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Food hygiene in Lambeth by area

In the last month 28 food places across Lambeth were given a hygiene score, and 89% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 34 places scored 2 or below, and 109 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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28hygiene scoreslast 31 days
89%scored 525 places, last 31 days
34scored 0 to 2last 3 months
109waiting 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: South Bank (14), Lambeth (9) and Waterloo (9). The middle Lambeth area had 5. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Waterloo (83%), Lambeth (77%) and West Norwood (72%).

Every area, ranked

1South BankSE1147567%832
2LambethSE193077%312
3WaterlooSE193083%122
4BrixtonSW985145%1227
5StockwellSW984650%1022
6Stockwell ParkSW963450%1010
7OvalSW863053%78
8VauxhallSE1163063%516
9KenningtonSE1152268%215
10Loughborough JunctionSE531861%222
11Myatt's FieldsSE521540%513
12Streatham HillSW221567%16
13ClaphamSW413063%516
14West NorwoodSE2712972%49
15West DulwichSE2112471%48
16Tulse HillSE2101861%48
17StreathamSW1601765%111
18Herne HillSE2401457%26

“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

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

New food places

109 food places across Lambeth are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near South Bank (32), Brixton (27), Loughborough Junction (22), Waterloo (22) and Stockwell (22). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés7263%12
Takeaways and sandwich shops4333%14
Shops3656%8
Pubs, bars and clubs2277%0
Schools and colleges1283%0
Supermarkets1191%0
Care homes and nurseries8100%0
Other caterers757%0
Hotels and B&Bs2–0
Mobile caterers2–0
Distributors2–0
Importers and exporters1–0

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

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for South Bank (14), Lambeth (9), Waterloo (9), Brixton (8) and Stockwell (8). The middle Lambeth area had 5.

How many Lambeth food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 218 food places in Lambeth given a score in the last three months, 134 (61%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

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

Yes. In the last three months 34 places in Lambeth were given 2 or below: 3 scored 0, 19 scored 1 and 12 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.