East Street Tap, Brighton

The Fishbowl was fairly busy with a fresher contingent when I visited early evening last week. I think that there was some music playing in the background, but it was difficult to tell over the clamour of drunken youth. The bar is stocked with some standard and premium draught products and a giant fishbowl almost hid the two hand pumps from me that were drawing W J King’s Red River and Brighton Best. I opted for the Best which was well served by a polite enough young man. I found the décor to be very basic and I couldn’t work out if the pub was a bit grubby or whether it was just the students. Before I left I popped up to the toilet and discovered an upstairs seating area where I would have sat if I had known of its existence. I wasn’t that taken with this place and do not plan to revisit anytime soon.