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The Eagle, Brighton

125 Gloucester Road
Brighton
BN1 4AF

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Brighton Central, North Laine

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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Eagle

Busy street corner pub, which despite still having handpulls, appears to have given up on cask ale a while ago. Instead the keg selection was Beavertown Neck Oil, Sharp's Atlantic, Lost Pier Paddle Boarder & Franciscan Well Chieftain. After waiting quite a while to get served, even though there were several bar staff, my choice of Paddle Boarder appeared to run out. The barman disappeared for several minutes to change the barrel, only to return and state they had run out. I ordered the Chieftain instead, which was fairly mundane.

At night, the interior was quite dark. There were a mixture of ages in, albeit predominantly young. I couldn't see much of a reason why they should choose this pub over any other boozer in Brighton. It was all fairly unremarkable.

On 2^nd February 2026 - rating: 4
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Moby Duck left this review about The Eagle

An open plan corner pub with a central bar which I found rather bland and featurless. One cask ale on ,Sharps Sea Fury, I opted for a keg, Unbarred Joosy. Not somewhere I'd return to.

On 25^th October 2020 - rating: 4
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Blackthorn _ left this review about The Eagle

A popular street corner pub, we had not intended to visit here but as there was no room at The Basketmakers over the road, this seemed the next best alternative. It has a rustic feel to it, and was fairly full on a recent Saturday lunchtime.

It’s a single room pub with old boards on the floor, some pine wood panelling on the lower part of the walls and maroon paintwork up above, including the ceiling, although there was also some patterned wallpaper at the rear. There was an old cast iron fire-place to one side, although this was not in use which would have been a nice touch on a recent freezing cold visit. A plasma was mounted up on one wall, although this was not in use either and the furniture was mostly chunky farmhouse style wooden tables.

A wood clad bar counter was off to the right, and there was further pine cladding on the wall behind this. Several large speakers were dotted around which hinted at the fact that it may be considerably nosier at times than the lunchtime we visited. One wall had a number of pieces of artwork displayed which appeared to be for sale. The food seemed popular with a number of punters eating, although I did not inspect the menu.

As with many pubs, this suffered from the problem of one guy behind the bar who was both taking food orders and trying to serve drinks which meant service was somewhat slow. To be fair to him, he was doing his best and apologised when he got to me, but it was getting to the point where I was thinking of walking out. Another barmaid did subsequently turn up, but she seemed more of a hindrance than a help since the first guy had to show her how to work the till.

Beers on tap were Greene King Yardbird, Dark Star Hophead and Abbot Ale. There was a fourth pump for Trelawney but this had run out. Ciders were Aspall’s Suffolk and Strongbow. Prices seemed very expensive at £10.40 for two pints and two packets of crisps.

On 2^nd April 2013 - rating: 6
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