Waterstones in Brighton and Hove

A spacious cafe serving excellent Cortado, a fine Hot Chocolate, and superb Cherry Bakewell. And many other delicious offerings. Plenty of space and some gorgeous comfy armchairs which are very difficult to get out of! Heavenly... Hayling Seagoon

Have been to this Waterstones cafe twice recently. It's a nice place to sit and the staff are very friendly and welcoming. The cafe is on the third floor, so you feel like a drink by the time you get there! (There is a lift, though, I believe.) Take your Waterstones card, if you have one. If you are unfamiliar with Brighton, you might want to buy a fold out map here. I bought one for £4.00.

Fantastic experience, even in comparison to other Waterstones bookshops. Floor after floor of books from every genre and category imaginable (including a well stocked LGBTQ+ area). On top of that: great food, elevator access, a great view from the top floor, friendly staff, reasonable prices, and a peaceful escape from the busy streets of Brighton. Overall a fantastic place, in particular the atmosphere in contrast to the turbulence of the city.

Un gran lugar (3er piso) con mucho ambiente y opciones en pasteles. ¡Qué gran idea crear un café en una librería! Cuidar las mesas usadas, limpiar los platos y las ollas adecuadamente podría requerir un poco de atención adicional, especialmente para un lugar tan bueno.

Qué hermosa tienda de luz y brillante, fresca y tranquila. Hay un gran ambiente, existencias fabulosas y una deliciosa cafetería en el piso 3 con suficiente espacio para hacerte sentir especial. Me encantó, me alegro de haberlo encontrado después de caminar hasta el baile de graduación después de llegar a la estación de tren.

It covers quite a large space spread over five floors yet still feels cosy. I particularly like the third floor with its cafe, sporting bright and occasionally quite sexy screenprints from the local Tidy Press (this is Brighton after all). After a lunchtime concert and a splendid fish lunch where better to relax with a camomile tea and charge my I-phone (plenty of sockets available). Overall this Brighton branch is one of my all-time favourites outside London, the others being Guildford with an elegant glass walkway to a first floor cafe and Deansgate Manchester for its much grander spaces and cafe. 

You will find all the books you are looking for. Staff is extremely polite and will look for the books you are searching. Nice coffee place where you can read or work with enough place. Highly recommended.

Staff are always lovely, good tea selection at affordable prices. Great place to study or read with lots of seats, charging sockets around the outside of the cafe.

This has to be the biggest Waterstones I have ever been to. Its over 5 floors or so. 2 Cafes and with every possible book sold, new and old. You will find something you like there. Offers are aplenty and I would recommend finding a book you may want to buy (or a few) and go and get a coffee from the higher floors and have a read. Its a great place to have a bit of R&R (read and reminisce). Its a great place to go for reading, coffee drinking of gazing at the pure abundance of reading material.

En la tercera planta de la librería hay una cafetería donde puedes leer o estudiar mientras te tomas un café. Hay tartas, dulces, galletas... para mi es una cafetería única. El ambiente es muy acogedor. Además la tienda de libros es enorme.

Abgesehen von dem netten Service im Buchladen, konnten wir uns auch im Café nicht beklagen. Die Auswahl war gering, aber durchweg lecker.

This was the first time I had visited the coffee shop in Waterstones in Brighton. It is situated over 2 floors (there is a lift). It was about lunch time, so it was quite busy. But service was excellent - really friendly & smiley. My coffee was nice - not too strong or bitter (which is my biggest complaint with Brighton coffee). The millionaire's shortbread was delicious, not too hard & crumbly - just right & with a bit of glitter on top! I love Waterstones, so it was great to sit amongst all the fabulous books & eat & drink. A hidden gem!

We had really good coffee served by lovely people. It was busy and spacious with the added bonus of being surrounded by wonderful art books. We will go back.

The worth all the stair for this coffee house, excellent selection of coffee and other drinks, if you fancy cake or a snack its there. they also operate a loyalty card scheme.

Whilst visiting Brighton we spotted this Waterstones store which has several floors and went in. The first cafe is more family friendly and they suggest that if you want a quiet place that you go upstairs to the cafe which is more suitable for adults and business people. We went up to the higher floor, there is a lift as well as stairs. It was quite busy for a Tuesday mid afternoon but we found a table. You have to order at the counter and they make your order and bring it to you, the man serving seemed a bit harassed and said he would deal with the orders and bring them over but it might take a while. We ordered breakfast tea, Earl Grey tea and a piece of cake which came to £5.20 and seemed pretty reasonable. The tea arrived and the staff member apologised again for the delay. Everything was good and the teapots yielded plenty of tea and the cake was nice and moist. You can look at books whilst you sit in the cafe and the whole place has a pretty relaxed atmosphere.