Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in West Sussex
Hardens guides have spent 15 years compiling reviews of the best West Sussex restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 137 restaurants in West Sussex and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing West Sussex restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Lickfold Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Lickfold
Highstead Ln - GU28
“Even the bar snacks are exceptional” at star London chef (of restaurant Story) Tom Sellers’s smart country pub, which has a “very welcoming bar and delightful, elegant dining room” as well as, by all accounts, “superb, top-quality food”. A few miles north of Petworth, it’s “a bit off the beaten track but well worth the effort to visit”.
2. The Parsons Table
British, Modern restaurant in Arundel
2 & 8 Castle Mews, Tarrant Street - BN18
The “very refined cooking” at this “accomplished” and “cosy” yearling – a first venture from chef Lee Parsons, who worked under Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir, and his wife Liz – has won unanimous praise from reporters. The focus is on West Sussex produce at reasonable prices: “the set lunch is remarkable value compared with many gastropubs”.
3. Amberley Castle
British, Modern restaurant in Amberley
“How wonderful to dine in the medieval hall of a castle” (nowadays a Brownsword hotel) – complete with a 12th-century barrel-vaulted ceiling (and working portcullis). It almost seems churlish to point out that the restaurant is “expensive and a bit average”, but most reporters feel that it’s “worth it” for the “fantastic setting”.
4. Rose and Crown
International restaurant in Cuckfield
London Road, - RH17
“Excellent, locally prepared seasonal food” wins praise for this West Sussex pub run by father and son team Mark and Simon Dennis. The cooking’s not high falutin’, but too ambitious to be described as pub grub (although by day there is a sandwich menu).
5. New Street Bar & Grill
British, Modern restaurant in Petworth
New Street - GU28
Steaks and grilled fish top the wide menu of this modern brasserie, which opened in May 2018 in this sleepy market town near the South Downs (which was formerly known as The Leconfield).
6. Ockenden Manor
British, Modern restaurant in Cuckfield
Ockenden Ln - RH17
Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, mid-morning coffee or a full afternoon tea. Led by award-winning Head Chef, Stephen Crane, the Restaurant serves some of the finest food in Sussex, and is a beautiful space with far-reaching views over Cuckfield Park. You may like to sit b...
7. The Crown
restaurant in Haywards Heath
The Green, Horsted Keynes - RH17
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The Crown Inn at Horsted Keynes is a historic building dating back to the 16th century. It has now been serving locals and travellers for over 250 years. In July 2003, lightning struck a power line to the building which resulted in very serious damage and large...
8. The Horse Guards Inn
British, Traditional restaurant in Tillington
Upperton Rd - GU28
“A relaxed rural delight”, this “convivial” 17th-century inn on the edge of Petworth Park has won high ratings for several years now, and “just can’t be faulted”. There’s “an interesting menu” of “beautifully executed, adventurous dishes”, many of them using “excellent locally sourced ingredients” (“suppliers are listed on a blackboard”), plus “hyper-local sparkling wine”.
9. Jeremy’s at Borde Hill
British, Modern restaurant in Haywards Heath
Borde Hill, Borde Hill Gardens - RH16
“A long-standing favourite that’s always a joy” – Jeremy & Vera Ashpool’s popular venue has a particularly “delightful” atmosphere, thanks to its “elegant” (although sometimes “packed”) interior, and most especially due to its location in gorgeous Borde Hill Garden (200 acres of famous landscaped grounds). Service is “lovely and attentive” and the “imaginative menus are excellently delivered” and at “good value” prices.
10. The Town House
British, Modern restaurant in Arundel
65 High Street - BN18
“Chef proprietor Lee Williams produces consistently brilliant food at a reasonable price” at this “intimate and deservedly popular” restaurant-with-rooms overlooking Arundel castle – and with its own quirky history in the shape of a 16th-century dining room ceiling from Florence. “In a small town packed with eateries this 15-year-old business stands out, so it’s often crammed”. Top Tip: “one of very few restaurants that serve Chateaubriand for one!”.
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