Brighton Reviews

The Ivy in The Lanes is Brighton’s newest and flashiest-looking restaurant, located on Ship Street within the old Post Office building. It launched on the 2nd May and boy did it arrived with a bang!

Going out for breakfast/brunch is now as popular, if not more, as going out for dinner and I think that has a lot to do with price. Whereas a good quality breakfast out, will typically cost £20-£30 – dinner can be upwards of £60.

After just one year since ‘The Manor’ rebranded to ‘Common’ it has disappeared. In its place is a new Middle Eastern street food café, called Lavash.

It’s hard to imagine there’s anyone who hasn’t heard of The Chilli Pickle, such is its reputation, but would you believe it, the other day I came across someone who hadn’t.

Nestled in the King’s Road Arches alongside the i360 you will find Murmur, the latest venture from Brighton chef and founder of 64 Degrees, Michael Bremner. The name is inspired by a murmuration, or the shape made when thousands of starlings flock together in flight – a spectacle that’s often seen between the two piers the restaurant looks out on.

Isn’t it funny, you can have a glimpse of something and form an impression of it almost instantly but that impression isn’t necessarily the whole story, as I discovered when I attended One Supper Club’s Thanksgiving meal.

At the bottom of St James’s St, there’s a treat for those that enjoy the finer things in life – a lavish restaurant that goes by the name of Pike & Pine… but only by night. By day it takes on another guise, Redroaster – a speciality coffee house and café.

As we weaved our way amongst the face painted party goers on Church Road on Halloween evening, we wondered whether Brighton’s latest Italian restaurant, Semola, would provide us with a culinary trick or treat.

How many speciality pizzerias are there in Brighton? I haven’t the time to count them all but off the top of my head, there’s definitely at least 10. A new addition to this crowded space is Pizza Pop just off of London Road. I say new, but it actually opened back in May this year.

I probably wouldn’t have ever gone back to the i360 restaurant based on my first experience but after several emails from the team prompting me, my curiosity finally got the better of me.