1,403 new restaurant and cafe companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

18,439 over the last twelve months, and 93,936 restaurant and cafe companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 51 a day, somewhere in the country. 1,446 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 332 this week (provisional).

Snapshot 1 September 2026, monthly, not live. The register total counts live companies only, and a company with codes in two trades sits in both. How the counts are made.

Restaurants & cafes · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
1,403
Down 17% on July 2026
Last 12 months
18,439
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 1,537 a month
Share of all new companies
3.6%
18,439 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes restaurant and cafe the number 9 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
1,446
332 in the last 7 days · Provisional: from the Companies House API feed, limited companies only, before the monthly register file.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 September 2026
Retail and food · The register

The 50 newest restaurant and cafe companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full restaurant and cafe list when that page exists, otherwise to the broader town page. Each company number links to its own Companies House record.

The 50 most recent of 17,990 restaurant and cafe companies registered across 1,177 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
A&V MELTED LTD Elgin 31 August 2026
AP FOOD SOLUTIONS LTD Salisbury 31 August 2026
BEGALI SWEETS AND SAVOURIES LTD Southall 31 August 2026
BN3 TRADING LTD Hove 31 August 2026
HANGRY BEAR BAKEHOUSE LIMITED Leeds 31 August 2026
KERNOW HOSPITALITY LTD Bodmin 31 August 2026
PINK GARLIC CREWE LIMITED Crewe 31 August 2026
REVVED LTD Craigavon 31 August 2026
ROLL A 7 LTD Gloucester 31 August 2026
THEJUICELABLDN LTD London 31 August 2026
DOGAR FLAMES LIMITED Pinner 30 August 2026
HAOSHENG FOOD LDN LTD Solihull 30 August 2026
KATTIKKA’S INDIAN LTD Liverpool 30 August 2026
KOVA READING LTD Reading 30 August 2026
LUS HOSPITALITY LTD Manchester 30 August 2026
MANDARA BY KISHKINDA LTD Wallasey 30 August 2026
MEHFIL E HYDERABAD LTD Thornton Heath 30 August 2026
THEMAISONHOUSE LIMITED Birkenhead 30 August 2026
AJOO.COO LTD Weymouth 29 August 2026
ANANTA HOSPITALITY VENTURES LTD Wembley 29 August 2026
GRAND EATERY LTD London 29 August 2026
GRILAGO ILFORD LTD Barking 29 August 2026
LAKEVIEW CAFE LTD Wallington 29 August 2026
MALDON CAFE LTD Maldon 29 August 2026
POJAN LTD Edinburgh 29 August 2026
SOMEWHERE TO SIT LTD Tipton 29 August 2026
THREE MERSEY CHEF LTD Liverpool 29 August 2026
1876TROPIXX LTD Derby 28 August 2026
84 PHO LTD Harrogate 28 August 2026
ALCOVA MAISON LTD Rochdale 28 August 2026
AMANI EXPERIENCE LTD Epsom 28 August 2026
AMICI DELLA CAMPANIA LTD Ross on Wye 28 August 2026
ANKA CHELSEA LTD Enfield 28 August 2026
B&D CAFE LTD Ruislip 28 August 2026
BELL HOSPITALITY & LEISURE LIMITED Haverfordwest 28 August 2026
BENGAL DINING LOUNGE LTD York 28 August 2026
BEST AFGHAN RESTAURANT LTD London 28 August 2026
BITE&BREW KEIGHLEY LTD Keighley 28 August 2026
BOWL & BREW LTD London 28 August 2026
BTS CATERING LTD Gosport 28 August 2026
BUILDING INSPIRING SKILLS THROUGH REAL-WORLD OPPORTUNITIES 'BISTRO' C.I.C. Market Rasen 28 August 2026
CAFE COCOBIT LIMITED Liverpool 28 August 2026
CANALSIDE VENTURES (BRISTOL) LTD Dorking 28 August 2026
CLUCK HOUSE (SHEFF) LTD Bradford 28 August 2026
CRESCENT BRANDS LTD Glasgow 28 August 2026
CUB VENTURES LTD Cramlington 28 August 2026
DAHIYA AND DAHIYA LTD Edinburgh 28 August 2026
DAILY KITCHEN LTD London 28 August 2026
DILNAZ INDIAN LIMITED Leyland 28 August 2026
EL BIAR LTD London 28 August 2026

Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.

Retail and food · Twelve months

October was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of restaurant and cafe companies across the UK. The busiest month was October on 1,755. The quietest was December on 1,127.

New restaurant and cafe companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 18,439 in total

Previous months August 2026

Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year in almost every trade, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.

2015 to 2026

How far back it goes.

Restaurants & cafes companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New restaurant and cafe companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 12,556 New restaurant and cafe companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 11,593 Up 8% year on year
2025, the last full year 17,476 Against 1,915 in 2015

Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. The long view of UK company formation works through it in full, across all 39 trades.

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new restaurant and cafe companies: 100 of them, covering 61% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New restaurant and cafe company registrations by town. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to London, the largest. The mark and the bar carry the retail and food family colour.
Town Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 231 3,079
Birmingham 39 533
Glasgow 38 419
Manchester 28 406
Liverpool 14 258
Edinburgh 19 237
Leeds 15 217
Leicester 20 217
Sheffield 11 211
Bristol 14 208
Ilford 15 167
Nottingham 7 163
Harrow 13 142
Newcastle upon Tyne 12 140
Cardiff 7 133
Coventry 7 128
Bradford 13 123
Southampton 6 114
Luton 10 97
Bournemouth 5 95
Derby 9 93
Belfast 6 91
Bolton 9 91
Croydon 7 91
Romford 8 91
Northampton 8 87
Milton Keynes 4 86
Brighton 5 79
Wembley 9 79
Doncaster 7 76
Swansea 8 76
Hull 9 75
Preston 7 74
Slough 5 73
Hounslow 5 72
Reading 6 69
Wolverhampton 3 67
Aberdeen 4 66
York 7 66
Oldham 2 65
Stoke-on-Trent 5 65
Huddersfield 4 61
Norwich 6 60
Swindon 3 59
Warrington 2 59
Peterborough 4 57
Walsall 4 57
Enfield 6 56
Sunderland 2 55
Blackpool 8 54
Plymouth 1 53
Southall 7 53
Worcester 4 53
Watford 5 52
Cambridge 2 51
Gloucester 6 51
Stockport 7 51
Oxford 5 50
Newport 5 49
Barking 3 48
Colchester 3 48
Blackburn 6 46
Cheltenham 0 44
Middlesbrough 4 44
Ipswich 2 43
Halifax 4 40
Portsmouth 1 40
Rochdale 6 40
Worthing 5 40
Dundee 1 39
Uxbridge 2 39
Chester 7 38
Dagenham 1 38
Wirral 5 38
Bedford 4 37
Rotherham 2 37
Chelmsford 0 36
Edgware 1 36
High Wycombe 5 36
Crawley 1 35
Durham 3 35
Lincoln 2 35
Poole 3 35
Salford 2 35
Ashford 1 34
Aylesbury 4 34
Hove 3 34
Sutton Coldfield 2 34
Wigan 5 33
Hayes 4 32
Barnsley 3 31
Wakefield 3 31
Windsor 3 31
Bexleyheath 2 30
Burnley 3 30
Cheadle 2 30
Gravesend 0 30
Telford 1 30
Exeter 0 29
Eastbourne 0 28
United Kingdom, all towns 1,403 18,439

Towns come from the post town on the registered office address, except where that office is a formation agent: those companies are counted in the town established from their directors' other companies, or not counted at all. A town needs at least 30 new restaurant and cafe companies in twelve months before it gets a page, so the rows above do not add up to the national total. How towns are worked out.

The whole retail and food family · All 39 trades nationally · Browse every town

Once a month, every new restaurant and cafe company registered in the UK. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.