The Earth & Stars — Restaurant in England

Food: Sunday lunch, we chose the beef rib to share at £28 with parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, carrots, red cabbage and kale. We also had some pigs in blankets for £6 extra.

The food was impeccable, loads of meat, soft and tasty, full of flavour and extra gravy. Yorkie pud was crunchy and huge. Veges were cooked to perfection, especially the red cabbage, one of my faves. Gravy was thick and properly made. Gorgeous.

So why four stars? Service. It was slow and awkward.

It took a while to get a seat even though I'd booked well in advance. Then it took a long while to get drinks. Food took an age to arrive, and we weren't offered salt, pepper or sauce or more drinks. Plates weren't cleared and we had to wait a while to get any attention for the bill. So, there's the one star loss.

Sad, because this should be 5*. The pub is gorgeous, cosy, comfy and it has some lovely ales including the hazy pale. Brighton prices at £9 for large wine and £6 for a pint.

The loos are on the ground floor, but are tiny if you're in a chair you can't get in. O could barely shut the door because I couldn't stand on one leg to shut the door... It is so tiny.

I would absolutely go again though, just for the food! Yum.

Step free entry. There is seating upstairs I believe so ask for downstairs seating if...

One of the best roasts I've had in years. My beef was tender and cooked to perfection, and my friend said his lamb was sublime. Potatoes, Yorkshire, and veg were just right too.

The service gets a 4. Would have been 5 and should have been a 2 on the basis of today. 2 due to being severely short staffed, and things taking forever. Under the circumstances, however, they did the best they could, so credit to the two people running a busy venue.

The atmosphere was appalling. Downstairs looks lovely and would have got 5 stars quitecomfortably. Upstairs was dingy, dark (decour and lighting), the curtains were half shut, and I couldn't see my food, when it did make it. Which was more the surprise since eating off a small, wobbly coffee table with one leg a centimetre from the floor, and which also felt it was going to collapse from being so rickety meant we had to bend down so far to get to our food that we may as well have been praying. With hindsight, we'd have been better taking our plates outside and eating our meal on the pavement. The owner should be embarrassed about that, particularly for what's a gasro pub. (Hint: dining tables and lighting). To the staff working...

Found this place after searching for gluten free food in Brighton for my husband who is coeliac. It's really close to everything, but a bit hidden away. Totally worth a visit though - the food was amazing, and the staff were really helpful.

The food: We both had the fish and chips, which was really yummy, and took a chance on two smaller items - bread with a dip, and daal with pakora. Both were really good, totally surpassed our expectations. There was no gluten in the items (I didn't even have to option for "normal" bread) but other than the bread being noticeably different you wouldn't even have known anything was made differently. All the food was fantastic, and we would happily go back again.

The drink: My husband was amazed to find they had gluten free beer on tap, a bitter and a lager, both from a local brewery. The pub has two local breweries on tap (Laine and Gun Brewery) both providing really nice "normal" beer as well as the GF ones - I had a milk stout, but there were IPAs and lagers, too. Gluten free beer on draught is a rarity, so my husband was ecstatic to find it here, and really...