Coast Kitchen

You'll find Coast Kitchen tucked away on Station Approach, which means you're basically stumbling into something that shouldn't work as well as it does. This is where East Sussex College's hospitality students actually cook your dinner, and there's zero pretension about it—just competent, confident food served in a space that feels genuinely welcoming rather than like a training ground. The fact that it's got a 4.7-star rating says everything: people aren't going out of their way to be supportive of students, they're going because the food is worth the trip from anywhere in town.