Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
Stylish Japanese with big sushi conveyor; first tip is make sure to sit at it, as it’s a pain to have to leap up all the time. Food is all good stuff – nice sushi, really nice pork belly side – but you pay over the odds for the nice restaurant!
Verdict: Ok
Location: Bartholomew Road
“Mexican street food” is the pitch, and although the “street food” part basically means the food is in plastic baskets, it is highly delicious. Choose a base like quesadila or tacos, your filling, and add various degrees of salsa. Generous portions too, including a calamari starter that is insanely good. Various tequila cocktails also excellent. Only drawback is literally no two seat tables – you’ll be cosy!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 36 Gloucester Road
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
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
Italian resto; had the best gnocchi of my life here, and my companions also had wonderful pasta – salmon and octopus. Friendly staff, nice wine, great prices – awesome. Even awesome enough to offset their use of Comic Sans in their signage, and that’s saying something.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 29 Preston Street
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
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
American-style food in a chilled out cafe type space by the sea; went here for an excellent full English, and a smashed avocado toast. Great food, really nice staff, although they are very busy! Dinner uses small plate concept and really keen to try it.
Verdict: Awesome
Location 133-134 King’s Road
A known quantity as a top Brighton resto, and I agree wholeheartedly. Eschews the typical Indian menu of approximately 40,000 dishes for a selection of interesting spins. Had some tamil peanut pakora (spicy peanut clusters), green pea & cheese crispies (pea patties with melted cheese and crunchy bits, yum) and South Indian Village Chicken Curry, which was awesome (although was also ogling the lamb chop platter that someone else had). Four of us had a bottle of wine and a few rounds of big beers, starters, mains and shared two kulfis (not my thing it turns out) for like £170. Bargain!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 17 Jubilee Street
“American roadside-style cuisine”, with brunch and BBQ. Went for brunch, sampled pancakes (huge), one of their sandwiches (huge amount of fries) and a “blowout” fried chicken burger (also huge). All tip top, with a big seating area where you can see the sea. Highly ace.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 124 King’s Road