3 Jolly Butchers

Head up North Road towards the station and you'll find yourself in exactly the kind of pub that makes Brighton worth living in. There's no chrome, no craft cocktail menu, no Instagram-baiting nonsense—just honest beer, spirits that actually exist, and the sort of crowd that spans from students to pensioners who've been coming here since the nineties. The space feels lived-in rather than designed, with the easy warmth of a place that's never tried too hard to be anything other than what it is.