Brighton Restaurant Award Winners

Best Brews and Bakes 2025

BEST BREWS and BAKES – TOP 20 Winners 

From simple pleasures to elaborate treats, Best Brews and Bakes is brand new for 2025 and here for all your favourite indulgences. Whether it’s that spiced chai latte or oat cortado, paired with a cheeky chocolate fudge brownie or a finger-licking cinnamon bun, Brighton’s cafés and bakeries deliver every time.

Congratulations to this year’s BRAVO winner – Flour Pot Bakery – and to all the fantastic cafés and bakeries shortlisted in 2025. Treat yourself today – then why not do it again tomorrow?!

First place - Best Brews and bakes

Winner of Brews and Bakes, our new category for BRAVOS 2025, is Flour Pot Bakery! Congratulations to the team. This small local chain of friendly cafés and artisan bakeries handmakes its sweet treats daily, using top-quality ingredients and skill. The result? Pure class. Add to that coffee made with locally roasted beans from their sister company, The Milk Shed, and you’ve got the essence of Brews and Bakes right there.

Flour Pot Bakery also won #3 Best Cafe #7 Most Family Friendly #19 Best Team

Second place

New for 2025, Bayon Bakery comes from the people behind #1 Best Brunch Oeuf Café, and they clearly know what they’re doing. We have it on good authority that some bona fide French patisserie training has been undertaken – and you can definitely taste it! Serving up buttery, French viennoiserie and dainty cakes alongside stong coffee, right next to Hove Station – Bayon bliss.

Bayon Bakery also won #17 Best Takeaway

Third place

Komodo Coffee

For some people, a damn good coffee is all the treat they ever need, and local buffs will be unsurprised to find Komodo Coffee at the top of the Brews and Bakes game. Tucked away in the heart of The Lanes, this chilled independent espresso and filter bar makes seriously good coffee for serious coffee drinkers. Enjoy the vibe, tunes, and seasonal in-house bakes.

FIKA
fourth
Open Bakery
fifth
FLATOUT Coffee
sixth
44 Poets
eighth
Real Patisserie
ninth
East Brighton Cafe
TENTH
Bread & Milk
TWELFTH
Laughing Dog
FOURTEENTH
LOAM Coffee
FIFTEENTH
Cafe Domenica
SIXTEENTH
Black Mocha
SEVENTEENTH
17 grams
EIGHTEENTH
Take a look at your other BRAVO winners
Best Brighton restaurant
Best Restaurant category
Best Sussex Restaurant
Best brunch
Plant Champions
Best cocktail
Best Brighton Pub
Best for family
Best team
BRAVO 2019 category
Best Sussex pub
Best cafe
Best lunch in Brighton category BRAVO 2024.
Best lunch
Best roast
Best Wine List
Best int. Cuisine
Sustainability Champions
Best Value
Best Brighton Takeaway icon sponsored by Uber Eats
Best Takeaway
Brews & Bakes