Brighton - Eating & Drinking - Restaurants - Italian & Pizza
It’s like stepping back in time ….
Prawn cocktails, garlic mushrooms and HUGE pepper grinders.
The food is terrible but it is cheap. And it is fun; think of it as an Italian restaurant that has been themed to operate like an Italian restaurant circa 1981.
Don’t come expecting a gourmet experience, just an experience. It’s all worth it just to have a waiter waft his 2-foot long pepper grinder of your food with a flourish.
So retro, so cool, such poor quality food, so much fun.
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Brighton - Eating & Drinking - Restaurants - Italian & Pizza
This place relies upon its prime situation to keep it’s tables filled with tourists. I doubt anybody would come back a second time.
The food was atrocious - stodgy pasta - it was like eating student food. But bad food wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t priced as if it was good.
The staff gave off an aura of really not giving a toss about us or the place or probably even themselves.
Don’t go here.
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Brighton - Eating & Drinking - Restaurants - Indian
I finally got a round to trying this place. I’m glad that I did.
It manages to be very authentically Indian without ruining it by showing off and inflating prices.
Some of the stuff you get here - thumbs up! - is not normally available in restaurants over here.
I went for a puri and closed my eyes, allowing myself to drift back to india.
Very good food, extremely good value for money. Try this place before you visit some of the more expensive imitations.
I went for a puri and closed my eyes, allowing myself to drift back to india.
Very good food, extremely good value for money. Try this place before you visit some of the more expensive imitations.
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Brighton - Eating & Drinking - Fastfood & Takeaway - Indian
This place has now moved to 4 Richmond Parade.
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I remember this street market of being more of Trotters independent traders kinda place than it is now. Now it is all cool, retro, and vintage.
The stuff seems to expensive but not too expensive. I can’t imagine getting the sort of bargain that is possible at the Marina car boot sale. But it isn’t as ridiculously over inflated as Snoopers paradise either.
The street doesn’t have that many stalls and it is very popular so come early because by midday you’ll just be looking at the stuff that is either to rubbish or too eye-wateringly overpriced for the early birds.
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The Open Market is managing to cling onto a bit of real marketness but is becoming a bit Brightony with a few hippy-dippy stalls.
Come shopping here is you value cheapness over quality. It all seems very much second rate.
I used to shop here all the time when I lived at Rosehill Court just around the corner and I know that this is a place where you can watch pennies whilst the pounds are watching something more important. I also know that it is actually only worth what it costs.
This place surely can’t continue to exist for much longer in a town where butchers such as Bramptons charge at least 10 times as much for their locally sourced boutique sausages as the Open Market Butchers charge for their economy pork fat and offal offerings.
Maybe it’s just an example of the wealth schism in Cool Brightonia.
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This market sells a right load of tat. It’s all a bit random as is befitting of a market.
I have never found much to hold my attention here, although it does seem slightly reminiscent of Goa’s Anjuna flea market.
There is a stall here that sells at slightly below the high street price, but not quite as cheap as Sports Direct.
It’s hardly worth a trip out of your way but is part of a meander along the seafront.
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Brighton - Shopping - Tobacconists
If you don’t smoke then going into Taylors will probably make you nauseous. It really, really smells of tobacco.
But that’s because it’s a tobacconist, a proper one with stuff in jars.
It’s all very new-retro, it manages to seem authentically classical but surely the idea of cherry/chocolate/whatever-flavoured tobacco is a new invention?
If you smoke, then go here to be a bit experimental. After all doesn’t it get a bit boring having all of your fags tasting like fags? After all you don’t always drink pure ethanol do you?
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Brighton - Shopping - Food & Drink - Sweets & Chocolates
Cybercandy predates the rash of sweetie shops spreading themselves around Brighton.
It is more original than the newbies and manages to make confectionary just a little bit rock’n’roll. But only a little bit, they are after all just sugar and E-colour and chemical E-flavours.
The packaging is great though isn’t it? Maybe that’s why cybercandy is better. They seem to have more stuff in interesting packets, rather than going down the put it all in glass jars to gain a yesteryear, nostalgia vibe.
They also sell imported goodies so if you come from far away and need the sweet taste of home then cybercandy is your portal back.
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Brighton - Shopping - Fashion - Menswear
More of a rummage sale than a sartorial boutique. It smells of old people in suits.
The changing room is a mirror at the end of the store with nothing to actually shield you as you undress.
It might be possible to find some thing cool and original in this second hand haberdashery, but be prepared to spend some time rummaging. The proprietor looks like an extra from league of gentleman. Suits you sir. And I intend that in a nice way, I like the league of gentleman and would be more than happy to let any to let any of the characters take my inside leg measurement. Suits you sir.
But if you love shopping for vintage clothing this is going to be a goldmine, as long as you dig deep enough.
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