Brighton

Also - anyone up for visiting the Brighton Pavillion on Saturday morning?

How wonderful to see you again, Archel, Matt and Angle - and equally lovely to meet Chew, the lovely Missus Chew and Nick B!

Plus, well... MORRIS DANCE-OFF ON THE SEA-FRONT!!!

Plus... well... er... topless woman rubbing a big lump of offal all over her breasts...

Meanwhile, Prescott has finally spoken...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4319026.stm

NY Times discovers a place called Brighton exists

But with cosmopolitan London just an hour away

This is London, England, and Brighton, England, right? An hour? Just park my rocket sled on the beach...

Victoria to Brighton is about an hour on the train, I have to get it every Monday for work.

That article is bollox.

Although I do like the coffee at red rooster.

I was there y'day and today with my brother and some family. BILL'S foodstore was possibly best fryup I've ever had. Also really good Indian the name of which escapes me, v diff type of Indian to the usual...I like Brighton.

Bill's does the best, most healthy looking scrambled eggs. And French toast only bettered in the US. And their fish finger sandwiches are like WOAH. I'm hungry now. For Bill's.

Where was the Indian?

I forget what the Indian was called btw, I will ask my brother, I was there a few weeks ago also.

Brighton residents can you recommend a restuarant btw? I am there tomorrow and going out for dinner with my parents.

haven't been for ages now, shame. what's this about a mini-festival up on Devil's Dyke? i miss that view.

I forget what the Indian was called btw, I will ask my brother, I was there a few weeks ago also.

Was it Indian Summer?

yes that was it. have you been? really great food imo, a pleasant change from living beside brick lane!

Have been to Indian Summer once but it was about five years ago or something. Good food though!

what's this about a mini-festival up on Devil's Dyke?

It's the Beachdown Festival, line-up is a bit meh...

Grace Jones
The Zutons
Laurent Garnier
Super Furry Animals
The Rakes
Saint Etienne
Grandmaster Flash
Prince Buster
The Fall
Ida Maria
Hospitality
Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics
Jazzanova
Gilles Peterson
Good Times – Norman Jay
James Hunter
Acid House Brass Band
Secret Affair
Joey Negro & the Sunburst Band
The Blockheads
James Taylor Quartet
Dreadzone
Snowboy & the Latin Section
The Apples
Jazz CoTech Dancers
Lack of Afro
Tru Thoughts – Natural Self, Rob Luis, Kinny
The New Mastersounds
Nostalgia 77 Octet
Laura Izibor
Belleruche
The Impellers
Funkshone
Alice McLaughlin
The Fantastics!

That line-up really peters out after the first name.

I thought it was a new restaurant...tho maybe I'm wrong. That was what my brother said I think.

It's been going for a few years, but it's moved around a bit. Started off in Hove, but they've closed that branch now.

if you can forgo meat the nicest meal i've had in brighton was at the vegetarian restaurant, terre a terre.

riddle and finns also pretty great if you're into your seafood. not as wanky as the website would suggest: http://www.riddleandfinns.co.uk/

I think aldo zilli has also opened a restaurant in the centre of town but i've not yet been so couldn't vouch for it.

Ditto on Terre a Terre.

Still haven't been to Riddle and Finns, but it gets good press. Terre a Terre has it’s ups and downs, last time I went was very good though.

Really enjoyed my last visit to the Gingerman on Norfolk Square. You're looking at £40 per head incluing drinks and tip at least though. Modern European done simply and well.

On the other end of the scale, you can get an absolutely amazing veggie curry from Planet India on Richmond Parade for around a tenner a head – better than any “traditonal” meat-based ones I’ve had in Brighton in the ten years I’ve lived here.

Or: it’s up a steep hill, but the Sussex Yeoman near the station does by far the best gastro-pub food I’ve had in Brighton – the beer isn’t great though.

Oh, you could also try Bill's on North Road - it's a warehouse café type place. Or we had a quite nice selection of tapas in a prety authentic new place on Syndey Street called Solera D Tapa the other week.

Sorry if I'm bombarding you here, but you should get a decent feed in any one of these places.

Wonder where Ronan went in the end. Was at Terre a Terre myself last night, their rosti is just so damn good. Need to perfect the art of cooking that stuff myself I think.

brighton weirded me out, everyone is so nice, its like the polar opposite of derry. sarcasm didnt go down too well. I cant imagine how anyone gets any work done there

keymer korma vs ditchling dosas

The churos are amazing at Terre à Terre, and I’m not really a dessert person.

I actually ended up unscheduled at Planet India after post-work pints with the wife on Wednesday and massively over-ordered, but we tried our best to burst our bellys. Nom nom nom.

Also going out to Riddle & Finns tonight, so will give the verdict. This all makes me sound like I eat out all the time, which I don’t!

fulking falafels

Chewshabadoo, we should do shandy sometime. Also, you are married now - wtf and congratulations also!