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Restaurants in County Durham

We know of 959 restaurants across County Durham. 631 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 79% of those are rated 4 or 5, 351 with the top score of 5. 24 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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959restaurantsacross County Durham
79%rated 4 or 5of 631 with a rating
351rated 5very good
24rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at restaurants across County Durham

5351Very good
4150Good
3106Generally satisfactory
218Improvement necessary
16Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

631 of the 959 restaurants have a rating. 54 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

Restaurants by area

Annfield Plain 18Aycliffe Village 6Aykley Heads 11Barnard Castle 24Beamish 4Bearpark 8Belmont 15Benfieldside 11Billy Row 1Bishop Auckland 57Blackhall Colliery 19Blackhall Rocks 5Blackhill 60Bournmoor 1Bowburn 9Brancepeth 1Brandon 6Brasside 3Browney 9Burnopfield 10Carrville 36Castleside 2Catchgate 19Chester Moor 1Chester-le-Street 48Chilton 3Chilton Lane 2Claypath 120Cockfield 2Consett 57Coundon 3Coundon Grange 1Coxhoe 13Craghead 2Crook 21Crossgate 120Crossgate Moor 8Croxdale 2Dawdon 35Delves Lane 3Dipton 5Durham 163Easington 1Easington Colliery 10Edmondsley 1Eldon 7Eldon Lane 1Elvet 121Esh Winning 10Evenwood 2Ferryhill 17Ferryhill Station 3Fishburn 6Flint Hill 2Framwellgate Moor 134Frosterley 1Gainford 1Gilesgate 23Grange Villa 3Great Lumley 2Greencroft 11Hamsterley 2Harelaw 8Haswell 2High Handenhold 4High Shincliffe 2Hobson 6Horden 45Howden-le-Wear 2Kelloe 1Lanchester 11Langley Moor 20Langley Park 7Leadgate 50Low Westwood 2Meadowfield 15Merryoaks 4Middlestone Moor 3Middleton-in-Teesdale 5Murton 15Neville's Cross 6New Brancepeth 7New Kyo 9New Shildon 15Newfield 5Newton Aycliffe 38Newton Hall 3Ouston 2Parkhill 6Pelton 12Pelton Fell 4Perkinsville 17Peterlee 47Pity Me 24Quaking Houses 5Quarrington Hill 1Roddymoor 1Sacriston 13Seaham 55Sedgefield 12Sherburn 1Sherburn Hill 1Shildon 20Shincliffe 4Shotley Bridge 9Shotton Colliery 14Sleepy Valley 7South Church 11South Hetton 3South Pelaw 56Spennymoor 38St Helen Auckland 21St John's Chapel 1Stanhope 6Stanley 39Sunnybrow 13Tanfield Lea 6Tantobie 6Templetown 30Thornley 2Tow Law 4Trimdon 6Trimdon Colliery 4Trimdon Grange 3Trimdon Station 2Trimdon Village 6Tudhoe 5Ushaw Moor 9Waterhouses 1West Auckland 16West Pelton 4West Rainton 2Wheatley Hill 9Whitesmocks 3Willington 13Wingate 5Witton Gilbert 2Wolsingham 4Woodstone Village 1

A few to start with

Restaurants by type

Places to eat by what they serve across County Durham.

Indian restaurants 71Chinese restaurants 92Pizza places 119

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 County Durham are rated 5 for hygiene?

351 of the 631 rated restaurants across County Durham had a 5 at their last inspection. Among them: Pizza 4 u, Teesdale Community Resources and Zest Italian Durham.

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.