Brighton’s acclaimed Coal Shed restaurant is to reopen on Saturday after relocating to a larger space in the city’s Clarence House.
Brighton’s acclaimed Coal Shed restaurant is to reopen on Saturday after relocating to a larger space in the city’s Clarence House.
Coal Shed was launched in 2011 by Raz Helalat and closed in 2023, when the chef said “it feels like the right time [to move]".
The relaunched live-fire steak and seafood restaurant will showcase a more elevated menu from Helalat and executive chef Lee Murdoch.
Over-fire beef cooking will remain central to the menu, which will also incorporate other meats as well as vegetable and vegan dishes.
The new restaurant will also offer an extensive seafood menu as well as Sturia caviar.
The new site is one of the largest restaurants in Brighton, with room for up to 142 guests across five distinct dining rooms including a main restaurant, bar and three private dining rooms.
Dishes will include miso aubergine with crispy shallots and toasted sesame; a blue fin tuna tostada with rainbow radish, aji panca, avocado and corn as well as a Sussex half blue lobster taco with mango, cashew, nam jin and sesame.
Robata and rotisserie offerings include the Black Duroc pork chop with roasted apple, sesame purée and heritage carrots as well as one year Acquerello baked rice with mushroom master stock, roasted portobello, crispy cauliflower, silken tofu and bok choy.
The Coal Shed will have a dedicated bar with its own menu, which will be open seven-days-a-week from noon until late.
A cocktail menu will draw inspiration from the best bars of New York and London, reimagining classics with contemporary flavours and techniques.
The Coal Shed sits under Helalat’s Black Rock Restaurants Group and has a second location in London.
The group also includes Salt Room, Burnt Orange and Tutto in Brighton.
Burnt Orange, which opened in 2021, received rave reviews from Giles Coren in The Times and Jay Rayner in The Observer and was awarded a Bib Gourmand in the 2022 Michelin Guide.