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Brighton Fringe Festival 2025
The Brighton Fringe Food and Drink Guide 2025
Get ready for a month of culture, creativity, and celebration as the Brighton Fringe Festival marks its 20th anniversary from May 2 to June 1, 2025. With over 700 events across the city, it’s the ultimate kickoff to summer. Alongside the theatre, comedy, and live performances, Brighton’s restaurants and bars offer the perfect backdrop for your festival experience. Whether you’re catching a show or soaking up the buzz, use our Brighton Fringe Festival Food and Drink Guide to discover the best spots to eat, drink, and celebrate this special milestone in style.
Where to eat in Brighton during Brighton Fringe
Hungry in Brighton and not sure where to start?
Our food and drink inspiration page is packed with ideas to suit every craving and every kind of day out. From lazy brunches to seafood feasts, cocktail spots to date-night gems, we’ve got the city’s best independent restaurants covered. Created by locals and trusted by food lovers, we’ll point you to the right table at the right time. Whatever you’re in the mood for, let us help you eat your way around Brighton and Hove.
Pictured: The entrance to Brighton’s North Laine area.
Brighton Fringe | Pre Show
Start your evening with some quality pre-theatre dining. Book now to reserve those pre-show seats and get ready for the main event. You may also wish to check out our best restaurants in Brighton top twenty for inspiration.
If you’ve blown your budget on some must have tickets there’s no need to ruin the show with a grumbling belly, check out this year’s BRAVO Eat Well For Less winners, for pocket-friendly, quality meals. For matinee meals, our Lunchtime guide is full of satisfying stomach fillers.
Pictured: The award winning Bonsai Plant Kitchen
Brighton Fringe | Post show
As Brighton Fringe crowds spill out of theatres and tents there is a general air of wanting more after their events! We have prepared an excellent selection of cocktail bars for you to sample, with mixology flare to rival any acrobat and as fruity a punch as the most sensational of cabarets. For an award winning cocktail fix, check out the BRAVO Best Cocktail top 20 winners too.
Pictured: Bar Valentino
Brighton pubs
Food and drink in The Lanes
For those coming to the city specifically to take in the Brighton Fringe Festival, the Lanes and North Laine can be as intriguingly complex as the plot to a good murder mystery play. Avoid spots where the cook killed lunch and the waiter most definitely didn’t do it, with our insider guides to both areas.
Pictured: Lost in The Lanes
Award Winning Venues
There are show stoppers and then there are show stoppers. If you’re looking to really make a night of it, be it to impress or celebrate, then the meal before or after can make or break. With our BRAVO Best Restaurant 2025 winners, your only worry might be the meal stealing centre stage (but that’s not really too much of a worry). For Nationally recognised restaurants, those with Michelin stars and AA awards check these superstars out too.
Pictured: Burnt Orange, winner of best restaurant 2025.
Food On the go
“I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date”
With a calendar chock-a-block with Brighton Fringe shows, you may find that there simply isn’t time for a sit down feast in between each act. See our picks for the best takeaways around to help you find where to grab the top “to go” nosh in town.
Food-Focused Events at Brighton Fringe
During this year’s Brighton Fringe, you’ll be presented with all the weird and wonderful things from the industry and that includes shows about food. Naturally, this makes the foodie’s ears prick up and ask “where can we find such things?”
We have listed all the food-themed events on show this Fringe here on our events and entertainment pages. Be forewarned it will make you hungry!
Pictured: The award winning Blossoms Cocktail Bar, voted best for cocktails in 2025.
Food Special Offers
Here are some impressive food and drink specials for this month! With such a variety, there’s something to please every palate and there are plenty more where these came from:
- £10 Lunch deal at Boysterous Burgers
- Moules & Muscadet £19.95 at Hotel Du Vin
- A La Carte Menu at Furna
- Coffee and Pastry for £5 at Shoreline Coffee and Kitchen
- Up to 60% off at Purezza
- Wednesday Deal at Social Board
Explore all of this month’s food and drink offers and treat yourself to some well deserved savings.
Become a Brighton Fringe member
As we’re sure you can imagine It takes a lot to deliver England’s largest arts festival every year, and they don’t receive regular public funding. As Fringe is a registered charity one way you can support them is by becoming a member of Friends of Brighton Fringe today.
There are plenty of perks to becoming a Friend of Brighton Fringe:
- Priority booking
- 2-for-1 ticket offers on participating shows
- Discounts at Brighton & Hove’s best local businesses
