Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Brighton from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Brighton
Ten Green Bottles is in North Laine, Plateau is in The Lanes, and The Salt Room is on Kings Road seafront.
Ten Green Bottles in North Laine is a British wine bar with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Wines come directly from vineyards, and personalized tastings include cheese and charcuterie. It carries Star Wine List recognition.
Plateau in The Lanes has an exceptional wine program and a regularly changing menu of small plates. Its Modern European cooking centres on produce, and it serves natural wine and craft cocktails.
The Salt Room on Kings Road seafront is a seafood grill with an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails. The list is anchored in coastal whites, and the room pairs that with fire-cooked seafood and market fish served from the blackboard.
Terre à terre serves vegetarian small plates and tasting menus, Bincho Yakitori cooks Japanese yakitori, and No No Please serves Southeast Asian fusion small plates.
Terre à terre in The Lanes is Brighton's longest-running vegetarian restaurant, operating for over 25 years. It serves small plates and a tasting menu, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. It holds We're Smart World 3 Radishes (2025).
Bincho Yakitori on Preston Street is a Japanese yakitori izakaya built around binchotan-grilled skewers. Chicken thigh, gizzards and charred sweet potato feature on a menu that changes weekly. It offers counter dining, a wine list, sake, Japanese whisky and cold beer.
No No Please in West Lanes combines Southeast Asian fusion small plates with batch-made house cocktails. The short menu includes sesame prawn toast and beef-cheek curry, and the room also pours house wine, with an informal feel and a mid-century setting.
The Lanes and North Laine have exceptional wine programs at Plateau and Ten Green Bottles respectively. Plateau serves natural wine, and Ten Green Bottles imports wines directly from vineyards. The Salt Room on Kings Road seafront has a wine list and a list anchored in coastal whites.
Brighton has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Ten Green Bottles in North Laine holds Star Wine List recognition (2026). Plateau in The Lanes holds The Good Food Guide GFG Good (2025).
Terre à terre in The Lanes and Baqueano on Western Road both list tasting menus. Terre à terre pairs that format with vegetarian and vegan cooking, while Baqueano also offers a la carte and small plates alongside its tasting menu.
None of the venues in this Brighton guide hold Wine Spectator awards. Ten Green Bottles in North Laine holds Star Wine List recognition (2026). Plateau in The Lanes holds The Good Food Guide GFG Good (2025).
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Salt Shed on Church Street sits opposite the Royal Pavilion and traces a direct line from Brighton's festival and market circuit to a permanent address. The kitchen centres on open-flame cooking, hand-shaped patties, and the stripped-back philosophy of fire, meat, and beer. It is a useful marker of how street-food culture graduates into bricks-and-mortar dining in a city that rewards exactly that kind of progression.
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A Brighton outpost of the izakaya tradition, Bincho Yakitori on Preston Street brings the discipline of binchotan-grilled skewers to the South Coast. The weekly-changing menu runs from chicken thigh and gizzards to charred sweet potato, designed for sharing alongside sake, Japanese whisky, and cold beer. Counter seats overlooking the open grill are the place to be.
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Open since 1981, Food for Friends is Brighton's oldest vegetarian restaurant, holding a distinctive place in the city's plant-based dining tradition. The menu rotates through globally influenced dishes built on local and organic ingredients, from Moroccan tagines with slow-roasted chickpeas to beetroot risotto with feta and rocket. It sits in the Lanes, making it a practical anchor for anyone tracing Brighton's independent food scene.
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On Western Road, Foodilic operates one of Brighton's most direct propositions: an all-you-can-eat buffet built around organic salads, raw preparations, warm vegetarian and vegan dishes, and some meat options, all priced accessibly. The format rewards slow, considered eating rather than a quick transaction, and the emphasis on high-nutritional-value ingredients places it firmly in Brighton's health-conscious dining tradition.
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No No Please on Preston Street brings a rare hybrid format to Brighton: part dining room, part lounge, part cocktail bar, with a short menu that spans sesame prawn toast and beef-cheek curry alongside batch-made house cocktails. The mid-century space has an easy, convivial energy, and the no-reservations policy keeps the atmosphere informal. House wine pours start at £6.20, and the whole thing runs on drop-in instinct rather than occasion planning.
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Planet India on Richmond Parade brings the breadth of India's vegetarian cooking tradition to Brighton's east side, with a menu that runs from eggplant in yoghurt sauce to spinach curry and slow-cooked lentils with ginger and garlic. The cooking draws on a cuisine where vegetables are not a concession but the main event, making it a natural reference point for Brighton's well-established plant-based dining scene.
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For over a decade, Plateau has anchored Brighton's natural wine scene from its address on Bartholomews. What began as a bar with good cheese boards has matured into one of the city's most compelling small-plates destinations, pairing a regularly changing, produce-driven menu with an adventurous, guidance-worthy wine list in a room that manages to feel both casual and considered.
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Ten Green Bottles sits on Jubilee Street in central Brighton, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2022. The wine program positions it within Brighton's more serious dining tier, where list depth and selection discipline matter as much as what arrives on the plate. Book ahead and arrive with a clear sense of what you want to drink.
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Brighton's longest-running vegetarian restaurant, Terre à Terre has occupied its East Street address for over 25 years under founders Amanda Powley and Philip Taylor. The kitchen works entirely within vegetarian and vegan parameters, treating sustainability and waste reduction as operational defaults rather than marketing positions. It occupies a specific tier in Brighton's dining scene: serious, technically considered, and not easily compared to anything else in the city.
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Where Meeting House Lane Gets Loud Opposite Brighton's Jubilee Library, on a lane that funnels foot traffic from the Lanes into the North Lace quarter, The Chilli Pickle occupies a position that suits its personality. The room is colourful and...
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On Brighton's seafront at 106 King's Road, The Salt Room pairs fire-cooked seafood with floor-to-ceiling views of the English Channel. The format is deliberately social, market fish from the blackboard, shared on the bone, alongside a wine list anchored in coastal whites. It's a loud, energetic room that reads the city accurately.
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Baqueano sits on Western Road in Brighton, bringing South American culinary traditions to a city better known for its Mediterranean and Asian dining scenes. The address places it within easy reach of central Brighton, making it a practical choice for those looking beyond the seafront's more obvious options.
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Bocana sits on Lewes Road in Brighton, a stretch that has quietly become one of the city's more interesting dining corridors outside the tourist-facing centre. With sparse public data available, the restaurant operates closer to the local discovery tier than the reviewed mainstream, which in Brighton's food culture carries its own weight. Readers seeking the fuller picture of the city's restaurant scene will find useful context in our Brighton dining guide.
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HK Place on Preston Street sits in Brighton's most competitive dining corridor, where the city's international restaurant scene runs at its most concentrated. The address places it among a range of independently operated kitchens drawing on diverse culinary traditions. Preston Street's density makes it a practical base for a longer evening of comparison dining across the neighbourhood.
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Kitgum occupies a Preston Road address that sits slightly apart from Brighton's central dining cluster, placing it in a neighbourhood where the room does the first work before the kitchen takes over. Details on cuisine, chef, and format are limited in the public record, making an advance call to confirm current hours and menu direction the sensible first step before visiting.
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Korpan occupies a unit inside Brighton's Open Market on Marshalls Row, placing it at the intersection of the city's independent food culture and its covered-market revival. The venue draws a loyal local crowd whose return visits speak louder than any formal accolade. For those tracking Brighton's quieter, neighbourhood-rooted dining spots, Korpan is worth understanding on its own terms.
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Thewitchez Restaurant occupies a slip of Meeting House Lane in Brighton's North Laine quarter, a stretch that rewards walkers who slow down enough to notice what sits between the vintage stalls and independent coffee shops. The address alone places it inside one of the south coast's most characterful dining corridors, where independent operators have historically outpaced their chain-laden peers on personality if not always on consistency.
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Yelken Restaurant occupies a address on St James's Street in Kemptown, one of Brighton's most characterful dining corridors. Sitting among a cluster of independent neighbourhood spots, it draws both local regulars and visitors exploring the eastern end of the city. The gap between a quiet lunch and a fuller evening service shapes how most visitors should plan their visit.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Brighton.
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