In the old Patty & Bun place comes Burger & Beyond, apparently a chain. Short version: very good. Delicious burgers, great gravy fries, and one of the best milkshakes ever. You pay for it a bit, mind!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 56 Ship Street
Pommy’s Pizza
Tough one this. There’s a pizza renaissance happening in Brighton right now and Pommy’s is one leading the charge. There is no argument that a slice of Pommy’s pizza is amazing – pepperoni with freshly shaved parmesan and hot honey, crispy crust: genuinely incredible. I still haven’t worked out if I want to go back though because a) that slice was £4.50 and b) the actual place is brutalist, not somewhere to hang out and have a nice meal. Still, will probably try at least another slice!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 12 Imperial Arcade
Amici
The restaurant is pleasant and the service friendly, but easily the worst Italian food I’ve been served – and such a nasty surprise when there are so many wonderful and reliable Italians in our city. Soggy pizza and totally weird flavoured tomato penne. They took the latter off as I mentioned it, but won’t ever go back.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: 72 Blatchington Road
The Farm Tavern
A gothy Eastern European food pub – as you do. We really enjoyed it, reasonable prices, lovely staff, and very enjoyable food – had a great schnitzel and wedges with beer cheese and sliced sausage.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 13 Farm Road
Babble
A new and substantial entry in the small category of true beachfront in Brighton. Interesting shape means LOADS of tables where you can be looking out over the sea, which is great. Pretty nice food too, with generous portions, and a good selection of booze.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: The Beach, Kingsway
The Meeting Place Kitchen
The Meeting Place has been around since we moved here (I think?), to start with a shack on the beach for coffees and light bites – didn’t warrant a review. But they’ve totally redone, rebuilt and expanded it to join the very small list of true beachfront restaurants in Brighton. We got lucky with a table and the food was good – generous portions, very reasonable pricing for the location (some of a bit cold with uneven serving times though). Genuinely felt like being on holiday and will be back.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: Kings Road
Twisted Lemon
Cool little cocktail bar – had one that was set on fire so that’s fun. Priced very reasonably for cocktails, especially with a good happy hour. But service very slow, and I don’t think just because of the time to make cocktails…but that’s just what you have to deal with at cocktail bars!
Verdict: Awesome (if you must go for cocktails)
Location: 41 Middle Street
Pelmeni Handmade
Lovely little dumpling/pierogi type cafe. We had a plate of potato dumplings, obviously carefully made, and extremely delicious. As a bonus, very reasonable for what you get!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 8 Preston Road
Curio
A fairly tiny but cute cafe; only had a takeaway honey toast thing. But moved to write a post about it as it was frankly incredible, so I expect the rest will be grand too!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 1 Clyde Road
The Walrus
Went here to the private room for a networking drinks. I really like the decor, fun big pub. Food looked nice but didn’t have any myself!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 10 Ship Street