Tiny reviews of Brighton food and drink
Cute little place for coffee and cake (or ice cream or a shake) – highly recommend rainbow cake! Be aware that it is ONLY dessert-y things – brownies as well – but they are delicious.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 15a Kensington Gardens (main is 15 Brighton Place)
Brilliant Italian resto. Lovely interior, all wood and very intimate feeling. Food top notch, clearly home made gnocchi and delicious pizza. Desserts of chocolate mousse and cannolo really excellent too. Plus, lovely service and very reasonably priced.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 69 East Street
Combination coffee shop, gallery and workshop space. Lovely space, really friendly people. But I have to say: avoid the cooked food. They haven’t the space for it and basically microwaved some bacon and poached some eggs on an electric hob for breakfast, and there’s many better places. But for coffee and cake, great choice.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 66 North Road
Tiny little Italian place with 18 covers, bar-style around a central area. And – wow. All of it, amazing. Lovely focaccia with extra virgin olive oil. Amazing rabbit croquette. Two pasta dishes incredible, especially one with lamb. And lovely dessert, and great people, and all at very reasonable prices. Spot on.
Verdict: Amazing
Location: 13-16 Vine Street
Bakery with amazing pastries and cakes, but providing fairly average breakfast. Seriously – sweet treats wonderful, and it’s lovely sitting outside, but don’t bother with the food.
Verdict (cakes): Awesome
Verdict (food): Ok
Location: 18 Market Street
Cute little coffee place in Kemp Town, lovely people in there and a great choice of smoothies which received good reviews. Didn’t have cake…but man I wanted to!
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 118A St George’s Road
Newly refurbished (although I never went to its previous incarnation) and really quite charming. Small, but full of character like overstuffed armchairs, fireplaces, that sort of thing. Popped in for a pint and enjoyed, menu looked nice but didn’t try. I wish them well but 4pm on a Saturday and almost empty doesn’t bode well.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 67 Buckingham Place
They call themselves a pub but they’re tending toward a bar – lots of seating outside, booths inside if you can get one, pretty loud music. Friendly vibe. Famous for its wings (“The Orange Buffalo” concession) and oh my stars rightly so. Skip the BBQ ones but the Original ones are just amazing. Mozzarella sticks and curly fries also great but my lips will still tingling twenty minutes later from those wings.
Verdict: Awesome
Location: 2 Preston Road
Interesting pub split in two. We had a drink in the smaller bar, which is perfectly serviceable, but the larger part is more restaurant-y. Food looked good. Generally, just fine – bit lacking on the character side.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 90 Portland Road
Greene King pub and largely as you’d expect. Had nice gammon egg and chips, and a Mexican veggie burger. Loses points for being basic even for a Greene King.
Verdict: Ok
Location: 70-71 Cromwell Road