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Green roomed pub covered in framed prints with Fuller's, Harvey's and Hop Back Summer Lightning beers on offer. Not bad Not bad.
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Fairly unprepossessing from the outside but that changes once through the door. A genuine welcome and quick service even though the place was reassuringly busy in the early afternoon. Wooden floors and tables, green bench type seating and green walls over a timber wainscot give a comfortable relaxed feel. 2/3 "rooms" albeit open to each other but all having the feel of a seperate area. A garden is situated at the rear off the main bar.
Harveys Sussex, Adnams Explorer, London Pride and Tanglefoot on the handpumps.
I'm not sure of the significance of the mini statue of a teddy boy/rocker toting a machine gun or whether it is Elvis or some other? A bookshelf contains some shabby volumes, many with a cricket theme.
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Quite a nice pub only a coupe of minutes walk from the station. Quite a traditional feel to it witha couple of different rooms and a patio garden. Beers well kept(Harveys, Sharps Doombar and Summer Lightning when I was in). We ate lunch and the food was pub grub but quite acceptable and not extortionate. Well worth the visit.
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Great friendly littl pub. Worth walking up the hill for!
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Just a skip from Brighton station and you are at the Battle. Sorry smokers, but the smoking ban has put this back on my list of favourite pubs in Brighton. It's friendly and a proper traditional pub. The food menu looks quite good but I've not tried it. This pub is great for a summer drink as its garden is quite large for such a central pub. Interesting interior - worth the short walk up the hill from the station!
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Good summer pub, nice garden but unheated and not covered. Good Guinness and very friendly staff.
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Nice pub - lovely summer garden, friendly staff and a resident pub dog. Food is great - especially fish fingers, chips and beans and burgers! Only griper is the toilets seem a lot to be desired, as with most boozers in Brighton!
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Up the steep hill from the railway station, you get a bit of excercise before a well deserved pint! Nice little pub with a good selection of well kept, changing ales. Fairly busy with a mix of customers, the staff is friendly and cheerful. One of the better pubs in this area.
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Always a good selection of real ales here, but stopped going regularly for lunch, when, after complaining that my lunch should have come with bread and butter, was told they had run out! Might have said so when they bought it out or offered an alternative.
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like it - wish it wasn't so far up the hill!!! Where did the gorgeous Gordon go?!
anonymous - 16 Oct 2007 18:47 |
Marvellous pub, bigger than you'd expect from the outside, with very large (for central Brighton) garden and a great atmosphere. Great selection of ales too. Harveys, plus currently Black Sheep, London Pride and Tim Taylor's.
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Brill little pub - the staff are friendly, the garden is cute and a real suntrap (thank god for the gazebo!)plus the fish fingers, chips and beans are legendary!! One of the ebst pubs in Brighton!!!
anonymous - 24 Sep 2007 10:08 |
Benn going here, on and off, for years - a great, friendly pub which never seems to change. Good beer and a varied and interesting crowd.
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Lovely friendly pub. I was able to look round and found the large rear garden. Beers enjoyable in good surroundings.
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Cracking little boozer, the hill's not that steep. Tempting to soak up sun and Harvey's in the garden and not bother with the sea.
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Trundled in recently to find the old place the same as it was a decade ago. Which is a good thing. Good Harveys ales and efficient service.
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Steep old walk up from the station - small but friendly and teh garden is a real sun trap in the summer. Another good reason to stay up by the station when drinking in Brighton.
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The layout of the tables can make the place seem a bit cramped, but on the whole a pleasnt experience. Of the four real ales available, I tried the Harvey's Best and Adnam's Broadside and both were very good. As already stated, it's very handy for the station and there's a great little chippy between the pub and station which must have the cheapest prices around.
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Bit grim inside but a great beer garden for the summer. They have a nautical bell that you can ring if you give them money for charity. Great way to empty the pub if you so wish! Very good food so a good lunch time pub.
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Very handy for the station. Good beer, good atmosphere well worth a visit.
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This pub is well worth a visit. A short (downhill) stagger to Brighton station, it is traditional, unpretentious and relaxing. Well kept ale and real cider. It has the qualities that make a traditional place the place to chill out.
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An excellent range of beer and cider, good food, and an all round nice atmosphere. An excellent alternative to the Evening Star if you fancy a break from there.
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Ace pub, very close to Brighton station. I thought it would be full of old men, but no. AU CONTRAIRE!! Soem very fit girls and nice guys, and the drinks were great.
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Paid a visit a couple of nights ago at a friends recomenation. Well worth it, abit crowded but nice feel about the place and good beer. What more could you want.
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Just a really good proper pub, warm friendly atmosphere, unpretentious and unspoiled. Good beer, food and wine
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A pleasant little pub in a pleasant little area. Just very slightly above the normal standard of food. I've eaten here a couple of times - I can vouch for a tasty jacket potato, and a cracking greek salad replete with feta cheese, olives and tomatoes. They also do a nice dose of munt, too, with plenty of pie and chips type options - just the thing when you're feeling a bit 'delicate'.
It looks like an Old Man's Pub from the outside AND the inside, but you'll find a very tolerant atmosphere in here. My cohorts and I have spent many a good hour drinking heavily and swearing loudly without being chucked out.
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Disappointing, badly run and tatty.
anonymous - 9 Jul 2005 16:02 |
Totally consistent, absolutely great pub. People tend to rave about the friendly atmosphere and nautical decorations. But it's also true that the Trafalgar keeps its beers in absolutely tip-top condition; you won't get a 'cloudy' pint here! Good selection of wines too.
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Real pub run by real people. A new experience for me, not used to a real local's pub, but pleasantly surprised. Felt at home.
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Just had a change of ownership & management. Looks like no changes at all. Still a proper traditional site serving real beer in a convivial atmosphere. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Food well priced, and the Harveys is worth the walk on it's own. One of the very few pubs to be able to hold it's head high in a world of mass marketed branded "bars".
anonymous - 10 Feb 2005 14:08 |
Turn sharp right out of the rail station and take a short wall up the right hand side of the steep hill that is Guildford Road. This traditional pub with wooden floors, tables and chairs has a comfortable and capacious interior that stretches two sides around a central bar. Old prints and paintings decorate green painted walls that colour co-ordinate with the soft covered wall seating. The range of ales is Fullers London Pride, Greene King Abbott Ale, Youngs Bitter and, my selection for today, Harveys Best Bitter. The quality is good, prices are fair and the pub has been a GBG entry since 2002. Best web info at <http://ultimatepubguide.com/pubs/index.phtml>
(Spring 2004)
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Good atmosphere during the day, relaxed, and with friendly regulars. Fairly average food. Polite and friendly bar staff.
Lucy - 20 Oct 2004 13:09 |
the blonde that works behind the bar is the best!best beer best food best pub xxx
blonde that works behind the bar xx - 25 Sep 2004 21:53 |
Slightly scuffed on the outside with a tumble-down beer garden but it's well worth popping in. The bar staff are friendly up to the point of cheeky but that's part of the charm (the barmen wouldn't pollute the Harvey's bitter with lemonade to make a shandy for her and quite right too.)
A good place to go.
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It's sometimes a bit cliquey, but overall this is one of the best pubs in Brighton. The range and quality of drinks is excellent, the food is also very good (while it lasts), and you can have a decent conversation in there. The barstaff are usually very good too. An oasis.
anonymous - 7 Aug 2004 17:14 |
No lads, (deliberately) old music, pretty good bitter, excellent spot for an after-work pint before catching the train. Great, quiet beer garden that just about gets some sun in the summer evenings. Can get busy out the back on a sunny weeknight. Bit smokey inside.
Friendly staff.
Jabs - 13 May 2004 16:45 |
Aparently they've now stopped children coming in, or even being in the beer garden. i can understand this is a difficult call to make, but a few of my friends are quite annoyed that what was a nice faamily boozer for a Sunday afternoon, is now out of bounds to them. Shame.
Ant - 13 Oct 2003 14:38 |
Good food, large beer garden, civilised place.
Ian - 8 Oct 2003 23:15 |
Nice ales, not that far up the hill from the Station. Certainly a better choice than Grand Central (The old Finnegan's Wake pub)
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nice little pub, very friendly, good entertainment.
blue - 27 Sep 2003 18:45 |
Best pub in three minutes walking distance from station. It is uphill though, so if very tired the evening star of albert may be an easier proposition.
Ant - 30 Jul 2003 13:34 |
busy on a friday after work but a great little boozer. good food too.
mark - 7 Jul 2003 23:19 |
Nice!!!
anonymous - 29 May 2003 14:57 |
good crowd with a cheeky little beer garden.
jim - 9 Dec 2002 17:15 |
Very popular traditional English pub, very good food, excellent friendly atmosphere and bar staff
Rip Gill - 23 Aug 2002 11:26 |
