Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
Delivery only place specialising in mac and cheese and hot dogs; I have zero interest in the latter but the former was pretty tasty. But very disappointed by garlic dough balls which were just dough with, like, melted garlic butter in a pot.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 24 Market Street
Can’t find a website
Struggled with this one. Brighton outpost of a Vietnamese chain, reasonably priced stuff. Pork spring rolls amazing (because stuffed with pork!) and summer rolls and noodles nice. But my spicy brisket pho was pretty poor – just like spicy oil and little flavour. Probably worth another go.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 12 Black Lion St
Excellent Thai takeaway, coming in Chinese takeout style boxes with plenty of meat, and well priced.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 40 St George’s Road
Deliveroo Editions of what is a chain of gyros/souvlaki places. Interestingly their own locations seem to charge quite a bit less, but for me these were just fine – a little dry – and way too expensive for the size.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: Unit 1, Saxon Works, Olive Road
Tough one this. Pros: the space is light and airy, the food was generally very tasty (especially calamari). Cons: kitchen screwed up the order so there was a big delay (always hard to decide how to rate that!) and more importantly, it’s like they don’t know what they want to be. Meaning there’s a trendy cocktail bar thing in the middle and they play loud music; not cool enough to be a bar and not relaxed enough to be a restaurant.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 124 Church Road
Highly rated London outfit, and maybe it loses something in the delivery but I thought it was just ok really. Had two lots of wingz, sticky BBQ and buffalo, BBQ pretty nice but buffalo underwhelming; they have a sugarcane “bone” which is like the dumbest thing I ever heard of – why would you add that?!?! Dirty fries were cinnamony but light on everything else. Would be “ok” but seriously expensive, two wingz are £6, double that and another £6 for a meal, it’s crazy.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: 52-54 Grand Parade
Deliveroo’d this and struggled a bit with the verdict, because it’s quite different from your average Indian. More street food-y so hard to compare. Pakora and samosas lovely, curries hit and miss (amazing aubergine thing but mutter paneer pretty bland – but a bit of salt and you’re cooking with gas), naan bread light on flavour for something called garlic and coriander, but mixed poppadom bites pretty great. A few further points off for just a pretty small menu (for returning value) and expensive for Indian. But, ultimately, it was a really good meal.
Verdict: Aweomse
Location: 60 Ship Street
Deliveroo Editions doing burgers and dirty fries, all vegan. My feeling is that it delivers a good approximation of a crappy burger experience.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: Unit 1 Saxon Works, Olive Road
Can’t find a website
As the name implies, kebab/general fried place on Deliveroo. Fast and reasonable, but food quality very standard frozen stuff.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 61 West Street
Can’t find a website
Chinese takeaway we’d heard good things about, but the food was pretty hit and miss.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: 121 Church Road