The Pubs of Hove part 2 : Hove Actually
Cask, Craft or Crap? The area that I am calling Hove Actually is central Hove and runs from Sackville Road/Hove Street in the west to Palmeira Square in the east, taking in Kingsway to the south and Seven Dials to the north. In that chunk of town there are at least 21 pubs and bars, and I have drunk in all of them. I say at least because this part of town shows, in microcosm, the changing nature of the bar scene in Brighton and Hove. There are traditional pubs here, both large and small - the Sussex , the Neptune , even the Palmeira - there are micropubs, craft beer bars and there is a growing number of cafe-bars. The best place to get a handle on the number of pubs in an area is @ CAMRA _Official 's very handy What Pub? website. Unlike the selective Good Beer Guide this lists every pub in an area that serves cask ale. It's also pretty up-to-date, although how up-to-date depends on the efficiency of the local CAMRA branch. My criteria are somewhat broader tha