Côte Brighton restaurant

Great set of staff who work hard to make you feel comfortable in the current environment and always, always produce super food at a reasonable price for the quality. Cote never disappoints.

Lovely staff very friendly and helpful . Shame not many vegetarian dishes . We had the risotto which was fabulous. We don’t like strong goats cheese, so could not have this, and these where the only vegetarian dishes on the menu . The back garden was a real sun trap .

The ambiance was good, service EXCELLENT and friendly - special mention to the French lad who served us (Alexis?). We shall return.

So so happy to be back on our favourite place for a long lunch. Great service, great food . 😍😍

Staff were so lovely and accommodating Place was refreshed and looked stunning I had the lamb was beautiful Thank you x

Very very nice to be able to have a meal at Cote now the coronavirus restrictions are reduced. The lovely staff managed to convey their usual friendly manner even with their visors in place.

Glad you are back. Friendly warm welcome, procedures explained, waiter helpful. Only thing that could’ve been better Is staff using ‘hello my name is.....’ which is what we go in NHS as creates Warner experience. Keep doing what you are doing?

Amazing food and service! We felt so fancy and pampered!

So glad that the Brighton Cote has re-opened. My friend and I had a lovely meal as usual, served by one of their friendly and helpful waitresses. We will be back soon.

Lovely greeting, social distancing well worked out, food and service excellent as usual. Ate too much!

Excellent service and food. The menu was still really varied with many things I wanted to eat. The staff were very good. A welcome return to normality!

Lovely atmosphere, great food. Service was excellent- felt like pre COVID night out but also really safe.

Delighted to be the first restaurant diner after lock down.

Very friendly staff and good food in lovely location. Great for a birthday treat, I would recommend it for an occasional as building feels very grand

Always enjoy eat here, people are always so welcoming and friendly and helpful. Thank you for a lovely mother day. We definitely be back great restaurant.

A disappointing experience for us. The large restaurant was extremely busy and the kitchen seemed overwhelmed. We waited over 45 minutes for our simple pre theatre order, eventually requesting to have starters, mains and the bill brought together to avoid missing the show. The food was mediocre and tepid when it arrived, another sign of the kitchen struggling. The staff were very apologetic and quick to offer generous compensation which took some of the sting out of the whole experience. We are likely to choose elsewhere in similar circumstances in the future.

Excellent food, value and service!! Even free cocktails when we booked online!!! Friendly waitress very accommodating. We had a lovely window seat as requested. Definitely recommend the Pork Belly!

Generally we really enjoy coming to Cote and while this visit was far from unenjoyable a couple of things could have gone better. We were barely seated when we were asked about ordering appetisers - leaving us feeling a bit pounced on. We'd booked early so as to have a leisurely dinner before going to the theatre. and the restaurant was far from busy. The confit duck, delicious as it was, lacked the crispy skin I was expecting. The dish was meltingly soft and tasty, sadly the skin was also meltingly soggy. The warmed calvados wasn't, or it might have been earlier, but not when it arrived at table. nothing majorly wrong, and nothing to stop us coming again, but it could have been a great meal, instead of just a good meal.

We have been coming to Cote in Brighton since it opened and before it became a chain! We like the menu the ambience and the staff are always very professional, BUT yes you knew there was a but coming, the food is poor at best, all four of our mains were dry and over cooked, the pink duck, had be dried under heat lamps after sliced, the beef look more like pork it was so pale and tasteless the chicken was dry with inadequate "ju" was like dried up gravy. The food has got worse (particularly the main dishes) over the years, we keep coming hoping that it will improve! You need to look right through your processes, from supply chain meat quality, to cooking (pay decent chefs) and then importantly speed of service once food is cooked. For a French brasserie, you should at least be able to do reliable steak, but sadly no! Staff do their best to repair and take the charge for dishes off the menu, but we don't come out to dinner to get free meal, we come out for an experience with BETTER (or at least as good) food than we can cook at home! Its such a shame because you have the venue and the FOH staff, you just MUST get the food right!!

Good service and nice food. I prefer to add my own tip in cash, rather than included on the bill. There were only three of us and that is usually only done if there are six or more guests.

Excellent food and service but very disappointed that the gluten free 2 course lunch is £16.00. Ridiculous as lots of the items on the menu are exactly the same as the normal 2 course menu costing £11.00!

Hi Team, A wonderful meal and wine! Fabulous service and good foo ass always. Thank you!😊 See you again sometime soon. Thank you again, Lisa and Mick 😊

Excellent meal with very friendly and prompt service allowing us to get to the theatre on time. Only small negative is that the tables are very close together.

our waiter Danny was professional, efficient and friendly. I requested a table near the window and that wish was granted Food delicious as always I had the pan fried salmon and the crème caramel . Both good although I would have liked a few more potatoes with the salmon

Cote has impeccable service no other like it anywhere in brighton they truly go out of there way to accomodate and make sure you are happy and genuinely care about you as a customer and all are super lovely, my favourite restaurant always princess manferrari

A very good restaurant to celebrate a special meal. Have used many times. Recommend to book well in advance of occasion, can be very busy at any time. Wide choice menu to suit most tastes.

Staff are very friendly & polite service is excellent food is always excellent have been several times atmosphere is always calm & relaxing would highly recommend

Excellent! Always efficient service and delicious food beautifully presented! Great selection of wines. Set menu never disappoints! Consistent as usual and friendly staff, always attentive. Will return!

Lovely atmosphere, delicious food and wine, excellent service from cheerful and attentive staff in well laid out surroundings. Only draw back for us ........ no draught beer! Would still return.

My party enjoyed a lovely meal well presented by a friendly waitress. Our only small criticism was that another group were brought to sit right next to us in an otherwise empty upper floor !

To try something new I decided to opt for sea bass and it turned out to be a mistake. When the meal was served I was met by an intense aroma of smelly fish. Upon eating the meal I had the occasional taste of not so fresh fish so did not enjoy at all. I presume it must gave been the chef using strong fish stock in the sauce so did not make any comment. Whatever it was I could not finish the meal, I just needed the smelly plate taken away. Not for me at all.

Great food and great service as always. The team at Brighton are exceptional. We brought some family along (new to Cote) and they really made them welcome. Looking forward to returning.

We had a great time at Cote last night. The food was delicious and the staff were friendly and efficient. We arrived at 8.00pm having booked a table for three people. Although the restaurant was very busy we were quickly shown to our table and given menus. We ordered flatbreads to share whilst we ordered our starters and main courses. We were very happy with our choice of food. I had the onion soup as a starter and my wife and friend shared the smoked salmon dish. Both tasted delicious. Our friend ordered the sea bass as her main course and my wife and I had the fish parmentier. These were again very tasty. We finished off the meal with two creme caramels. Throughout our meal the staff were very attentive. We were given just the right amount of time between the courses to make the evening relaxed and not rushed. We were given a free bottle of wine as I had previously opted to join their email list. I think there are quite a few good offers available online and in local publications if you look out for them. A friend of mine often enjoys the pre-theatre menu. We had a really good time. We don’t often eat in ‘chain’ restaurants but Cote is definitely our favourite. We will return.

Lovely food and service. Very busy and still managed to be attentive

Welcomed at the door and given a table upstairs as we requested. Our server was attentive and personable and we ordered glasses of Sancerre and starters. The wine was as lovely as ever and the first course delicious as usual. From then on it went bizarrely downhill. We usually order the Lagarde Pinot Noir with the fish course. A couple of glasses arrived with opaque red wine which had no resemblance in look, texture or taste to the wine we had ordered countless times before in Cote restaurants around the country for the last ten plus years. We were offered a Merlot instead but that seemed to be the same wine as before. To add insult to injury my fish was severely over-cooked. The fish was swiftly replaced and we went back to the Sancerre....bemused!! So, Richard and Nick, what the Grenache is going on?? Good food but a 400% mark-up on the wines means the experience is diminished overall. Carlucchios much better value for money as wine is not a rip-off.

Excellent meal as always at Cote and all our party enjoyed the day. Highly recommended. The service is always very good and the staff are always very friendly and helpful.

Good service and considerate but let down by food not being cooked properly. One steak was under cooked and another was over cooked. When replacement arrived it was even more under cooked than the first one. In the end we cancelled the order which was disappointing.

My friend and I had an excellent lunch today, Tuesday 4th, Thank you. We both had the bream which was beautifully cooked and presented, Neither of us can manage 3 courses and this time my friend had the pea and mint soup to start but I decided to wait have my favourite dessert, the ice cream. All extremely tasty. . We also had a glass of wine to wash it down. This was a one off! For roughly the last 5 years we have been meeting at Cote now approximately every couple of months and the food has always been excellent. The staff every time are attentive without being intrusive. Beautiful lunch all round. We shall be back.

Front of house was absolutely useless apart from directing people to their seats. She didn't know how to direct staff. We sat outside which was very busy because of the weather with only 2 staff. We waited ages for our drinks. People arriving after us got their drinks first.. the same with our food. I watched 3 groups of people leave. I only left a tip because the girl who served us seemed to be the only one working. I hate to see this injustice in the work place. When we were leaving walking through the restaurant this front of house person was standing around with at least 4 members of staff just talking and we were ignored as we left as if we were an inconvenience. I expect a lot of your diners felt the same. A little bit of staff training would not go a miss or perhaps someone who knows what they are doing. I would never visit your restaurant again. I hope the girl who served us does get her tip as it was well deserved.

I came here last night for my birthday, the waitress was rude and unhelpful, she said they had no vegan bread when we asked someone else they said they did, we called in advance to see if they would make a vegan meal for one of us and they said that would be ok, when it came to ordering it took half an hour, only a mushroom salad was offers to the vegan that came with ONE mushroom. My food was over cooked and has no taste. No one complimented the food. The service was awful and I will not be coming here again. I will make sure my friends steer clear aswell.

Always our favourite place to eat! even over the high end restaurants in Brighton and Hove. You know the food is always going to the same high standard. Always come out of Cotes happy after eating very well...

Wonderful food, nice wine range, classicly trained waiting staff with a sense of humour, just a bit huge / not private-acoustic for brasserie. Will return for a quieter lunch or dinner. X

Great restaurant, the staff were really friendly and there was a great atmosphere. The food was excellent and to a very high standard. Highly recommended.

We had a very nice with waitress good service, food was good the fish was a bit overcooked but overall we had a really nice time.

Good food with friendly and attentive waiting staff equals a pleasant evening! Toilets could have been a little cleaner, bit this probably due to the clientele!

Always enjoy this restaurant and it was as busy as usual. Sadly on this occasion I couldn’t have my favourite tuna nicoise as they had run out of tuna, but it gave me the opportunity of trying something different. The salmon was my second choice and it was amazing.

Great food and service as always. Scallop special starter was a little over priced though, two and a half really small scallops , a bit disappointing

As always, a lovely evening at Cote. Always friendly and efficient, good food, good value. And no pressure to leave which is always appreciated.

Really good food except for the main course of one of our party of 6 where the meat was gristly. Their meal was replaced very quickly and courteously. The cost of that meal was also taken off of the bill as a good will gesture without any request for this. Everyone else very much enjoyed their food and all appreciated the good service by the team there.

We had the most wonderful first experience at Côte, the food and the service. The staff went above and beyond for what I requested, we had a lovely time. Thank you so much to the kind ladies that served us