Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
Have been trying to find our pizza delivery place of choice and short version: this is it. Great margherita and “Louisiana” which is a meaty one, PLUS major points for quality cheesy garlic pizza bread. We had delivery but the actual cafe is nice too.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 77 Trafalgar Street
Dedicated place doing fries in a cone with an array of sauces. Funky little frontage with wooden shelves with holes for your fry cones, and really nice guys. Fries on their own would be superb, but they have all sorts of sauces and will give you loads to try. Garlic mayo, curry ketchup, sweet onion…look, it’s amazing.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 46 West Street
Bagelry right in Brighton Station. Lots of different kinds (although points off for no bacon and egg), I had a salt beef bagel with swiss cheese. Pro: clearly quality ingredients, especially the beef. Con: Quite expensive really – £5.50 for that, which seems a bit much.
Verdict: Ok
Location: Brighton Railway Station
Little cafe with savoury eats, coffee etc. Had none of these. Instead, was finally seduced by the cakes in the window which look amazing constantly. Peanut butter layer cake and red velvet cake. My stars. Extraordinary.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 97 Trafalgar Street
Part of the Ginger Man group, gastropub that I really wanted to love. Great building, lovely space, amazing appetisers (oysters and fried pig’s head), fantastic service….but our 700g sharing sirloin steak was just pretty damn poor for the money. Dessert of chocolate ganache also pretty average.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 3 Hove Street
Didn’t eat here, but it’s a lovely place inside like a fancy West Hampstead type place, the food looked lovely and the garden is actually a garden. Winner.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 48 Hove Street
The Speakeasy above The Wick is a perfectly nice cocktail bar with a decent amount of space and pretty ok cocktails, but it’s sure as hell not a speakeasy, so massive points off.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 63 Western Road
Another on the Time Out list, and it’s pretty crazy. It’s a small bar when you walk in, with a thick smell of incense, but basically it’s just super quirky. Cool carved booths, a pulpit in the back and a little cushioned hideaway too. Really tasty cocktail had here; insane quantity of craft beers also.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 10 Western Road
I’d heard about this place before but hadn’t been inspired by what I read – until I walked past and saw people eating breakfast! So we tried it, and: wow. They’ve got a garden out back to eat in, and we had a breakfast wrap (cheesy eggs!) and a vegetarian “bunny chow” (South African thing – hollowed out bread loaf full of breakfast goodness) and they were both amazing. Really top shelf food, friendly staff, great environment, and you really don’t pay much for all that either.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 30 York Place
Cafe/resto type place specialising in chicken. They do brunch as well which looks great, but I had fried chicken and waffles and it was TASTY. Just make sure you want to eat some chicken. Or some brunch.
Verdict: Awesome
Location 87-88 Trafalgar Street