Baker Street: Brighton's Best Kept Secret?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Suddenly struck me today as I was leaving Bangers pie shop with two hearty chicken 'n' mushroom pies AND a serious sausage roll AND change from a fiver, what an absolute quality street is Baker Street. For those poor unfortunates that don't know it, it's just off London Road and behind the Open Market. In this one street you've got aforesaid glorious Bangers pie shop, PLUS unreconstructed Harveys pub The Mitre Tavern. PLUS Brighton's best pet shop A Coombs. PLUS Brighton's best fish'n'chip shop Bardsley's. PLUS Jools (and Geordie Paul) splendid barbershop. PLUS a very decent picture framing shop. And that's all just off the top of me head.

If you've not been, go soon, before it gets swallowed up in the jaws of gentrification. We won't see its like again.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Suddenly struck me today as I was leaving Bangers pie shop with two hearty chicken 'n' mushroom pies AND a serious sausage roll AND change from a fiver, what an absolute quality street is Baker Street. For those poor unfortunates that don't know it, it's just off London Road and behind the Open Market. In this one street you've got aforesaid glorious Bangers pie shop, PLUS unreconstructed Harveys pub The Mitre Tavern. PLUS Brighton's best pet shop A Coombs. PLUS Brighton's best fish'n'chip shop Bardsley's. PLUS Jools (and Geordie Paul) splendid barbershop. PLUS a very decent picture framing shop. And that's all just off the top of me head.

If you've not been, go soon, before it gets swallowed up in the jaws of gentrification. We won't see its like again.

PLUS Semolina the restaurant.

 

[BBassic]

PLUS Skin Candy, one of Brighton's best tattoo parlours. So good both Messrs Knockaert and Stockdale got some work done there.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Yep, best street in Brighton

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong.

 

[pearl]

and the Cobblers

 

[Jack Straw]

"I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong."
My newts applause?

 

[Wellesley]

I shan't be popping down. It's all a little too common around there for a cultured fellow such as me.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Bob Holness did NOT play the saxophone solo. FACT.

 

[Bakero]

Don't forget Abyssinia. Cheap as chips, not to mention tasty, Ethiopian place.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Monkey Music Emporium

Druids Head

New Pizza restaurant (the old corals bookies)

Pound shop

All must be in Baker Street

Semolina Restaurant

Sadly the knitting shop has gone

 

[Wellesley]

Bob Holness did NOT play the saxophone solo. FACT.

I'm surprised to hear that. I could have sworn that was him that used to be busking outside the Co-Op.

 

[MattBackHome]

****ing love Semolina

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[BN9 BHA]

Hasn't been the same since Coopers closed

 

[tiberious]

and you can get your drugs at the level ... its always been a bit Sh*t and i used to live near there and drink in the Northern Tavern. The Mitre is not a shade on what it was... used to go there with my Dad..Drinking the only good thing my dad taught me.

 

[tiberious]

Hasn't been the same since Coopers closed

your showing your age.. used to get my hair done in a barbers down there but not coopers..

 

[SicilianHungary]

Mitre looks depressing af but I've always wanted to try the pie shop.

The new pizza place was briefly a cool exhibition space, would have preferred it stayed as that. Haven't had Bardsley's in yonks.

I mostly use Baker St to cut from the level to get to the London Road Natwest, it's better than Oxford Street.

 

[BN9 BHA]

your showing your age.. used to get my hair done in a barbers down there but not coopers..

A Brighton legend.
I never actually went in there but I do remember looking at his odd window display a few times.
One of my friends went in there when we were kids, Cooper swore at him and pointed at the hand written sign on the door-
No boys on Saturday

 

[pearl]

Monkey Music Emporium

Druids Head

New Pizza restaurant (the old corals bookies)

Pound shop

All must be in Baker Street

Semolina Restaurant

Sadly the knitting shop has gone

bookies was William Hill's though ... I still miss the old Co-op, it had everything

 

[jevs]

Not been there for years. Good to hear that Bangers is still going. Best pies i've ever tasted