Bakery & cakesRoad
The Garden Cafe
North Laines cafe and plant shop, open late
7.2/10
Local score
No. 28 of 141 cafés on r/brighton, from 20 locals across 18 threads.
100% would send a mate. Still recommended in 2026.
A cute North Road/North Laines café-cum-plant-shop, repeatedly praised for its pancakes, cakes and coffee, homely feel and friendly staff, and popular for remote working. Useful for staying open until 8pm when most Brighton cafés shut early, and has decent vegan options.
- Go for
- Cosy brunch, cake, or working on a laptop
What locals say
Garden Cafe in North rd (pastries and cakes), 17 Grams (pancakes or fry up, quite relaxing place), the quirky Presuming Ed (open till 10pm), Salvage Cafe in Western rd (IMO great coffee and delicious cakes, plus homemade food, love the decorations). Aroma, family business (coffee cakes and scrumptious Arabic…
…streets pretty good, but personally i’ve found home in the Garden Cafe, it’s so homely and the coffees are so nice, the employees are lovely and the overall atmosphere is…
The Garden Cafe has a really beautiful selection of cakes, cheesecakes, brownies etc. Crosstown Donuts are expensive but delicious. Cloud 9 cupcakes are great. Brass Monkeys is great. Sugar Dough is great, and close to Knoops which is *so* dreamy. For sushi, my favourite is Moshimo. It has a fun conveyor belt, it’s…
The first pic & the fried "egg" were both from the vegan market they do on the first Saturday of the month at the open market 😁 Rest of the places: Garden Cafe, Foodilic, Nowhere Man, No Catch, The Wick Inn, Brighton Beach Cafe, Bagelman, Crosstown, Caffe Bar Italia, Little Jack Fullers, Dominos, Infinity Foods, The Joker Sadly a few of the places shown have shut down since the photo…
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