All 16 Woking borough food businesses rated in July 2026 scored the top mark of 5, from Pizza Express to the hospice kitchen. 30 venues still sit below a 3.

Food safety inspectors rated 16 food businesses across Woking borough in July, and every single one scored the top mark of 5, “very good”. (Food Standards Agency, food hygiene ratings register)

The figures come from the FSA’s public register, which records every rating given under the national Food Hygiene Rating Scheme. Ratings dated July 2026 for the Woking local authority area were retrieved from the register on 7 August; the council adds results as it publishes them, so a handful of late July inspections may still appear.

Bar chart of Woking borough food hygiene ratings dated July 2026: 16 rated 5 and none rated 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0
Chart by Woking Online.

Who was inspected

The clean sweep covers a real cross-section of the borough. In and around the town centre, Pizza Express on Goldsworth Road kept its 5 on 22 July, and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospice kitchen at Goldsworth Park was rated 5 on 23 July. The Nags Head Inn on Bagshot Road passed on 14 July, and the Happy Fish Bar on Old Woking High Street followed a day later.

Two settings caring for the borough’s youngest and oldest residents both took top marks: Toad Hall Nursery on Wishbone Way, rated 15 July, and Weystone Manor Care Home on Robin Lane, rated 21 July.

The villages feature strongly. In West Byfleet, Cafe Joen on the High Road and Pia Ristorante at Station Approach were both rated 5 on 29 July, as was Lorna’s Indian Kitchen in Horsell the same day. The Florist’s Coffee House at the Mayford Centre passed on 13 July, the Community Fridge at St Johns Cornerstone Hall on 22 July, and the importer Just Gourmet Foods in Byfleet on 3 July. A handful of small and mobile caterers, including Charlie’s Cookie Collective, Vanlla and Food Kulture, completed the month’s list.

The borough-wide picture is less tidy

July’s perfect month is not the whole picture. Of the 778 food establishments on Woking’s register, 496 currently hold a 5 and 137 hold a 4, but 55 sit on a 3, and 30 venues currently score below a 3: three hold a 2, 26 hold a 1, “major improvement necessary”, and one, Ahmed Cash And Carry on Walton Road, holds the lowest rating of 0, “urgent improvement necessary”, from an inspection in June 2025.

A low score does not mean a business has been closed. It means inspectors required improvements at the time of the visit; every business has a formal right of appeal, a right to reply published alongside the score, and a right to request a revisit for a fresh rating once the work is done. The dates matter too: several of the borough’s low scores are a year or more old, and a revisit may already be pending.

What it means for you

Before you order from somewhere new, the register is free to check: search any Woking business by name or postcode at ratings.food.gov.uk. With roughly one in 24 rated venues in the borough currently below a 3, it is worth the thirty seconds, and the inspection date on each entry tells you how current the score is.

For more practical local guides, see our pages on parking in Woking and Woking planning applications. For the state of the local jobs market, see our report on Woking’s June claimant count.

Sources

  • Food Standards Agency, food hygiene ratings register (all ratings dated July 2026 for the Woking local authority area, retrieved 7 August 2026)