CASE STUDY
The Salt Room Returns to Brighton’ s Seafront
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Brighton’ s independent seafood restaurant reopens, with Executive Chef Kim Woodward at the pass.
After a four-month closure for a full refurbishment, The Salt Room returns to Brighton’ s seafront, ahead of the bank holiday weekend. A multi-award-winning fixture of the city’ s independent dining scene since 2015, the restaurant reopens with a refreshed look, a brand-new bar, a fully weather-glazed, 60-cover seafront terrace designed for year-round dining, a new open kitchen and a reworked menu led by Executive Chef Kim Woodward.
Set on King’ s Road with uninterrupted views of the West Pier, The Salt Room has long been a meeting point for Brighton locals, day-trippers from across Sussex and weekenders down from London. The next chapter has been shaped around what Brighton actually wants from a restaurant on its doorstep: somewhere local and generous; somewhere you can drop in for a dozen oysters and a glass of Wiston
Estate sparkling or settle in for a long table-shared meal as the sun goes down over the pier.
The redesign brings a lighter, brighter feel to the room, with terracotta floor tiling, off-white limewashed walls and a stronger focus on the natural light off the sea. A brand-new bar sits at the heart of the space, giving the restaurant a clearer drinks-led identity. The seafront terrace is the defining feature of the refurbishment. Fully weather-glazed, it has been designed to work all year, not just on a sunny weekend, and a new open kitchen allows guests to watch the theatre of the pass: fish broken down, fire stoked, plates landing under the lights.
The menu has been reworked from the ground up. Gone is the rigid starter-main-pudding structure, replaced by a more flexible, section-led approach designed to suit how people eat on the coast: a handful of plates to share, a few oysters with a cold drink, a full sit-down occasion or anything in between.
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