insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 15 - May 2016 | Page 54

FOOD+DRINK

PERSONALITY, PROVENANCE
AND FLAWLESS FOOD AT ISAAC AT
When it comes to food, Brighton can’t do right for doing wrong. Not enough places opening?
Cue articles denouncing its position on the foodie map. A spate of new eateries in a short time?
Too much, too soon, they cry; a city that’s swallowing before it can chew. Tempting as it is then
to race like wildfire through the front door of a new restaurant that everyone is raving about,
sometimes it’s best to wait a while and see if the hype still stands. A year after it first opened,
Polly Humphris spent an evening at Isaac B