Whether you’re nursing your head after a big night out or just don’t fancy cooking at the Weekend be sure to check out our popular list of the best places for breakfast in Brighton and Hove. We’ve recently updated the list so it is always current and our top favourites still remain so if you haven’t already tried them then we suggest working your way through the list to experience all the delicious dishes. If you have tried them already then we’re sure you’ll be going back for more soon! Want more weekend foodie inspiration? Check out our guide to Brighton’s best roasts!
Kensingtons Cafe
Kensingtons is a very special little café in the North Laine. If you’re looking for a gut busting breakfast, some tasty home made chilli, a bowl of cheesy chips or even just a cup of tea, Kensingtons is the place to be. With a vast array of delicious food, a spacious balcony and a friendly and warm service. Kensingtons offers many Breakfast options; full fried meat and veggie breakfast, eggs on toast and rousing hot drinks. Plus, you can also swap out stuff you don’t want for those you love, great for fussy eaters, or the growing culture of bean haters.
Address: 1A Kensington Gardens, Brighton BN1 4AL
Billies
The best and freshest Hash browns in town. Billies is a tiny little café tucked away off of the busy Western Road and it deserves a shot. The portions are generous, the quality is undeniable, and the service is excellent. The menu ranges from their Famous Hash Browns to Billie’s All Day Jumbo Meat Breakfast both with veggie options. Try their speciality; the Farmhouse Hash: Sausage, bacon, baked beans & mushrooms pan-fried in butter with home-made hash browns and topped with a fried egg & grilled cheese all for 8.10.
Address: 34 Hampton Pl, Brighton BN1 3DD
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
With branches in The North Lane, York Place and Hove, Breakfast at Tiffany’s offers a wide range of cheap and cheerful morning snacks and breakfasts including 7 different large breakfast variations with a hot drink included for just £4.50. Alternatively, the Big Breakfast offers everything from black pudding to bubble and squeak thrown in for £5.50. With free on-street parking near-by and the beach just a couple of minutes walk away, why not pop down for a spot of breakfast followed by a nice seafront
Address: 22 North Rd, Brighton BN1 1YA
The New Club
The New Club in Brighton is a super-cool American style eatery. It uses quality ingredients to brings you an LA style Indie Coffee House, mixed with the vibes of a New York Bar and Diner. The New Club boasts a mouth watering range of inventive breakfasts, hang over cures and ‘hard’ brunch beverages. You’ll get your full fry up for £9 but the stack of buttermilk pancakes with optional blueberries/ Greek yoghurt/ maple syrup bacon is also worth a go. If your feeling up to it the hard brunch beverages include the Chorizo Bloody Mary – House infused Chorizo vodka, house smoky spice mix, lemon juice, tomato juice, port & steak sauce with cucumber & chilli pickle served tall over ice.
Address: 133-134 Kings Rd, Brighton BN1 2HH
Cafe Coho
This Brighton chain has branches on Ship Street, Queens Road and Brighton train station. Breakfast is available daily with a menu that has something for everyone ranging from a pancake tower with pasture raised bacon & male syrup to Eggs Benedict with Parma ham, local free range poached eggs and a chive hollandaise sauce. Go for the amazing pastry selection. Praised for it’s perfectly rich coffee and its heavenly and flavoursome pastries. Where possible all of the ingredients and suppliers are free range and local.
Address: 53 Ship St, Brighton BN1 1AF
Belchers
Belchers provides some of Brighton’s best Cholesterol slathered feasts from early till late, attracting the hungover hoards all year round. An unapologetically greasy British classic! Perfect when you fancy a decent plate of grub and a builder’s tea. The exterior is appropriately shabby which somehow makes it all the more appealing. Sometimes a builders ‘caf’ is all that will do.
Address: 9 Montpelier Rd, Brighton BN1 2LQ Phone(in lieu of website): 01273 321511
Iydea
With branches on Western road and Kensington gardens, Iydea has been widely and highly praised for it’s delicious food. It has won the best cafe in Brighton and Hove foodie awards in 2013 and the Vegetarian Society’s National Best Eating Out Award. It does a great meat and veggie selection, selling good value and top quality food and offering a large selection of freshly prepared hot and cold meals from natural raw ingredients served in the greenest possible way. Idyea boast an comprehensive breakfast and brunch menu. The big breakfast is £6.95 or you could go small for £4.25. Have your eggs poached with avocado and smoked Cheddar, sweet chilli source and soured cream. Or perhaps go for the Babylon style – poached with baby spinach, feta and mint on buttered muffin. Also try the banana nut toast and the brunch muffin: an avocado, sausage and hummus based toasted muffin.
Address: 17 Kensington Gardens, Brighton BN1 4AL
Little Miss Piggies
Nestled amongst the record shops, boutiques and trendy pubs of St James’s Street sits the inviting yellow doorway of Little Miss Piggies, a pork-lovers paradise! The independent, family-run cafe has a friendly, local atmosphere and serves up traditional British breakfasts, lunches and snacks seven days a week. If you’re looking for a cute breakfast spot, they have it all: from wholesome porridge and guilt-free granola, to a classic fry-up that promises to cure any hangover! If you’re looking for proper English fare then this is the place and their English Breakfast is just £5.25! You can even build your own breakfast, leave out the worst bits. Or, just simply order 8 rashes of bacon, it’s up to you! Read more about them here.
Address: 85 St James’s St, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1TP
It’s North Laine not the North Lanes. This writer clearly doesn’t “love Brighton.”
Hi Jim,
Thank you for your comment, I have amended the article, unfortunately I think this is a common mistake even for those who do love Brighton!
Haha, a man after my own heart!