We managed to get a table at the pass a week or so before they closed.
Attention to detail phenomenal. Timing impeccable. Food unrivalled.
Wow…. What a fantastic experience. Delicious food using local ingredients. Imaginative menu that was just gorgeous. Fantastic service. Great experience from start to finish. Amazing wine too!
Perfectly adequate with signs of greatness, but in the end, sub-spectacular. The restaurant and food were slightly above average, but we found Issac to lack an ambience. The restaurant was far too bright for evening dining and the atmosphere was a bit bland. Vegetarian options were just the main tasting menu without ingredients that included meat. It lacked innovation and the veggie/pescatarian in our group felt short-changed.
We’ve been wanting to go to Issac for several years and after seeing it on the Michelin guide and having tried most others we decided to give it a try. The tasting menu was nicely portioned and I am happy that I got to experience it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to go back.
Best dining experience ever. Amazing staff, very friendly.
Alex who is a sommelier has a lot of knowledge about the wines they serve there.
Beautiful wines as well, very well paired with the food.
Extraordinary food, favours well balanced and mixed together. Definitely will be coming back
We went to the early dinner sitting at 6pm, we both thought the food was imaginative and delicious. It does clearly state on their website that you only get a 2 hour slot for your meal, but the reality of this is that they want you paid up and out the door after 2 hours so the meal actually finishes at 7.40 - to us it felt a little rushed for a 6 course dining experience which is also expensive. As said the food was great and the service knowledgable and polite, but I think it would have been a better experience for us to go the later sitting.
It's a lovely place managed by amazing and super young guys!!! We had a very nice dinner and a wine paring! I've been really impressed by the quality of the wines and food was super! The only thing I would suggest is to change some of the plates were chipped.
Isaac At Gloucester Place is the most delicious restaurant in Brighton.
A taster menu that is palatably divine. All food sourced within 20 miles of the restaurant for sustainable environmental planning.
It is cosy with only ten tables. So make sure you book early and often.
10/10 on the delicious scale of taste!
Delicious tasting menu with wine pairings. Small, quaint atmosphere. Fantastic selection of British wines and local ingredients. “Sussex on a plate”
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This place is fantastic - it is, I think, my favourite restaurant on the planet. Brilliant and imaginative menu, inspired wine pairing, a strong focus on locally sourced ingredients, very friendly and tremendously well-informed staff. I really couldn't ask for more, I honestly couldn't.
Bowled over by the notion that the menu changes every few weeks, too.
I've just been for my second visit and having had such an overwhelmingly amazing experience last time I was worried that I might have built it up in my imagination too much and that it wouldn't live up to my recollection. Not so - in fact if anything it was even better. So good I literally found myself sitting there bursting into involuntary laughter every now and again it was such a joy.
We had the tasting menu with paired wines, seated at "the table by the pass", two seats up at a bar by the kitchen - which meant we not only could see the fascinating food preparation but also got to speak with the chefs, which enhanced the experience further still.
This amazing place deserves at least one Michelin star if not more, but it's clearly not on their radar yet and for the moment it seems to be comparatively unheard of: so if you're eating out in Brighton get a table there while it's still not too hard to get a reservation!
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Thoroughly enjoyed our first visit to Isaac. Only two other tables were in action for our 6pm visit, which gave a very relaxed, almost homely feel to the service, with lots of time for the knowledgeable sommelier to chat and the waiter to explain the dishes. Each of the 8 or so courses on the tasting menu offered up something different to anything I had had before, whether it be a flavour combination or ingredient, an oil, a herb or a texture, and we really enjoyed the way inexpensive ingredients such as turnip and carrot were elevated.
As a carnivore I felt the menu was possibly missing a meat dish beyond the ham hock second course - perhaps a bit of Sussex lamb - which would also have provided an opportunity for the English-only wine flight to have had a red wine to contrast with the fruit forward whites. The monkfish dish was lovely, but the blackberry meringue was exceptional. The treacle and stout bread with whipped butter was off the charts good, but could have done with coming out a bit earlier.
Yes, it’s not cheap, £120 a head with a wine flight, but there’s a level of cooking skill and invention here that you couldn’t easily replicate at home and that is what you pay for. I’d probably ditch the TVs providing overhead shots of the plating, and I’m not sure how comfortable I’d feel when the dining room was packed out, but this is a seriously good restaurant that deserves to survive the storm that hospitality is currently experiencing. People of Brighton (& Hove), you don’t know how lucky you are to have so many good places to eat on your doorstep!
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