Caffè Nero food hygiene ratings

There are 591 Caffè Nero sites in the United Kingdom with a published food hygiene rating. Each is inspected by its own local council, the chain does not rate itself, and a rating earned in one town says nothing about the branch in the next. 39 sites are in Scotland, which uses a pass-or-improve scheme rather than a score out of five, and so are not counted in the figures below.

How Caffè Nero scores

72% of rated Caffè Nero branches hold the top score of 5, and 95% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.64 out of 5, about in line with the roughly 70% of all UK food businesses that hold a 5.

All 548 rated Caffè Nero branches in the UK
5 out of 5 392 72%
4 out of 5 126 23%
3 out of 5 19 3%
2 out of 5 8 1%
1 out of 5 3 1%
0 out of 5 0 0%

A further 43 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.

Lowest-rated Caffè Nero branches

11 branches hold a rating of 2 or below. That is 2% of Caffè Nero's rated sites. A low rating is not a closure order, the business is required to fix what the inspector found.

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Branch Council Rating Inspected
Caffe Nero Express (2) SE1 7LY Lambeth 1 - Major improvement necessary 4 July 2026
Caffe Nero BD23 1HY North Yorkshire 1 - Major improvement necessary 1 May 2026
Caffe Nero CV34 6RH Warwick 1 - Major improvement necessary 13 April 2026
Caffe Nero SW1V 1QS Westminster 2 - Some improvement necessary 11 July 2026
Caffe Nero CH1 1LG Cheshire West and Chester 2 - Some improvement necessary 27 February 2026
Caffe Nero CH1 1NQ Cheshire West and Chester 2 - Some improvement necessary 27 February 2026
Caffe Nero WA10 1BQ St Helens 2 - Some improvement necessary 27 February 2026
Caffe Nero TR7 1JF Cornwall 2 - Some improvement necessary 18 November 2025
Caffe Nero CV1 1DS Coventry 2 - Some improvement necessary 19 August 2025
Caffe Nero KT13 8AB Elmbridge 2 - Some improvement necessary 27 June 2025
Caffe Nero M33 7XE Trafford 2 - Some improvement necessary 13 June 2025

Questions about Caffè Nero

What is Caffè Nero's food hygiene rating?

Caffè Nero does not have a single rating. Every one of its 591 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 72% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.64 out of 5.

Is Caffè Nero clean?

By the only measure a regulator publishes, 72% of Caffè Nero branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, and 11 branches score 2 or below.

Which Caffè Nero has the worst hygiene rating?

The lowest-rated branches are listed on this page, worst first. 11 hold a rating of 2 or below out of 548 rated sites.

Who inspects Caffè Nero?

Not Caffè Nero. Environmental health officers at each site's local council carry out the inspection, unannounced, and set the rating. The Food Standards Agency publishes the result. A chain cannot rate itself, and cannot change a rating.

Where the branches are

The councils inspecting the most Caffè Nero branches.

Westminster, Belfast City, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh (City of), Camden, Hillingdon, City of London Corporation

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Data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland under the Open Government Licence. Branches are identified from the business names councils publish; one trading under an unusual name may not be counted here. This site is not affiliated with Caffè Nero.