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Yes! It’s called Serving Up and you can subscribe for free here Serving Up | Andy Lynes | Substack. Serving Up is currently published twice a month and includes, news, reviews, interviews with chefs, restaurateurs and notable local foodies, wine recommendations, cocktail recipes and local producer profiles.

No, only restaurants within the city limits are eligible for inclusion in our guide. However, we do review restaurants further afield in our regular Out of Town feature, and we plan to include the wider Sussex scene in future round-up features on the site.

The guide includes gastropubs and pubs with high-quality resident kitchens. In addition, we also include a few pubs that are personal favourites of founder Andy Lynes so that users can plan where to have a pre-dinner drink, but they are not formally rated. Otherwise, we don’t currently cover pubs, bars and cafes, but this is something we are considering for the future.

The Guide is constantly updated throughout the year with new restaurants added as and when they have been visited by Andy Lynes or a member of the culinary panel. New additions will be highlighted in the newsletter and on the website.

Brighton’s Best Restaurants is run by founder and Brighton resident Andy Lynes, with the help of the expert culinary panel. Andy is a food, drink and travel writer with more than two decades of experience. His work currently appears in the Observer, The Times, Good Food magazine, the Good Food Guide and The Caterer. He is also the publisher of the UK restaurant newsletter Smashed. He has travelled the world, eating at some of the best restaurants on the planet, including The French Laundry in the Napa Valley, Le Louis XV in Monaco and Schloss Schauenstein in Switzerland, all three Michelin-starred. He has reported on local restaurant scenes around the globe, including Chicago, San Sebastian and the Black Forest in Germany. He has also written about wine regions from Champagne to Thailand. He has interviewed hundreds of the best chefs in the UK and abroad, including Marco Pierre White, Anthony Bourdain, Alain Ducasse and Jamie Oliver, although he is yet to tick Gordon Ramsay off his list. He is the former food and drink editor of the Metro, where he was also a restaurant critic. He has also reviewed restaurants for the Observer and The Guardian and has written food and drink-themed columns for both The Independent and The Telegraph. He is the author of four books on food and drink and is a MasterChef semi-finalist. He has worked (briefly) as a chef and has staged in Michelin-starred restaurants in the UK and America. He is a passionate home cook and cookbook collector. His favourite restaurant in Brighton is…well, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?.

Any restaurant that serves dinner at least once a week and is within the Brighton and Hove city limits is eligible to be listed in our guide. That means we can include everything from a pizza joint to a fine dining restaurant, as long as it is the best of its type in Brighton. The aim of the guide is to help people find the best dining experiences in the city, whatever style they may be.

We established Brighton’s Best Restaurants in 2015 to help to bring greater exposure to the city’s vibrant and dynamic independent restaurant scene, which we believe to be one of the best in the UK. We launched a restaurant awards and restaurant festival to achieve that aim, which we believe has been very successful, helping to bring recognition in the national press and national restaurant guides to Brighton restaurants sooner than it might otherwise have happened.

Brighton’s Best Restaurants was founded by food writer and Brighton resident Andy Lynes and three like-minded local foodies in 2015.

Brighton’s Best Restaurants is an expert-curated guide to the independent restaurant scene in Brighton and Hove. We also run the OctoberBest restaurant festival and the annual Brighton’s Best Restaurant Dome Awards when we announce our Dome ratings.

Food reviews can be found on various platforms, including dedicated food blogs, restaurant review websites, and social media. Popular sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Google Reviews offer user-generated content that can guide your dining choices. Additionally, many food critics publish reviews in newspapers and magazines.

To write a food review, start by describing the restaurant's atmosphere and service. Then, detail the dishes you ordered, focusing on flavors, textures, and presentation. Be honest and constructive in your feedback, and conclude with your overall impression and whether you would recommend the place to others.

A food review is a critical assessment of a restaurant or a specific dish. It typically includes the reviewer's experience regarding the taste, presentation, and overall quality of the food. Reviews can also cover aspects like service, ambiance, and value for money. They help potential diners make informed decisions about where to eat.