Coffee

Brighton has a reputation for being a hub for conscious-minded businesses and Silo, the UK’s first and only zero-waste restaurant, bakery and coffee house, is one of the city’s great food successes. It’s tucked away in the Bohemian North Laine area and easily recognised by the huge No. 39 painted on the exterior wall.

Despite opening seven months ago, I’m only just getting around to trying out the menu at Cafe Plenty, located at Vantage Point, just by Circus Parade. It’s 10 am on a Saturday morning and I’m here for breakfast but it looks like the whole of Brighton has had the same idea.

Last Saturday was ‘Small Business Saturday’, a campaign that encourages people to support small businesses in their communities by shopping local – something very close to my heart. I wanted to get involved and help and what better way than to create a guide to Brighton’s best independent coffee shops.

In amongst all the gentrification that is advancing the London Road some restaurants and cafés have been going about their business for a while. Nine years in, independently owned Moksha is one such spot.

Cafes and coffee shops are ten a penny in Brighton, so anywhere new popping up has to bring something special to the table. The founders of Cafe Plenty aim to do this with their new cafe, micro-bakery and tea & coffee brew house on Circus Parade, Preston Circus in Brighton.

Coffeetzar has only been open one week and it’s just finding its way in the city, trying to carve itself a niche to stand out amongst the other 400-or-so food joints that Brighton has to offer.

I went snuffling out a new lunch spot to review today and this little gem came up trumps: Cafe Coho – Winner of ‘The Argus Award’ for ‘Brighton’s Best Loved Cafe’. Right on the corner of Ship Street, it occupies a grade two listed building, just a stone’s throw from the beach.