So…wow. Straight up I’d say easily best pizza ever, at a really great price. Nice kids deal, I loved my double pepperoni and hot honey. Just amazing.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 35 Ship Street
Category: Restaurant
Anakuma
Sister restaurant to the excellent Halisco and very close by, doing bao buns and small plates with cocktails. Cocktails to be fair were very good – a fantastic thyme infused dirty martini and a Hibiscus Whiskus (prosecco and ginger and gin). Food a little mixed. Very nice corn ribs with miso butter, spam fritters and gochujang ketchup also delicious. Korean fried chicken a let down – nice, but really more like a general tasty chicken dish than fried chicken. Bao buns pretty ok but meat chewy. Dessert super amazing – deep fried pistachio bao bun with gochujang caramel which really works. As is often the case with these, if it wasn’t Brighton I’d probably be more keen, but we are awash with this sort of food, so my verdict is based on: I had a nice time, but not bothered about going back.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 50 Preston Street
Can’t find a website
Otello
A lovely, classic type Italian with a broad range of pizza/pasta at reasonable prices – massive servings!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 122 Church Road
Wabi Sabi
Fantastic Japanese, lovingly fitted out, great service and very reasonable prices – I thought gosh, £9/£10 for sushi rolls was a lot but then that’s 8 pieces, so very good value. Had great pumpkin korokke and chicken katsu rolls, fantastic tempura and really interesting chilli salmon sashimi.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 121 Church Road
Permit Room
Dishoom spinoff with a nice warm vibe inside. Really can’t fault it, the mutter paneer was great, the cheese naan incredible, and all the picky bits (especially crispy spinach chaat) were just amazing. And a really good price for top shelf eating.
Verdict: Amazing
Location: 32 East Street
Goemon Ramen Bar
Been meaning to go for an age to the one in Preston Street but just had lunch here. Assuming you like ramen it’s very good although not cheap; wouldn’t recommend the seaweed chips unless you really like seaweed (dumb as that sounds). Nice people and a cute little space.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 50 Gardner Street
Can’t find a website
Namo Eat @ The Eagle
I’d been into The Eagle a couple of times but this came to my attention food wise when it started winning awards (most recently 2024 best pub food apparently). The pub itself is perfectly nice but nothing dramatically special, but the Thai food from Namo does really deserve the awards, and at a great price. Spicy pork rice was amazing and everything was top notch.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 125 Gloucester Road
Mogumogu
New little Japanese cafe in the ashes of Tiger Eats Carrot. When we entered, they said that everything is prepared fresh that day, and you could really notice it. Beautiful avocado tempura with home made chilli mayo, great katsu donburi bowl with home made sauce again…really good quality, takes a while as a result but worth it. Only open for lunch or very early tea (closes 5:30).
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 81 London Road
Can’t find a website
Food For Friends
One of the well known vegetarian and vegan restos of Brighton and surprised it’s taken me this long to get there. Big event with family so tried many dishes; lots of really cool stuff like crispy tofu and celeriac Wellington. Unfortunately my main was probably the weakest, hasselback roast squash which was…just some squash, with too much roasted red pepper. Still, I rate the place overall.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 17-18 Prince Albert Street
Bohemia
Passed by many times and have had a conventional drink in here once, but this time went for cocktails. And they were super amazing, proper showman style stuff and well worth a go – nice table service too. Keen to try the resto now!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 54-55 Meeting House Lane