Baker Street: Brighton's Best Kept Secret?

Tom Hark Preston Park · Jul 24, 2017

Suddenly struck me today as I was leaving Bangers pie shop with two hearty chicken 'n' mushroom pies AND a serious sausage roll AND change from a fiver, what an absolute quality street is Baker Street. For those poor unfortunates that don't know it, it's just off London Road and behind the Open Market. In this one street you've got aforesaid glorious Bangers pie shop, PLUS unreconstructed Harveys pub The Mitre Tavern. PLUS Brighton's best pet shop A Coombs. PLUS Brighton's best fish'n'chip shop Bardsley's. PLUS Jools (and Geordie Paul) splendid barbershop. PLUS a very decent picture framing shop. And that's all just off the top of me head.

If you've not been, go soon, before it gets swallowed up in the jaws of gentrification. We won't see its like again.

Westdene Seagull · Jul 24, 2017

Tom Hark said:
Suddenly struck me today as I was leaving Bangers pie shop with two hearty chicken 'n' mushroom pies AND a serious sausage roll AND change from a fiver, what an absolute quality street is Baker Street. For those poor unfortunates that don't know it, it's just off London Road and behind the Open Market. In this one street you've got aforesaid glorious Bangers pie shop, PLUS unreconstructed Harveys pub The Mitre Tavern. PLUS Brighton's best pet shop A Coombs. PLUS Brighton's best fish'n'chip shop Bardsley's. PLUS Jools (and Geordie Paul) splendid barbershop. PLUS a very decent picture framing shop. And that's all just off the top of me head.

If you've not been, go soon, before it gets swallowed up in the jaws of gentrification. We won't see its like again.

PLUS Semolina the restaurant.

BBassic · Jul 24, 2017

PLUS Skin Candy, one of Brighton's best tattoo parlours. So good both Messrs Knockaert and Stockdale got some work done there.

Pevenseagull · Jul 24, 2017

Yep, best street in Brighton

Thunder Bolt · Jul 24, 2017

I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong.

pearl · Jul 24, 2017

and the Cobblers

Jack Straw · Jul 24, 2017

"I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong."
My newts applause?

Wellesley · Jul 24, 2017

I shan't be popping down. It's all a little too common around there for a cultured fellow such as me.

Pevenseagull · Jul 24, 2017

Bob Holness did NOT play the saxophone solo. FACT.

Bakero · Jul 24, 2017

Don't forget Abyssinia. Cheap as chips, not to mention tasty, Ethiopian place.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Jul 24, 2017

Monkey Music Emporium

Druids Head

New Pizza restaurant (the old corals bookies)

Pound shop

All must be in Baker Street

Semolina Restaurant

Sadly the knitting shop has gone

Wellesley · Jul 24, 2017

Pevenseagull said:
Bob Holness did NOT play the saxophone solo. FACT.

I'm surprised to hear that. I could have sworn that was him that used to be busking outside the Co-Op.

MattBackHome · Jul 24, 2017

****ing love Semolina

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BN9 BHA · Jul 24, 2017

Hasn't been the same since Coopers closed

tiberious · Jul 24, 2017

and you can get your drugs at the level ... its always been a bit Sh*t and i used to live near there and drink in the Northern Tavern. The Mitre is not a shade on what it was... used to go there with my Dad..Drinking the only good thing my dad taught me.

tiberious · Jul 24, 2017

bn9 bha said:
Hasn't been the same since Coopers closed

your showing your age.. used to get my hair done in a barbers down there but not coopers..

SicilianHungary · Jul 24, 2017

Mitre looks depressing af but I've always wanted to try the pie shop.

The new pizza place was briefly a cool exhibition space, would have preferred it stayed as that. Haven't had Bardsley's in yonks.

I mostly use Baker St to cut from the level to get to the London Road Natwest, it's better than Oxford Street.

BN9 BHA · Jul 24, 2017

tiberious said:
your showing your age.. used to get my hair done in a barbers down there but not coopers..

A Brighton legend.
I never actually went in there but I do remember looking at his odd window display a few times.
One of my friends went in there when we were kids, Cooper swore at him and pointed at the hand written sign on the door-
No boys on Saturday

pearl · Jul 24, 2017

Horton's halftime iceberg said:
Monkey Music Emporium

Druids Head

New Pizza restaurant (the old corals bookies)

Pound shop

All must be in Baker Street

Semolina Restaurant

Sadly the knitting shop has gone

bookies was William Hill's though ... I still miss the old Co-op, it had everything

jevs · Jul 24, 2017

Not been there for years. Good to hear that Bangers is still going. Best pies i've ever tasted

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