Hove Park Cafe

You're walking through Hove Park on a Saturday morning, maybe after a run or just because you've actually got time for a proper breakfast. Hove Park Cafe sits right there by the park, all welcoming and unpretentious—the kind of spot that feels genuinely run by people who give a toss about what they're doing. It's packed with locals who've made it their regular, not because it's Instagram-famous but because the coffee's decent, the food's straightforward, and you're not paying through the nose for it. There's something refreshingly uncynical about places like this in Brighton—community-focused, reasonably priced, and actually open when normal humans need coffee.