Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
I can’t believe it took as long as it did for us to try one of these guys. I enjoyed the location, pleasant vibes, lovely service. Las Iguanas offers very good value, with lots of discounts – and drink offers, which is increasingly rare. It is a little bit you get what you pay for though, pretty average food – not bad, not great.
Verdict: Ok
7-8 Jubilee Street
One of the brilliant little places you find in Brighton with a talented chef and a handful of covers. We had incredible crispy spuds with ranch, their own baked bread with Christmas butter, a “Big Mac” beef tartare, and garlic parmesan chicken wings. All exceptional. Only downside is the restaurant is only open Friday and Saturday so we won’t be able to visit much!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 2-3 Little East Street
I came across Pearly Cow searching for steak restaurants in Brighton; it’s right near the Salt Room in the old Smokey’s BBQ building. It’s lush. Fantastic fit out with a lovely relaxed, cosy vibe, with exceptional friendly service. Great menu too; beautiful bread, one of the best steaks I’ve had (although they cook a tier up on the medium rare than you might want; adjust accordingly) with great fries. Small plates equally if not more excellent, a trio of tacos a highlight (beef fillet, smoked trout, goat’s curd, all amazing). The downside is you do have to pay quite a lot for all of that, and I’ll have to think about whether it’s quite worth it. But an easy recommendation for a celebration type meal.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 123 Kings Road
Been meaning to come in here since we walked past huge queues on opening! And – it’s pretty ok? Nice people, but a very fast food type space (ie not nice to have a leisurely meal in), pretty decent pricing I guess. Foodwise nice to try but not compelling to bring us back in, basically not bad but not great. Nice fried chicken.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 57 Ship Street
One of those places we’ve seen forever but only just gotten around to going to – and more fool us really, because it’s great. First, it’s physically a really nice resto – huge, massively high ceilinged dining room. And the charcoal grill where you can watch them cook everything up is cool. Simply delicious food – lamb chops a particular highlight – for less money than most similar places nowadays. Easy recommend.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 64 Western Road
A new branch of a chain I’d never heard of, in the massive space that used to house the Chilli Pickle. Napoletana Pizza – boldly right next to a big ol’ Pizza Express. Was fortunate enough to enjoy a pizza each on the house for their opening, and had a great fennel sausage pizza. Really great crust, and quite large, although we felt they cheaped out a bit on how much they spread out the toppings (as in toppings more suitable for a smaller pizza). Still excellent, and they were such lovely staff, and it’s a great airy space. But, you know, there’s a lot of pizza about already, so good luck to them.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 17 Jubilee Street
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
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
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A lovely, classic type Italian with a broad range of pizza/pasta at reasonable prices – massive servings!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 122 Church Road
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