Côte Brighton restaurant

Party of four dined on a buisy Friday evening. Nice table in the window, good atmosphere. All enjoyed food, especially succulent lamb chops with Roquefort. Signature creme caramel excellent as always. Served by enthusiastic French waitress. Looking forward to next visit.

We had a pre show dinner and received very friendly service

Good welcome. Food good value and choice. Especially like the specials menu. Very busy and buzzy, but still manage to get the food out quickly. Quick and friendly service too.

As always wonderful cooked food with excellent service and good value for money.Also they offered a free drink to my mother as it was her birthday and decorated her dessert beautifully

Terrifically welcoming and friendly staff. Couldn’t have been more helpful and in a full and busy restaurant, too. The food was of good quality and good value. The Brighton restaurant is full of character but if you need it quieter the huge room upstairs is often less noisy.

Friendly service, food is good, will come back again for sure

Food and atmosphere great. However our seats not good, badly positioned. Constant interruptions by staff trying to wait on tables close to us. Couldn't relax.

Lovely meal but we did have to chase after some of our order twice. Apart from that service was good and the food cooked to perfection with great taste

Really buzzy atmosphere and staff very friendly and efficient although the restaurant seemed full Food was good too !!! Already booked for next week x

I don't normally patronise chain establishments, but Côte have got it right. Their renovation of the near-derelict music library opposite the Dome in Brighton is a masterpiece. With its mirrored walls, low lighting and banquette seating I feel like I could be in the bar at the Follies Bergeres by Manet. The menu is concise but each dish is perfectly executed, prices very competitive and the staff are well trained and polite without being snooty. Full marks all round, I have never had a bad experience here. House wine excellent value too!

Superb service and meal. The 10 year old son of our friend described the meal as exquisite and we had to agree with him. Will be back next time we are in Brighton

Lovely welcome from the Maitre D with a complimentary drink for our wedding anniversary. Great food at a very reasonable price as early evening, great table service too. A really enjoyable meal!

Perfect for the Dome theatre and local bars. Service very good, however, not a fan of the "obligatory" 12.5% pre-added tip. Restaurant was extremely busy after 7:00 pm.

We were pleased to be able to book a table online an hour before we arrived. The restaurant was fantastic and in a great location. Staff were attentive and the food very good. There was quite a long wait for the food to arrive, but over a bottle of wine that didn’t matter.

Good venue. Comfortable and very pleasant, obliging and caring staff. Have been on several occasions and food always consistent. Very handy for the theatres in Brighton.

Have used Brighton Cote sinced they opened. Unfortunately today was disappionting long wait for food and the steak was not up to the normal stantard and the side dish of spinnage was over cooked. The staff were friendly and helpful as usual. This experience will not deter us from future visits.

Four of us had a very tasty light and inexpensive meal served by friendly helpful courteous staff. I had whitebait which was exceptionally tasty followed by an excellent salad, others in our party had steak, fish and ratatouille and we all enjoyed our meals.

The fish cakes I had on the pre theatre menu were absolutely tasteless I wished I had complained about them, all potatoes & no fish at all!.,.

The service was great. The steak a little tough though. We usually have a good experience. The creme caramel is second to none. See you soon.

Always consistently good. And busy and buzzing. Great value lunch/pre theatre specials. Steak frites a favourite. It's not to be rushed so give yourself plenty of time if you are going somewhere else and enjoy the experience.

Friendly and efficient service looked after a group of eight. gave proper consideration to one gluten free request. relaxing and enjoyable with everyone having a good time. its very popular and of the best places in Brighton to eat

Last week when I was taken to Cotes the service & food was excellent, but yesterday was a bit disappointing. The French onion soup was very peppery. The veal which I had last week was laying on oil on the plate & there did not appear to be any veal jus this time, There was a lot of coarse salt on it & it was well browned on the edges, but hardly cooked in the middle. The watercress was dried up, wilting & some of it was yellow. The waitress did bring some jus & watercress when I asked. The other meal, was on the April menu the starter of endive & pear salad was alright. The main coarse of Toulouse sausage was not good as the sausage was salty & the skin was tough. The lentils were like mushy peas as they seemed to have been overcooked. The wine was good. The service was not very good & we were never asked if everything was alright. It was a bit of a disappointment after the last visit & it did not seem it was the same chef.

We had a thoroughly delightful experience; friendly helpful staff, a glass of bubbly for the birthday girl, delicious food and the creme brûlée was to 'die' for!

Food was excellent. Service was excellent. Had a really good time. The staff were attentive and friendly. Another good experience. Côte is recommended. Always is.

Good food, pleasant environment. Had an excellent crab starter followed by tuna nicoise; the tuna was lightly cooked as it should be. Finished with lovely frozen berries.

Had a great meal staff friendly and helpful food was yum. Have a local one have been once there hubby was happy with food too .

Usual high standard of food choice and quality and excellent and smiling service. A busy Sunday lunch service which my wife and I enjoyed very much. We shall return.

Excellent breakfast for large group of people and service was good. Plenty of different options as well. Would recommend to anyone who visits Brighton to stop by here.

Great food, but the fries were just like a small portion of McDonald’s. the staff were helpful and friendly,a nice atmosphere,will be going again soon

Great as usual - but service was slow... not due to our wonderful waiter, but he just had too many tables at peak eating time to be able to get to us all quickly enough!

Very pleasant staff as always. Steak tough and cold. My friend couldn't eat hers. Pud made of tinned apple pieces. Restaurant gave my friend a small discount for her uneaten steak.

Excellent as usual. Great service, lovely food, restaurant full and buzzing. Timing of all courses very good. Everybody ate everything!! Most consistent restaurant in Brighton.

Lovely attentive staff.. delish food..always a lovely time in Cote Brighton. Great ambience busy but not too much.. and we're never rushed . The welcome guy at the door always friendly too

Always a great atmosphere in this beautiful building. Staff brilliant and food piping hot and cosistanly good. Feels like a treat even though real value for money.

Hello, we always enjoy to eat to your restaurant. We are regular customers and appreciate Service, ambiance, food, all good! Very clean. Thank you for welcoming us every time.

The food was good as always.Excellent service, the staff in Brighton are first rate. Particularly like the art decor decoration of the restaurant. Will definitely go back on my next visit to Brighton.

We were well looked after by the manager and serving staff, and were offered a choice of table. The food service was efficient. The only criticism is that the initial drinks service was slightly slow.

Great service from professional friendly staff. Tasty food with an authentic varied menu. Great ambience and relaxed atmosphere. Would definitely recommend for a lunchtime visit.

Cote never fails to deliver on the high standard of service, quality of food, friendly staff and delicious food. Love the monthly menus that offer seasonal dishes.

I was welcomed by pleasant staff, seated at a window table. the service was very good, prompt and food was well presented. the waiter was most helpful. the food was good, as always and the dessert was superb, a brioche bread and butter pudding. Always a pleasure to visit - good food and good value for money

The veal, which we had with gratin potatoes was excellent & we sat upstairs which had a very nice atmosphere. The service was also excellent.

Cote Brighton is as delightful as ever - a convivial and attractive venue - and the food as well-cooked and presented as I remember. Very sad, therefore, that our meal last night was marred badly by one individual who, from the moment when our main course was served, irritated one of my guests by her over-bearing attitude and patronising manner. He, a local doctor, was, unsurprisingly, rather put out by being told that he was wrong in terms of trying to clarify how he had originally ordered his steak. I felt more for the waiter holding our service tray who had to witness this over-bearing display. However, the moment passed and we enjoyed our meal but the incident continued to niggle my guest - to the point that he felt that he had to say something and did, so, in private, to the venue's polite and welcoming Maître D' who had first greeted us on arrival. That, regrettably, brought the individual in question storming across and a highly unprofessional exchange then took place with, at one stage, it being inferred that all of us were inebriated. Noting that this was only my first meal out after having had bariatric surgery 2 months before - and that I had consumed a half glass of wine - and myself being a retired restaurateur who had once run an award-winning restaurant and training programme for commis chefs and front of house staff, this crossed a line that in my very many years (I am 62) I have seldom witnessed. One of the other staff subsequently and kindly informed me that as far as he was concerned that I had not had too much to drink - but the genie was out of the bottle. We paid in full including the full service charge (and the guest who had been insulted left a further cash tip for one member of staff) - despite already having been told to leave; a first for me. The moral of this story is - by all means visit Cote, Brighton - you will be well dined and looked after by a first class waiting team. However, Cote Headquarters - should you read this - then I think some Mystery Customer work is required at this venue and that you should consider whether your manager (on this particular evening) is someone who really understands how best to represent and uphold your brand values. Her behaviour, in short, was reprehensible; little short of disgraceful. I expect far, far better from a restaurant group of your calibre.

We had an excellent meal. Great choice from menu. Everything I choose to eat at Cote is consistent and well prepared and cooked. Overall a great experience. Good value too - with excellent service.

Service - very good. One of the four meals was cold and was returned. Other three meals were tepid, served on cold plates. Overall, not great, especially considering they were not that busy.

From the moment we arrived the service was great. The food was delicious and could not fault it. The staff are very attentive and made us feel very welcome. Great night had by all.

Very good as usual, however the fiscakes were tastelessness. The service was good as usual and the staff are friendly.Cote is always busy, so remember to book.

Good food, prompt and friendly service, good value (set lunch menu). Though the environment is a bit on the noisy side, it’s a good place to eat.

Poor and oversalted tastless food. Will not return. I was Easter Sunday night and we were warned that most specials had sold out. However hard duck confit with tasteless cabbage. All the veg tasteless and poor. Other dishes were severely oversalted and we had to send back crepes as inedible. Not a good experience...

Lovely atmosphere and food but it did take an hour for our main course to arrive after the starter. Shame. The staff are very good.

Food was very good. Lunchtime service was also efficient but slowed a little bit as the restaurant filled up. On the whole, a pleasant dining experience.