Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Brighton and Hove

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 13 November 2026. It covers the Brighton and Hove council area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Brighton and Hove page.

In short: Brighton and Hove has 21 premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name on the FSA register, most in BN1 and BN3. A Brighton and Hove Indian restaurant can run its own ordering page with Chefzi: £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), 0% commission ever, first month free with no card.

The register lists 21 premises in Brighton and Hove with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 11 of them registered as takeaways and 10 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in BN1 (10), BN3 (5), BN2 (4), BN41 (2). That is 1.7% of the area's 1,270 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.2% across the UK, so the word is less common here than in the UK as a whole.

The word is less common here than nationally, so a curry kitchen in Brighton and Hove may face fewer lookalikes on a delivery app than one in a bigger market, but customers still compare you with every other takeaway on the screen. Your own ordering page is the one place where no rival is listed beside you.

What the FSA register shows for Brighton and Hove Indian and Pakistani names

The method is a name-keyword count, not a census: we count premises whose registered name has one of the words, which misses Indian and Pakistani restaurants trading under other names and includes anything that merely uses the word. The scope is takeaway and sandwich shop plus restaurant, café and canteen premises, and nothing here names a business.

Of the 20 with a numeric rating, 15 (75%) are rated 5 and 1 (5%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 79.9% of all rated takeaways in Brighton and Hove that hold a 5. A further 1 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Which postcode districts have the most

BN1 holds the most, 10 of the 21 (48%), and the premises sit across 4 postcode districts in all. Where several curry-named kitchens share a district, a short delivery time and a clear minimum order do more to win a repeat customer than a deeper menu.

How Brighton and Hove compares with the council areas next to it

The five nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises, with the same name-keyword count:

Brighton and Hove has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Brighton and Hove in the wider picture

Brighton and Hove has 255 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,015 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 78 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 64 in South East. Across all rated takeaways in Brighton and Hove, 79.9% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 2.1% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Brighton and Hove is part of East Sussex, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Brighton and Hove Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Set against population, Brighton and Hove has 0.74 Indian and Pakistani-named premises for every 10,000 residents, close to the UK figure of 0.64 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 284,170). On the register, only 48 council areas have more of these names than Brighton and Hove; within the South East it ranks 4th of 64.

Across the area 1.7% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In BN41 that rises to 6%, while in BN2 it is 1%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 24% inspected within a year (21 dated records) against 27% overall, with a median of 20 months since inspection against 17.

Population figures are ONS mid-2025 estimates; every other figure comes from the same FSA register pull as the tables above. Small samples move a lot from one inspection to the next, so read the shares as a guide to where the pattern is, not as a verdict on any business.

What this means for your online ordering

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in BN1 and BN3, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Brighton and Hove fits the spread.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.
• Sell the set meal as one item. A meal for two or a family feast can be one menu item with a required choice for each curry, rice and side.
• Take party and office orders in advance. The catering feature lets customers book big orders for a date and time, with the notice you set, in their own section of the menu.
• Put your link where customers already look. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).

Late-night hot food in Brighton and Hove: what to check

Between 11pm and 5am, supplying hot food or drink counts as late night refreshment under the Licensing Act 2003, and the local council issues the licence. Start from the council's licensing section: Brighton and Hove council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

The general rules for England and Wales are in our late night refreshment licence guide. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately, so your ordering hours can follow whatever your licence conditions say. This is general information, not legal advice.

How to start

1. Put your menu into Chefzi on a short call with us. We set it up with you and aim to have you live in 24 to 48 hours.
2. Set required choices for the way your customers order, and set your delivery zones by postcode district or radius.
3. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. With their permission, tell regulars about the page by SMS or email (how, Plus and Pro).

For more, see the Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Brighton and Hove location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Brighton and Hove Indian restaurant

These are assumed numbers, not Brighton and Hove data: with no published average order value for Brighton and Hove Indian and Pakistani restaurants, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 25 orders a week. Use your own.

Move 25 weekly orders (roughly 108 a month at £25, £2,700 of sales) from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link and the maths is this. On Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details), 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT, you would pay £454 at 14% (£378 plus £76 VAT) or £972 at 30% (£810 plus £162 VAT).

On Chefzi those 108 orders cost no commission. The flat Plus plan, which includes card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location excluding VAT, however busy the month is. Payment-provider card fees are left out of both sides, and any orders that stay on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats still pay their commission.

What Chefzi does not do

• Delivery: you run your own drivers. Chefzi has no courier integrations.
• No kiosk and no CRM.
• Pre-order lead time is one setting per location, not per dish.
• Marketplace orders still pay the marketplace's commission. Chefzi helps you move regulars across; it does not change what Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats charge.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Brighton and Hove, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Brighton and Hove council licensing page linked above: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/about-website/privacy-and-data/service-privacy-notices/new-premises-licence-application-privacy-notice (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.