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Cafés in County Durham

We know of 500 cafés across County Durham. 323 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 90% of those are rated 4 or 5, 226 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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500cafésacross County Durham
90%rated 4 or 5of 323 with a rating
226rated 5very good
3rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at cafés across County Durham

5226Very good
466Good
328Generally satisfactory
21Improvement necessary
12Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

323 of the 500 cafés have a rating. 29 are waiting for a first inspection, usually because they have just opened. 3 are 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

Cafés by area

Annfield Plain 5Aycliffe Village 6Aykley Heads 3Barnard Castle 25Bearpark 4Belmont 10Benfieldside 3Bishop Auckland 29Blackhall Colliery 8Blackhall Rocks 3Blackhill 27Bowburn 5Brancepeth 2Brandon 3Brasside 3Browney 7Burnopfield 7Carrville 22Catchgate 8Chester-le-Street 20Chilton 2Claypath 71Cockfield 2Consett 27Cornforth 1Coundon 1Coxhoe 7Crook 5Crossgate 72Crossgate Moor 3Dawdon 21Dipton 2Durham 92Easington 2Easington Colliery 5Edmondsley 1Elvet 73Esh Winning 5Evenwood 4Ferryhill 10Ferryhill Station 2Fishburn 2Flint Hill 3Framwellgate Moor 83Gilesgate 13Great Lumley 2Greencroft 3Harelaw 2Haswell 1High Shincliffe 2Hobson 4Horden 19Kelloe 1Lanchester 2Langley Moor 12Langley Park 5Leadgate 20Meadowfield 9Merryoaks 1Middlestone Moor 1Middleton-in-Teesdale 6Murton 10Neville's Cross 5New Brancepeth 2New Hunwick 1New Kyo 3New Shildon 4Newton Aycliffe 15Newton Hall 5Ouston 1Parkhill 4Pelton 1Perkinsville 2Peterlee 22Pity Me 16Quarrington Hill 1Romaldkirk 1Sacriston 6Seaham 32Sedgefield 9Sherburn Hill 2Shildon 4Shincliffe 4Shotley Bridge 2Shotton Colliery 9Sleepy Valley 3South Church 3South Pelaw 21Spennymoor 10St Helen Auckland 10St John's Chapel 2Staindrop 1Stanhope 5Stanley 14Sunnybrow 1Tanfield Lea 2Tantobie 2Templetown 15Toft Hill 2Tow Law 1Trimdon 1Trimdon Colliery 2Trimdon Grange 2Trimdon Station 1Trimdon Village 1Tudhoe 1Ushaw Moor 6Waterhouses 1West Auckland 9West Cornforth 1West Rainton 1Wheatley Hill 3Whitesmocks 2Willington 2Wingate 2Wolsingham 1

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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 County Durham have the top hygiene rating?

226 of the 323 rated cafés across County Durham scored 5, “very good”, when they were last inspected. They include Teesdale Community Resources, Durham University - Small Island Cafe and Dragonflies Durham.

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. 29 of the cafés across County Durham 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.