Where our listing data comes from
This directory is built from public open datasets rather than from entries we wrote ourselves: every listing links back to the source record it was created from, so you can check it at the source. Below are the datasets we use and the licences they are published under.
Food Standards Agency (United Kingdom)
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme feed is a public register of food businesses in the United Kingdom. UK listings are sourced from it — we take the business name, address, location and the regulator's business type (restaurant, takeaway, pub, retailer), and nothing else. The data contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and the Food Standards Agency does not endorse OpenALaCarte. Hygiene ratings are not displayed anywhere on this site, because showing one requires the official unmodified FHRS badge graphics.
- Source
- Food Standards Agency
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Coverage
- United Kingdom
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world built by volunteers. Listings outside the United Kingdom are sourced from it, across more than forty countries in Europe. The data is made available under the Open Database Licence, and the credit belongs to the OpenStreetMap contributors who survey and maintain it.
- Licence
- Open Database Licence
- Coverage
- Europe outside the United Kingdom
Every listing links to its source record
Reporting an error
If a name, address or opening time is wrong, the correction belongs upstream at the source: fixing it there reaches everyone who uses the dataset, not just this directory. Edit OpenStreetMap directly, or use the Food Standards Agency's own contact route for UK records — and if you would rather we passed it on, tell us and we will.