Restaurant lit up at night with people dining alfresco.

They say you always remember your first oyster. Some of us remember our first Dover sole ‘a la meunière’ too…a snapshot from a visit to English’s in the mid-1980s with my mother, a time when Brighton’s fame rested briefly on the shaky twin pedestals of dirty weekends and a bomb in a hotel. Returning there…

three little "snacks" dishes served on the table of Furna

Furna is unashamedly a restaurant for grown-ups. There’s no whiff of the juvenile about this place. Nothing here is trying to ride a trend. From the sleek, muted decor to the kitchen-as-stage at the back of this classy Brighton-centre restaurant, Furna is what you get when a chef knows he’s got something special and isn’t…