Smoked aubergine with woodfired bread at Burnt Orange
- Credit: Paul Winch-Furness
We lift the lid on some of the best new restaurants and cafés in Sussex that are throwing open their doors to guests in 2021
Burnt Orange
Opening date: Early June.
If you like the vibe of a bar but want all the deliciousness of a restaurant, you’re sure to be impressed with Burnt Orange, which has been designed to deliver exactly that. The new all-day and late-night hangout is the brainchild of restaurateur Razak Helalat and promises to win you over with its casual yet sophisticated ambience, complete with a specially curated music programme by DJ Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim).
A DISCOUNT app aimed at independent food and drink venues has relaunched in Brighton with a new campaign to tackle single-use packaging. Wriggle, which first launched in the city in 2016, had partnered with over 500 independent businesses and boasted 30,000 users, but was forced to close temporarily due to coronavirus restrictions. However, with many restaurants reopening as lockdown eases, the app is making a return with its bring your own lunchbox campaign in a drive to cut plastic waste. With five million tonnes of plastic used every year in the UK, nearly half of which is packaging, their lunchbox revolution aims to encourage customers to take their own containers to local cafes, restaurants and street food stalls.
Dan Warne’s Brighton Beach-based food hall has reopened for outdoor dining with new traders and a far more finished look.
What: A food hall on Brighton Beach set within an impressive 15,000 sq ft Victorian building that has been carefully restored by the local council. The venue launched last summer
Who: Former Deliveroo managing director Dan Warne is leading the project, and has surrounded himself with a large and experienced team. Key people include former Sourced Market CEO Ben O’Brien; former Soho House CFO Ian Banks; and recently appointed head of special projects Abbey Hughes, who has managed a number of high profile hotel F&B projects involving top chefs. In addition to this, Luke Thomas - who was the subject of a documentary in 2012 when he became “Britain’s youngest head chef” - has joined the team as creative culinary director. This is clearly overkill for a single site, but
Cllr Sue Shanks, inset, said the council fell below expected standards after it was found to be at fault by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman A DEVELOPER who hopes to build student flats on the site of a former doctor’s surgery has re-applied to the council to relax a key planning condition. Heath Hill Student Developments was unsuccessful in February when it asked Brighton and Hove City Council to drop the requirement for a replacement surgery on the site. Now the company wants to remove the requirement to provide a temporary surgery during construction. The requirement is one of the conditions attached to an existing planning permission to build a block of 24 student bedrooms.
ONE of the newest venues on Brighton seafront said that a licensing condition requiring it to serve drinks in plastic – rather than glass – lowered the tone. And this undermined attempts to draw a more respectable clientele to the area, it said, as well as resulting in unnecessary plastic waste. Sessions Market, which runs the Shelter Hall, opposite the bottom of West Street, Brighton, was billed as a food-led venue. This had helped the operator to secure a premises licence to serve alcohol even though the site, owned by Brighton and Hove City Council, was in the busy central area. The view from Shelter Hall