BEST PUB FOOD
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1. Namo at the Eagle
Thai-born chef Bookie Mitchell is fast making a name for herself in Brighton with a resident kitchen Namo X at The Avenue Cafe in Kempton and overseeing the menu at the recently launched No No Please in Preston Street. The Eagle is the popular and vibrant backstreet pub in the North Laine where it all started.
Must-try dishes include northern-Thai curry kao soi with chicken, noodles and pickled cabbage, and krapao bolan (stir fried minced pork with garlic and rice topped with a fried egg).
125 Gloucester Road, Brighton, BN1 4AF
07387 673441
2. The Urchin
This popular neighbourhood pub with its on-site micro brewery serves some of the best seafood in the city. There’s a happy leaning towards well-priced shellfish, such as whole crab with lovage and wild garlic butter and their moreish sweet and spicy king prawns.
15-17 Belfast Street, Hove, BN3 3YS
01273 241881
3. The Ginger Pig
This modern, stylish gastropub is just a stone’s throw from Hove Beach, where you can drop by for snacks and cocktails or while away a whole afternoon making inroads into the a la carte offering. Classic British cookery is the order of the day, and you can’t go wrong with the top notch pies (perhaps steak and ale with mash and shallot gravy) that the pub is rightfully famous for, or choose from the blackboard of grilled chops, whole fish and larger cuts of meat.
3 Hove Street, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2TR
01273 736123
4. Alberta’s at the Windmill
Winner of Brighton’s Best Sunday Lunch, this lively self-styled ‘back street boozer’ is a great shout any day of the week for food. Former Wild Flor head chef Ali Munro puts a southern American spin on his menu of elevated fast food: think chicken waffles, fried chicken wings and ‘sandos’ including chicken adobo. At the bar you’ll find a wide selection of Sussex brewed ales to be enjoyed on the pub’s sun trap terrace.
69 Upper North Street, Brighton, BN1 3FL
01273 202475