The Hartington Pub - Brighton and Hove

After paying for a vegan Sunday roast, my food arrived with creamed leaks on the plate, when I explained creamed leaks are not vegan I was told it’s the last vegan meal so nothing they can do! My only option was to scrape the leaks and any other vegetables that it had touched to one side, no offer of a refund, very poor service.

Although the pub was friendly, the comedy club was awful. The compère was great but most of the so called ‘comedians’ were horrendous to the point of near silence in the room( everyone had been told NOT to heckle). Mysogenistic, racist, homophobic no comedic content, disgusting. A real shame as it could have been a great night had it been funny. The only comedienne was quite funny as was the compère. Never again . Also no covid distancing at all.

Friendly helpful bar staff. They have a temporary menu at the moment; new menu coming 24/05. Reasonably priced, great white wine. My friend had 2 starters; halloumi fries and scampi which was delicious. I had the southern fried chicken burger which was immense!!!! We will definitely be returning for the new menu! Amazing garden!!!

The drinks took a while to arrive and the app said they had arrived when they hadn’t. Staff could have been more friendly. Although the drinks were well priced, once they’d arrived.

This has the potential to be a fantastic family pub with its large beer garden and excellent location. When it was taken over a few years back the beer garden was transformed and it became really popular with families and locals. Sadly it feels like it 's been left to rot recently. The Beer garden is hardly used and it 's often just a handful of regulars propping up the bar, who are often very rude to other customers. The Beer garden could use some love as there 's lots of broken tables and the kids playhouse often has cat poo and broken glass in it. The locals propping up the bar don 't move for anyone and can be extremely rude. Recently a young lady had been waiting a while and quite rightfully got annoyed when the barman served the locals that had just walked in before her. They verbally abused her with sexist insults for questioning it and the bar staff were equally as rude to her and told her she was in the wrong venue. Disgusting. I 've not returned since. It 's such a shame that someone can 't transform it back to the community hub it once was and give it some love. Some better Beer would make a big difference too, with so many decent Craft bars around they could really do with upping their game on that front, especially as half the taps seem to be off most of the time. I 'd love this to be better as it 's so local to us and the other Elm Grove School parents. The image of the glass just shows how little interest the bar staff have now. Anyone who cares about the place they work at would notice something as simple as a filthy glass. They definitely wouldn 't give it to a child. It 's also worth mentioning the music which recently has been massively inappropriate. At 3:30 mid week with a number of children there they thought the Grime playlist would be a great idea. Constant swearing and talking about killing people and abusing women. Fine later when it 's just adults but not with kids.