 5of 178 with a rating
132rated 5very good
6rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at restaurants across Braintree

5132Very good
428Good
312Generally satisfactory
26Improvement necessary
10Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

178 of the 273 restaurants have a rating. 6 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

Restaurants by area

Black Notley 1Bocking 90Bocking Churchstreet 2Braintree 96Castle Hedingham 3Coggeshall 8Cressing 4Earls Colne 4Feering 1Finchingfield 3Gosfield 4Great Bardfield 1Great Notley 29Great Yeldham 2Halstead 28Hatfield Peverel 6Kelvedon 8Pebmarsh 2Rayne 4Ridgewell 1Rivenhall End 3Sible Hedingham 3Silver End 5Steeple Bumpstead 1Sturmer 1Terling 1Wethersfield 4Wickham St Paul 1Witham 54

A few to start with

Restaurants by type

Places to eat by what they serve across Braintree.

Indian restaurants 25Chinese restaurants 24Pizza places 15

Questions people ask

What does a restaurant’s food hygiene rating cover?

The inspector checks three things: how food is handled, prepared, cooked, cooled and stored; the state of the kitchen and building, including cleaning, ventilation and pest control; and how the business manages food safety and keeps its records. It doesn’t judge the taste, the service or the prices, so a small family place can score 5 and a smart one can score 2.

Which restaurants in Braintree are rated 5 for hygiene?

132 of the 178 rated restaurants across Braintree had a 5 at their last inspection. Among them: Prezzo, Zizzi and Winners Finchingfield.

Can a restaurant with a low rating get a better one?

Yes. Once it has put things right it can ask the council to come back and re-rate it, sometimes for a fee, and it can appeal a rating it thinks is unfair. Until a new inspection the old rating stands, so check the date beside each one here.

Do restaurants have to display their hygiene rating?

Not in England: showing the sticker is up to the business, though most with a good score do. In Wales and Northern Ireland it’s the law. You can look any rating up on the Food Standards Agency’s website, or on each business’s page here.

Other things people look for

CafésPubs and barsTakeawaysIndian restaurantsChinese restaurantsPizza placesFish and chip shopsBakeriesSupermarketsCorner shopsButchersFloristsClothes shopsCharity and second-hand shopsBike shopsChemistsOpticiansHairdressersBarbersBeauty salonsNail salonsTattoo studiosDentistsDoctorsPhysiosChiropractors and osteopathsMassageGymsYoga and pilatesMartial arts

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.