Dead Wax Social - Brighton and Hove

There are so many things to love about Dead Wax. They play good music anyway but there’s also an extensive collection of vinyl that you can pick out to put on and the staff are super helpful at recommending a drink. The beer collection is good, the pizza is epic and there’s always a relaxed friendly vibe that isn’t too in your face or crowded despite its location at the start of the Lanes. My lost star is only down to the lack of non-alcoholic selection. Like most places in Brighton they assume that only men might not drink and so their only adult offering is cheap 0% lager (ick!! , despite offering local Laines beers on tap they don’t even offer the Laines 0% which is semi decent and so I ended up drinking an enormous of ginger beer instead.

Friendly and relaxed staff but the pizza was not good. I also saw the chef popping ingredients into their mouth as they were cooking. It’s a shame as the vibe and music are decent.

A bit quiet when I went in although I've seen it packed. The staff were really friendly, chatty and comforting. Funky lil vibe for an alternative crowd with a good range of drinks and wholesome experience!

Good place to get down and dirty late into the night. Open until at least 3am and has good music. Can get a little grimy and messy but if you're out of options at 1am on a Friday it's a good shout.

Booked this for a valentines dinner as it looked really cool, we arrived and nobody showed us to our table, gave us menus or talked to us, we just had to find our table. As basically nobody acknowledged us, we had to ask at the bar how to order food to which she replied how she was busy despite there literally being 3 tables but then said it was fine because we booked which was odd. There was a ridiculous amount of smoke, me and my boyfriend had to move tables because of how much it stung our eyes and continued to after we left. We then ordered at the bar at 8:30 and waited until 9:30 for our starter to arrive, at this point we were literally the only table, and then our pizzas a few minutes after. Not to mention she was talking to her friend who didn 't seem to work there the whole time and seemed to not care at all about actually cooking our pizzas after and hour of waiting. The chef put my boyfriends pizza down and said it 's burnt but only on the crust which was an understatement, it was pretty much burnt through. But to put it down after burning it and to not ask if he wanted it remade or a sorry or literally anything is actually unbelievable. There was also no mention of how we 'd be waiting for an hour in a place with one table waiting on food, as they closed taking orders a while before then, not sorry for the wait or anything. We also didn 't receive a checkback from anyone on our food or literally anything as we left from anyone. It was genuinely the worst service I 've ever received, genuinely such a waste of £35, he only finished his pizza because we were so hungry but genuinely felt sick after from how burnt it was. Genuinely appalling and I never leave reviews.