Food reports · 7 October 2026 snapshot
UK restaurants and cafés: price context
The ONS CPI restaurants and cafés series provides a national backdrop to menu-price discussions.
ONS series D7EW, CPI 11.1.1 restaurants and cafés. Index: 2015 = 100. Released 16 September 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This measures the UK. It is not an inflation estimate, Jersey or the Isle of Man. Different statistical baskets and base years prevent direct comparison of index levels.
| Month | Restaurants & cafés index |
|---|---|
| 2025-01 | 145.7 |
| 2025-02 | 147.5 |
| 2025-03 | 148.1 |
| 2025-04 | 149 |
| 2025-05 | 149.6 |
| 2025-06 | 150.2 |
| 2025-07 | 150.7 |
| 2025-08 | 151 |
| 2025-09 | 151.1 |
| 2025-10 | 152 |
| 2025-11 | 152.5 |
| 2025-12 | 153 |
| 2026-01 | 152.7 |
| 2026-02 | 154.2 |
| 2026-03 | 154.8 |
| 2026-04 | 155.6 |
| 2026-05 | 156.2 |
| 2026-06 | 156.8 |
| 2026-07 | 157.1 |
| 2026-08 | 157.9 |
The August 2026 index is 157.9; the August 2025 index is 151.0. That is a 4.6% annual increase in this UK series.