Cafe Rust Hove Museum

You'll find Cafe Rust tucked alongside Hove Museum on New Church Road, in that part of Hove where actual residents hang out rather than tourists. It's the kind of place where people camp out with laptops and newspapers, where the coffee's genuinely good and nobody's fussing about Instagram angles. The café pulls in a genuine cross-section—museum-goers, students, people running errands along the street—but there's nothing self-conscious about it. You get proper espresso-based drinks and decent food without the performance you sometimes get in trendier spots. It's just competent, comfortable, and refreshingly unbothered.