In Brighton, you can grab a vegan kebab in a pub, drink more artisan coffee than you can shake a bean at and feast on sourdough pizzas and gelato for a lifetime on the hips.
Food for Friends transformed under the guise of former head chef Michael Bremner (formerly trained under Marco Pierre White) into a more mature offering and is now exceptional among existing steep competition in the UK’s vegetarian capital.
Watch table side TV staring Brighton’s nightlife
It’s from our corner seat we gaze at the goings-on of Saturday night Brighton: from guided historical tours to a bride-to-be, gesticulating with a giant blow-up appendage at her fellow clucking hens. It’s the perfect spot to enjoy a few audacious pre-dinner cocktails and we’re soon in love with the place. It serves gourmet standard food – yet it’s incredibly reasonable –
Here you’ll get gourmet standard food at with an incredibly reasonable price tag – around £14 for a main, which, considering the standard of food you get, is good. It’s a warm, elevating environment, with subdued lighting and bubbly staff, and it’s clear the pennies are spent not on white linen and silverware, but on quality ingredients and talent chefs.
To begin
Mr F had goats’ curd, with onion gel and shards of tanned parsnip chips, roasted walnuts and it made for a happy, playful combination. A little pear took away any potential tartness to the goats’ cheese. I had golden parcels of sweet tofu, with stir-fried shiitake mushrooms, marinated pak choi and pickled ginger and wakame (seaweed) – I could have eaten this as a main: wonderfully crispy, moreish, with nods of Japanese cuisine.
Mains
Desserts like home
This place could convert even the most voracious of carnivores
This place should be tried. Vegetarians will love the variety and imagination of the menus, while meat lovers will question the need for meat in a three-course meal when the quality, taste and creativity presents is something that, in my mind, has elevated itself above the many other offerings in this crowded market. And the entertainment outside is gratis.
Thanks to VisitBrighton