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swifttiger/uk-thai-restaurants

UK Thai Restaurant Database 🇹🇭🇬🇧 1,594 Thai restaurants across 253 UK cities and towns — with hygiene ratings, geolocation, and business classification. Sourced weekly from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) official registers — the same data used by Google, Deliveroo, and UK local authorities. 🔗 Live Site ThaiData UK — free business intelligence tools for Thai restaurant operators API — machine-readable JSON endpoint MCP Server — AI agents can query this data… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/swifttiger/uk-thai-restaurants.

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UK Thai Restaurant Database 🇹🇭🇬🇧

1,594 Thai restaurants across 253 UK cities and towns — with hygiene ratings, geolocation, and business classification.

Sourced weekly from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) official registers — the same data used by Google, Deliveroo, and UK local authorities.

🔗 Live Site

—ThaiData UK — free business intelligence tools for Thai restaurant operators
—API — machine-readable JSON endpoint
—MCP Server — AI agents can query this data directly via Model Context Protocol

📊 Dataset Contents

`restaurants` (1,594 records)

Field	Description
`id`	FSA FHRSID (unique identifier)
`name`	Registered business name
`type`	`restaurant` or `takeaway`
`city`	Mapped city/town name
`local_authority`	Original FSA Local Authority
`postcode`	UK postcode
`address`	Full address
`hygiene_rating`	0–5 (FHRS) or Pass/Improvement Required (FHIS Scotland)
`rating_date`	Last inspection date
`latitude` / `longitude`	Geocoded coordinates (postcodes.io)
`region`	UK region

`cities` (253 records)

Field	Description
`name`	City/town name
`population`	ONS 2024 mid-year estimate
`total_thai_businesses`	Total FSA-registered Thai businesses
`restaurants`	Dine-in restaurants
`takeaways`	Takeaway-only businesses
`per_100k`	Thai restaurants per 100,000 population
`avg_hygiene_rating`	Mean hygiene rating

🏛️ Sources & Methodology

—Restaurant counts & ratings: FSA FHRS + FHIS (Scotland) — queried weekly via official API
—Population data: ONS 2024 mid-year estimates
—Geocoding: postcodes.io (derived from Ordnance Survey OpenData)
—Market size: HMRC business counts + UKHospitality industry reports
—Last updated: 3 June 2026 · Refreshed every Monday 9am UTC

⚠️ Known Limitations

—Some Thai restaurants operate under names not containing "Thai" — we search for 11 major chains by name, but independents with non-Thai names may be missed
—Scottish ratings use Pass/Improvement Required scheme (mapped to 3/1 for numeric comparison)
—City boundaries mapped from Local Authority areas — rural restaurants may be attributed to nearest major town
—~4% of postcodes could not be geocoded (very new or unusual postcodes)

📜 Citation

@misc{thaidata_uk_2026,
  title={UK Thai Restaurant Database},
  author={ThaiData UK},
  year={2026},
  url={https://thaidata.uk},
  note={Data sourced from Food Standards Agency FHRS/FHIS. Updated weekly.}
}

📄 License

This dataset is published under the Open Database License (ODbL). You are free to share, create, and adapt this database as long as you attribute ThaiData UK and share-alike. The underlying FSA data is Open Government Licence v3.0.