Drinks and Food for Few
Hampton's Arms, Brighton
Part of entertaining the in-laws includes going places and meeting with our friends. Kind of showing them what is our usually normal, day-to-day lifestyle. And this includes an occasional indulgence in form of a beer or two and some food at a pub. So on the evening on their arrival we decided to grab a bite at one of our regular places - The Hampton's Arms Pub.
As it turns out, Thursday evening is a comedy evening. A group of aspiring (not so)young actors did three different sketches, all of them quite bizarre, to be honest. It involved plenty of screaming and banging on the flour and I didn't enjoy it a bit. Some other customers did.
The food was OK, typical pub food, nothing too fancy. They had only one vegetarian dish on the menu, which deeply upset our vegetarian friend. Indeed, it's a shame that they couldn't even come up with a salad of some sort that don't include meat. I can't even imagine how a vegan would've felt in this situation because the vegetarian dish was baked goat cheese with salad on the side. This is it. Sad but true.
The rest of us had burgers, because this was the only reasonable option on the menu. One special beer burger, three regular beef ones and a chicken burger. The eater of the beer burger said that either they forgot to add the beer or they added so little that the meat was dry and tasteless. The regular ones received mixed critics - from "Oh, I needed this!" to "Well, that was a disappointment...". My chicken burger on the other hand was more or less fine. The chicken was a bit overcooked and the mayo on the bun diluted with way too much water (why so cheap?!) so I was impressed at all. All burgers came with chips, and mine was under-cooked and had to go back to the kitchen until it stop being hazardous to eat it (you know, raw potatoes = tummy ache, voting, fever, etc, etc).
On the bright side, they have nice selection of ales if you're into that and offer a good (Czech) lager on dissent prices. Not cheap, but not the most expensive place in town. And you'll probably find a table even on the busiest night.
Food: 4/10
Service: N/A, it's a pub
Interior: 7/10
Location: 8/10
Pricing: 3/10
Overall Grade: 5/10
Would we go back: Well, maybe. It's on a very easy place for us and they have this Czech beer. So why not. But not eating there probably.
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