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Food hygiene in Enfield by area

In the last month 2 food places across Enfield were given a hygiene score. Over three months, 26 places scored 2 or below, and 156 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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2hygiene scoreslast 31 days
–scored 50 places, last 31 days
26scored 0 to 2last 3 months
156waiting for a first inspectionusually new or under new owners

Darker means more hygiene scores published. Tap an area for its page.

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Most inspected this month: Enfield (1), Lower Edmonton (1) and Southbury (1). The middle Enfield area had 0. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Bush Hill Park (86%), Freezywater (82%) and Enfield Lock (71%).

Every area, ranked

1EnfieldEN213546%548
2Lower EdmontonN912317%911
3SouthburyEN112–19
4Upper EdmontonN1801822%511
5FreezywaterEN301182%09
6SouthgateN1401070%07
7Bowes ParkN130944%28
8Enfield WashEN30967%09
9Palmers GreenN130922%315
10Ponders EndEN30933%211
11BowesN130838%16
12New SouthgateN110838%37
13Bush Hill ParkEN10786%15
14EdmontonN90714%23
15Enfield LockEN30771%05
16OakwoodN140650%07
17CockfostersEN40367%17
18Enfield Island VillageEN30367%02
19Winchmore HillN210367%04
20Enfield HighwayEN302–013
21CarterhatchEN101–04
22Crews HillEN201–02
23BrimsdownEN300–06
24Hadley WoodEN400–01

“Last month” and “3 months” count the hygiene scores published within each area’s circle. “Scored 5” is the share of the last three months’ scores that were a 5; it needs at least three. “Waiting” is food places registered but not yet inspected. Areas overlap, so one place can count in more than one. Tap a column to sort.

Scored 0 to 2 in the last three months

A score shows how things were on the day of the inspection. Businesses can appeal, and can ask for a new inspection once they have made improvements, so check the Food Standards Agency’s page for the latest.

New food places

156 food places across Enfield are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Enfield (48), Palmers Green (15), Enfield Highway (13), Ponders End (11) and Lower Edmonton (11). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés5435%15
Care homes and nurseries1963%0
Takeaways and sandwich shops1911%5
Shops1547%4
Other caterers1547%1
Schools and colleges1471%0
Supermarkets333%1
Pubs, bars and clubs367%0

Enfield, last three months. The share scoring 5 needs at least three scores.

How food hygiene ratings work

Every place that serves, sells or makes food is inspected by its council’s food safety officers, and the Food Standards Agency publishes the score. Officers look at how food is handled and stored, the state of the building and its cleaning, and how the business manages food safety. The score runs from 0 to 5:

  • 5: very good
  • 4: good
  • 3: generally satisfactory
  • 2: improvement necessary
  • 1: major improvement necessary
  • 0: urgent improvement necessary

How often a place is inspected depends on the risk, so a busy kitchen is visited more often than a shop selling packaged food. New businesses wait for a first visit before they get a score.

Where the figures come from

Scores come from the Food Standards Agency’s food hygiene rating data, published under the Open Government Licence, for every council we cover. Figures for Enfield as a whole count the food places whose nearest area is in Enfield. Each area is a circle round its middle, the same as on its MeBabber page. A score appears here when the agency publishes it, which can be a few weeks after the inspection.

See our sources and their licences. Figures update every night.

Food hygiene in every area

Questions people ask

Which areas of Enfield had the most food hygiene inspections?

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Enfield (1), Lower Edmonton (1) and Southbury (1). The middle Enfield area had 0.

How many Enfield food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 142 food places in Enfield given a score in the last three months, 60 (42%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

Have any Enfield food places scored 0, 1 or 2 recently?

Yes. In the last three months 26 places in Enfield were given 2 or below: 5 scored 0, 11 scored 1 and 10 scored 2. Each is listed on this page with its date. A low score shows how things were on the day of the inspection.

What do food hygiene ratings mean?

Food Standards Agency scores run from 0 to 5: 5 is very good, 4 good, 3 generally satisfactory, 2 improvement necessary, 1 major improvement necessary and 0 urgent improvement necessary. Council officers give the score after an inspection of hygiene, the building and how food safety is managed.