Baker Street: Brighton's Best Kept Secret?

[Weststander]

Everyone knows that people in Germany don't have a sense of humour.

That general theory about Germans themselves was disproved - see from 4:18 in this documentary:

 

[PTC Gull]

Bollox

Don't recall Coombs selling those either..

 

[osgood]

You're welcome, cheers

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AKA "Mad Coopers " lol

 

[Hendrax]

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

the owner of which is a personal friend of mine, couldn't recommend it more.

 

[osgood]

Many things to recommend Baker Street, but that boozer really isn't one of them.

had my first pints in there for quite a few years the other day,had a couple pints of "Tom Paine" an excellent IPA from the Harveys stable , how wonderful it tasted , and how nice it was to be in a PUB again, one not painted in Battleship grey , and being surrounded by WOOD , (that untarnished brown stuff) ,and not a load of asses !
Always been full supported by convivial locals, and a good spot for watching the football and Racing too
LONG LIVE THE MITRE TAVERN !

 

[BNthree]

, and how nice it was to be in a PUB again, one not painted in Battleship grey , and being surrounded by WOOD , (that untarnished brown stuff)

Pretty sure the pubs that use this colour would call it French country grey. Nothing as common as battleship grey!

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Working in London Road a visit to Bangers is on the lunch list at least once a week. The Beano pie and the Lamb and mint pie are my top 2 choices. At Christmas they produce a large xmas pie with sliced turkey breast, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce.

 

[Tarpon]

had my first pints in there for quite a few years the other day,had a couple pints of "Tom Paine" an excellent IPA from the Harveys stable , how wonderful it tasted , and how nice it was to be in a PUB again, one not painted in Battleship grey , and being surrounded by WOOD , (that untarnished brown stuff) ,and not a load of asses !
Always been full supported by convivial locals, and a good spot for watching the football and Racing too
LONG LIVE THE MITRE TAVERN !

This.
I recollect a chap popping in asking what food was on. He appeared somewhat unimpressed with the deadpan offer between two varieties of pork scratching and left as quickly as he arrived. Never change Mitre Tavern!

 

[Jimmehh]

Used to be a fantastic record shop down there, can't remember the name? And a home brew shop, and baker st bikes, and the coop department store so definitely going downhill

I walk down Baker St to work every day - pretty sure the record shop is still there, and Baker St Bikes 100% is still there...

Not all going downhill!

Pies from Bangers are brilliant, but only the savoury ones, had a fruit one before and it wasn't as good at the meat ones

 

[Gwylan]

I walk down Baker St to work every day - pretty sure the record shop is still there, and Baker St Bikes 100% is still there...

100% it's not - Baker St Bikes is on York Place.

The Mitre is one of the joys of Brighton, definitely my favourite pub in town - it's like stepping back in time.

I miss the old deli at the top though, used to sell the best coffee in Brighton. I stopped there every week after shopping in the market - not found anything to replace it with

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

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.

Paul is from Middlesbrough.

 

[Uncle C]

The record shop is still there. Its called Monkey Music Emporium.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I went in there an asked for a wasp.

Assistant: Sorry - we don't sell wasps,
Me: Well, you've got one in the window.

Useless!

I got stung by a bee last week. £7.50 for a jar of his honey!

 

[Notters]

The record shop is still there. Its called Monkey Music Emporium.

Nah, I think that's quite new. The old one used to grade cds based on their condition.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

100% it's not - Baker St Bikes is on York Place.

I thought York Place was Evans ?

 

[Live by the sea]

That whole London Road area has for years been a dump, it has improved over the last 3 years but the London Road area is still not exactly a desirable area to live but not the absolute dump that it used to be. So no not Brighton's best kept secret unless you are a student perhaps

 

[The Clamp]

I got stung by a bee last week. £7.50 for a jar of his honey!

Do you know that if we paid bees minimum wage for the hours that go into making honey, the average sized jar would cost just over £8m.

 

[Dick Head]

I went into Coomb's and said, 'I want to buy a wasp.'

'Sorry sir, we don't sell wasps', said the shopkeeper.

'But you've got one in the window', I replied.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I prefer Oxford Street, which, in memory was my getaway route having pilfered from Fine Fare. "I paid at the other end." I'd monotonously say as I went out with a bloated paw full of custard tarts.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I went into Coomb's and said, 'I want to buy a wasp.'

'Sorry sir, we don't sell wasps', said the shopkeeper.

'But you've got one in the window', I replied.

Blimey! Coombs really SHOULD stock wasps, they'd do a roaring trade. You're the third prospective customer on this thread alone