The Beachy Head

You're perched up on Beachy Head Road, and that's already a good start — this part of town feels properly removed from the seafront bustle. The Beachy Head pulls off what a lot of pubs round here struggle with: it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it takes its food seriously enough. This is Vintage Inn territory, which means the menu's actually thought through — gastropub standards done properly, not fancy-pants, and mains sit around the £12-16 mark. The real draw is the atmosphere: proper local crowd, actual ale on tap that people care about, and the kind of place where you can rock up solo with a pint or bring mates for a proper evening. It's got that neighbourhood pub feeling that's getting rarer in Eastbourne.