Cassons at Tangmere is the area's Michelin Guide pick: 13 Chichester restaurants and pubs, with menu prices, hours and hygiene ratings checked 24 October 2026.
The Chichester restaurants most people land on are Cassons in Tangmere, the area’s only Michelin Guide entry; Purchases on North Street; and Masala City, a 2026 English Curry Awards winner. For a country pub meal, The Fox Goes Free at Charlton and The Crab & Lobster at Sidlesham are the usual names. Every entry checked against the venue’s own site on 24 October 2026.
We have not eaten at these places for this guide, and nothing here is a review. Each entry sets out what the restaurant says about itself and what it publishes about prices, hours and booking, then adds the public record: the Michelin Guide and the Food Standards Agency hygiene rating. Prices come from menus online on 24 October and change often.
1. Cassons, Tangmere
Cassons is on Arundel Road at Tangmere, just off the A27 east of the city. The Michelin Guide lists it under modern cuisine in its £££ band; it holds no star.
The guide says “there’s a rustic feel to this welcoming and passionately run restaurant”, with exposed brick and beams. Cassons says it has been trading since 2003, with Cass front of house and Viv in the kitchen. The Sunday lunch à la carte includes a roast sirloin.
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Open dinner Thu to Sat from 6.30pm, last booking 8.45pm; Sunday lunch from 12pm, last booking 2.30pm
Price Sunday lunch three courses from the à la carte £48.50
Call 01243 773294
Address Arundel Road, Tangmere, PO18 0DU
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 9 October 2025
Website cassonsrestaurant.co.uk
Good for Michelin Guide listed, Sunday roast, exposed brick and beams, trading since 2003
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2. Purchases, North Street
Purchases calls itself “Chichester’s favourite bar & restaurant”, with rooms upstairs and a garden for eating outside. Its menus run from a pumpkin and squash arancini to beef Wellington, and an autumn special version of the set menu is offered to pre-theatre diners.
Open lunch Mon to Sat 12pm to 2.30pm, dinner 5.30pm to 9pm; Sun lunch 12pm to 3pm
Price à la carte mains £23.50 to £40.50; set menu £29.50 two courses, £35.50 three; autumn set menu £22.50 or £27.50, Mon to Thu until 6.30pm
Call 01243 771444
Address 31 North Street, PO19 1LX
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 8 July 2026
Website purchasesrestaurant.co.uk
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Good for garden, rooms upstairs, pre-theatre set menu
3. Masala City, St Pancras
Masala City is an independent Indian restaurant and takeaway. On its own news page, dated 11 August 2026, it says it received the Outstanding Award in the Restaurant of the Year, South East category at the 15th English Curry Awards.
It describes itself as family-run and says the aim is “authentic Indian food, using the best quality ingredients and where possible locally sourced produce”. Its site lists a lunch menu, a Sunday offer and 15% off dining in for Blue Light Card holders.
Open Mon to Sun 12pm to 2pm and 5.30pm to 11.30pm
Price 15% off dining in for Blue Light Card holders
Call 01243 776008
Address 8 St Pancras, PO19 7SJ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 24 March 2026
Website masalacity.co.uk
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Good for English Curry Awards 2026, family-run, takeaway, lunch menu, Sunday offer
4. Santorini, Southgate
Santorini describes itself as “a proudly family-run restaurant” of Greek cooking, a short walk from the bus and railway stations. Its all-day menu runs from mezze to grilled seafood and traditional mains.
It has a weekday lunch deal and also does click and collect and delivery; hours are on its contact page.
Open Mon 12pm to 9pm; Tue to Thu 12pm to 10pm; Fri and Sat 12pm to 11pm; Sun 12pm to 9pm
Price lunch deal three courses £14.95, Mon to Fri from 12pm
Call 01243 696300
Address 14 Southgate, PO19 1ES
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 8 January 2026
Website santorinichichester.co.uk
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Good for family-run, Greek, set lunch, click and collect, delivery, near the stations
The big names in town
These three are part of national groups. They are here because they are among the names most people in Chichester search for.
5. Brasserie Blanc, Richmond House
Raymond Blanc’s French brasserie group has a Chichester branch in Richmond House. Its regular offers include Moules Mondays, a pot of moules marinière with frites and a glass of wine, and a steak night.
On Sunday a Sunday menu runs all day.
Open Mon to Fri 12pm to 11pm; Sat and Sun from 10am
Food to 9.45pm, to 8pm on Sunday
Price Moules Mondays £21.50, all day every Monday
Call 01243 534200
Address Richmond House, The Square, PO19 7SJ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 4 September 2026
Website brasserieblanc.com/restaurants/chichester
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Good for French brasserie, Moules Mondays, steak night, Sunday menu
6. The Ivy Chichester Brasserie, East Street
The Ivy’s Chichester page says the room’s stained-glass windows and round bar “take their design cues from the history” of the city, and there is a heated outdoor terrace used all year. It has a Cool Britannia set menu, and the restaurant says the dining room, private dining room and toilets are fully accessible.
Open daily from 9am; to 11pm Sun to Wed, 11.30pm Thu, midnight Fri and Sat
Price Cool Britannia two courses from £19.96, Mon to Fri 11.30am to 6.30pm and Sun 11am to 6.30pm
Call 01243 971500
Address 89-91 East Street, PO19 1HA
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 20 October 2025
Website ivycollection.com/restaurants/the-ivy-chichester-brasserie
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Good for heated terrace, fully accessible, accessible toilets, private dining room
7. Côte, South Street
Côte’s Chichester restaurant calls itself a “neighbourhood French brasserie”, naming Breton fish stew and steak frites among its dishes, and points out that Pallant House Gallery and the Novium Museum are close by. It lists highchairs and accessible toilets.
Open Mon to Thu 8am to 10pm; Fri and Sat 8am to 11pm; Sun 9am to 10pm
Call 01243 528894
Address 63 South Street, PO19 1EE
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 5 March 2026
Website cote.co.uk/restaurant/chichester
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Good for French brasserie, highchairs, accessible toilets, near Pallant House Gallery
Country pubs and restaurants nearby
8. Farmer, Butcher, Chef, Goodwood
Farmer, Butcher, Chef is the restaurant at the Goodwood Hotel. Goodwood says it is “a celebration of the beef, pork and lamb we rear at Goodwood Home Farm”, and that the butcher helps design dishes around the cuts available. The menu includes Butcher’s Boards for sharing and changes with the seasons; there is a Sunday roast.
The estate says Goodwood Home Farm became the country’s first 100% organically fed dairy.
Open breakfast daily; lunch Fri to Sun 12pm to 2.30pm; dinner Mon to Sun 6pm to 9pm
Address The Goodwood Hotel, Goodwood, PO18 0QB
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 9 February 2026
Website goodwood.com/estate/farmer-butcher-chef
Good for Goodwood Home Farm meat, Butcher's Boards to share, seasonal menu, Sunday roast
9. The Fox Goes Free, Charlton
The Fox Goes Free describes itself as a “400-year-old country pub restaurant and Inn” at the foot of Levin Down, a mile from Goodwood Racecourse, and says it is a listed building with inglenook fireplaces. Its menu includes a pork chop and a dahl among the à la carte mains, with Sunday and children’s menus, and it says “all dogs” are welcome.
Price starters £9 to £14; mains include pork chop £24, dahl £17.50
Booking recommended
Call 01243 811461
Address Charlton, near Singleton, PO18 0HU
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 23 February 2026
Website thefoxgoesfree.com
Good for dogs welcome, listed building, inglenook fireplaces, children's menu, Sunday menu, bed and breakfast rooms
10. The Crab & Lobster, Sidlesham
The Crab & Lobster sits on the edge of Pagham Harbour nature reserve. It says the building is 350 years old, and that its menu draws on Selsey fishermen and neighbouring dairy farmers. The à la carte runs from beer-battered cod to halibut on a Selsey crab orzotto or rump of lamb.
It also has rooms and a cottage.
Food Mon to Fri 12pm to 2pm and 6pm to 8.30pm; Sat 12pm to 8.30pm; Sun 12pm to 8pm
Price mains £24.50 (beer-battered cod) to £37.50 (halibut or rump of lamb)
Call 01243 641233
Address Mill Lane, Sidlesham, PO20 7NB
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 10 June 2026
Website crab-lobster.co.uk
Good for Pagham Harbour, local seafood, 350-year-old building, rooms and a cottage
11. The Royal Oak, East Lavant
The Royal Oak is a Butcombe pub with rooms and two cottages, and says it has stood at the foot of the South Downs “for over 200 years”. Its food is described as “traditional pub food created with the finest seasonal and local produce”, with Sunday roasts, and there is a beer garden.
Food daily from 8am; to 9pm Mon to Thu, 9.30pm Fri and Sat, 8pm Sun
Call 01243 527434
Address Pook Lane, East Lavant, PO18 0AX
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 23 January 2025
Website royaloakeastlavant.co.uk
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Good for beer garden, Sunday roast, rooms, two cottages, South Downs
12. The Richmond Arms, West Ashling
The Richmond Arms is run by Dom and Sam Escott, and describes itself as “an independently owned, food-centred pub and restaurant with accommodation”. It says much of its meat, fish and vegetables come from within a few miles, with fish specials on the blackboard, and that it has dog-friendly areas. Note the kitchen hours before you go.
Food Mon evening pizza from a partner kitchen; no food Tue; Wed to Sat; Sun lunch 12pm to 3.30pm
Call 01243 572046
Address Mill Road, West Ashling, PO18 8EA
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 12 August 2025
Website therichmondarms.co.uk
Good for dog-friendly areas, independently owned, local produce, fish specials, accommodation
13. The Anchor Bleu, Bosham
The Anchor Bleu is a “traditional, family run harbourside pub” in the old heart of Bosham, on the King Charles III England Coast Path. Wednesday is pie and a pint night.
Food Mon to Sat 12pm to 2.30pm and 5.30pm to 8.30pm; Sun 12pm to 2.30pm
Price pie and a pint £15.95 on Wednesday
Booking no online bookings, call
Call 01243 573956
Address High Street, Bosham, PO18 8LS
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 24 February 2026
Website anchorbleu.co.uk
Good for harbourside, family run, coast path, pie and a pint Wednesdays
How we chose
These are the Chichester restaurants people search for and can check: the one Michelin Guide listing, long-running independents, an award winner, the country pubs known for food, and the national names that make up much of the city centre’s restaurant trade. Every place has a food hygiene rating of 5, and none had posted a closure notice. We left out venues whose websites have lapsed or that publish no hours or menus. The facts come from each venue’s own website, the Michelin Guide and the Food Standards Agency. Run a place that should be here, or spot something that has changed? Email newsdesk@chichesterlive.co.uk.
For more to do in town, see things to do in Chichester and what’s on in Chichester this month, read our round-up of the latest Chichester food hygiene ratings, or browse local businesses in Chichester in our directory.
Frequently asked questions
Which Chichester restaurants are in the Michelin Guide?
Cassons, on Arundel Road in Tangmere, east of the city, is listed in the Michelin Guide under modern cuisine. It does not hold a star. It opens for dinner Thursday to Saturday from 6.30pm and for Sunday lunch, when three courses from the à la carte are £48.50.
Where can I get a cheap set lunch in Chichester?
Santorini on Southgate serves a three-course lunch for £14.95, Monday to Friday from 12pm. The Ivy Chichester Brasserie on East Street has a two-course Cool Britannia menu from £19.96, weekdays 11.30am to 6.30pm and Sundays 11am to 6.30pm. Purchases on North Street has an autumn set menu from £22.50 for two courses, Monday to Thursday before 6.30pm.
Which restaurants near Chichester welcome dogs?
The Fox Goes Free at Charlton says all dogs are welcome, and The Richmond Arms at West Ashling says it has dog-friendly areas. Check with the others before you go.
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