Cocktail festival to return to Brighton with 50 bars announced

Brighton Cocktail Festival has announced that it is returning for its second year of city-wide celebrations, running from 18 to 27 September.

The future of whisky is indie

Brighton’s Cut Your Wolf Loose is a whisky bar with a difference. Besides the glowing neon ‘whisky’ sign in the window, edgy decor and graffiti-adorned walls, the world’s most recognisable brands of Scotch and bourbon are nowhere to be seen.

Popular Brighton wine shop to be evicted as Co-op expands

Independent wine shop Seven Cellars in the Seven Dials neighbourhood of Brighton has been given an eviction date of 26th November by the Co-op. The date lands at the start of festive trading period, as the national retailer seeks to expand an existing store.

The Coal Shed

Now open in its new home on North Street, The Coal Shed Brighton continues to bring London-level gastronomy to its Sussex counterpart as part of a much-needed revamp of the city’s downtown shopping district. Considerable work has gone into relocating and upscaling the Brighton restaurant, which is part of the same group behind The Salt Room and Burnt Orange. In its newest guise, the restaurant boasts an expansion to The Coal Shed’s signature over-fire beef cooking offer, while guests are greeted at the door with a dedicated cocktail bar. For the first time, the bar will be open seven days a week from noon till late.

Permit Room

This November, UK restaurant group Dishoom will open Permit Room in Brighton – a standalone bar taking its influence from the permit rooms, beer bars and drinking holes of Bombay’s post prohibition-era of the 1960s and 1970s. The all-day bar-café will be heavily focused on the drinks offer, with a brand new cocktail and drinks list featuring alongside an all-new menu of ‘moreish drinking food’. Permit Room’s new home in the Brighton Lanes also harks back to Bombay’s original permit rooms in tucked away side roads, many of which are still open today.

Seaside pop-ups for Cockburn’s Port

Cockburn’s Port is hoping to encourage more “unexpected ways” of drinking Port with two seaside-themed pop-up bars this summer, one in Brighton and one in Falmouth.

Cockburn’s introduces ‘experimental’ Port trio

Cockburn’s has produced a trio of experimental ports under the name Tails of the Unexpected.

Q&A: Cassie Gould, AKA ‘The Boss’, Butlers Wine Cellar

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Hixon Green acquires Lewes site

New York-style café and wine bar Hixon Green has acquired the former Aqua Restaurant in the south east market town of Lewes, for an undisclosed sum.

From L’Hotel to L’Atelier

Having cut their teeth at Hotel du Vin under the late, great Gerard Basset, Steve Pineau and Dimitri Mesnard have a slick operation in Brighton offering wine and Prohibition era-cocktails. Jo Gilbert caught up with the dynamic duo

Basset protégés pop the cork on second L'Atelier du Vin

L’ATELIER DU VIN

Q&A: Robert Maynard and James Thomson, Wild Flor

New Hove eatery Wild Flor combines quality comfort dining with a distinct wine focus. Andrew Catchpole reports

Meet the buyers: Arancha Lopez Perez, Ten Green Bottles

Hybrids that mix it up with wine and food spill the beans on how to juggle retail and in-house hospitality.

L’Atelier du Vin joins Brighton's burgeoning drinking scene

L’Atelier du Vin

Morgenrot pushes craft wine agenda

If your image of wine tastings involves white table clothes, red trousers and talk of terroir, then Morgenrot’s latest pop up at Block Bar Brighton broke every preconception going.

Carson & Carnevale introduce portfolio at Brighton and London tastings

Well-known trade figure Christopher Carson is to unveil his updated portfolio of agency wines this Monday and Wednesday at events in Brighton and London.