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Restaurants in Cambridge

We know of 453 restaurants across Cambridge. 302 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 89% of those are rated 4 or 5, 209 with the top score of 5. 11 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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453restaurantsacross Cambridge
89%rated 4 or 5of 302 with a rating
209rated 5very good
11rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at restaurants across Cambridge

5209Very good
459Good
323Generally satisfactory
28Improvement necessary
13Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

302 of the 453 restaurants have a rating. 16 are waiting for a first inspection, usually because they have just opened. 1 is exempt, which the FSA uses for places selling only low-risk food. The rest aren’t matched to the register yet.

Rated 5, most recently inspected

Rated 2 or below

Restaurants by area

Barnwell 15Cambridge 381Cherry Hinton 10Chesterton 13Eddington 8Newnham 8Petersfield 164Romsey 61Trumpington 6

A few to start with

Restaurants by type

Places to eat by what they serve across Cambridge.

Indian restaurants 31Chinese restaurants 31Pizza places 18

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 Cambridge are rated 5 for hygiene?

209 of the 302 rated restaurants across Cambridge had a 5 at their last inspection. Among them: OCS Papworth Retail, Devson's and Il Sapore.

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

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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.