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Cafés in Leicester

We know of 474 cafés across Leicester. 377 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 88% of those are rated 4 or 5, 301 with the top score of 5. 14 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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88%rated 4 or 5of 377 with a rating
301rated 5very good
14rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at cafés across Leicester

5301Very good
432Good
330Generally satisfactory
25Improvement necessary
19Major improvement necessary
00Urgent improvement necessary

377 of the 474 cafés have a rating. 29 are waiting for a first inspection, usually because they have just opened. 2 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

Ashton Green 1Aylestone 11Aylestone Park 15Beaumont Leys 5Bede Island 79Belgrave 35Black Friars 135Braunstone 12Clarendon Park 28Crown Hills 18Dane Hills 3Evington 3Eyres Monsell 5Hamilton 6Highfields 80Humberstone 8Kirby Frith 3Knighton 3Knighton Fields 11Leicester 334Mowmacre Hill 1Nether Hall 2New Parks 1Newfoundpool 10North Evington 24Northfields 12Rushey Mead 5South Knighton 1Spinney Hills 31St Matthew's 85Stocking Farm 4Stoneygate 34Thurnby Lodge 3West End 39Westcotes 31Western Park 3

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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 Leicester have the top hygiene rating?

301 of the 377 rated cafés across Leicester scored 5, “very good”, when they were last inspected. They include Subway, Daiu Restaurant and Veeno.

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 Leicester 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.