List of Restaurants in the UK

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 158,786 restaurants in the UK, one in every 56 UK companies. Most of them are small: two in three have one to four people, and only 2,853 firms employ 50 people or more. Three in five of all restaurants are based in London, South East, North West, East of England and Scotland. Below you find the largest restaurants in the UK, the regions where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our UK company database or through the Companies House API.

158,786 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies158,7861 in56 UK companiesRegions12Largest regionLondon 39,816Sole traders10%Employees1-4 (68%)Revenue$100-500K (56%)Email33%Phone49%Website51%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Whitbread PLC	Unitedkingdom	Dunstable	Whitbread Court	Central Bedfordshire	LU5 5XE	whitbread.*****	1742	$4,024,523,273	32,386	Corporation	2929	04120344
2	Mitchells & Butlers Retail LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Lodge Hill	27 Fleet Street	Birmingham, West Midlands	B3 1JP	mbplc.*****	1898	$2,672,229,780	35,186	Corporation	1393	00024542
3	Mcdonald's Restaurants LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Friern Barnet	11 High Road	London	N2 8AW	mcdonalds.*****	1974	$2,309,497,295	795,718	Corporation	1244	01002769
4	Select Service Partner UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Hampstead	32 Jamestown Road	London	NW1 7HW	N/A	1987	$1,167,673,990	7,033	Corporation	603	05687183
5	Starbucks Coffee Company (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Chiswick	Building 7 Chiswick Park	London	W4 5YG	starbucks.*****	1994	$750,760,257	5,352	Corporation	16236	02959325
6	Wagamama LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Dulwich	5-7 Marshalsea Road	London	SE1 1EP	wagamama.*****	1992	$617,613,403	8,621	Corporation	53	02605751
7	Loungers LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Bristol	26 Baldwin Street	City of Bristol	BS1 1SE	loungers.*****	2002	$513,238,962	9,557	Corporation	21	11910770
8	Nero Holdings LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Holborn	9-15,neal Street	London	WC2H 9QL	caffenero.*****	1996	$490,887,769	5,508	Corporation	450	03288178
9	Costa Express LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Merton	2a Morden Road	London	SW19 3BH	costa.*****	1996	$466,302,879	3	Corporation	2367	03145187
10	Pizzaexpress (restaurants) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Uxbridge	Building 01 Arc Uxbridge	London	UB8 1DH	N/A	1965	$459,328,093	7,845	Corporation	326	02805490
11	Bettys & Taylors Group LTD	Unitedkingdom	Greygarth	1 Parliament Street	North Yorkshire	HG1 2QU	bettys.*****	1951	$436,442,111	1,613	Corporation	17	00500829
12	Troia (UK) Restaurants LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Holborn	26-28 Conway Street	London	W1T 6BQ	N/A	2013	$411,297,483	5,544	Corporation	10	08504201
13	Spirit Pub Company (managed) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Bury Saint Edmunds	Westgate Brewery	Suffolk	IP33 1QT	N/A	2004	$346,305,369	3	Corporation	645	05269240
14	Clokken LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Saint Johns	Orion Gate	Surrey	GU22 7NJ	N/A	2023	$293,555,696	7,246	Corporation	2559	15217100
15	Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation	Unitedkingdom	Holborn-strand-covent Garden	Royal Opera House	London	WC2E 9DD	roh.*****	1974	$242,891,807	1,213	Corporation	3	00480523
16	Thursdays (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Birmingham	C/o Teneo Financial Advisory Ltd	Birmingham, West Midlands	B4 6AT	N/A	2006	$235,487,760	3,121	Corporation	N/A	06034603
17	Capital Arches Group LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Holborn-strand-covent Garden	8-10, Oxford Street	London	W1D 1AW	find-and-update.*****	2016	$231,245,244	3,643	Corporation	1244	10139149
18	Cote Restaurant Group LTD	Unitedkingdom	Kensington	47c Kensington Court	London	W8 5DA	cote.*****	2020	$200,726,068	2,745	Corporation	7	12873009
19	Roadchef Motorways LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Cannock	Norton Canes M S A Bettys Lane	Staffordshire	WS11 9UX	roadchef.*****	1972	$190,739,237	2,212	Corporation	66	01123082
20	East Africa Coffee CO. Llp	Unitedkingdom	Monument-aldgate-fenchurch Street-tower Hill	Office 7	London	EC4M 7JN	N/A	2014	$189,315,000	987	Partnership of unknown type	2	OC397061
21	Fieldrose LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Broomhall	Qfm House	Sheffield, South Yorkshire	S9 3YE	find-and-update.*****	1987	$178,803,011	2,478	Corporation	14	02729271
22	Fortress Operations LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Kingswinford	32 High Street	Dudley, West Midlands	DY6 0HB	fortressoperations.*****	2016	$174,947,019	2,850	Corporation	N/A	10443180
23	Dishoom LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Holborn-strand-covent Garden	22 Kingly Street	London	W1B 5QP	dishoom.*****	2007	$173,764,975	1,990	Corporation	7	06226963
24	Gordon Ramsay Restaurants LTD	Unitedkingdom	Balham	539-547 Wandsworth Road	London	SW8 3JD	gordonramsayrestaurants.*****	2010	$169,747,691	1,168	Corporation	33	07360142
25	Tesco Family Dining LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Cheshunt	Tesco House Delamare Road	Hertfordshire	EN8 9SL	N/A	2013	$163,052,233	1,723	Corporation	4675	08514605

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Where in the UK?

London has the most restaurants in the UK (39,816), ahead of South East (19,325), North West (16,254), East of England (12,543) and Scotland (12,449). Together the five hold three in five of them. Relative to their size, Scotland, London and North East have the most: 1.1 to 1.2 times the national share.

Regions by number of firms

12 UK regions have at least one restaurant; 12 have ten or more; 0 have exactly one. Click a region to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Restaurants per 100 companies, in regions with at least 100 of them. The national share is 1.80. Scotland has 1.2 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

Restaurants in London

London has 39,816 restaurants, 2.0% of all 1,945,804 London companies and 14% above the national share. Three in four London firms have fewer than five people; 775 have 50 or more. 4,012 new firms were entered in 2026, 666 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 28,355 · 73%
5-9: 5,223 · 13%
10-19: 2,876 · 7%
20-49: 1,567 · 4%
50+: 775 · 2%

Legal form

Sole traders: 2,668 · 7%
Partnerships: 404 · 1%
Ltd and PLC: 27,277 · 69%
Other or none: 9,467 · 24%

Of the UK total: 25.1%
Of all London companies: 2.0%
Against the national share: 1.1×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 4,012
Entered 2025: 6,091
Of UK's 2026 entries: 27.8%

Old

Before 1990: 666 · 2%
1990 or later: 39,150 · 98%
Of UK's pre-1990 firms: 20.5%

Reachable

Email: 10,529 · 26%
Phone: 17,055 · 43%
Website: 17,489 · 44%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 15,080 · 39%
$100K-$500K: 19,341 · 50%
$500K-$1M: 2,202 · 6%
$1M and more: 1,894 · 5%

Largest

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27,845
37,033
45,508
55,352

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Restaurants in the UK

158,786

21 October 2026

There are 158,786 restaurants in the UK in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 56 UK companies. About 69 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (14,409 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 150,550 95%
Head offices: 1,544
Branch offices: 6,692

Classification

Our platform filter is the national code 56101, 56102.

93,667 of the 158,786 are Ltd and PLC (59%); 15,417 are sole traders. They come from Companies House and our UK register data, through the Companies House API.

Largest restaurants in the UK

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in London, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Mitchells & Butlers Retail is the largest restaurant in the UK by headcount. 2,853 firms employ 50 people or more; 1,749 employ 100 or more.

1Birmingham35,186 staff
2London8,621 staff
3London7,845 staff
4Surrey7,246 staff
5London7,033 staff
6London5,508 staff
7London5,352 staff
8London3,643 staff
9Warwickshire3,131 staff
10Birmingham3,121 staff

By employee size · 153,948 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	104,510	68%
5-9	26,105	17%
10-19	13,978	9%
20-49	6,502	4%
50-99	1,104	0.7%
100-199	313	0.2%
200-499	177	0.1%
500-999	1,183	0.8%
1,000+	76	<0.1%

68% have 1 to 4 people; 6,502 have 20 to 49; 2,853 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	54,016	36%
$100K-$500K	84,453	56%
$500K-$1M	8,404	6%
$1M-$5M	4,490	3%
$5M-$10M	281	0.2%
$10M-$50M	317	0.2%
$50M-$100M	76	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	38	<0.1%
$500M+	7	<0.1%

56% between $100,000 and $500,000; 4,490 between $1M and $5M; 719 above $5M.

Firm sizes in the UK

Of the 153,948 UK restaurants with a known headcount, 104,510 (68%) have one to four people, 26,105 have five to nine, 20,480 have ten to 49 and 2,853 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (84,453, 56%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all UK companies

Micro under 10130,615 85%
Small 10 to 4920,480 13%
Medium 50 to 2491,594 1%
Large 250+1,259 0.8%

Grey line: the share among all UK companies (93% have under ten staff).

719

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 438 more than $10 million.

14,409

firms were entered in 2026.

Newcomers in the UK in 2026

14,409 restaurants were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, about 69 a working day, after 22,177 in 2025. The UK as a whole saw 534,395 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 2.7% of the inflow.

8,1152022
14,0142023
15,9032024
22,1772025
14,4092026 so far

11,882 of this year's 14,409 are Ltd and PLC.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1London126 staff
2Liverpool35 staff
3Lisburn and Castlereagh21 staff
4Kent20 staff
5Caerphilly18 staff

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 696 restaurants for every one of the wine bars in the UK.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Restaurants	158,786	51%	66%
Food Delivery	128,469	51%	83%
Pubs	72,322	59%	38%
Hotels	34,572	57%	51%
Greengrocer Shops	4,473	34%	79%
Wine Bars	228	81%	50%

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How reachable are they?

Restaurants are easier to reach than the average UK company: 49% list a phone number and 51% a website.

Email51,820 33%
Phone78,072 49%
Website81,311 51%

Grey line: all UK companies (email 15%, phone 30%, website 30%).

The full list with these fields is in our UK company database.

Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

One in ten UK restaurants work as sole traders, against 7% of all UK companies. Three in five are Ltd and PLC.

Sole traders15,41710%
Partnerships (partnerships and LLPs)2,9292%
Ltd and PLC93,66759%
No form on record or other46,77329%

Single-site: 95%
Head offices: 1,544
Branches: 6,692

All UK companies: 7% sole traders, 3% partnerships, 62% Ltd and PLC.

The oldest firms in the UK

Our data holds 17 UK restaurants from before 1900, 150 from before 1950 and 3,250 from before 1990.

1830
1. Liverpool
1850
1. North Somerset
1852
1. Surrey
1854
1. Newry
1878
1. East Dunbartonshire
1878
1. Dundee City

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3,250

UK restaurants date from before 1990

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were entered in 1990

Frequently asked questions

How many restaurants are there in the UK?

There are 158,786 restaurants in the UK in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 56 UK companies.

Which is the largest restaurant in the UK?

Mitchells & Butlers Retail in Birmingham, with 35,186 staff. By revenue Whitbread in Central Bedfordshire leads with $4.0 billion a year.

Which UK region has the most restaurants?

London, with 39,816, ahead of South East (19,325), North West (16,254), East of England (12,543) and Scotland (12,449). Relative to its size, Scotland has the most: 1.2 times the national share.

How many restaurants are there in London?

39,816, which is 2.0% of all 1,945,804 London companies and 14% above the national share.

How big is a typical restaurant?

Small. 68% of the 153,948 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 2,853 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are UK restaurants sole traders or companies?

One in ten (15,417) are sole traders, 2% are partnerships and 59% (93,667) are Ltd and PLC.

How many restaurants started in 2026?

14,409 were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, after 22,177 in 2025. 11,882 of them are Ltd and PLC.

What is the oldest restaurant in the UK?

Great Yarmouth Port Company in Liverpool, 1830, followed by Captains Cabin Bar & Restaurant in North Somerset (1850) and Jai Ho Restaurant in Surrey (1852). 17 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers restaurants?

Our platform filters them on the national code 56101 and 56102.

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 158,786 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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