mebabberSandwell
Sunday email
Your street Find a business All areas in Sandwell

Topics

CrimeHouse pricesPlanningSchoolsGPs, dentists and careFood hygieneRoadworksFuel pricesWhat’s onCharitiesStreet reportsAll of Sandwell
Get the Sunday email
Back

Cafés in Sandwell

We know of 272 cafés across Sandwell. 195 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 79% of those are rated 4 or 5, 120 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.

Share this
272cafésacross Sandwell
79%rated 4 or 5of 195 with a rating
120rated 5very good
14rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at cafés across Sandwell

5120Very good
435Good
326Generally satisfactory
28Improvement necessary
15Major improvement necessary
01Urgent improvement necessary

195 of the 272 cafés have a rating. 18 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

Most recently inspected

Rated 2 or below

Cafés by area

Bearwood 77Blackheath 49Brandhall 12Cape Hill 66Causeway Green 58Cradley Heath 24Dudley Port 3Fallings Heath 8Great Bridge 6Hill Top 51Horseley Heath 6King’s Hill 10Langley Green 45Langley Village 44Old Hill 48Oldbury 61Princes End 5Rood End 55Rowley Regis 44Rowley Village 52Smethwick 66The Woods 5Tipton 19Tividale 25Warley 87Warley Salop 60Warley Wigorn 79Wednesbury 40West Bromwich 48Wood Green 7Yew Tree 1

A few to start with

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 Sandwell have the top hygiene rating?

120 of the 195 rated cafés across Sandwell scored 5, “very good”, when they were last inspected. They include Best Chicken, Slam Burger Dudley Rd and Cozy coffee bearwood Birmingham.

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. 18 of the cafés across Sandwell 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.

Other things people look for

RestaurantsPubs and barsTakeawaysIndian restaurantsChinese restaurantsPizza placesFish and chip shopsBakeriesSupermarketsCorner shopsButchersFloristsClothes shopsCharity and second-hand shopsBike shopsChemistsOpticiansHairdressersBarbersBeauty salonsNail salonsTattoo studiosDentistsDoctorsPhysiosChiropractors and osteopathsMassageGymsYoga and pilatesMartial arts

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.