1,561 new restaurant and cafe companies
registered in the UK, October 2026.

1,561 were registered in October 2026, from the Companies House register; 17,999 over the last twelve months, and 94,137 restaurant and cafe companies are on the register today. The newest are named below. That is about 49 a day, somewhere in the country. 1,527 registered in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 362 in the last 7 days.

Which companies count: SIC codes starting 5610 (except 56103), such as 56101 licensed restaurants and 56102 unlicensed restaurants and cafes.

Monthly figures from the 1 November 2026 register file; the newest companies and the last 30 days update every night. 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 KingdomOctober 2026
New in October
1,561
Down 2% on September 2026
Last 12 months
17,999
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 1,500 a month
Share of all new companies
3.6%
17,999 of the 504,685 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 12 November 2026
1,527
362 in the last 7 days · From the Companies House daily feed, updated every night.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 November 2026

Five rows from this list, with an email found

Real companies from the file, picked from the ones we found an email for: most companies this new have none yet. The full file has every column and the whole address. We hide most of each email here, never in the file you buy.

CompanyTownRegisteredTradeEmail
LAHORIWALA LTDThornton Heath27 Jul 2026Restaurants & cafesk•••@lahoriwala.co.uk
THE BUTCHERS MATE LTDSwindon20 Jul 2026Restaurants & cafesi•••@thebutchersmate.co.uk
AH-SIGH-EE LIMITEDLondon30 Jul 2026Restaurants & cafesi•••@ahsighee.co.uk
TIHAMA LIMITEDLiverpool23 Jun 2026Restaurants & cafesi•••@tihama.co.uk
COOPERSKITCHEN LIMITEDSheffield20 Jul 2026Restaurants & cafesh•••@cooperskitchen.co.uk
Quick answer

Restaurant and cafe companies in the UK: the short answer.

How many restaurant and cafe companies are there in the UK?

94,137 live companies are on the Companies House register under a SIC code starting 5610 (except 56103), as of 1 November 2026. 17,999 were registered in the last twelve months. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register, so there are more restaurant and cafe businesses than this.

Registered since 1 November

660 new restaurant and cafe companies so far in November.

Newest first, updated every night.

The 20 most recent of 660 restaurant and cafe companies registered in the UK, 1 to 12 November 2026.
CompanyTownRegistered
PREMIERE REAL ESTATE LTDGlasgow12 November 2026
LANFINE LARDER LTDKilmarnock12 November 2026
STIRLINGSHIRE HOTEL COMPANY LTDDundee12 November 2026
BLEND.STIRLING LTDStirling12 November 2026
NORTHFIELD SKYE LIMITEDHelensburgh12 November 2026
GFY BELFAST LTDBelfast12 November 2026
GENOA CAFÉ (BALLYHACKAMORE) LIMITEDBelfast12 November 2026
FIVE CHEFS GLOBAL LTDPortsmouth12 November 2026
ROSHNA RESTAURANT LTDWorcester Park12 November 2026
THE GREEN WOK - VG LTDBrighton12 November 2026
LIQUID GOLD FOOD LTDBolton12 November 2026
TAKUYAKI LTDLondon12 November 2026
MOONLIGHT HMC RESTAURANT LTDSouthampton12 November 2026
VIP FOOD LTDLondon12 November 2026
GREEK AND FAMOUS ORIGINAL LTDCheadle12 November 2026
MEGO EXPRESS LTDLondon12 November 2026
AFRICBITES RESTAURANT LIMITEDSlough12 November 2026
SOUTHSEA FAST FOOD LIMITEDSouthsea12 November 2026
RESTORATION TRADING (ALCHEMIST) LIMITEDSt Albans12 November 2026
MARDANI UK LTDGreenford12 November 2026

And 640 more registered since 1 November.

Retail and food · The register

The 50 newest in the 1 November 2026 register file.

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 17,605 restaurant and cafe companies registered across 1,167 towns, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.
Company Town Registered
BOUCHNA CAFFE LIMITED London 31 October 2026
COULMAN ROAD CAFE LTD Doncaster 31 October 2026
JAMIGO LTD Crewe 31 October 2026
KOPI LONDON LIMITED London 31 October 2026
MISTY'S STORM AND TABBYTHA'S THUNDER LTD Redcar 31 October 2026
SHAM FOODS LIMITED London 31 October 2026
SKY BAR RESTAURANT LTD Croydon 31 October 2026
YAPDOT LTD West Wickham 31 October 2026
ZAHRA KITCHEN LTD London 31 October 2026
200 DUNYA LTD Peterborough 30 October 2026
ASMA GRILL AND STEAK LTD Wirral 30 October 2026
BANH MI BAY DINING LIMITED Bodmin 30 October 2026
BOATHOUSE TEWKESBURY LTD Tewkesbury 30 October 2026
BOMBAY122 LTD Newport 30 October 2026
BOWLZ FRESH LTD Glasgow 30 October 2026
CHEF PILLAI'S KITCHEN LTD Croydon 30 October 2026
CLAYCLIFFE PITSTOP CAFE LTD Wakefield 30 October 2026
CRISPYCACTUS LTD Brighton 30 October 2026
DALSTON TOWERS LIMITED London 30 October 2026
DESIRE INDIAN LOUNGE LIMITED Aylesbury 30 October 2026
DIAGO SPICE LTD Swansea 30 October 2026
DIORS DESSERTS LTD London 30 October 2026
DJ CAFE AND PRINT LIMITED Leicester 30 October 2026
DODI FOODS LTD Strabane 30 October 2026
DPSM LTD Manchester 30 October 2026
DRAGON SUSHI LIMITED Wallasey 30 October 2026
FARMER J (KINGS CROSS) LIMITED London 30 October 2026
FARMER J (RICHMOND) LIMITED London 30 October 2026
FERNANDO'S NOTTS LTD Nottingham 30 October 2026
FIRST STOP COFFEE LTD Manchester 30 October 2026
GOLDEN BEANS LTD London 30 October 2026
HAMZAA LTD Stoke-on-Trent 30 October 2026
HAZEL AND NUT COFFEE LTD Wallington 30 October 2026
KEERA INDIAN LTD Durham 30 October 2026
KHORASAN KEBAB HOUSE LIMITED Aberdeen 30 October 2026
KHYBER BOYZ KITCHEN LTD Nottingham 30 October 2026
KURDISH COFFEE SHOP LTD Coventry 30 October 2026
LAZZ CAFE LIMITED Bristol 30 October 2026
LOVE COMMON GROUND COFFEE LIMITED Grange Over Sands 30 October 2026
MACB CATERING LTD Dartford 30 October 2026
MILANO ORO LIMITED Camberley 30 October 2026
MYLAE LTD Glasgow 30 October 2026
NAHIDA SPICE LIMITED Stroud 30 October 2026
NIBLO LTD Maesteg 30 October 2026
OLM HOSPITALITY LIMITED London 30 October 2026
ORSINI TRATTORIA LTD Bude 30 October 2026
PARATHA STOP SHFIELD LTD Bolton 30 October 2026
POTTERIES GAMING LTD Stoke-on-Trent 30 October 2026
PUNJABI CAFE LTD Birmingham 30 October 2026
SAHTEIN PUTNEY LTD London 30 October 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

March was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of restaurant and cafe companies across the UK. The busiest month was March on 1,705. The quietest was December on 1,106.

New restaurant and cafe companies in the UK, by month

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 17,999 in total

Previous months October 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 October only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to October 2026 15,605 New restaurant and cafe companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 14,172 Up 10% year on year
2025, the last full year 16,566 Against 1,877 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.

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new restaurant and cafe companies: 107 of them, covering 62% 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 Oct 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 282 3,026
Birmingham 42 517
Manchester 48 404
Glasgow 24 395
Liverpool 22 244
Leicester 27 223
Edinburgh 15 220
Sheffield 11 210
Leeds 14 202
Bristol 19 200
Nottingham 14 166
Ilford 11 155
Newcastle upon Tyne 17 138
Bradford 15 126
Cardiff 9 123
Harrow 4 122
Coventry 11 121
Bournemouth 7 105
Southampton 7 105
Luton 11 94
Croydon 11 92
Derby 6 92
Northampton 11 86
Reading 4 82
Bolton 8 81
Preston 7 78
Brighton 6 77
Wembley 6 77
Belfast 6 76
Doncaster 5 76
Hounslow 9 76
Hull 11 76
Romford 8 76
York 8 75
Aberdeen 11 73
Swansea 4 73
Slough 6 72
Stoke-on-Trent 9 70
Wolverhampton 6 70
Milton Keynes 4 67
Norwich 7 65
Oldham 5 64
Swindon 8 63
Peterborough 5 61
Huddersfield 6 57
Walsall 5 57
Blackpool 1 56
Cambridge 2 55
Oxford 4 54
Watford 2 53
Barking 6 52
Enfield 5 51
Southall 3 51
Warrington 2 51
Stockport 6 50
Sunderland 7 49
Worcester 7 49
Newport 3 48
Cheltenham 5 46
Colchester 1 46
Middlesbrough 4 46
Gloucester 5 45
Plymouth 5 44
Blackburn 2 40
Chester 1 40
Hove 8 39
Portsmouth 5 39
Salford 3 38
Worthing 1 38
Aylesbury 4 37
Bedford 4 37
Dundee 1 37
Halifax 2 37
High Wycombe 3 37
Ipswich 3 37
Uxbridge 1 37
Lincoln 4 36
Wakefield 7 36
Bromley 4 35
Chelmsford 3 35
Dagenham 1 35
Hayes 5 35
Paisley 2 35
Sutton Coldfield 0 35
Wirral 3 35
Crawley 2 34
Poole 2 34
Rochdale 2 34
Barnsley 2 33
Exeter 5 33
Rotherham 0 33
Bath 5 32
Eastbourne 4 31
Telford 3 31
Altrincham 1 30
Burnley 2 30
Cheadle 3 30
Durham 2 30
Edgware 3 30
Gravesend 2 30
Great Yarmouth 4 30
Southport 2 30
Ashford 2 29
Solihull 2 29
Wigan 3 29
Bexleyheath 0 27
Windsor 3 26
United Kingdom, all towns 1,561 17,999

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, with a link to that month's list and its price. Nothing to buy unless you want the list, and one click to stop.