The Fountain Head, Brighton

2 real ales and food served.

The Fountain Head is an open plan pub full of conventional tables and chairs along with a couple of sofas that are placed by a fireplace on the right hand wall. The bar is stocked with standard draught products along with Sagres and Amstel and one of the three hand pumps was unused leaving Hepworth’s Prospect as the ale option and Thatchers Heritage as the cask cider. Food is served and the mains are priced around the £9 mark. Children are welcome until 19:00, but only until 18:00 on Fridays and Saturdays when Brighton starts to liven up. The crowd during my Tuesday evening visit were in their late twenties/early thirties and there is a bit of a gastro feel. The service was very polite and I was able to get comfortable quite quickly. I’m not a massive fan of open plan gastro pubs as I find them dull, but I thought the Fountain Head was a nice friendly pub and I would have no problem returning.