London exiles Chris Edwardes and Amanda Blanch opened their Brighton boutique hotel in 2000. Since then a few famous guests (Cate Blanchett, Noel Gallagher, Stephen Fry) and a deserved reputation for friendly service have kept the Kemp Town hotel at the top of the must-stay lists. The bleeding edge-decor is now a little battered and struggles to conceal some failures in function, but Blanch House remains a welcoming place to spend the night. The priciest room, Galaxy, is decorated in chocolate and gold tones and boasts a luxuriously huge bed, expansive window seat and bubbling spa bath. To complain about a wavering wi-fi signal and user-unfriendly TV seems churlish, but they make this the kind of hotel you lounge around, rather than get ready for work, in. Downstairs, the cocktail bar is chic but not snobbish, and the restaurant offers more lovely service as a succession of unusual dishes (confit belly of pork with sweet date molasses, brill with coffee gnocchi) arrives. Until it gets a spruce-up, Blanch House is perhaps overpriced, but it retains plenty of charm.
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