Sunday email
Food hygiene

Food hygiene in Redbridge by area

In the last month 13 food places across Redbridge were given a hygiene score, and 85% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 18 places scored 2 or below, and 147 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

Share this
13hygiene scoreslast 31 days
85%scored 511 places, last 31 days
18scored 0 to 2last 3 months
147waiting for a first inspectionusually new or under new owners

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

Check your own street

See food hygiene and everything else that’s changing right round your home. Free, no sign-in.

Most inspected this month: Ilford (10), Chadwell Heath (2) and Gants Hill (2). The middle Redbridge area had 1. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Gants Hill (82%), Wanstead (80%) and Goodmayes (75%).

Every area, ranked

1IlfordIG1109457%1795
2Chadwell HeathRM622055%211
3Gants HillIG221782%112
4GoodmayesIG321275%218
5SnaresbrookE112667%13
6WansteadE112580%11
7WoodfordIG811030%09
8Newbury ParkIG21967%05
9South WoodfordE181967%117
10Woodford GreenIG81944%03
11Woodford BridgeIG81540%03
12Seven KingsIG301436%416
13LoxfordIG101040%011
14MonkhamsIG80944%08
15BarkingsideIG60633%26
16FairlopIG6030%26
17RedbridgeIG40367%12
18ClayhallIG501–02
19HainaultIG601–01
20Woodford WellsIG801–03
21Little HeathRM600–03

“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

11 places scored 5 in the last 31 days.

New food places

147 food places across Redbridge are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Ilford (95), Goodmayes (18), South Woodford (17), Seven Kings (16) and Gants Hill (12). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés4060%4
Takeaways and sandwich shops2945%7
Shops2955%5
Care homes and nurseries2075%0
Schools and colleges875%0
Pubs, bars and clubs560%1
Hotels and B&Bs1–0
Other caterers1–0
Mobile caterers1–1

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

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Ilford (10), Chadwell Heath (2), Gants Hill (2), Goodmayes (2) and Snaresbrook (2). The middle Redbridge area had 1.

How many Redbridge food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 134 food places in Redbridge given a score in the last three months, 79 (59%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

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

Yes. In the last three months 18 places in Redbridge were given 2 or below: 1 scored 0, 14 scored 1 and 3 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.