The best places I eat
As the year draws to a close, it is the perfect opportunity to celebrate success across the city. The Places I Eat Brighton team have compiled a few of their favourite places to bring you our annual 'Best of Brighton and Hove' list.
Best Coffee Shop
Emporium, 88 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JF
A firm favourite with the Places I Eat Brighton team, namely due to its fantastic decor, killer coffee, and delectable range of cakes and bakes. Located in London Road and a prominent feature of the food revival in that area, Emporium continues to delight customers as a coffee shop, bar, and local theatre. Long may this interesting, quirky, and diverse caffeine haunt continue.
Best Street Food
Toston Tolon
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Hide AdToston Tolon are one of the best street-food vendors around, bringing a touch of Venezuelan magic to Brighton and Hove. One of the more popular stands at the weekly Street Diner market, Toston Tolon's signature Apera - gluten-free cornmeal pattie, sweet plantain, slow-cooked black beans, cheddar cheese, and pulled pork or shredded chicken - is something that everyone should try at least once. Affordable, filling and downright delicious, Toston Tolon have impressed the Places I Eat Brighton team on many occasions.
Best Supper Club
Cantina
I attended Tina Cantina's Supper Club twice this year and both were prominent highlights in my food calendar. Serving a Middle-Eastern inspired menu that focuses on locally-sourced ingredients, Tina is the complete home cook. Dishes include wild sea bass with orange, endive, black olives and a saffron aioli, and spiced duck bastilla. Deliciously fun and exceptionally tasty, Tina's supper clubs are sending ripples of excitement not only across Sussex, but across the United Kingdom. Be sure to book in for 2015.
Best Breakfast
Joe's Café, 24 Upper Hamilton Road, Brighton, BN1 5DF
It's been a pleasure watching Joe's Café become one of Brighton's best-loved breakfast haunts. With a focus on organic and Sussex produce, Dan and Jane Cooke have turned what was once a greasy spoon into a wonderful, welcoming cafe. The Bigger Breakfast is not to be missed, nor the Hashegeddeon - sausage, bacon, black pudding, mushroom, onion, tomato, and a side of beans, topped with two fried eggs, cheese and chives - from which 50p is donated to funding the community space Exeter St Hall in that area. A truly excellent and friendly cafe.
Best Ethical Food Business
Hisbe, 20 York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GU
Recently celebrating their first birthday, Hisbe have solidified themselves on the Brighton and Hove food shopping map. Opened as a social enterprise by sisters Amy and Ruth Anslow, Hisbe - How It Should Be - aims to bring fairness to the way we shop and consume products. Working closely with famers across Sussex, Hisbe is able to bring affordability to the customer and a fairness to the producer. Focusing on healthy, sustainable, GM- and pesticide-free, high welfare, seasonal, minimally-packaged and responsibly-sourced products makes Hisbe the standout ethical food business of 2014.
Read next week's Brighton and Hove Independent to discover the Best Restaurant, Best Burger, Best Burrito, Best Roast, and Best Newcomer.