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Restaurants in Spitalfields

We know of 1,695 restaurants within 1 mile of the middle of Spitalfields, 958 of them in Spitalfields itself. 1,144 have a food hygiene rating from the council, and 89% of those are rated 4 or 5, 843 with the top score of 5. 66 are rated 2 or below. A rating tells you how clean and careful the kitchen was on the day of the inspection, not how good the cooking is.

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1,695restaurantswithin 1 mi
89%rated 4 or 5of 1,144 with a rating
843rated 5very good
66rated 0 to 2improvement needed

Food hygiene ratings at restaurants within 1 mile of the middle of Spitalfields

5843Very good
4170Good
365Generally satisfactory
234Improvement necessary
128Major improvement necessary
04Urgent improvement necessary

1,144 of the 1,695 restaurants have a rating. 49 are waiting for a first inspection, usually because they have just opened. 1 is exempt, which the FSA uses for places selling only low-risk food. The rest aren’t matched to the register yet.

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Rated 2 or below

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Questions people ask

What does a restaurant’s food hygiene rating cover?

The inspector checks three things: how food is handled, prepared, cooked, cooled and stored; the state of the kitchen and building, including cleaning, ventilation and pest control; and how the business manages food safety and keeps its records. It doesn’t judge the taste, the service or the prices, so a small family place can score 5 and a smart one can score 2.

Which restaurants in Spitalfields are rated 5 for hygiene?

843 of the 1,144 rated restaurants within 1 mile of the middle of Spitalfields had a 5 at their last inspection. Among them: Jiaba, Le Bab and Nilly's Turkish Kitchen.

Can a restaurant with a low rating get a better one?

Yes. Once it has put things right it can ask the council to come back and re-rate it, sometimes for a fee, and it can appeal a rating it thinks is unfair. Until a new inspection the old rating stands, so check the date beside each one here.

Do restaurants have to display their hygiene rating?

Not in England: showing the sticker is up to the business, though most with a good score do. In Wales and Northern Ireland it’s the law. You can look any rating up on the Food Standards Agency’s website, or on each business’s page here.

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