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Food hygiene in Southwark by area

In the last month 10 food places across Southwark were given a hygiene score, and 100% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 7 places scored 2 or below, and 194 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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10hygiene scoreslast 31 days
100%scored 510 places, last 31 days
7scored 0 to 2last 3 months
194waiting 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: Southwark (13), Bankside (12) and The Borough (6). The middle Southwark area had 1. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in South Bermondsey (86%), Bermondsey Village (83%) and Canada Water (83%).

Every area, ranked

1SouthwarkSE1135472%446
2BanksideSE1127468%756
3The BoroughSE164271%341
4Elephant and CastleSE162268%227
5Bermondsey VillageSE133083%132
6Old Kent RoadSE12757%112
7South BermondseySE162786%031
8WalworthSE1711650%331
9BermondseySE1611070%027
10PeckhamSE151967%127
11Surrey QuaysSE161580%022
12CamberwellSE50933%223
13Denmark HillSE50838%114
14Canada WaterSE160683%023
15East DulwichSE220367%014
16RotherhitheSE1603100%014
17DulwichSE2102–04
18NunheadSE1502–013
19Dulwich VillageSE2101–05

“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

10 places scored 5 in the last 31 days.

New food places

No newly registered food places have appeared in the last month.

194 food places across Southwark are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Bankside (56), Southwark (46), The Borough (41), Bermondsey Village (32) and South Bermondsey (31). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés3370%1
Shops1553%4
Takeaways and sandwich shops1450%2
Other caterers683%0
Pubs, bars and clubs667%0
Schools and colleges5100%0
Hotels and B&Bs3100%0
Care homes and nurseries367%0
Supermarkets367%0
Farms and growers1–0
Importers and exporters1–0

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

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Southwark (13), Bankside (12), The Borough (6), Elephant and Castle (6) and Bermondsey Village (3). The middle Southwark area had 1.

How many Southwark food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 90 food places in Southwark given a score in the last three months, 61 (68%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

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

Yes. In the last three months 7 places in Southwark were given 2 or below: 1 scored 0, 3 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.