Online ordering system for Kensington and Chelsea takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Kensington and Chelsea: your own ordering site and branded Android app (iOS coming soon), 0% commission, plans from £9 a month billed yearly, first month free with no card, month to month with no contract. The FSA register lists 88 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 978 restaurant and café premises in Kensington and Chelsea (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Kensington and Chelsea has

Kensington and Chelsea registers 2,008 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 88 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 978 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 33 councils the FSA lists in London, Kensington and Chelsea is number 32 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (978 against 88), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 6.0 premises per 10,000 residents (population 145,734, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 10.3 in London. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

77 takeaway premises in Kensington and Chelsea have a published rating. 80.5% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+18.5 points), and 0% are rated 0 to 2. In London as a whole, 56.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Kensington and Chelsea is above its region.

9 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 34 (39%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. With so many 5s, a 4 or below stands out to a customer scrolling through options, so show your rating and fix anything that holds it down. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

What stands out in Kensington and Chelsea

• Hammersmith and Fulham, 1 miles away, has 160 takeaway premises against 88 in Kensington and Chelsea, so Kensington and Chelsea customers have fewer local rivals.
• Kensington and Chelsea leans towards restaurants and cafés: 11.1 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• 10% of takeaway premises (9) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 92% of rated takeaways in SW7 hold a 5, against 73% in W11.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Kensington and Chelsea has takeaways in 11 postcode districts, and the three with the most are W11 (16), SW7 (13), W10 (13).

100% of Kensington and Chelsea's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.9 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

The kitchens behind the names in Kensington and Chelsea

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Kensington and Chelsea has 2 words that reach 10: 24 pizza, 10 burger.

Counts are premises, takeaway plus restaurant and café, whose registered trading name contains the word. A name without the word is not counted, so treat them as a floor.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, no cuisine word stands out in Kensington and Chelsea: the most common is pizza, with 25 of the 1,066 food premises (2.3%), against 4.6% across the UK, close to the national rate. Without one dominant style, customers search for a kitchen by name, so a page of your own that comes up under that name is worth more than a category listing. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 6 of 1,066 (0.6%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Kensington and Chelsea: the council's own page

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. We could not open Kensington and Chelsea's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

The general rules, the 11pm to 5am window and what to ask are in the late night refreshment licence guide. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately, so ordering hours can follow whatever your licence conditions say. This is general information, not legal advice.

Kensington and Chelsea and the areas around it

Main places in the Kensington and Chelsea council area include Kensington, Chelsea and Notting Hill.

Part of Greater London, with Camden, Southwark, Brent, Croydon, Newham and Lambeth.

Nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises (distance between centres):

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Burger, or online ordering for takeaways.

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Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0, pulled 13 November 2026. Takeaway/sandwich shop and restaurant/café/canteen business types.