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Food hygiene in Hackney by area

In the last month 52 food places across Hackney were given a hygiene score, and 88% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 42 places scored 2 or below, and 164 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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52hygiene scoreslast 31 days
88%scored 546 places, last 31 days
42scored 0 to 2last 3 months
164waiting 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: Shoreditch (30), Hackney (13) and Hoxton (10). The middle Hackney area had 6. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Hackney Wick (85%), Stoke Newington (76%) and Hoxton (72%).

Every area, ranked

1ShoreditchEC2A3010966%1280
2HackneyE9134953%1026
3HoxtonN1105072%240
4Lower ClaptonE593759%329
5ShacklewellE885661%1035
6West HackneyN1684770%323
7HaggerstonE873653%835
8Stoke NewingtonN1664576%323
9DalstonE864356%1225
10De Beauvoir TownN163757%1123
11HomertonE562365%219
12Clapton ParkE561856%111
13Stamford HillN1651560%212
14ClaptonE542560%319
15Upper ClaptonE542171%212
16Hackney WickE942085%011

“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.

Top marks this month

46 places scored 5 in the last 31 days; the latest 20 are shown.

New food places

164 food places across Hackney are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Shoreditch (80), Hoxton (40), Haggerston (35), Shacklewell (35) and Lower Clapton (29). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés12257%24
Shops3762%6
Takeaways and sandwich shops3560%5
Food makers and packers1464%0
Pubs, bars and clubs1250%5
Care homes and nurseries1182%0
Other caterers6100%0
Schools and colleges6100%0
Supermarkets4100%0
Mobile caterers4100%0
Distributors333%2
Hotels and B&Bs1–0
Importers and exporters1–0

Hackney, 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 Hackney as a whole count the food places whose nearest area is in Hackney. 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 Hackney had the most food hygiene inspections?

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Shoreditch (30), Hackney (13), Hoxton (10), Lower Clapton (9) and Shacklewell (8). The middle Hackney area had 6.

How many Hackney food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 256 food places in Hackney given a score in the last three months, 161 (63%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

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

Yes. In the last three months 42 places in Hackney were given 2 or below: 6 scored 0, 13 scored 1 and 23 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.