Brighton Restaurant Award Winners 2025
The Best Restaurants in Brighton and Hove
BEST RESTAURANTS IN BRIGHTON – THE TOP 20 in 2025
When it comes to choosing between the best restaurants Brighton and Hove has to offer, we’re totally spoilt for choice. This hotly contested category is about the complete experience: exceptionally delicious food, welcoming hospitality, and memorable ambiance. Voted for by you, the Best Restaurant in Brighton award reflects our city’s love for quality, innovation, sustainability, and genuine hospitality.
Congratulations to this year’s BRAVO winner – Burnt Orange – and to all the fantastic Brighton and Hove restaurants shortlisted in 2025. With the Top 3 all in The Lanes, perhaps the area is a de facto winner too! We hope you enjoy exploring these amazing venues in the year ahead. Happy Eating!
First place - Brighton's Best Restaurant
Burnt Orange’s winning streak continues with a record-breaking third ‘Best Restaurant in Brighton’ win in four years – impressive, considering it only opened its doors in 2021. From its historic coach-house home in the Lanes, Burnt Orange offers a consistently delicious, Mediterranean-inspired menu elevated by wood-fire cooking, lending dishes their distinctive, moreish, smoky flavours. The wine list pairs effortlessly, seasonal cocktails are bright and contemporary, interiors lush, and the team a breath of fresh air – making Burnt Orange a true BRAVO legend.
Burnt Orange also won #2 Best Lunch #2 Best Cocktails #4 Best Team #11 Sustainability Champion
Second place
Last year’s brilliant winner is this year’s runner-up! terre à terre – a pioneer of vegetarian fine dining – has held its place in the city’s heart for decades. Expertly balancing diner expectations with innovation and sustainability, terre à terre’s vibrant, seasonal, plant-based menu mixes beloved classics with exciting new dishes. An impressive drinks list features outstanding Sussex wines alongside organic and biodynamic wines from further afield, local craft beers, ciders, hand-crafted cocktails, and excellent low/no-alcohol options. A recent stylish revamp further elevates the dining experience, preparing terre à terre for its next exciting chapter.
terre à terre also won #2 Plant Champion #3 Best Team
Third place
Storming up the charts into the #3 spot is Embers. Created by an experienced team of passionate food lovers, Embers serves a mouthwatering, live-fire menu designed for sharing. Big, bold flavours, generous dishes, and captivating kitchen theatrics set the tone – and don’t overlook the award-winning cocktail menu. Its lively atmosphere and warm welcome make it perfect for memorable nights with family and friends or for sharing the #1 Best Roast. You’ll be hard-pressed not to love this ‘good-time, great-food’ gem tucked away in the city centre.
Embers also won #1 Best Roast #9 Best Team #10 Sustainability Champion
fourth place
Lost In The Lanes has emerged resplendent as a fully fledged Brighton restaurant. Taking the best-loved flavours of Western European cuisine, the kitchen creates deeply enjoyable seasonal menus with a range of tasty snacks, small plates to share, and indulgent mains so you can order according to your appetite and always eat well. A thoughtful wine list and deliciously drinkable cocktails mean Lost In The Lanes should be on everyone’s list!
Lost In The Lanes also won #4 for Sustainability Champion, #4 Best Brunch #3 Best Lunch and #4 Best Team.
FIFTH place
A labour of love and one of the most spectacular restaurants in the city. Brought to Brighton by local chef-legend Dave Mothersill, Furna combines exquisite cooking, an enviable cellar, stunning cocktails, stylish décor, and a team which personifies the best of contemporary British dining. Delicate, delicious flavours and top-quality seasonal ingredients are enhanced by innovative techniques from around the globe, including a ‘library’ of house ferments. Unmissable.
Furna also placed #13 in Best Wine List
sixth place
The first thing you notice about The Salt Room is its undeniably glamorous seafront perch. While enjoying stunning views of the beach and West Pier, diners are treated to a menu showcasing the finest seafood and seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, all cooked over coal. With its elegant ambience, impeccable service, and commitment to culinary excellence, The Salt Room promises a sensory dining journey you’ll remember.
The Salt Room also won #6 Best Lunch, #77 Best Cocktails #6 Best Team and #15 Sustainability Champion.
seventh place
BRAVO’s #1 Plant Champion, Bonsai, is both a go-to plant-based dining destination and one of the most popular restaurants in the city. Starting life as a pop-up kitchen, Bonsai is now lively and thriving, with its delicious South East Asian menu and authentic binchotan grill creating irresistible smoky, umami-rich flavours. Using innovative techniques, top-quality meat-free proteins, and fresh, seasonal ingredients, Bonsai Kitchen proves vegan cuisine offers no compromise – just pure joy.
Bonsai also won #1 Plant Champion #5 Best Cocktails #2 Sustainability Champion #12 Best Team
eighth place
A legendary mainstay of the Brighton dining scene, English’s of Brighton embodies the best in British dining: elegant service, a refined ambience, and starched linens alongside a consistently excellent seafood menu and great wines. The oyster bar boasts star appeal, and the sunny terrace is just perfect on a summer’s day. At English’s, guests know they’ll be well taken care of, eat well, drink well, and leave happy. Look, if it’s good enough for Winston Churchill…
English’s also won #3 Best Wine List
Ninth place
Like all the best people, the family behind IL Bistro drew inspiration from the Italian and French Riviera. Determined to share their passion with Brighton, they opened one of the area’s first restaurants serving local delicacies like fresh pasta, arancini, grilled steaks and fish, tiramisu, and Negronis! Their passion hasn’t waned – IL Bistro remains one of the finest spots to enjoy bold Mediterranean flavours and that unmistakable holiday vibe.
IL Bistro also won #1 International Cuisine #3 Most Family Friendly #5 Best Wine List #8 Sustainability Champion
Tenth place
To know Cin Cin is to love Cin Cin. This Hove neighbourhood gem serves authentic Italian dishes to delighted Brighton and Hove diners. With a seasonal, ever-changing menu inspired by Italy’s regional cuisines, every visit brings something new – though the handmade pasta is always a highlight. Exceptional wines, crafted cocktails, and a welcoming, lively atmosphere keep Cin Cin’s loyal fans coming back for more. What’ya waiting for? It’s now time to start exploring the top 20 Best Restaurants in Brighton 2025!
Cin Cin also won #12 Sustainability Champion #17 Best Lunch #6 Best International
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The best restaurant in Brighton at the BRAVOS is decided via a public vote. This means over a 6 week voting period from January to March the public can decide what they think is their best restaurant in Brighton or Hove. Votes in 2025 amounted to 72,911 votes and 724 venues were nominated in the awards. 192 venues were placed in the BRAVO Awards, the placed venues and winners can be seen in the Brighton Restaurant Awards results 2025.
There are an increasing number of vegan restaurants in the Brighton top 20 best restaurants year on year. This year Bonsai Plant Kitchen (vegan) and Terre á Terre (vegetarian) finished in the top 10 and many of Brighton’s best restaurants offer plenty of strong vegan options.
According to the Brighton Restaurant Awards 2025 where there were 72,911 public votes, the most popular restaurant in Brighton right now is Burnt Orange. They have been voted the public favourite in 2025 having also won the accolade of Brighton’s Best Restaurant in two years previously. The top 20 best restaurants can be seen here. terre à terre finished runner up in 2025 having won the best restaurant spot in 2024.
Brighton has a number of chefs who have appeared on Masterchef the Professionals and the Great British Menu they include Steven Edwards from etch. Jean Delport from restaurant Interlude and Michael Bremner from 64 Degrees. Duncan Ray from The Little Fish Market is always highly regarded in the National Restaurant Awards. A round up of the best quality restaurants voted by the public can be discovered here. You may also wish to have a look at the Michelin rated restaurants in Brighton 2025 and the AA Rosettes page for Brighton and Sussex.
The top twenty Brighton best restaurant list represents the results of a public vote from 2025 where the general public vote for their favourite places to eat in the BRAVO awards.
