How the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme works

• Search for local Food Hygiene Ratings
• How the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme works
• How we rate a food business' hygiene
• Last month's businesses with a Food Hygiene Rating of 5
• Food Hygiene Rating Scheme stickers

Search for local Food Hygiene Ratings

Use the link below to search for local Food Hygiene Ratings:

Note: the search works best if you input a street name and town name (eg Chapel Road, Worthing) rather than a postcode.

Search UK Food Hygiene Ratings on the Food Standards Agency website (includes interactive map)

Ratings are uploaded regularly, so keep checking the site before you go out.

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How the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme works

Developed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in partnership with local authorities, the national Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) makes information on food hygiene standards publicly available. The scheme is designed to help you choose where to eat or shop for food by telling you how seriously a food business takes their food hygiene standards.

Food businesses are inspected by our food hygiene inspectors to check that their hygiene levels meet legal requirements. Hygiene standards are rated on a scale from 0 (urgent improvement is required) to 5 (very good).

This information is then published on the Food Standards Agency website and on ratings stickers which food businesses can choose to display at their premises.

Video: About the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme by the Food Standards Agency

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How we rate a food business' hygiene

The rating we give a business reflects the standards of food hygiene found at the time of inspection. This includes:

• Food hygiene and safety: how food is stored, handled and prepared to avoid cross-contamination and control temperatures etc.
• Physical condition of the business: considering cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation and pest control etc.
• Confidence in management: the management's attitude towards hygiene and safety (procedures, training, demonstration of hygiene and food safety technical knowledge) as well as the business's track record

The rating scheme does not reflect the quality of the food being prepared or the dining experience.

For more information please see:

• How we rate a food business' hygiene - in our businesses section
• Food Hygiene Rating Scheme on Food Standards Agency website

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Last month's businesses with a Food Hygiene Rating of 5

Last month the food safety team were able to award more businesses with a Food Hygiene Rating of 5. A full alphabetical list of these premises is available below:

February 2025:

• Ashford House, 9-11 Winchester Road, Worthing, BN11 4DJ
• Bird & Blend Tea Co, Unit 3, 6 Woods Way, Worthing, BN12 4QY
• Blend Coffee Co, 63 Rowlands Road, Worthing, BN11 3JN
• Comics Games And Coffee Worthing, Unit 8, The Montague Centre, Liverpool Road, Worthing, BN11 1YJ
• Denyer News, 265 Goring Road, Worthing, BN12 4PA
• Efes Turkish Cuisine, 131-133 Clifton Road, Worthing, BN11 4DP
• Enzo's Restaurant, 4 Graham Road, Worthing, BN11 1TL
• Hospital Kitchen, Salvington Lodge, 1 Salvington Hill, Worthing, BN13 3BW
• Imperial China, Wordsworth Road, Worthing, BN11 3NH
• Lancing College Catering, Lancing College, College Drive, Lancing, BN15 0RW
• Little Lancing College At The Sussex Pad, 5 Coombes Road, Lancing, BN15 0RJ
• Mai Lin Takeaway, 2 Brighton Road, Worthing, BN11 3EA
• Maskells Butchers, 18 Broadwater Street West, Worthing, BN14 9DA
• MegBakes (registered with Adur & Worthing Councils)
• Merry Miller, 152 Findon Road, Worthing, BN14 0EL
• MMNT Studio, 5 Southwick Square, Southwick, Brighton, BN42 4FP
• OPMC Kitchen, Offington Park Methodist Church, South Farm Road, Worthing, BN14 7TN
• Oxfam GB, 11 Wallace Parade, Goring Road, Worthing, BN12 4AL
• Palatine School, Palatine Road, Worthing, BN12 6JP
• Quick Stop, 31 Railway Approach, Worthing, BN11 1UR
• Shoppers Local, 8 The Broadway, Brighton Road, Worthing, BN11 3EG
• Subway, 6b Cricketers Parade, Worthing, BN14 9DB
• Sunhill Court, Mill Lane, Worthing, BN13 3DF
• Superdrug, 40-46 Montague Street, Worthing, BN11 3HB
• Tasty Mix Chicken, 4 Dominion Buildings, Dominion Road, Worthing, BN14 8LE
• Tern Restaurant, Southern Pavilion, Worthing Pier, The Promenade, Worthing, BN11 3PX
• The Gourmet Crepe (registered with Adur & Worthing Councils)
• The New Grange Care Home, 10-16 Homefield Road, Worthing, BN11 2HZ
• The Railway Hotel, 27 Railway Approach, Worthing, BN11 1UR
• Uncle Jim's, 68 Teville Road, Worthing, BN11 1UY

See also:

• Search for a Food Hygiene Rating for a premises (above)

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Food Hygiene Rating Scheme stickers

Businesses are not legally required to display their Food Hygiene Rating Scheme sticker as there are no local byelaws in Adur or Worthing requiring businesses to display their rating sticker.

However, if a business is displaying a sticker with an incorrect rating score, then please be advised that this will be referred to Trading Standards as they are the enforcing authority for this issue (as it relates to the provision of information for the customer).

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