Rec's in West Sussex

[Charlene Leonard]

It's 2nd Jan, so time to start planning a holiday. I'm looking for any recommendations for nice country pubs and restaurants in West Sussex, we will be there over Easter week.

Ta

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[Bapi]

I can't help with West Sussex , but we have visited Rye in East Sussex many times. Lovely picturesque town built on a hill and was formerly a port before the seas receded a few centuries ago. http://www.rye-tourism.co.uk/map4.htm.

Henry James was once a resident there. It also has a very famous Smugglers Inn called the The Mermaid Inn, which is worth a look.

Have a look at this it may help you http://www.information-britain.co.uk/resta.../eat-sussex.htm.

Cheers

Edited January 2, 2003 by Bapi (log)

[SamanthaF]

Leet Lychgates

Church Street, Old Town, Bexhill,

East Sussex,

Tel: 01424 212193

We went here a few years ago, and it was great. VERY small restaurant (max 8 covers) serving organic food - very inventive cuisine.

They specialise in organic wines.

Bexhill is also quite a pretty town.

[Charlene Leonard]

Sam, I should have made it clear in my original post that I grew up in East Sussex and went to school in Bexhill. I can't believe that there is a good restaurant there, that really is very interesting news and I will definitely check it out the next time I go back, blimey, I am shocked but in a good way. The extent of my culinary adventures as a teenager in Bexhill was eating a pizza pasty on the seafront (a calzone to you but it would be at least 5 years before I knew what one if those was) after consuming 4 cans of Special brew.

It just goes to show that sometimes there can be some little gem hiding on your doorstep.

[macrosan]

There's a hotel/restaurant called Horsted Place just outside Uckfield. I've been there twice in the last 18 months, both at small (24 people) conferences. Service is excellent, wine list excellent, food very good (and probably better for a non-group meal), setting and ambience very good.

Although actually in East Sussex (about 15m north of Brighton, just west of the A23) a restaurant I used to like very much is The Chequers at Slaugham 01444-400239. I haven't been for a few years, but they had a varied and interesting menu, and the food was excellent.

[Andy Lynes]

Fleur De Sel in Storrington : http://www.in-focus.org/in%20focus%20site/.../fleurdesel.htm . They also have a patisserie in the village.

Old Forge Storrington : http://www.fine-dining.co.uk/

http://www.36onthequay.co.uk (actually Hants, but close enough)

http://www.whitehorsechilgrove.co.uk/

[Paul Bell]

If we're entering Hampshire, JSW in Petersfield merits a visit (it is on the Surrey/Sussex side of Hampshire). Very good food (in that 'modern british style' i.e. french), good wine list, wide ranging and some bargains. Possibly the smallest kitchen in the country (about half the size of The Merchant House, although the chef has someone else helping him I believe).

Paul

Edited January 3, 2003 by Paul Bell (log)

[Simon Majumdar]

Uckfield, Storrington, Bexhill???

Why, when I think of these places, do I always hear "Duelling Banjos" or the theme from The Whicker Man in my mind?

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[macrosan]

Not (of course) to drift off topic, but I often hear "Duelling Banjos" in my mind, even when I'm not hacking my way through the dense forests of Sussex. That is the most superbly evocative piece of film music I've ever heard. I also get the visual of the young banjo player.

[Charlene Leonard]

I've no idea what Duelling Banjos sounds like, can't they add sound to Egullet?

[macrosan]

Charlene, CLICK HERE and you'll get a soundtrack of sorts. It's far from the best I've heard, but it'll give you the general idea. I believe there are hundreds of recordings of it.

[Winot]

Uckfield, Storrington, Bexhill???

Why, when I think of these places, do I always hear "Duelling Banjos" or the theme from The Whicker Man in my mind?

Is that the one where Alan Whicker visits a remote Scottish Island?