Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
Bar-ish place, best feature being massive garden out back with tables and padded chairs. Had rather nice burgers here, although limited beer selection stops it from smashing it. Awesome gin fizz-type cocktail had, one of the best ever.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 101 St James’s Street
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Little cafe with a great outdoor area for nice weather; had a tasty bacon and egg sandwich and tomato/avocado toast. Delicious with friendly staff; lunch menu looks great too.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 95 Gloucester Road
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Award-winning vege resto; was recommended to have the Terre a Verre menu, where you get a taste of lots of dishes, chips, and a carafe of wine per two for £23. All these things are delivered but truth be told I wasn’t that into a lot of the pieces; felt more like raw food, and I normally like vege food. I feel like I need to go and just have the main I want!
Verdict: Ok
Location: 71 East Street
Funky little bar with loads of craft beer on tap; check upstairs which has loads of space which wasn’t being used on the Friday we were there. Menu looks great but we just had beer and cocktails.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 74 East Street
Nice little Japanese place with the usual suspects of sushi, udon, bento and katsu. Pretty average food though, and won’t bother going back.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: 32A Preston Street
Squirrelled away behind an unassuming frontage, the Cocktail Shack is surprisingly roomy and has a bit of a Java type theme. Most importantly its staff are great (table service!) and the cocktails are wonderful and mental and delicious – we’re talking Cast a-Wray (wray rum) done up like a grass mug with a toffee bon bon Wilson. Also tasty snacks from the cafe-type place attached.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 34 Regency Square
Nice Indian takeaway, I didn’t particularly enjoy mine but I think that was more the dish, I did however enjoy my garlic pizza naan and a biryani also enjoyed. Was “Ok”, now updated to “Don’t go” as had a deeply average korma and the mutter paneer had chickpeas instead of real peas.
Verdict: Don’t go
Location: 25 Upper Hamilton Road
https://kamal-brighton.co.uk/
French cafe, went here for breakfast. Eggs benedict had piles of bacon on big chunks of sourdough and was extremely delicious; salmon omelette also good. They do dinner too. Internally points off for not selling Coke, though.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 81 Trafalgar Street
Just near Hove Lagoon is this pub with attached B&B, which I obviously can’t speak to. We went in for a couple of pints and dinner – one of us had a fish cake starter and the other burger and chips. Fish cakes pretty small even for a starter, burger ok but not going to win awards. True of the whole place really, nothing wrong with it, but nothing dramatically right with it either. Just a very basic pub.
Verdict: Ok
Location 330 Kingsway
A solid example of a Brighton pub. A bit quirky in the decor, chilled out staff. I’m docking them though for only having fancy schmancy lagers.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 16 Madeira Place
Couldn’t find a website