The Hope Inn in Lewes

Busy pub. Good views from the upstairs conservatory.

Great, friendly pub with excellent beer and a beautiful setting

Brilliant place .excellent staff. Will be back with motor home again 8.6.mtrs.thanks for service.

Great food at a reasonable price, severed by friendly staff. We shall be back!!

Have been dining at the Hope, I guess for 18 months or so now. Never had a poor plate of food. I was there with a friend last night, for my birthday celebration........ "that happened to be on their "steak night" Does it get any better I ask myself? Probably not! From the onset...... from the very onset of the evening, till the very end, fabulous welcome from the lovely Nicola (The Hope land lady) together with Great service and great food. We had a really fabulous evening. To be honest, I struggle to believe they offer their great steak night supper deal, for the amazing price of a tenner. A tenner!! Incredible value, it really is an amazing deal. Thank you, thank you to "Team hope" for a fabulous, amazing value for money, lovely evening! Risk of repeating myself, great service, great food...... amazing value for money evening. PS Might mention back ground music was bang on the money too. Lovely evening. Thanks to all.

Went to The Hope for steak night supper celebration last night with a friend. Great welcome, great food, great service. Great (incredible) value for money. Happened to visit the night of their steak night deal. Nice steak and fries..... a tenner. Food was great at an amazing price. The Hope seems to have become my "go to Local" never had a poor plate of food there, nice bunch of staff to. Give it a try.

Not been . Not going . Website menu 8 years out of date . Get your act in gear

The Best Fish and Chips we have had for a very long time! An Olde Worldy pub, by the quayside, comfortably furnished with assorted maritime and fish accoutrements, A helpful landlady, a marvellous chef, and a delightful lunch experience at the start of a short break . The first time we have visited this pub, but we have passed it many a time on the ferry to France.

I have never personally been (so far) to this pub, but when I drive past it to the big car park at the end of Fort Road it always seems to be busy and popular. I wish them all the best in preserving pubs which are a part of our culture and history and they are disappearing fast. When I drive around, a lot of them that had been there since before I was born are now flats, private houses or convenience stores.

Lovely staff always on hand to help support and be friendly everytime wonderful place ! And lovely all round locals it's great social place to be 😊

Very nice place to enjoy a relaxing evening highly recommended 5 star review ★★★★★

This pub is very hit and miss. We have been there many times and no two visits are the same when it comes to food. Sometimes you can get a very nice meal there and then at other times the food is awful, poor quality, and unappetising. The vista is great, very pleasant especially in the Summer. I would say that it’s a great place for a drink outside, but food is a risk. The portions are very generous so what it lacks in quality it makes up for in quantity. Of course, it’s only “pub food” but we have eaten wonderful and good quality “pub food” elsewhere. Our meal there recently - after a long absence - was revolting. Soggy battered fish and triple greasy overcooked chips. I left most of mine but my husband ate his but felt quite ill later on. Also when we went to our table there was a large Alsatian on the nearby table that we hadn’t seen. It leapt out at us barking aggressively and was held back by its owners. They said it was just being protective, of course. We made no fuss and just sat down at our table when the dog calmed down. The owners were very pleasant and we chatted amiably. It was shocking though and if we had had a child with us who knows what would have happened. I did think that if the owners knew how the dog would behave, then they should not have taken it to the pub. Also the pub should have said no to entry. Anyway, there we are, that’s the review.

Brilliant place to stop, eat and relax before boarding the night ferry to Dieppe. Warm friendly welcome and menu was traditional pub food but good portions and beautifully cooked. Lots of parking for big and small vehicles. We had a private table. Lots of space not cramped or noisy.

Absolutely loved our steaks this evening and even better was unexpectedly turning up on burns night and being able to try the amazing haggis! the food and staff are awesome always vistit here before our trip to France. See you guys again soon

Lovely food, great staff and service- good atmosphere. Would definitely go back.

Been a long time since I've enjoyed a " Pub" as much as the Hope Inn..Had a great meal, great service, and really laid back vibe..l'm a Brighton boy born and bred..so tend to not to get to Newhaven much ( unless it's Paradise Park with the grandchildren!)..But will defo make the effort in future A special place 10/10

Good food beers excellent log fire Warm and inviting on very cold day

Great Gluten Free Fish and Chips!

Great location, friendly staff, excellent beer! Nice decor too.

Went here for Sunday lunch with 5 family members. The pub is nice and has a warm atmosphere. Staff were all friendly and attentive. Soft drinks on the expensive side… £3.75 for a lemonade. In our group, one had the beef roast, one had the veggie nut roast and one had cod and chips. They were all pleased with it. Two of us had the halloumi burger… which unfortunately wasn’t so good. The brioche bun was well toasted and then cold, so a bit dry. Chips arrived cold and had to be reheated/ replaced. In the bun was just 2 small pieces of halloumi. I’m afraid it really wasn’t anything special for the £16 it cost. The red cabbage slaw was nice. The menu was quite limited (see photo). I wouldn’t say don’t go, but I probably wouldn’t go again.

Small menu but found food. Fish n chips was Inc a small portion of fish.

Warm friendly atmosphere. Nickola & her team very attentive & efficient to our party of 10. Food was hot & delicious with a good selection. Will certainly be coming again.

Lovely old-world pub with the most helpful bar person ever! Had a lovely lunch which was very fresh and filling. Toilets clean clean clean. Log fire and loads of atmosphere.

En attendant le ferry Super pub Le fish and chips great ambiance cosy et chaleureuse Le sticky toffee pudding un delice I will come back

A great sea nautical pub with delicious Cod and chips.Traditional Englishness throughout.Walk along the Napoleonic fort and cliffs.I will be back.

While very busy on the day we arrived. The staff remained very friendly and accommodating, even though we had a large group. Lovely venue, and it was great to see the large ferry coming into port. Food, portions and price were really good. Would love to go back. Thank you once again for making our visit memorable.

The atmosphere is incredible, the food was delicious, i highly recommend this pub restaurant

Superb homemade food.Very comfortable, friendly service

A warm welcome and great food awaits at the cosy friendly Hope Inn. Highly recommended!

Great place, staff are so lovely, nice and clean, quick service and good pints. Only criticism is be great if they could a better cider on draught and more beer selection like moretti. But lovely little place. Also they have nappies/tampons in the bathroom for free which is really nice, glad to see landlord looking after customers :)

We have eaten lunch here before which was really good. But, has there been a change of chef? Our recent visit for lunch left us unimpressed food wise. The 'mashed potato' was unedible. The vegetables were overcooked. The pie was acceptable. Ploughman's lunch was very much smaller. Drinks were very good as was service. Will not be our first choice in the near future.

Staff are great. Amazing looking inside. Food is over priced. Pies sold for £4 down the road £17 here from the same place. The best newhaven has but in comparison to Brighton it’s a bottom of the food chain food place.

Lovely welcoming atmosphere. I had a Caesar salad which was fine & my husband had sausages with veg which were crisp & tasty. The Ladies toilet was clean and there was a basket of sanitary products & babies' nappies available for anyone who needed them with a notice above saying "Help yourself". I thought that this was very thoughtful and mentioned it to the staff who said that it was the cleaner who had brought them in, so hats off to that person.

Only stopped for a quick drink but very friendly and welcoming.

On our way to France .... Great place; good atmosphere; yummy food and desserts; very friendly and helpful staff. Got water bottle filled up for our dogs. will come back, if I am on my way down there .....

Quite a few years since been here. New faces but a warm and pleasant welcome from Leah (red dress) and chef. Young serving lady very pleasant and attentive 👍. Still a traditional pub, worth a visit.

It's a shame that you can't get anything to eat at 6 p.m. on a Sunday. The staff is very nice, the atmosphere is great and the beer is delicious. The toilets are not clean on the floor (at least that gives the impression). Would have liked to try the food.

The food is tasty, but they have a problem with thermal insulation. Delicious desserts, I highly recommend it

The food was good, the sampler platter is huge and was big enough for 2-3. I wish they had local Sussex beer on draught and a menu that had more GF and Vegetarian options. The Hope is the best pub in Newhaven.

Music too loud and no break between tracks

Nice food, but drinks very expensive

Great pub with good selection of beers

this pub is all you could wish for , the staff 10/10 .We walked in, straight away"hello be with you in a minuet", in less time than that"what would you like"all with good cheer and banter.good pint to, smashing I dont know what the food is like but I,ll bet its simple and good . Steve

What a lovely place popped in for a drink with my autistic grandson and family. He can be rather over enthusiastic and we told him he had to be quiet but the lovely landlady told us its no problem he is fine and you don't need to tell him to be quiet he is just enjoying himself. How kind and understanding so nice to go somewhere that understands us and accepts everyone thank you so much hope to return again soon

Popped in for a drink whilst visiting the area. Found staff friendly and helpful. It's not the best view of the outside from the pub, but that's not their fault. Proper old English pub, I liked it.

Good food table service great view

We stood here in the parking lot with the camper, free of charge, from Britt Stop. This is possible at many restaurants/pubs, just call in advance to see if they have room. In return you will of course eat with them!

This pub now under the guidance of Nicky and her team is finally on the right path. The welcome from the staff is always friendly, when we ask for a table we like they do their best to accommodate us even when we are only having drinks. The Specials board is always interesting and a great Sunday roast. We have become regulars this summer and intend to carry on being.

Called in to have a drink was going to eat all tables in the pub had reserved on at different times in the evening asked if I could sit and have my drink was told they are reserved it was steak night but it was only 5pm go outside very rude they could have said your welcome to sit at table but it's booked at 7pm and I would have gone then absolutely ridiculous won't go again

Hamburgers a little bit dry but great staff

I’m so glad we stopped here. The staff were nice and the food was fantastic. We will definitely visit here again when we are that way.

Been drinking there since 1972. Still a bloody good pub. 19 September 2021 We had a meal this afternoon at the Hope, absolutely marvellous. Superb food. Magic!

Drab . Smeary wine glass but .......wine was nice

Lunch after rowing with Lewes Pilot Gig Club... Best Club house ever!! Pie chips and beer!!!

We are French on holiday and although we can understand English properly we need some help sometimes but we could feel the waitress wasn’t ready to make efforts to help us order . She was speaking fast and didn’t really want to repeat. It seemed we bothered her. What’s more they took us for suckers as they extra charged us £10 for drinks we didn’t have we would have had to pay if we hadn’t discuss the amount. Finally I would say the saying above the fireplace mentioning «  there is no stranger in this place just friends yet to be » hasn’t proved to be true at all to us.

This pub seems to have changed hands in the last year or so, whilst the pub remains essentially the same the food prices have gone through the roof. The food was average but overpriced, several items were not available on the menu as well. On a positioned the service was good

Nice old fashioned pub. We had ciabatta which were floury and dry. So didn't really like. Would have been better toasted also quite expensive at about £8 a pop.

Love this pub so much - staff are just so friendly and the food is delicious ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I booked this pub for the wake of my Uncle. When I first rang them they wanted a deposit and asked for my email address. which I gave them. I hadn't heard anything for a few days and rang the again. The lady was very...

Great pub at edge of Newhaven and overlooking harbour entrance. Lots of character and nice menu. Look out for the specials board. Good beer , food and service. If you want a window table book ahead. I expect on a nice sunny weekend busy so...

Visited on a Weds afternoon, lovely location next to the River Ouse at Newhaven port ..on our visit just one cask ale Harvey's of Lewes plus a few keg beers. Did not eat there .

Just wish the chips had another 3/4 mins in the fryer. Lovely ham and eggs and amazing pint of Harvey’s.

Sunday lunch, came some months ago, lovely roast lunch. Not so good, veg under cooked, chicken tough, no roast potatoes, all a bit disappointing 😕

Had a very nice lunch here today. Nice location especially if its a sunny day

Thursday night steak night highly recommended don't miss out ! And don't order mine , save my place haha 😝🤪 such wonderful people I luckily enjoy my steak dinner whilst fishing 😊 yummy thanks all who work there 🥰

Unfortunately our visit to The Hope Inn today wasn’t a great experience, when we arrived it wasn’t that busy, but was told by a staff member there was a 20 minute wait to be able to order food due to there being loads of people in for lunch and a freezer that stopped working at the weekend. We was happy to wait the 20 mins and ordered drinks. We was told about a table that was available but due to there not being enough staff to cater for customers, someone else sat at our table. We were then informed that there was a upstairs conservatory that we could sit in, but a staff member would come up when the kitchen was taking food orders. After about 25-30 minutes we gave up waiting, so I went downstairs to order food, to then be told that they were sold out of the pies, cod, fish cakes and steak. Today is mine and my partner’s anniversary and The Hope Inn was the first place we went for dinner together 2 years ago, so we travelled the 30 mile round trip for what should have been a great meal out! Feeling very disappointed and annoyed. I would recommend that in the future the staff inform their customers of the items they don’t have on the menu at the time of arrival, because if we had known that the items we were going to eat weren’t available we wouldn’t have waited and could have gone elsewhere in time for lunch.

Great location on the harbour arm . Very door friendly

Nice place by the sea and has a good selection of fresh fish dishes, very busy place and very popular so you may have to wait for a table but enjoyed my meal.

Had to wait for the ferry and this was a welcome stop

We had a very nice meal here, the service was good and very friendly, the food was also very good, and we were able to use our diners card to get a discount on the food and drink which was much appreciated 😀

Stopped here on our cycle ride to Paris before catching the ferry. Great welcoming service.

Amazing gluten free fish and chips plus good selection of wine. Good location with sea views. Staff very helpful.

Terrific pub vast seating are outside see coming /going of boats we were lucjy to see huge car ferry come in.highly recommend food good portions defo go afain

It's about two years since visiting for lunch. Prices (especially wine) have increased significantly but post Covid and in these inflationary times that's understandable. From placing our order, the food took a little over half an hour to arrive but we weren't told there would be a delay. When the food arrived it was good and served on hot plates, something that isn't always the case with pub grub.

Lovely eatery on Newhaven Harbour. There is also a nice parking space for RVs.

A nice setting near the west harbour front. It was very busy when we visited and the service was a bit haphazard. There was however a decent atmosphere, pretty chilled. After waiting for some time for my roast to arrive the wrong meat roast arrived ! By this time I was ravenous hungry so just accepted it and ate it. The waitress was very apologetic but didn't really explain what had happened. The food itself was very tasty, well cooked and presented. I did enjoy it. When I asked for the bill It arrived and they did not charge me for the wrong roast I had eaten, without me even asking for it to be deducted. Thank you, that went a long way to redeeming a negative experience. I will give The Hope Inn another visit and chance when I'm in the area.

This is the second poor meal I have had here. I put the last one down to an off evening and gave it the benefit of the doubt but tonight’s meal was awful. Watery, tasteless and we did mention it discreetly to the staff with...

Great place, lovely outside seating area, Friendly staff

EXTREMELY BAD!!! The service and the staff is very unfriendly and horrible! Don’t come! They don’t even serve food when they say they are! Catastrophe.

Pleasantly surprised Odd location, literally stumbled on it A typical drink and food pub. Everyone feels at home. Food 5 Service 5 Inside 4 Would come again, no doubt Lovely staff that for a change doesn’t look tired before they even start. Nice fresh bunch of folks Okay one thing: don’t order coffee. But hey…. it’s a pub

Great place to eat and has live music

Love this place. It’s so relaxing and a friendly vibe. The staff are friendly, fun and hard working. Also so welcoming and it’s a lovely spot with views out over the river and ocean. One of my favourites

Lovely pub great team with smashing landlady nothing is any trouble . Wish I could dine every day the fish and chips are amazing thanks xx

Loved it here. Really friendly staff and although quite busy didn’t leave us waiting. It was lunchtime but decided on the main menu which is quite comprehensive. The food arrived and it was piping hot, plentiful and delicious, couldn’t fault it. There was a good...

I'm was not impressed with the food, the chips were too much fat on them as were not drained off, cheeseburger bun was burnt and burgers were too dry

Nice business in a beautiful location; friendly staff

Great place, by the mouth of the river onto the English channel. Staff very friendly and helpful. Oh and the Beer is even better 🤠

Nice typical English pub with down-to-earth food. Today with life music.

Lovely welcoming and obliging staff and food was good no complaints from us

Although changing hands I have to say the staff are fantastic. So helpful, and tolerant. I attend the beer festival at the Fort and after went to the Hope to ear. Like so many in the pub my three companions were too drunk to eat which was embarrassing for me and caused seating issues for the staff but they handled everything very well. I ordered fish and chips. It looked a fabulous as it tasted but sadly I ate very little because my stress levels were so high. We were sat near a large family with a screaming child which made matters worse but that sort of thing happens. I am going to go back very soon too order the fish again so I can enjoy it alone. Congratulations to all the staff you worked we on thar day.

Very friendly staff and they had live music on the Saturday night we were there. Good food and a warm welcome.

Friendly customer service in a nice relaxing setting. Recommend the prawn marie-rose ciabatta, was very tasty.

I was a bit sceptical when I read the reviews as they seemed too good to be true but no! This is a really lovely pub. It has a great atmosphere- it’s a pub not a restaurant with a bar. The staff are so friendly and the food was delicious.

Parked up the beach front with moho ready for ferry ti dieppe Monday morning and rang to book a table quite late on a Sunday , the manageress was so accommodating saying I will take your order now and you make your way round here We had fish pie and scampi - both excellent but the fish pie was superb and the best my wife has ever had Thanks so much for accommodating us - we will certainly visit again when down this way

Ate there on a Saturday night Food was great Very friendly atmosphere Going back for a Sunday roast

We have been here before with both family and friends. The staff are friendly and helpful, and the coffee and food are very good. We were given comfortable seating overlooking the port. Service was prompt and efficient. The two ladies in the group had scampi,...

A really friendly pub with plenty of great food options on the menu. A warm welcome and a large selection of drinks are on offer. Sit out at the front of the pub and watch all that’s happening in the mouth of the river and busy port. Fantastic views across Seaford Bay.

We had a delicious lunch at The Hope yesterday . Very friendly staff & the food was very well presented . We will definitely visit again when in the area & thoroughly recommend.

Brilliant service in a beautifully scenic area. Good food and good beer.

Convenient location, good food but very average service and NOT chilled/ cold beer.