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The Chimney House might look like your classic red-brick, end-of-the-street boozer, but inside it’s busy rewriting the rulebook on modern-day
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This is where our Restaurants Brighton team writes about the places we’ve been to lately, from a quiet lunch in the Lanes to a Friday night out in Hove. We’ve been doing this since 2011, ordering what takes our fancy and sharing it with you.

The Chimney House might look like your classic red-brick, end-of-the-street boozer, but inside it’s busy rewriting the rulebook on modern-day

With the recent crisp mornings and serious temptation to turn the heating on, I’ve had to admit that summer is

The lure of a night off I love good food, and it’s a pleasure I’ve tried to share with my

Thai Night in Shoreham There’s something about Shoreham that instantly slows your step. Maybe it’s the way the sunlight bounces

Earth Mothers Unite I remember it well – those early days of my first pregnancy. If there was an article
Eight years. That’s how long it’s been since MasterChef winner Steven Edwards’s etch. crashed onto the city’s dining scene, plating

Being a food enthusiast, I’m pretty effusive about most dining experiences – but I think I may have just encountered

I recently had coffee with a friend. We talked about how great it feels when you stumble across one of

Confession This may shock some of you, but I reckon I’m old and ugly enough to have earned the right

SUBTLE SENSATION Sharing is a double-edged sword. On the downside, there are the uneasy compromises: you pay for getting half

The Draw of Italian Dining So, there’s a new movie out about a man who opens a restaurant in New

Nick and I have been running Restaurants Brighton and The BRAVOS for a decade – give or take – and

There’s something special about a restaurant where you can feel the heartbeat of the kitchen – where the sizzle of

With 20 years of experience and a passion for baking passed down from his grandmother (also a professional baker), owner

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside, but on the other side of the Downs reside some proper

They say you always remember your first oyster. Some of us remember our first Dover sole ‘a la meunière’ too…a

Furna is unashamedly a restaurant for grown-ups. There’s no whiff of the juvenile about this place. Nothing here is trying

There’s something deliciously naughty about escaping to the countryside for the night. No kids, no chores, no spreadsheets; just good

With no plans for bank holiday Monday and back to school looming, we needed a treat to lift the spirits.

There’s something ‘curiously’ glamorous about a wedge-shaped building, born from urban necessity and made to fit just right. This is
A quick coffee in Kemptown, a long lunch in the Lanes, a Friday night in Hove, whatever the occasion, these are the meals our bloggers have properly sat down to and enjoyed, or not.
Hannah, Torsten, Rhys, Noor and the rest of our bloggers have spent years eating their way around Brighton, so they tend to know a good night out from a lucky one.
We started doing this in 2011 and never really stopped. Long enough to have opinions worth reading.

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