Where to Eat in Cheltenham: Restaurants, Pubs and Takeaways

Restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and takeaways in Cheltenham on a map, each with its official food hygiene rating and the date it was last inspected.

• 500 places on the map
• 428 rated five stars

Where to Eat in Cheltenham

Find somewhere to eat or drink in Cheltenham. The map and list below show 500 restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and takeaways, each with the hygiene rating the Food Standards Agency gave it at its last inspection. 428 of them hold the top rating of 5.

A hygiene rating tells you how well a venue handles food safely, from how the food is prepared and stored to how clean the premises are and how well the business is managed. It is not a review of the food, the service or the atmosphere, so use it alongside your own taste. Can’t decide? The random picker below chooses a well-rated place for you. Select a pin for a venue’s rating, when it was inspected and a link to its official record. The list doesn’t include opening hours, and venues change them often, so check a venue’s hours before you set out, especially for evenings, Sundays and bank holidays. If you’d rather see every rating band, our food hygiene ratings pages list all 1084 food businesses in Cheltenham, and five-star venues has just the top-rated ones.

Visiting for a festival or a weekend? Our visiting Cheltenham guide has more on where to stay and what to see, and things to do covers the rest.

Map of Restaurants, Pubs and Takeaways

Restaurants, Pubs and Takeaways

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I Need to Check Opening Hours?

• Yes. This page lists venues and their hygiene ratings but not when they are open, and restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways often change their hours, close for private events or shut on bank holidays and quiet days. Check the venue's own site, social media or phone line before you go.

What Do the Hygiene Ratings Mean?

• The Food Standards Agency scores food businesses from 0 to 5 at inspection: 5 is very good, 4 is good, 3 is generally satisfactory, 2 needs improvement, 1 needs major improvement and 0 needs urgent improvement. The rating covers food hygiene and safety, not the quality of the food or the service.

Which Venues Are Included?

• Every food business in Cheltenham that the Food Standards Agency classes as a restaurant, café or canteen, a pub, bar or nightclub, or a takeaway or sandwich shop. Hotels, schools, shops, caterers and mobile food businesses are not listed here, but you can find them on the food hygiene ratings pages.

Why Is My Favourite Place Missing or Awaiting Inspection?

• New businesses appear once they are registered with the council, and are marked as awaiting inspection until the council visits. A venue can also be classed under a different type, such as a hotel, in the Food Standards Agency's data.

Why Are Some Venues Not on the Map?

• A small number of venues have no location recorded by the Food Standards Agency. They are still in the table.

How Does the Random Pick Work?

• It chooses at random, in your browser, from the venues in the list below with a hygiene rating of 4 or 5, optionally limited to restaurants and cafés, pubs and bars, or takeaways. Nothing is sent anywhere, no venue pays to be included and it doesn't know about opening hours, so check them before you go.

How Often Is It Updated?

• The ratings are refreshed every couple of hours from the Food Standards Agency, so a new rating appears soon after the council publishes it.

About This Data

Data from Food Standards Agency's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last updated 14 October 2026, checked every two hours.