Brighton Forum: Late night food. Help needed!

Hi

Thanks for your reply. Yes we are from Boro, we hopefully are going to get a ticket for the match. We are deciding between two places to stay the ambleclife and the Arts residence both very reasonable and look fine. Help with restaurants would be great. Would any be open late on the Fri? Also one for the Sat. Could you also recommend places to go before the match?

X

So you're looking at Rock Gardens or Regency Sq. 10.30 on a Friday night might be a bit late for many places but there will be a few still going. I'd take a 2 min walk to Preston Street if you stay in regency sq - just round the corner and a good selection of resto's

Where to go before the match? Buy yourselves a day saver ticket on the bus (from driver = £4.00) and take a number 25 or 49 up the start of the Lewes Road. Pubs near here: London Unity, Park Crescent, Bugle Inn, Gladstone, The Bear. After a couple of scoops jump on a number 25 to take you to the AMEX. You can use your bus ticket to get back to town after the match.

Avoid pubs near Brighton Station - very busy with home fans about to take the train to Falmer, and also the Hikers Rest near the ground which has a home fans only policy on match days

JtheD

http://www.marketdinerbrighton.co.uk/ gutbuster!! lol

Heres another open 24 hours on seafront http://www.buddies24hour.net/

You really don't want to be on the seafront at those eating places, certainly not on a Friday or Saturday night IME.

I had the misfortune of going along after a stag do last year. If you ever want to learn the depressing side of our youth 'culture' then take notes as you go, the behaviour on display goes downhill even from 2am in West Street. it was a bit like a zoo except in a zoo the animals have some self-control.

For a sample I'll offer the observation:

The night I went circa 3am there were around 8 uniformed officers trying to control the drunks, the pavement decorated with vomit at regular intervals. Two full on fights one involving a 17-girl with her mini skirt over her head, hair covered in beer and vomit. A glass was thrown at a police officer, one guy about 40-years of age who reckoned he was some super hero tried to take on 3 police officers, one of whom could handle himself and upturned the idiot first move. I learnt several new swear words and contined to hear songs and obscene chants as we walked to catch our taxi, a running mob fight passed us, ages 16 - 21 I guess. None of it was aimed at us as they

were fighting each other but would have turned on anyone who got in their way. All very sad, it used to be bad when I was a youth but it's reached new lows simply because the police are only allowed to move folk on or put then in a van, they are out doing the same thing the next day, seems no consequences for this sort of behaviour, no deterent just a wasste of police resources. I can't help thinking a few nights in Belgrade would educate them.;-)

All in all, a better bet would be an Indian or chinese, the ones in Preston St accept you in before midnight, mostly anyway. Also a couple of Lebanese type places on Westrern Road that seem to go on late and I think they accept late arrivals if you are sober. I'd certainly avoid the after clubbers areas like the plague but don't shoot the messenger :-)

Have fun

Stoofer

Good point Stoofer, I just saw that the OP was arriving at 10.30, so there should'nt be too much of that going on til a lot later. I'm just pointing out ones I know of that are open. There are loads more around.

It wasn't you I saw that night was it, Paul? ;-)

Seriously, yep I got that, your reason for noting it I mean. Just a heads-up to the O.P. in case they relaxed and thought to go for a real late fill-up on the seafront. Unless they view it as a free cabaret show, some of it is funny if not so sad.

Stoofer

as said above, buddies 24/7, plus there are many places open beyond 2am in Preston street...doner kebabish ;)

you'll never go hungry in btn, no matter what the time

Nah It weren't me Stoofer...I'm a good boy..... lol