Trading Post Coffee Roasters in Brighton and Hove

Busy busy busy, but hey ho it’s pretty amazing coffee, and pastries. Sandwiches look awesome.

My 6 year old son said it is an amazing place. Very tasty snacks, friendly service, and really good breakfasts. We come most Saturdays after swimming lessons. Great coffee too!

A great coffee at a rooftop bar, soaking in the last sunrays of the day. Impossible to not give this 5 stars. This place is a lovely chaos of people squishing in for a seat, staff not finding the people who ordered and pigeons sneaking in for some forgotten crumbs. Truely Brighton.

What an amazing find. Visiting family and dropped in here for brunch. Food was absolutely brilliant ! Coffee was as good, if not better than the commercial coffee shops (speciality roast). Although I'm not vegan I had the granola and chose coconut yoghurt. Was beautiful. The 4 of us all chose different food, and every single one of us thoroughly enjoyed their meal. Staff were chatty and couldn't do enough for us. Thank you for great food and a great experience. Compliments to Zteph - 👨‍🍳 Looking forward to next time already. Would highly recommend. Linda

Terrible service lve now been waiting half an hour for a coffee will never come here again and l will be letting my friends know how terrible the service was

We popped into this cafe on Saturday morning looking for an early breakfast. The barista Jack was super friendly, offering us a selection of coffee roasts for our cappuccino. The cafe was busy and Jack handled it all with charm. We ordered a vegetarian breakfast which arrived promptly was beautifully presented and well cooked. Highly recommended.

Took them 20 -30 min to get us two cappuccinos and an almonds croissant, lovely staff but slow.

Local coffee chain with moderate coffee quality. Nice to grab one if you’re around.

If you like sloooow service while sitting in a cramped busy corridor… this might be right for you.

This is perfectly pleasant and in a nice spot in the North Laine. However I ordered freshly squeezed orange juice and they gave me juice that was clearly out of a long life carton.

Good place, good staff but no wifi and poor 4g/5g

This cafe doesn't accept cash payments. I'll take my business elsewhere--there are plenty of other cafes that do.

Cute place, but there is a woman barista with a really poor attitude. Literally watched her slag me off to her co-worker as though I couldn't hear 😂 She made it very plain that she was angry and weirdly bitter. I feel like there is low morale here generally. Unreal. Not going back.

Friendliest girl with headscarf was very helpful and made my day when I visited a few days ago. Will definitely come back! Lovely tasting coffee and vibe too❤️

Absolutely love going to the Trading Post Coffee Roasters. Always made to feel welcomed by their staff and their coffee is the best in Brighton!

After remote working since lockdown this was a brilliant place to get together for our works Christmas Party. We were greeted with bubbles and spent the next few hours enjoying time with colleagues we hadn't seen in person for such a long time. No fighting for a place at the bar or shouting over too loud music, just chatting, laughing, dancing and eating in our own private space - it is a perfect venue if this is what you want. The food offering and the service was excellent, so much so that we will be booking our next party there very soon!

I genuinely hate leaving bad reviews but had such a bad experience today. We came out of our way to come to this coffee shop today as previously had a good coffee (we’re visiting from Oxford). Queued for 20 minutes at the counter to order to be met by the rudest female server- made no eye contact, rolled her eyes at me throughout the order, cut me off when ordering, no acknowledgment for the 20 minute wait, told me I couldn’t order waffles with syrup even though clearly on the menu- when I asked her if I was putting her out (as this is how she left me feeling) she literally shouted at me for being rude. Spent £50 on food and drink. At no point was I told by the rude member of staff that there was a wait on food. Took 30 minutes for our coffees to arrive. 45 minutes later we were still waiting for our food. Ended up having to ask for a refund as we had plans to get to. I get it was New Year’s Day, busy etc but absolutely no need for rudeness. (Relevant to the cafe on ship stree)

We had an excellent NewYear’s breakfast at Trading Post Brighton. Excellent food, drinks, service & ambience. Will definitely be returning. Great for families too.

Have been to the Trading Post in Lewes, and as expected - really nice food, and drinks, nice atmosphere, feels cosy! However the service was pretty poor in this one, when we ordered the server wasn't very friendly and seemed in a mood :( didnt make us feel welcome at all. and when we left I smiled at her but she just glared at me. It was especially disappointing as my mum wanted to treat me and my boyfriend to a nice breakfast but we ended up feeling quite dissatisfied and wishing we had gone somewhere else

At last a decent cup of Americano! Plus a very nice toastie. Pleasant atmosphere. Friendly service. Winner!

Been passed this place loads of time, always thought about popping in but it’s always been busy. Popped in today whilst passing as it didn’t seem too bad, wish we hadn’t bothered. Long wait for food, about 45 minutes to an hour, wasn’t mentioned whilst ordering. Whilst waiting one table gave up and got a refund, several other people enquiring where their food was or enquiring about missing items. Very disorganised. We ordered the bacon & maple with scrambled eggs which came zero maple on it. The eggs were nice but that’s about it. Didn’t bother mentioning it as we’d waited long enough for it. Definitely won’t be back.

Good decaf coffee. Food ok but service slow ... 45 minute wait for breakfast and then they got mine wrong. Staff were helpful though. Very noisy too. Maybe better if you sit upstairs but don't go there for the ambiance or for quiet conversation

We had a wonderful time at the Trading Post celebrating our work Christmas party last week. The hosting was brilliant and made for a really special evening. Everyone agreed that the food was delicious, and in big quantities! Also a big shoutout to the very efficient bar staff who managed to juggle multiple cocktail orders with ease. All round would definitely recommend this for anyone looking for a location for a private party in the centre of town.

Great food and service with the best coffee. The only let down is that the outside patio is in desperate need of an upgrade. Rickety old tables and chairs, messy floor and heaters not working,

Loveliest staff and atmosphere, visit here a lot with my uni friends. They had an issue with the payment on the card machine and were very attentive and apologetic and they dealt with it very well. Overall would recommend to anyone in brighton esp sitting on the rooftop in summer!

Second time here and thought I would give them a second chance but again a long wait and chaotic service. Food ok, a bit cold one hard boiled egg, no cutlery and when i was gven then it the knife and fork was wet with no napkins. No phone signal and no wifi, happy to leave as I couldn't relax.

We came here today for breakfast and a much needed coffee ☕️ We have been staying in Brighton for a long weekend and we loved here! Cute atmosphere, lots of space and the staff were just lovely! My husband had the bacon and avocado Benedict and he said “it was to die for” 😍 I had the full breakfast and it was probably the best breakfast I’ve had in a very long time! Also I highly recommend the Nutella latte 🫶🏼 Brilliant service and brightons hidden gem of a coffee house 🤩🖤

Chaos! While the decor is good the restaurant is overcrowded and the seating arrangements make this worse. I had to ask where our food was and the waitress went to check. Clearly we had been forgotten and our food would be another “5” minutes. Twenty five minutes from ordering to the food coming to the table. It was nice to see, though, that our waitress managed to have their lunch at one of the tables while we waited. The food was good though when it eventually arrived. Finally, the 80s music is good but much too loud. Overall, if you like a loud and overcrowded environment and have plenty of time on your hands this is the place for you.

The Christmas window illustrations 2023 made my day! Also do fantastic cheese and ham toasties

A really love Soya Latte with advice given from the friendly staff of which one to choose. I will return for sure.

Lovely and tasty food as always.

Lovely coffee and great gluten free cake choices. Light meals are amazing too, all in the North Lane District of Brighton

Lovely atmosphere but disappointed by flat white I ordered Coffee blend could be improved.

Based on our experience today I can only recommend to avoid this place. Totally disorganised team with some nonchalant waiters who don't care about customer service. Failed to mention at the counter that kitchen food could be up to 45 minutes when we ordered, so we waited a lot (more than 45 minutes), for a croque monsieur and veggie breakfast, wondering if they'd forgotten. Our friends were done with their sandwiches by the time we got our food, and they had to wait for us to finish. The food was good taste-wise, although some of my partner's smashed avo was frozen. My chai latte was nothing special. Other details we didn't like: the 'clean' cutlery on our table was dirty. There was a dozen abandoned gallons of milk on the counter upstairs, which on a hot day I feel is not a good place to keep them.

One of the best coffee I've ever had. The atmosphere and team were great. PS: Don't forget try their Nutella coffee

First time in there. Had a Black Pearl espresso and was blown away. The flavours packed into that shot, so good. Love like when I first kissed Fucia Burton under the chestnut tree. Well done.

friendly staff but the hot chocolate was literally just milk… for £3.90 this is unacceptable! i am sure there is not even a single full spoon in it! and that’s without talking about how cold it was! i don’t know about the other stuff but the hot chocolate is a scam.

Super friendly staff, shoutout to Imogen and Daisy, incredible drinks and super quick service. Even on pride they were incredible. Amazing music and amazing vibe

Sehr leckerer Kaffee, tolles Frühstück, angenehme Atmosphäre. Sehr zu empfehlen!!

Blooming lovely cafe with good coffee and selection of light bites.

Go for the single origin coffee. At the moment it's Rwandan, just lovely

Wonderful little cafe in the heart of the lanes. Reasonable prices, perfect seating inside and outside, sometimes even on the roof. Good, decent food. Lovely staff, would recommend for a nice little breakfast/lunch

Staff are super friendly, genuinely as well. Loved their advice on coffee blends and it seems you can get a variety for only a little extra. Chose the Black Pearl and Rwanda guest blend, was tasty. Milk blended to a creamy texture and a delicious taste. They do sandwiches here for about a fiver and some brunch dishes, including espresso martini. Also had an upstairs terrace but I didn’t go there.

"Go woke, go broke". If you don't like my cash, Ta ta.

✅ Awesome staff. ✅ Great roof top patio. 🥞 But the food was okay: English muffins were not too fresh and not toasted. Missing certain elements that you can see in the photos. Attention to detail needs to be increased. But would return to give it another chance.

Nice experience Roastery and specialty coffee Worth a visit

60 minutes to queue and get some avocado on toast, with a scraping of avocado paste, missing an egg, and the one that came out was cold and hard boiled…. 28 quid for two people. So many better options in the Laines! Avoid this place.

Good quality coffee and food nice surroundings

£12 sausage sandwich, daylight robbery. Tasted fine, just a sausage sandwich

Best Espresso italian coffee in Brighton!

Iced coffee was amazing, and the atmosphere was so chill. Workers were so nice :)

Wonderful food excellent customer service love love it 😀

my bestie and i came here today and got the poached/scrambled eggs breakfast option w/ extra halloumi & avocado. the staff was so lovely, atmosphere and everything else was really great, but honestly the food was mid af. you’d think that for £3,50 extra for avo + halloumi you’d actually get more than a measly amount of both and be able to spread it between two slices of bread. i know the picture makes it look really nice but it was underwhelming for the price we paid. PS: the bathrooms are really tiny and difficult to move around in.

I would recommend the green monkey blend! It’s so good!! I would also recommend their pancakes (both the raspberry one and the bacon and eggs one)! They had really good eggs here! 10/10 recommend

Great bacon sandwich and gluten free bread

Great cafe in the heart of Brighton's trendy North Laine area. We had a delicious brunch. Had the pancakes & avocado eggs Benedict, very nice. Good coffee too. Plus they have outside seating and a roof terrace, which is a real bonus in this area of Brighton.

Great atmosphere, chill playlist and awesome coffee.

This cafe has a cosy space. I sometimes took brunch or some food with breakfast tea.

We stopped in here for a drink and bite to eat for lunch. The staff were friendly and the atmosphere upbeat. I had the Marmite rarebit (I'm a Marmite lover, sorry folks) which was really good and my other half had the bacon sandwich which again was very good (and triple stacked). Great coffee too - I had the Nutella latte which I will be trying to recreate myself! All in all would be happy to eat here again next time we're in Brighton. At £24 not the cheapest but in no way extortionate either. Only real down side was the toilets which could use a little TLC.

Visited the Kensington Gardens branch in February. We had lovely Jackfruit sandwiches and pastries - will always recommend! Admittedly I hadn't been to a trading post in a while, so upon order I showed my loyalty card expecting a stamp during the purchase. However, I was told that they now operate an app system. I asked if these physical stamps - I have 7 on the card, can be transferred to the app and/or the purchase I was making as I did not have an app account as I was unaware at that point. I was told, no this is not something that they are able to do in store. I emailed the office on the 19th February to see if they could offer a solution. As of yet I have not received a response which is why I am giving a 4 instead of a 5.

Nice coffee. Shame about the moody blonde behind the till

It’s ridiculous that almost every time I go, they don’t have a clean teaspoon. I asked one of the guys working there, he said he would get me one but he forgot and in the meantime my drink was getting cold. Please buy more teaspoon.

Lovely place to go for a quick bite to eat and they have plenty of cold or hot drinks to choose from very friendly staff plenty of seating also

Usually a good coffee here and some vegan choices. We have had a not nice experience yesterday morning. Where we have ordered 2 oat cappucinos and been given dairy milk. I wouldn’t write this review today ( as I have written a nice one a while ago). The only reason I do so is that when I brought coffees downstairs and said they are unfortunately wrong, the girl in hat didn’t apologise but instead she blamed me that that’s what we have ordered. I am ordering plant based milk past 19 years, I have firstly ordered oat latte and then changed it for oat cappuccino same as my partner was having and the girl at the till repeated after us : so 2 oat cappuccinos? 🤷🏼‍♀️. I mean mistake can be done and it’s ok. We are humans but I haven’t ever been blamed that I have ordered wrong, with my dairy intolerance I haven’t had a nice day after. This all situation was saved by lovely girl with long blond hair who came to apologise and offered us a refund. Only this girl knew what is right to do and that made a difference. So I thank her very much and the company should be proud about her working for them.

Friendly staff and a nice atmosphere

Great coffee. Friendly staff. Handy location in the North Lanes.

Amazing and very friendly staff, mine and my friends go-to cafe, the selection of different espresso blends and wide variety of tea is great but the staff are the reason I come back to this one specifically all the time

Buzzy cafe in heart of North Lanes, great pancakes & coffee .

Stopped off for breakfast, and had coffee and welsh rarebit, the coffee was cold and the rarebit was wet and tasted bitty like flour also cold

Came for a belated birthday brunch with friends, I had a croque Monsieur it was delicious, great service and nice atmosphere

The Croque Monsieur was absolutely delicious. It was three layers, the bread was so soft but crunchy on the crusts, the cheese was perfect as was the ham. Highly recommended :) the coffees and the smashed avocado were very good too, friendly staff at the till as well

Great atmosphere and serve fantastic food

Had a lovely lunch whilst out shopping in Brighton. I had a smoked salmon bagel, my wife had a halloumi bagel whilst my son had a cheese toastie. All were generously sized and filled. The toastie looked great. We had this with coffees and a pot of tea. All decent sized and great. Thanks a lot!

staff were not happy that we had our toy poodle but allowed us to use the roof garden as there was another dog already sitting in the cafe we did enjoy our coffee on boxing day

The food is delicious and appropriate, the workers are diligent, just needs organization

Nice corner cafe in a busier part of North Laines surrounded by let's be honest a lot of other coffee shops. Nice service offering to bring drink to table and good to see a few vgn pastries

Slow service and poncey food pea shoots on a breakfast herbs in the beans come on

Ordered a flat white and bacon sandwich to go. Coffee cup had syrup and coffee all on the outside. Bitter coffee because the shots were sitting there for a long. Sandwich looked like road kill - picked it up and it fell apart… not much care given This is the 2nd time this has happened. Gave it another go to give it benefit of the doubt. Staff on the till are friendly. That’s about it.

Visited the trading post today for brunch with my sister, the service was brilliant from the minute we arrived to the minute we left. Our food came out quickly and was presented incredibly, I had the full breakfast which was super tasty! And my sister had the bacon and maple pancakes which looked insane! I would really recommend The Trading Post to anyone visiting Chichester for breakfast, brunch or lunch! The coffee is also lovely! The deco is also beautiful!

Finally a place to enjoy good coffee in England for me. I live in Colchester and I said to my self I will have to find the coffee I am missing from Greece. The first coffee shop I found was this and spend the rest of my 3 days there every day. Amazing place. The coffee is sooo good! If I was living in Brighton I would be there every day. Thank you guys staff was so good too! Sometimes I visit places where staff try to do the extra “thing” that the product doesn’t. Here I found staff that do not annoy you every 1 minute asking you if you like this that etc. they were there as much i as I needed them! Product speaks for itself. Thanks again! See you soon!

Best breakfast and coffee in Brighton. Really good coffee. Sat up on the roof terrace in the sun watching the world go by . It's a old building so bit run down in places. But the food and coffee definitely makes up for it .

Ordered 2 breakfasts. They arrived cold. Bacon was undercooked and fatty. The tomatoes were underdone. The scrambled egg was inedible. The coffee took longer to be made than the breakfast.

Only had a quick cuppa so didn't really spend long enough to rate it higher. That said staff were friendly and polite.

Nice staff but when we went the service was v slow and the food v bad.

Breezed through here the other day for a quick breakfast and had the vegan and gluten free porridge with “fruit compote”. While it was tasty, it was a massive portion that I couldn’t finish and the fruit compote was actually raspberry conserve. In addition I agree with some other reviews, this is on the pricey side of what’s on offer in town and they don’t have wifi. Those things aside, delicious oat hot chocolate in a beautiful cup and saucer. Plus, the music is well-chosen and the staff are friendly!

Warm & friendly service with probably the best coffee in Brighton.

Visited with husband and son - Great coffees with a choice of diary free milk and specialty coffee options. Pastries also amazing! Sunny day so we made use of the roof terrace which was lovely! Staff were friendly and helpful, will def visit again

Food very good,lively atmosphere

Very bad experience tonight I understand it was late 6:15pm but staff were very offish and odd. Asked for an americano with oat milk in not much milk in so I returned for a little more the girl then over flowed my cup to the top in which the drink was pouring down the sides left the lid for me to put on myself. The cup was soaking wet down the sides and she had put that much milk in that my coffee had gone cold. I didn’t dare return to ask for some hot water in due to how unwelcoming they were. I work in hospitality so really struggled to understand their lack of friendlessness.

Great coffee shop, for the first time ever in a coffee shop I was asked what strength coffee I wanted and the differences were explained, a great touch that demonstrates these guys know their coffee. The ground floor was quite busy but the first floor and rooftop garden were quieter. Bit fiddly to access but if you can manage it, the rooftop garden is well worth a visit. Overall, highly recommended (coffee was great, as was the brownies...!).

Great place to chill and people watch in the laines of Brighton

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Fab Butternut Squash, Falafel and Goats cheese sausage roll

Great coffee shop, they also sell bags of coffee. Nice selection of cakes and usually have gluten free and vegan cake options

Beautifully presented and intensely flavoursome food and coffee. Not cheap but worth every Penny. My only gripe would be I’d have liked a hot breakfast and not a warm one. But the array of flavours and textures tantalising my tongue this was soon relegated to a minor concern.

My fave cafe in Brighton. On the last visit I managed to get up to the Terrace as its always busy! Yay. Delicious and well presented food. Super friendly staff. Great atmosphere and I love the art on the walls. The whole building is beautiful, but I love open brick. I pretty much always have the same thing as its scrummy! Last time I had the haloumi as well and it was epic! ☯🖤☮

Went here for brunch with a large group the menu is fab, full of options for meat eaters, vege, vegans and gluten free. Its a modern vibe and the roof terrace is great for the British summer. Most of the staff were helpful and friendly, but one was beyond rude. You need to order downstairs & there was a little misunderstanding about the queue order, she was pretty aggressive in managing it & wouldn't hear an apology 'I don't get paid enough to care about this' told us not to queue for a toilet (there's 2) & to go somewhere else. Deffinatly rate the menu and the venue though.

The staff are really chill and friendly and make a good coffee. Music has a good vibe and toasties are really good.

Very nice and cosy place with friendly staff. When walking by in the day it always looks packed, but myself and a friend visited in the evening where it was much more relaxed. It is great to be able to go out to a coffee shop that stays open late on the weekend instead of a pub. The only issue however, was the music was so loud that we had to move to sit outside- my ears were ringing for a long while after we left. Hoping the next time I visit that it will be less overbearing.

A great brunch with excellent coffee and friendly service. The roof terrace is a treat on a sunny morning.