Bohemia
Best for: 🍸🥂🍻🍷🍽
Location: Just a few minutes up from the sea.
View: Nothing – champagne boards and fun fake skyline
Dress code: Day 👕👖👚/ Night 👗👠
Vibe: 🍸
Prosecco price: 🍾
Food available? Yes but not a late dinner place – prides on being more a late lounge bar
Booking available? No (can inside)
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Yes so also means opening is sporadic depending on weather
Rooftop review roundup: What a treat of a place, inside full of fun quotes, a glamour bar and lots of nooks and crannies up to the rooftop. It is a little small and there are champagne boards up so blocks any view though is a fun back drop for pics. Perfect for summer chilling to tunes.
Address: 54-55 Meeting House Lane BN1 1HB
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: The Lock Tavern in Camden
Donatello
Best for: 🍕
Location: In the lanes
View: Literally rooftops of houses.
Dress code: 👚👖👕
Vibe: Friends, families, couples catch ups
Prosecco price: 🍾
Food available? Yes it’s an Italian resturant!
Booking available? No – first come first served
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Yes for eating but you can use the terrace but it’s not heated or covered.
Rooftop review roundup: Fun, vibrant Italian restaurants on two floors with a small rooftop terrace that would be a god send in the summer. Felt like that scene in Mary Poppins where they dance on the rooftops!
Address: 1-3 Brighton Pl, BN1 1HJ
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: The Roof Garden in Pisa
Grand Central
Best for: 🍷🍻
Location: Right by Brighton station
View: Buildings
Dress code: Anything, prob more dress down 👖👕👚
Vibe: Super chilled. You go through a classic English Fuller’s Pub to get up to the roof.
Prosecco price:🍾
Food available: Yes 🍽
Booking available? No
Smoking allowed: Yes
Visited / Photos taken: 2021
Warm / dry weather only?
Rooftop review roundup: For something affordable but still on a rooftop this is a great little stop (especially before getting your train home! 😉)
Address: 29-30 Surrey St, BN1 3PA
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like The Tankard in London
Hotel Du Vin
Best for: 🍷🍾🍽😴
Location: Almost on the sea front!
View: Surrounding houses
Dress code: 👚👕👠👖
Vibe: Cosy couples & fun friends
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾
Food available? Yes there’s a resturant
Booking available? Yes
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Yes for serving food but the set up is there all year but no winter weather contingency (there is a very small little sofa snug that’s covered!)
Rooftop review roundup: A gorgeous hotel, bar and restaurant and a rooftop to boot! Small but beautifully decorated with wicker chairs and fairy lights, it’s like stepping into a fairy tale with cute houses and hotel rooms surrounding it. It’s not very high and typical for Brighton no view of the sea or city but a firm fav.
Address: 2 Ship Street, BN1 1AD
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: Ham Yard Rooftop Terrace in Soho
Mesmerist
Best for: 🍷🥂
Location: South lanes
View: Nothing
Dress code: 👚👖👠👕
Vibe: 40 somethings
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾
Food available? Yes – pub food
Booking available? Yes
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Heated and covered in winter (hence the pics)
Rooftop review roundup: The pub is with history and feels a little worn but with 4 bars, 3 floors and a little escape to the sky (with encouraging messages as you climb the stairs) it’s rude not to. The rooftop is small but vibrant and full of coloured winter lights to make for cosy nights.
Address: 1-3 Prince Albert Street, BN1 1HE
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: Toy Roof Central London
Ridgeview View Terrace
Best for: 🍷🧀🥓🍲
Location: Flint House, In the lanes.
View: Nothing
Dress code: 👗👚👖
Vibe: Catch ups
Prosecco price: Cava only 🍾🍾
Food available? Yes – small plates all day bar (down stairs indoor for lunch and dinner – Gluten free & vegan menus)
Booking available? No
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Tbc call if they opening it but the bar featured here is open if not.
Rooftop review roundup: Cute little buzzy busy place – perfect for small plates, wine and a natter. Rooftop is small and quite plain but still on a hot summers day would be very welcomed.
Address: 13 Hanningtons Lane, BN1 1GS
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: Forza Win in Peckham
Rockwater
Best for: 🍤🐠🍹🍸
Location: On the seafront in Hove – about a 15 mins cab or 40 min stroll from Brighton
View: The sea 😎
Dress code: 👗🩴👚👕👖👔
Vibe: Boujee in Brighton
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾
Food available? Yes but the rooftop kitchen is small so it’s a limited seafood and small plate menu (unless you come for breakfast). So do check before booking – there is a restaurant downstairs with a wider menu – you can then always come upstairs the the sofas for a drink after.
Booking available? Yes
Smoking allowed? No
Last visited /photos taken: 2021
Warm/dry weather only? No – this is one the most genuis designs. The restaurant has retractable slats and roof and doors that open fully so it can be fully rooftop vibe or half way if windy or closed if raining. The sofas all dry in seconds after a downpour so they have truly made this as weather responsive as possible 👏
Rooftop review roundup: Opened in 2021 a much needed addition to the Brighton scene. This is London meets the seaside. What I liked most of the whole building was also about clubs and evenings and talks – they have utilised it to create a community. Whilst the menu on the rooftop was limited it was delicious – fully recommend the scallops (I went in twice!) The staff are all new so learning but a special shout out to Max and Ellie who were awesome!
Address: Western Esplanade, Hove, BN3 4FA
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftops then you might love the Har Bar rooftop in Southampton
Trading Post Coffee
Best for: ☕️🧁🥂
Location: North lanes, Kensington Gardens – note there are two on Brighton. This is the one with the rooftop!
View: Shops.
Dress code: 👕👚👖
Vibe: Daytime chill
Prosecco price: 🍾(little bottles)
Food available? Yes despite appearing just a cute coffee shop it’s actually also a Resturant and serves bubbles! 🙌
Booking available? Possibility
Smoking allowed? No
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? Yes – only summer
Rooftop review roundup: Daytime rooftop though open till early evening. Amazing coffee and salted caramel gluten free cake (my downfall) and then a cute little rooftop too! 👌
Address: 40 Kensington Gardens, BN1 4AL
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: Starbucks in Camden (yes it has a little rooftop over looking the canal!)
The Walrus
Best for: 🍽🥓🥂🍾🥜🍻
Location: The Lanes – moments from Hotel Du Vin
View: Now this is a first for me…. it’s a rooftop but you think you are in an actual room, well several… Which you are! 🤪 So no view.
Dress code: 👚👖👕
Vibe: Super relaxed
Prosecco price: 🍾
Food available? Yes
Booking available? No
Smoking allowed? Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Warm/dry weather only? No as per the room confusion!
Rooftop review roundup: Old cosy pub downstairs that you walk through to the back and then up the stairs to this giant rabbit warren of a rooftop. Only this really isn’t an ordinary rooftop…. it’s a garden room with the roof off! I didn’t even realise and asked where the rooftop was 😂 and why that big room was much colder than the cosy pub downstairs! It’s several spaces full of greenery and cute little touches. Definitely different!
Address: 10 Ship Street, BN1 1AD
Website: Click here
Rooftop extra tip: If you like this rooftop then you might also like: The Faltering fallback in London