The Dorset

North Road's one of those streets where you can feel the city properly living—not the seafront circus, just actual Brighton. The Dorset sits here like it's been there forever, the kind of pub where you'd genuinely bump into people you know, or meet new ones over a pint because that's what happens when a place gets the basics right. It's all real ales, proper cask beers, and the sort of no-nonsense approach to hospitality that makes you wonder why more pubs bother with gimmicks when they could just do this.