If you follow me on Instagram (@mycopperhaven) you will have seen my little trip to Brighton back in January. I had a really great time on this little trip so I thought I would share the places I visited while I was down there with you. The trip was booked at this particular time of the year as I had tickets to see The 1975 at the Brighton Centre, that being my main reason of my trip. I had booked my hotel back in the November during the Artist Residence* Black Friday sale. I've stayed there on a previous trip with my mum and fell in love with the hotel. The Brighton branch of the group of eccentric boutique hotels has really good location on Regency Square that overlooks the sea, West Pier and i360 tower.
The rooms are super cosy, the particular room I stayed in was the Tiny Sea View which had murals on the walls, en suite, and mini bar stocked with locally sourced goodies. The en suite is also fully stocked with organic products from Bramley Products which I've used over the stays in their hotels and they are the best a hotel could provide so much so I bought some to use at home!
Our first stop after the hotel was to grab some food and a hot drink to warm up. We headed through the lanes to search for our brunch and came across The Breakfast Club which is an 80s haven which serves breakfast dishes all day. I had the All American, with fried potatoes, sausage, pancakes with maple syrup and eggs (I swapped eggs for beans). It was a super cool place to have brunch and you certainly didn't leave hungry. Though we did have to wait to get a table as it was super popular so we left our details so they called us when they had a table and got a drink at The Plant Rooms espresso bar and deli. They specialise in speciality coffee from New Zealand and vegetarian and vegan snacks, pastry and cakes. This was the perfect pit stop during the rain so just sit and enjoy a drink surrounded by so many lovely green plants and succulents, certainly made good drinks too!
The next morning we spent ages looking for somewhere to get breakfast and settles on The Ivy In The Lanes, because there are just too many options of good breakfast places! The restaurant had the most beautiful interiors, with plenty of art on the walls and luscious green velvet and burnt orange leather seating. We had a really nice peaceful breakfast as it was quite because it was early and midweek we were one of four parties of people in the whole place. So if your looking for more sophisticated breakfast venue this is the one to go for. We enjoyed it so much in fact we came back for cocktails later in the evening!
After a morning of exploring the lanes and a bit of mooching around charity shops and some of my favourite shops (Posh Totty and Abode Living are go-to shops) we decided to get the bus out to Kemptown to go to a particular cafe I had seen on instagram and GloBalls. Cafe Marmalade on Eastern Road was super dreamy. We stopped by for lunch to fuel us for mini golf and boy did we eat. This bohemian style cafe has so many food and drink options it took us a while to decide what order, but I settled for a sausage roll, chocolate brownie and hot chocolate. There were so many other things I could have ordered and will certainly head back if I'm in Brighton again soon.
Fully fuelled we walked down the coast to Brighton Marina and headed into GloBalls. There are two courses of 12 holes of a choice of theme of Jurassic or Tropicana. We sped through the first Jurassic course so decided for round two round the Tropicana course. I think its safe to say I whooped Emily on both courses coming out top.
After getting back into the centre of town decided as it was our last night we got dressed up and headed out for a night of cocktails and good food. We started at Franco Manca for some fresh sourdough pizza. If pizza is your thing you have to try out one of the Franco Manca ones, super fresh and good ingredients sources from both the UK and Italy. Then full of pizza headed back to The Ivy In The Lanes for cocktails. The atmosphere has much more of a buzz there in the evening, its certainly not a cheap place to go for drinks but they were really good!
Plus the bathrooms at the Ivy are the best for good selfies haha. So that brings me to the end of my roundup of a few places to visit in Brighton. Let me know if you have any other suggestions for when I head back again! Brighton is just such a nice place to visit and I thoroughly recommend you do go.
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