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                <title>A day out in Brighton</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Start off at Bill's Produce Store on North Road, where you can enjoy colourful platefuls of homemade pizza, quiche and salad in a huge room lined with delicious-looking preserves, pickles and other goodies. You'll be near North Laine now, so go for a post-lunch potter amongst the shops selling anything from vegetarian shoes to kooky sex toys. <br><br>If you have any space left after Bill's, a visit to the Bar du Chocolat on Middle Street is a must. Run by the iconic Brighton confectioners Choccywoccydoodah (Duke Street), the hot chocolate is top rate. For one last gastronomic treat, make sure you book a table at Terre a Terre, one of the top vegetarian restaurants in the country, and one of the few to serve up 'haute cuisine' vegetarian food. After all that indulgence, Sunday morning can be a bracing walk along the seafront towards Hove, past the dejected looking West Pier and towards the ice-cream coloured beach huts.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bites in Brighton</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Try Bill's Produce Store for a spot of lunch. It’s ‘the in place’ at the moment but it still feels very genuine. Good prices, friendly service. The North Laines area is also worth a visit particularly for last-minute funky presents. The new library building should also be seen (Carluccio’s café and shop is just around the corner too).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Royal York Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Boutique hotel with cocktail bar, private karaoke rooms, restuarant and plenty of history.<br>Just off the seafront.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Guarana Company</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Do you know why the good people of BRightOn are so chilled and happy, it’s because we have Guarana.  This nectar sent from the Gods via Brazil can be found in the North Laines and I suggest heading straight there from the train station and sampling a Vitamina shake. It will enhance your festival experience 100%.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shakespeare's Head Pub</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare was to rhyming couplets what this place is to bangers and mash. Mix loads of different sausages (from a fine local butcher in Hove) with as many different types of mash. Good job the bangers and mash is so good because it's the only food they do (aside from a smashing Sunday roast.) Top staff and great music seal the deal. I live in Mexico City now and miss this place massively.]]></description>
                
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                <title>www.uniqueto.co.uk</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It offers Brightonians and visitors a chance to find and use totally one-off specialist, local businesses, dedicated to quality goods and/or service and the site is really clear and easy to use.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Alexander's fine foods at The Hanover Pub</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Gorgeous food all week and excellent roast on Sundays. Delicious meat, scrummy veg, fabby gravy and good atmosphere combine to make this a Sunday treat!]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Tea Cosy</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's a tiny little tea house tucked away off the beaten tourist track in the Hanover area of Brighton, run by a couple of young gay guys, with space for 16 guests seated. Kitch and as camp as they come! <br><br>The tea room is like stepping inside a memorabilia shop, like someone's front room, with an eclectic mixture of decor dedicated to the Royals, with Union Jacks ablaze, a grand piano and pictures of Diana adorning the walls. <br><br>The house rules are hilarious (not to be taken too seriously) ie no dunking of biscuits, no clanking of spoons when stirring your tea etc!<br><br>The menu is humorous, with items such as "The Duchies Cream Tea, Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth High Tea, The Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales Afternoon Tea" and the unforgetable "The Julie Goodyear High Tea" (aka Corrie's Bet Lynch!) [you get the idea!)<br><br>It kind of epitomises Brighton's eclectic campness. Well worth a visit for a fun cream tea.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Iydea</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fantastic vegetarian and vegan cafe/canteen. Salads and specials are great. Friendly staff. Homemade lemonade and organic wines.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Terre A Terre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Simply the best veggie restaurant that I have ever visited. Reading the menu is part of the pleasure - it has a language all of its own, e.g. Bengal Babs -Tandoori spice loaded halloumi kebab, served with smoked almond custard risotto, tamarind tang, pink onion and green mango sas, and podi dust tomatoes; Cigarillo Mejoolie - Deep-fried parchment pastry crammed with cardamon mejool date and pistachio lemon mince, cinnamon dust, fennel seed sugar, served with pomegranate bead, orange and grapefruit fillets and a mint tisane granita. The flavours and textures are divine. The staff are efficient and friendly and the restaurant also caters for vegans and those who need a gluten free diet. I visit regularly and am never disappointed.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Food for Friends</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Amazing vegetarian restaurant which serves innovative and interesting food, has a good wine list, and the staff are very friendly too.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Marrocco's</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Italian Cafe. Good caff snacks of the Italian variety but truly delicious, excellent quality, homemade ice cream in a multitude of flavours (try a dollop of chocolate and a dollop of pistachio.. or hazel.. the strawberry is v. good too... oh dear. I'm getting over excited!<br><br>Eating a Marrocco's ice cream whilst staring at the sea is an essential Brighton experience.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Pintxo People Brighton</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This restaurant was AWFUL.  I have worked in hospitality for years and never have I experienced or seen such bad service.  <br><br>The staff were surly and could never be found, the food was overpriced and the bar prices (£50 for 3 drinks &amp; the house red) was over the top.  Not only that it was incredibly slow, we had to wait for almost 30 mins for our dessert to arrive. I agree that the only people saying the place is wonderful are the managers and the staff.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bardsley's</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Bardsley's is just the most friendly fish and chip shop imaginable with top quality fish and chips. "If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours" says the notice above the counter. And it's absolutely true. Along with the most delicious fish and chips imaginable, and many other fish choices as well as a good vegetarian selection.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Greys Pub</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Massive selection of Belgian beer in bottles and on tap. The food here is excellent, restaurant quality but in a pub, a 'proper' pub at that. This is NOT a bar. Oh, and it has bands/musicians!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Havana</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful, superb restaurant in the lanes.  Its colonial in look but the most impressive thing is the food. The 5 of us all chose different starters, mains &amp; puds and they were all divine.  Especially mine: squid with ink risotto - yum!  Expensive but wonderful as a treat. Oh and the staff were brilliant too.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Bodega</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The most authentic tapas I have had in the UK. The atmosphere is that of eating at someone's house, intimate, welcoming, hosts bending over backwards to make you happy, and the home-grown house wine and sherry is something else.  You can buy bottles of wine to take home, along with many of the ingredients that you'll find on the menu.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Dali's</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Wonderful, buzzy tapas restaurant in seven dials with a serene, sheltered garden for eating outside. Staff are all delightful and the food is a contender for the best Spanish in Brighton - dare I say it just as good as Pintxo People (much lauded newcomer on Western Road) but more hearty fare and not as self-consciously flash.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Terre a Terre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Not only the best vegetarian restaurant in Brighton but in my opinion the best restaurant in Brighton period... and I'm not even a vegetarian. Organic wines and ciders, elaborate towering salads, wonderful staff, and the most glorious and imaginative (vegetarian, but who cares?) food you've tasted in ages. I recommend the rosti. Should be £20-40 a head, depending how carried away you get with the wine. And you should. Take a date.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mitre Tavern</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a pub which is located near Bardsleys fish and chip shop. It sells Harvey's bitter, which is brewed in Lewes, a market town near Brighton. You can order your fish and chips in the pub and your bitter at the same time.]]></description>
                
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