Cafe Masala

187-189 The Broadway, Essex, SS1 3EX
Indian · Bangladeshi

Eat Score75.3Our measure, out of 100. How it works
Just Eat rating5/5The stars Just Eat shows. × 20 = 100
Rating gap24.7Points between Just Eat’s 100 and our 75.3. About the gap

How the 52 counted ratings split

86% 4–5★12% 1–2★5★ 75% (39)4★ 12% (6)3★ 2% (1)2★ 6% (3)1★ 6% (3)

Just Eat’s five rating buckets, with the number of ratings in each. Half-star ratings fall into a bucket.

5/5Food hygiene, inspected Mar 2026
52Ratings counted
883Total ratings

Food hygiene rating from the Food Standards Agency or Food Standards Scotland, as shown on Just Eat.

Just Eat gives Cafe Masala in Essex a rating of 5 out of 5, from 52 of its 883 ratings (6%); Just Eat says its rating uses the previous 12 months. Of those counted, 86% are in the 4–5 star buckets and 12% in the 1–2 star buckets. Its Eat Score, yeet.food's independent measure, is 75.3 out of 100. It ranks 19th of 128 rated takeaways in SS1 and 141st of 830 in Southend-on-Sea (SS).

Ratings snapshot: . These are historical ratings, not a live assessment.

Quality & delivery

RatingsGoodNeutralPoor
Quality
52 ratings
88.5%3.8%7.7%
Delivery
52 ratings
82.7%5.8%11.5%

Good means 4–5 stars for quality, or “Amazing” delivery. Component labels inferred from Just Eat’s data.

What these numbers mean

The counted sample is the sum of Just Eat’s five rating buckets. Its published explanation describes a median score from the previous 12 months. The broader total includes ratings outside this sample; these aggregates do not tell us why each rating was excluded. Buckets group half-star ratings, so the 4–5 bucket percentage is not an exact count of individual four- and five-star reviews.

12% fall in the 1–2 star buckets. Our “Many 1–2★ ratings” label means more than 15% fall in those buckets, with at least 20 counted ratings.

Its Eat Score is 75.3 out of 100. The Eat Score is our own measure, and higher is better: it gives counted ratings in band 4 90% credit and band 5 full credit, with a growing penalty as negative feedback becomes more common. The 1-star band carries slightly more weight than the 2-star band, and small samples are adjusted towards a fixed UK reference. It is not Just Eat’s rating.

How the Eat Score works · Just Eat’s ratings explanation