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Eye-Opening Map Shows The Dirtiest Places To Eat In London (The Results Are Quite Surprising)

Eye-Opening Map Shows The Dirtiest Places To Eat In London (The Results Are Quite Surprising)

Eye-Opening Map Shows The Dirtiest Places To Eat In London (The Results Are Quite Surprising)
Danielle de Wolfe
21 October 2015

You know that black soot that suddenly appears in your nose when you first move to London, despite you definitely not walking past a coal mine?

Well, you’re in the big smoke now and that should have been your first clue as to the filth you were about to embrace.

Not experienced it? You’re probably a London native, which means you were born with bronchi made of steel.

Your stomach however, is not immune to the fact that there are 358 restaurants in the capital with a zero star hygiene rating.

And it’s not something that’s reserved for last ditch kebab options at 4am. ITV has revealed that Westminster has one of the highest numbers of zero rated restaurants in a borough, with 25 sub-par servers. Perhaps it’s a dirty attack on politicians, but we doubt it and it’s gross.

Camden doesn’t fair well either if you don’t want to spend tomorrow on the toilet whereas your guts are totally safe in Havering.

Starting to doubt your local takeaway? Check their rating at the FSA’s website and choose where next to chow down carefully.

Here's the full list of dirty servers:

Barking and Dagenham

  • 1 takeaway given a zero star rating

  • 0 restaurants given a zero star rating

Barnet

  • 4 takeaways given a zero star rating

  • 8 restaurants given a zero star rating

Bexley

  • 1 takeaway given a zero star rating

  • 2 restaurants given a zero star rating

Brent

  • 11 takeaways given a zero star rating

  • 11 restaurants given a zero star rating

Bromley

  • 0 takeaways given a zero star rating

  • 3 restaurants given a zero star rating

Camden

  • 7 takeaways given zero stars

  • 22 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

City

  • 2 takeaways given zero stars

  • 4 restaurants given zero stars

Croydon

  • 15 takeaways given zero stars

  • 9 restaurants given zero stars

Ealing

  • 9 takeaways given zero stars

  • 19 restaurants given zero stars

Enfield

  • 10 takeaways given zero stars

  • 9 restaurants given zero stars

Greenwich

  • 4 takeaways given zero stars

  • 0 restaurants given zero stars

Hackney

  • 3 takeaways given zero stars

  • 3 restaurants given zero stars

Hammersmith and Fulham

  • 1 takeaway given zero stars

  • 4 restaurants rated zero stars

Haringey

  • 3 takeaways given zero stars

  • 3 restaurants given zero stars

Harrow

  • 5 takeaways given zero stars

  • 12 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

Havering

  • 0 takeaways given zero stars

  • 0 restaurants given zero stars

  • 0 pubs given zero stars

Hillington

  • 2 takeaways given zero stars

  • 4 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

Hounslow

  • 2 takeaways given zero stars

  • 2 restaurants given zero stars

Kensington and Chelsea

  • 0 takeaways given zero stars

  • 2 restaurants given zero stars

Kingston

  • 3 takeaways given zero stars

  • 1 restaurant given zero stars

Islington

  • 7 takeaways given zero stars

  • 8 restaurants given zero stars

  • 2 pubs given zero stars

Lambeth

  • 2 takeaways given zero stars

  • 1 restaurant given zero stars

Lewisham

  • 8 takeaways given zero stars

  • 5 restaurants given zero stars

Merton

  • 3 takeaways given zero stars

  • 3 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

Newham

  • 12 takeaways given zero stars

  • 10 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

Redbridge

  • 1 takeaways given zero stars

  • 4 restaurants given zero stars

Richmond

  • 0 takeaways given zero stars

  • 3 restaurants given zero stars

  • 1 pub given zero stars

Southwark

  • 5 takeaways given zero stars

  • 4 restaurants given zero stars

Sutton

  • 4 takeaways awarded zero stars

  • 3 restaurants awarded zero stars

Tower Hamlets

  • 0 takeaways awarded zero stars

  • 17 restaurants awarded zero stars

Waltham Forest

  • 4 takeaways given a zero star score

  • 3 restaurants given a zero star score

  • 1 pub awarded zero stars

Wandsworth

  • 9 takeaways scored only zero

  • 6 restaurants scored zero

Westminster

  • 0 takeaways scored zero

  • 22 restaurants scored zero

  • 3 pubs scored zero stars


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