Restaurants in the UK

Restaurants in the UK: common questions

How many restaurants are listed in the UK?

None yet. Promote Your Business has no restaurants listed in the UK. Listing is free, so if you run one you can be the first.

Do restaurants in the UK have to be registered or licensed?

Every food business in the UK must be registered with its local council, and is inspected and given a food hygiene rating from 0 to 5.

How do I check a restaurant in the UK is qualified?

Look the business up on the Food Standards Agency’s rating site at ratings.food.gov.uk. In Wales and Northern Ireland the rating must be displayed at the entrance; in England displaying it is voluntary, so an absent sticker is not itself a bad sign — check the register instead.

Are the restaurants listed here vetted or reviewed?

Every submission is checked before it appears. If the business's own website names it and the details are complete, it is published automatically; anything else is read by a person, who checks that the business is real, that the details make sense, and that the category and location are right. Nothing is scraped from other sites. That is a check on the listing, not an endorsement of the work — Promote Your Business publishes no ratings, star scores or customer reviews, so you should still make your own checks before hiring.

Restaurants: guides worth reading first

• How to check a UK trader is registered, trade by trade

  There is no single UK trade licence. Some trades have a statutory register it is a criminal offence to work outside; most have none, and the useful checks are different.

• How to read trader reviews in the UK, now that fake ones are illegal

  Fake reviews, hidden incentives and misleading review displays have been banned outright since April 2025. What that changes, and what to check instead.