Marrocco's in Brighton and Hove

I had a meal at Marrocco's (on Hove Seafront). The staff looked miserable and didn’t smile. After the main course I asked the waiter were the toilet was. Then when I went to go to the toilet, I saw it was up 4 really steep, narrow, winding and slippery steps. I went back and said to the 2 staff behind the counter that the toilet was inaccessible to me. They didn’t apologise or say anything. They didn’t make eye-contact and completely ignored me. The food isn’t much to write about either. Won’t be going back again.

Nice Ice Cream spot, they're pretty quick on a long queue!

Family Group stopped off here on a stormy Sunday. Not a very warm welcome from Manager, who informed us we couldn’t sit in any of his many empty seats without buying chips with our ice cream!! Maka Cafe one minute down the side street. Great welcome, lovely ice cream (twenty varieties) and home made pastries. Wonder where we’ll go next weekend. Mmm!!

It was shut but said it was open on google?

Food was great and the ice cream was unbelievable staff were friendly

We had ice cream, the best I have tasted

It's my first time in Brighton and I had dinner with my family here and it was a lovely experience, the food was awesome I must say, friendly staff and very beautiful environment.

Came in today was asked before I even sat down what I wanted , before even viewing a menu, I've been coming here for many years. Who are these rude people working here now ! I replied Maybe an ice cream sundae and hot drink and was told I can only sit on two tables next to the door , when the whole restaurant was empty, I asked jokingly what do I need to order to sit at a normal.table and I was told a meal ! What at 4pm , Train these morons on customer service , 2 customers now lost and will not be returning.

If you love ice cream and you are in Brighton or Hove then you must visit Marrocco's. Great choice of ice cream and sorbets.

We've been coming here since finding it by accident in 2002. Initially visited for ice creams, came back for a meal later & have never looked back.

This is one of the best family-run restaurants I dined at in Brighton. The food is so delicious and reasonably priced. We tried Risotto Marinara whereby we have to echoed another round! There were 3 king prawns with lots of mussels, clams, squids… and the sauce blended well into the risotto! Tagliatelle al salmon was creamy and so nice! Sea bass perfectly grilled. The whole crab spaghetti was stunning. Just that if the hard crab shell could be further chopped into smaller pieces to save our effort enjoying the crab, that would be brilliant! We finished the meal off with their award winning gelato, and affogato! Everything is down to earth, family feel! Just to note seafood platter needs to pre order two days ahead. The food was so delicious that in our 4-day holiday trip to Brighton, we went there twice!!! First time on dinner and then head back for lunch before we left for home! Thank you to family Marrocco’s!! This restaurant is a must go while you are in Brighton.

I ordered the coffee ice cream, but the texture wasn't really gelato-like. It was quite sweet and I couldn't taste much coffee flavor🥲. However, the portion size was pretty good for around £3.

The best ice cream, ever!!!! Still the best on the South Coast.

usually only come for the ice cream (which is great) but we got takeout pizza today. £30 for two and they were the worst pizzas we’ve even eaten. the base was like tissue paper, the toppings slid off because it was so watery. i ordered a pizza with broccoli and it was spinach. soggy mess and really not good.

Lovely lunch by the see. Good menu and nice atmosphere

For 2 years I've been waiting for a moment where the queue wasn't down the road where I could try an ice-cream. Needless to say, with already high expectations . . . I wasn't disappointed. Just hope it's not another 2 years before getting another one. Today, picked up a tub of their mint choc chip having cycled from London to Brighton. Normally I wouldn't pay £14 for a tub of ice-cream but having cycled 57miles, it was my treat

Some of the best ice cream around, always a line outside during summer, worth it.

This restaurant used to be a decent place to eat. It has gone downhill for a while and we have decided never again due to clueless waitress and a rude manager. We had to wait for a table despite booking. The main arrived before the starter. The oysters were so thin, they looked like chicken skin! Pizzas are shrunken in size and the coke is from the tap, not bottle, and the glass is packed with ice instead. Ruined dinner experience.

Had an unforgettable evening at Marrocco's! The risotto was hands down the best I’ve ever had! Creamy, perfectly balanced, and bursting with flavor. The crab spaghetti was equally delicious, with fresh, tender crab in every bite. We paired it with a lovely glass of wine, which made the whole experience even better. And don’t get me started on the ice cream,it was the perfect sweet ending to an incredible meal. Highly recommend for anyone looking to treat themselves to an amazing meal and wine!

The most delicious i had after long time especially Snickers flavour. Really friendly staff. Even i couldn’t get ice cream pic from my side so i requested to the girl if she can make it for my google reviews and she made it happily. There was a long queue for the incredible ice Cream but worth queuing. I would definitely recommend.

Great cafe/restaurant/ice cream parlour. Easily the best in the area - hence the queue - but worth it 😉

Excellent food and even better ice cream 🍦 Good service and friendly staff We recently stayed in Brighton and the food was so good we went twice. The ice cream is to die for, and a massive queue every day speaks for itself!!

The best ice cream, worth the wait!

Great food, quality, authenticity and variety. Best ice cream in town. The seating is tight and can be uncomfortable specially towards the end of the meal. Paper cups for good Italian ice cream should be for take away only not for serving in restaurant. Great meal. Grazie millie

Love this institution. Ice cream hand made downstairs on site by Peter using ingredients imported direct from Italy. The almond and cherry is my absolute favourite. The kids love the biscoff sundae. Love getting pizza to go on the beach and have heard amazing things about the lobster pasta!

Only popped in for takeaway soya latte, the food, ice cream obviously is good, however I was charged £4,10 for a standard size, in a paper cup, soya latte, £3.60 for a regular SL + .50p for soya, thinks 🤭 a carton of soya @ LIDL is £1, the young boy serving wasn't particularly welcoming either, I asked if they were a doggie friendly restaurant and he didn't understand what I meant ! Not too impressed I tell ya !

Only here for an ice cream but happy quick friendly service and the vegan chocolate was incredible

Fab ice cream and coffee frappe well worth the queue

Fresh, interesting, good service, & terrific ice cream

Best ice cream in England you must try

A delicious ice cream at the end of a long line.

The portions in this restaurant are very small so one has to order sides in order to have enough to eat. This makes the bill very steep for what you are actually getting. I therefore wouldn’t recommend this restaurant.

One of the most incredible selections of ice cream flavours in the area. Must go destination if visiting Hove!

Authentic Italian. Don't be scared by the queue that is solely for Ice Cream. Great Pizza Amazing story behind the place. Family run establishment that refused to sell to property developers. Showing the hard work and grit of immigrants looking to make a prosperous life for themselves in England. It is a shame that the next generation are not going from table to table greeting guests. Still as charming and you can feel the authentic Italian Family run restaurant at it's very core. Great Restaurant.

Although known for its ice creams the Italian food is Great as befits a long time ownership by an Italian family ,give it a try you'll be surprised !! X

We only come for the ice cream, but it’s always worth the walk

Popped in at the end of a very hot day. Delicious ice cream options - I went for Reece's Pieces! Unfortunately, the ice-cream was very soft, which required furious licking!! One of our party got completely covered in dripped mint choc chip... luckily there were toilets for her to wash her hands 👍

We’ve just jumped in and had a lawful experience. The waiter never came to us to order. So we walked to ask him to come to order. Another lady was after me, but the waiter went to her first and he didn't come to us after the lady. He has ignored us. He has discriminated against us. It's not accepted. Very disappointed.

Amazing ice-cream! Honestly so worth the money, you do get what you pay for! Highly recommend, very popular in summer time. Last time I visit there was a queue for icecream going down the road, but they work very fast so wasn't too long a wait. Eaten there a couple of times, liked the pizzas but it's very expensive - a family of 4 can expect to spend at least £100 easily. Staff are very nice but they did make a couple of mistakes with the food/ dessert. The price is the downfall, which is why it has lost a star.

Only ever got ice cream which is great, gets really busy when sunny.

Due to a Google error, I can leave a review. So I'm giving it 5 stars.

The most delicious pizzas and good vibe. Really friendly staff. Our waiter Alec couldn't have been more helpful. Be warned..... There is always a long queue outside for the incredible Italian ice Cream!! Worth queuing for!! I would definitely go back!

The taste is great, it melts very quickly though. Most of the flavours are definitely made for an English market but still very good.

Best ice cream in Brighton. Lovely service, and queue wasnt too long despite being a hot, busy weekend.

Very popular gelato parlour and Italien restaurant. During hot and sunny summer days the queue can be very long so come early. There are about 12 flavours so should have something for everyone. Lotus biscoff was very nice but the pistachio which has a 50p surcharge was not as good as expected.

Always serve good pasta dishes. Brought our friends over to try as they’ve lived in Hove but have never been. They were quite impressed with the pasta. And as always, the gelatos were amazing

Always a queue on a sunny day but it moves quickly.

staff member called Sophie on the ice cream section, She was so rude, and she also charged me extra without telling me! Shame on you!!! very unprofessional place and pedro you should sort out your management system asap!!

The Reese’s ice cream is just sooo gooood 😱😻

The best Crab Ravioli we have ever tasted by far! Perfectly executed, the sauce was smooth with mouth watering crab and prawns in every mouthful , the ravioli simply delicious bursting with crab! Oh and have I mentioned the ice cream ??? The choice was so hard to make! I went for the Almond and Cherry homemade in a cone! Oh my days! 11/10! Will we be back-Yes! Would I recommend- Urm…. YES! 1 billion per cent!

I’ve been here many times and it never disappoints whether it comes to ice cream , pizza or anything else . I love it and we’ll continue to visit .

Pistachio sundae is ELITE.. My partner and son got two scoops of ice cream and it was very generous. The ice creams are genuinely lovely, super creamy with loads of flavour. £18 in total for 1 scoop chocolate, 2 scoop pistachio and a pistachio sundae. A little on the dearer side but servings were generous and the sundae is just worth it in every way shape or form!

Awful ice creams. Grumpy girls are preparing cones and after just eating them, all of us felt terrible. I don’t know what did they put as ingredients but strongly not recommended.

If you like ice cream Go here If you love it you've probably been already Wide choice of flavours and something for the dog too Mmmmmmm

Fantastic ice cream and very friendly

Super good ice cream. Some of the best I’ve had in Brighton. The portions are huge and priced are reasonable. Definitely recommend!

Food ok but the manager Christina was so so rude totally letting the good name of Marrocos down . We have been eating here since it opened years ago and never have I experienced such rudeness. We booked a table for 9 of my family to celebrate my 65th birthday. One of our party has just had major surgery and although cannot eat much wanted to come. We asked if she could just have a child menu chicken nuggets( no chips) but the manageress Christina was very rude and said No. We offered to pay for a full adult meal but still was told no. The family member was left feeling embarrassed at trying to explain her surgery embarrassed and very upset. Our bill was £243 which we paid but on the way out i quietly tried to speak to the manager to say how upsetting it had been and she was so rude telling me the family member wasn’t embarrassed!! I have never been spoken to in such a rude way and she stormed off leaving me very upset. The waiting staff were lovely the food was ok but the manager Christina was a disgrace to the name of Marrocos and ww will never go back

Cute cafe on the seafront in Hove. Recommended for gelato.

Proper Italian food with no fancy names, I honestly recommended this unassuming place. They also serve the best ice cream in a mind boggling range of flavours, if you don't believe me look at the photos of the queues waiting to be served. Hidden gem on Hove seafront.

Have been coming here for years with the family, and absolutely shocked to be told that they don’t serve ice cream sundaes as eat in patrons and I would have to get it as a take away. I questioned how I would actually eat a banana split outdoors, greeted by the shrug of the shoulders and observed a virtually empty restaurant on a tuesday afternoon. Terrible service from what used to be a very family orientated establishment and won’t be returning on the basis of that encounter. Shame on you. Lost regular customers and unfortunately will be spreading the word about our negative experience, hence why we felt the need to do a google review. Off to eat a banana split at home.

Great ice cream definitely worth the wait

Always good quality.Hasn't changed in years.

Fabulous ice cream. Lemon sorbet was particularly good.

Nice ice cream,but it's over rated and exy which is typical for Brighton. Not worth a special visit

Been going there for 10 years as I’m local and go there for ice cream on average once a week and not just in summer. Ice cream used to be really good with special flavours and was genuinely good quality. But have noticed it’s going downhill, except the prices which is now central London level. They now only have the most bog standard flavour which you could find in any supermarket and the cones are often stale. Each time I made an excuse for them thinking it’s a one off. But today it’s really beyond a joke. The person serving behind the counter was unfriendly and took her time playing with her phone even though there was a long queue. She then gave me the smallest 2 scoops I’d ever seen. When I told her, she rolled her eyes and just said ‘oh really?” Well if you don’t like to do the job then don’t do it. But then clearly now Marrocco just trades on its past glory and trying to make a fast buck with tourists. Well, good luck as you need the locals outside the couple of months that’s summer. And I’ll take my £5.80 and spend it elsewhere

The pistachio ice cream was very creamy and soft. Unfortunately, the pistachio flavor didn't really come through.

Been going for 10 years for ice cream. It’s been going downhill and now only serves bog standard supermarket flavours ice cream with stale cones but sky high rip-off prices. Today was beyond a joke. Person behind counter played with her phone even though there was a queue, then gave me the smallest scoops I’d ever seen. Even for half the price I’d feel cheated - I do know the normal size! When I told her she just rolled her eyes. The attitude is - we have enough business from tourists who are happy to be ripped off. Well let’s see about that in a few months’ time when you only have the locals. It’s exactly like the local butcher Canham & Son. Trading on goodwill and those who are willing to be ripped off. In this day and age, we’ll see how far that would go…

Delicious ice cream product. Good quality cone . Fair price.

As a local resident and frequent visitor I was so disappointed when I ordered something different today. I went for spaghetti vongela and when it arrived there were five empty clam shells on top of the spaghetti. When I asked the waitress why the shells were empty she told me “the contents are in the middle of the spaghetti” and pointed to the middle and said there’s one, unfortunately it wasn’t and was a bit of broken shell. Very disappointing, poor value for money, poor customer service and sadly will not be going back or recommending the restaurant to anyone else! So could easily have been sorted.

Highly overrated bang average ice-cream & moody staff.

Amazing staff, fresh food and ice cream

Great place. Brilliant Ice cream, lots of flavours and nice cones with it. Only downside is the long queues waiting for an ice cream. If you go into the restaurant there's great pizza and pasta dishes. Do a lot of seafood pasta dishes. In busy times you probably will have needed to book especially for a family

Long queue, seems popular, ice cream was enjoyable.

Really good ice-cream close to the beach. Strong recommendation.

It's really amazing hazelnut and kinder ice cream. I am really 😍 it.

A popular place and had to wait for 20 mins to get serve, I chose the Caramel Sundae, which it was ok, should really picked another flavour! I will go there again though!

Good place for ice cream 🍦🍨 at that side of beach

A lovely independent family run Italian restaurant serving their legendary ice cream, arguably the best ice cream in Brighton. The staff are always happy and friendly. The food's great, and so is the coffee.

The Queue outside tends to be for ice cream. Walk straight past it and into the restaurant. The meal portions are huge and the food is fantastic

Dropped by for ice cream but ended up sitting in for dinner instead and it was a great decision! Every local knows Marrocco’s for its ice cream and I’ve been coming here since I was a child but it was my first time eating in and the food was delicious. We ordered the baby squid spaghetti, goat’s cheese pizza and mushroom risotto. The risotto is usually made with Italian sausage but they kindly made it without them for me due to dietary requirements. The caramel lattes had a generous serving of syrup which definitely scored extra brownie points! Not sure if the waiter was new, as he wasn’t able to answer any questions we had about the food and didn’t even offer to check with someone and come back. He also tried to tell us they don’t do a cinnamon latte even though we could see it on the menu board! Overall a great dinner with very reasonable prices

Delicious ice cream 🍦 recommend the kinder Bueno! They also do good pizzas!

I cannot recommend this restaurant more. It is in every sense fantastic!!; service great amazing atmosphere and it does not matter if you order meat, pasta, rice ...all quality is level with the wonderful ice cream selection!! Love it!! I will be back

I have been going to Marocco’s for years and today I got my first ice cream of 2024 from them and I was extremely disappointed. A 3 scoops cup now cost £7.20 (£7.70 if you choose pistachio) which is quite a lot. More important than the price increase which should be excepted to some extent, the worst thing was the huge drop in quality of the ice cream. I had my usual pistachio and coffee which are the flavours I always have from them and they were unrecognisable to what I used to have from them. Both flavours felt bland and it just gave the impression of a huge drop in quality. I really hope this was a one off thing and just a really bad day for them. Otherwise I would never go back and it would be a shame to lose what used to be the best ice cream in Brighton and hove imo.

Crab spaghetti is really good value and delicious, highly recommended

Amazing ice cream, there is always a long queue though on a warm day and service is fairly slow

This Hove institution is often a feature at the end of a walk, whether its just for a take away ice cream or something more substantial. The food comes with no complaints for me but sadly it is the level of customer service and politeness of the staff that draws my dislike. Example … an early sunny Thursday evening where a queue had built up to purchase ice cream only to be met with the terse demands of an employee to queue the other side, everyone in queue thought the barking of orders rude. No problem if it were this lack of warmth alone but when being served your met with ‘cup or cone’ not a ‘hello what can i get you’ or ‘hello would you like a cup or a cone today.’ More warmth and probably less offence would have come from a self-service machine. The young lady serving me continued in her monosyllabic tone without smile much to the amusement of the queue behind us who were like us somewhat taken aback by the ferocious abruptness of the service, a military boot camp would have been softer in its approach. We left with delicious tasting ice cream but somewhat of a bad taste in our mouths following our visit to Moroccos unsure as why such people choose to work in a customer service oriented role and indeed why they are employed in the first place. It was obvious to everyone in the queue that Thursday evening that this person was just simply rude and given the prices being charged that isn’t good enough. I appreciate that at times this is a busy place to work but the same results can be achieved by approaching things in a kinder politer way and that in turn creates goodwill and generosity if understanding.

Some of the best ice cream I've had in my life! I try to come there often!

Ridiculously long queue for ice cream. Disappointed in the run and raisin which did not have much run flavor. £3.80 per scoop didn't provide value for money.

Nice location, right on the beach Amazing ice creams including vegan. Hot Food competitively priced, and very tasty. Will go again. Parking tricky although chance you can pull up outside in evening during week.

I tried the ice cream, which is amazing, they have variety of flavors. Honestly must try.

They do a really good size sirlon steak and the ice cream is good

Not very good, but quite eatable ice cream. I found the mango much too sweet.

Walk in early evening, comprehensive menu and chefs specials. We had gnocchi and margarita pizza both very tasty, food hot and fresh.

Amazing pizzas and home made Ice Creams. Coffee is good too.

Really good Italian ice cream, pricey for nearly £4 per scoop, not fantastic but it's a great treat on the beach

Whilst on the beach on a Wednesday morning me and my group of adults with learning difficulties wanted some ice cream. The staff of Marrocco’s immediately looked as if they did not want us there. Despite it raining outside, we were told we could not sit inside with a large ice cream and drinks order. At first it was said we must buy hot food to enter, yet when we reluctantly said that we would do this, we were then refused entry, with the staff stating that there was not enough space (there was not a single person sitting in the restaurant at the time). Overall this was an extremely disappointing and poor experience where it was clear from the start that we were not wanted at Marrocco’s - leading to us having some excellent ice cream elsewhere in Hove.

First time here, certainly one of the better ones and Leffe on tap!

amazing fresh pasta with the most delicious sauce! came for their famous ice creams but loved their pasta as we decided to give it a try. had the mint choc & coffee ice cream for dessert - perfect end to a fine date.

We've been coming here for 15 years and have never been disappointed. 5* seafood , ice cream and service.

It's not just a coffee and food. It's also the view you can enjoy while eating.