Heather Mills to open new café branch in central Brighton (From The Argus)

Whist I wish Ms Mills success with her new venture in Brighton, I feel I have to grumble about the 'cafe' in Hove Lagoon.

We used to take the children down to the Lagoon in the autumn / winter and have a a nice steaming mug of tea & cake and treat the kids to some chips or something similar.

In the summer when we visited, they looked forward to ice creams. We visited VBites once to give it a chance. It looked very nice, but was very expensive and unappealing - I don't want to pay through the nose for a cup of tea with soya milk. I am not alone, I don't meet my friends there any longer if we are out for lunch. We prefer Hove & Buckingham Parks. Such a shame that this cafe is located in this popular park.

KIS says wrote:
Whist I wish Ms Mills success with her new venture in Brighton, I feel I have to grumble about the 'cafe' in Hove Lagoon. We used to take the children down to the Lagoon in the autumn / winter and have a a nice steaming mug of tea & cake and treat the kids to some chips or something similar. In the summer when we visited, they looked forward to ice creams. We visited VBites once to give it a chance. It looked very nice, but was very expensive and unappealing - I don't want to pay through the nose for a cup of tea with soya milk. I am not alone, I don't meet my friends there any longer if we are out for lunch. We prefer Hove & Buckingham Parks. Such a shame that this cafe is located in this popular park.

I totally agree - plus tea tastes awful with soya milk

It's 5hit!

The Lagoon cafe is only open six months of the year, hardly dedicated to the vegan cause. To educate people to veganism on a part time basis is an insult to this prime located cafe, some consistancey in a belief is key.

This cafe should serve the community 365 days a year and if anything without the cafe the Lagoon gets used less by the people it is meant to serve.


Give up the Lagoon Heather, V Bites is more suited to the high street and I am sure you will do much better there.

I totally agree with the previous comments. The Lagoon Cafe is a council owned community asset and as such should be available to the community throughout the year as it always was previously. Although I admire the ethics of vegans, how can a community asset be allowed to shut for half the year and only cater for a tiny proportion of the community when it is open. Sadly I fear it's primarily a vanity project used by Heather to wow her 'right on' American friends. A sad loss to the community of Hove. I questioned her on it once and she asked how she was supposed to create a business plan that coped with our winters. I suggested she ask The View who seem to manage perfectly well even with a fairly average 'offer'.

bogs wrote:
It's 5hit!

Absolutely agree. The food is bland and over priced. What annoys me the most is that for some reason, if we as a family want to buy food at the Lagoon, we're forced to buy vegan food.

I don't have an issue if people want to be vegan but I do object to a cafe of that kind having a monopoly in a family play area like Hove Lagoon. We no longer spend any money there and take a picnic instead so I guess Ms Mills loss is Sainsburys gain.

I use the lagoon with my kids, try walking up to wish park... Food is excellent!

Hovite wrote:
The Lagoon cafe is only open six months of the year, hardly dedicated to the vegan cause. To educate people to veganism on a part time basis is an insult to this prime located cafe, some consistancey in a belief is key.

This cafe should serve the community 365 days a year and if anything without the cafe the Lagoon gets used less by the people it is meant to serve.


Give up the Lagoon Heather, V Bites is more suited to the high street and I am sure you will do much better there.

I can't stand this revolting gold digging woman.
Hasn't she wasted enough of Sir Pauls money on pointless/tasteless ventures.
Why doesn't she just sell up and move somewhere else (far away)where they might appreciate her sort?
Does anybody in Brighton/Hove/Sussex actually like her? Really?

I think she deserves praise for taking over the big fish cafe on hove lagoon that was run down and a bit grubby. shame it is only open 6 months and she chose such a vile colour scheme, a muted driftwood seaside feel would have been better but hey ho the food is good and why should vegans not be catered for. hove lagoon has other cafes close by, blue lagoon bar, windsurf hut, lindas cafe and tiffanys on Kingsway etc. She has a lot of fun days on the lagoon for the community during the summer including music and kids events and a dog show. some people clearly just want to slag vbites off because they have no taste. what spoilt the lagoon from a peaceful place to be was the ugly skate park and all the mess it makes. good luck heather.

bug eye wrote:
I think she deserves praise for taking over the big fish cafe on hove lagoon that was run down and a bit grubby. shame it is only open 6 months and she chose such a vile colour scheme, a muted driftwood seaside feel would have been better but hey ho the food is good and why should vegans not be catered for. hove lagoon has other cafes close by, blue lagoon bar, windsurf hut, lindas cafe and tiffanys on Kingsway etc. She has a lot of fun days on the lagoon for the community during the summer including music and kids events and a dog show. some people clearly just want to slag vbites off because they have no taste. what spoilt the lagoon from a peaceful place to be was the ugly skate park and all the mess it makes. good luck heather.

Oh dear. Your opposition of the skate park, somewhere the children of today are able to gather safely to enjoy a creative and healthy activity, rather than sitting in front of the tv or video game or loitering the streets says all we need to know about you I'm afraid. However bad the previous incarnation of the cafe was, it was a hugely popular Mecca for families and other locals. Regardless of however many 'fun' events hosted by it now, it's current popularity shows you're firmly in the minority. (Thankfully)

The food and drink here served at this place is simply disgusting. She obviously couldn't be bothered to check out the quality of Brighton's established vegetarian and vegan eateries.

Very popular then....

It is only open in the summer because it is only allowed to be open in the summer. It is in the middle off the lawn so there isn't a lot of lighting. If they were to open when it gets darker quicker they were told they would have to pay for extra lighting, which would cost a lot of money. I wish her luck and will certainly be visiting this new one.

Oi, Argus. Thisd isn't news. It's an advert for which I trust Mills paid the going rate.

I presume that the Pricespawn isn't doing anything

I'm veggie, and I didn't think it was all that. Plus, I got locked in the toilets (handle came off in my hand)

bug eye wrote:
I think she deserves praise for taking over the big fish cafe on hove lagoon that was run down and a bit grubby. shame it is only open 6 months and she chose such a vile colour scheme, a muted driftwood seaside feel would have been better but hey ho the food is good and why should vegans not be catered for. hove lagoon has other cafes close by, blue lagoon bar, windsurf hut, lindas cafe and tiffanys on Kingsway etc. She has a lot of fun days on the lagoon for the community during the summer including music and kids events and a dog show. some people clearly just want to slag vbites off because they have no taste. what spoilt the lagoon from a peaceful place to be was the ugly skate park and all the mess it makes. good luck heather.

The previous cafe might have needed a face lift but it was always busy because it served reasonably priced food that people wanted. Vbites serves a minority of people. Why can't it serve all types of food. The ice cream is awful and expensive - thankfully there's usually an ice cream van near by selling proper ice cream.

Your opposition to the skate park is at best bizarre and at worse ignorant. My kids always love to stop and watch the skaters and it's encouraged them to both go skating - a good healthy sport. Unfortunately too many old stick in the muds think it's some type of yob sport.

I thought she was dead

Been there once admittedly a while a go but found it was all soya replicas ..... soya hot dog, soya bacon butty, soya burger ..... I'm not a veggie but eat a decent amount of veggie food and her offerings doesnt really hit the mark .... why give a poor meat substitute ... just makes me want the meat dish more ... if I'm going to eat vegan or veggie I want to eat something to change mind with interesting flavours ....

Yes, lets celebrate this gold digger.


Great work Argus.


Great work people of Brighton.

Crikey, I had forgotten how many angry nutters come on this website. There will be many vegans/vegetarians/p
eople who don't fancy eating horse meat who will welcome a branch of this cafe in the centre of Brighton. If it doesn't work then it will close quick sharp, as do many unviable businesses. However, if it succeeds then good!, most high streets in Britain are collapsing.

Does Brighton only cater for the minority in everything? It just seems very odd...Plus i ended up getting the s**ts when i ate there.Food was awful,overpriced and bland.Never again

I think most of the anger directed at Ms Mills is because it is generally thought that she married Paul for the money, tricking him, and escaping with a generous settlement. We'll never know if that is what happened, but whatever did, she's made her pile, and she's investing it how she sees fit. She's thinks she's made herself an achiever by what she has done, same as the Spice girls and countless other greedy and not overly talented people have. Let them get on with it. In the end, they know what they are.

Good on her. At least she is carrying the veggie, vegan ethic on and flying the flag for cruelty free dining.

I had the misfortune to have the worst cup of coffee ever from that cafe and I've lived on cookhouse food.
Fine if you have a choice but at hove lagoon you are stuck its a shame.

There is virtually nowhere I would eat in Brighton, Hove or any other town for that matter. Lots of us have become civilised and no longer want to eat the dead bodies served up everywhere. I notice that many of you can only poke fun at Heather Mill's disability. It just.shows what cruel people you are. I like her food and it is a shame that she closes for the winter but if there is no custom with it being off the beaten track/bus routes and no one spending time on the beach park then it makes financial sense. I wish her every success in her new venture. You lot don't have to go. There are hundreds of other cafes serving up the dead (possibly horse who knows) . Those of us who want to avoid animal cruelty will frequent the place knowing that we are in the company of kind individuals who don't mock the afflicted. Soya milk is great . Cow milk is produced by the mother cow for its offspring whicht will have been killed (if male) and certainly removed from its mother , so that you can steal its milk. Compared to you Heather is an angel,

I thought she was taking over from Eddie "The Eagle" in the ski-jump team. Difficult to do that and run a caff properly.

Angie Wright wrote:
There is virtually nowhere I would eat in Brighton, Hove or any other town for that matter. Lots of us have become civilised and no longer want to eat the dead bodies served up everywhere. I notice that many of you can only poke fun at Heather Mill's disability. It just.shows what cruel people you are. I like her food and it is a shame that she closes for the winter but if there is no custom with it being off the beaten track/bus routes and no one spending time on the beach park then it makes financial sense. I wish her every success in her new venture. You lot don't have to go. There are hundreds of other cafes serving up the dead (possibly horse who knows) . Those of us who want to avoid animal cruelty will frequent the place knowing that we are in the company of kind individuals who don't mock the afflicted. Soya milk is great . Cow milk is produced by the mother cow for its offspring whicht will have been killed (if male) and certainly removed from its mother , so that you can steal its milk. Compared to you Heather is an angel,

oh dear...lunatic alert lol hahahahaha

Angie Wright wrote:
There is virtually nowhere I would eat in Brighton, Hove or any other town for that matter. Lots of us have become civilised and no longer want to eat the dead bodies served up everywhere. I notice that many of you can only poke fun at Heather Mill's disability. It just.shows what cruel people you are. I like her food and it is a shame that she closes for the winter but if there is no custom with it being off the beaten track/bus routes and no one spending time on the beach park then it makes financial sense. I wish her every success in her new venture. You lot don't have to go. There are hundreds of other cafes serving up the dead (possibly horse who knows) . Those of us who want to avoid animal cruelty will frequent the place knowing that we are in the company of kind individuals who don't mock the afflicted. Soya milk is great . Cow milk is produced by the mother cow for its offspring whicht will have been killed (if male) and certainly removed from its mother , so that you can steal its milk. Compared to you Heather is an angel,

Hardly an angel, and not above flogging meat either. Although in her case it was the **** variety: http://www.thesun.co
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**** = p0rn ;-)

Flippin Burghers wrote:
**** = p0rn ;-)

haha well done...nuf said hahahaha

Angie Wright wrote:
There is virtually nowhere I would eat in Brighton, Hove or any other town for that matter. Lots of us have become civilised and no longer want to eat the dead bodies served up everywhere. I notice that many of you can only poke fun at Heather Mill's disability. It just.shows what cruel people you are. I like her food and it is a shame that she closes for the winter but if there is no custom with it being off the beaten track/bus routes and no one spending time on the beach park then it makes financial sense. I wish her every success in her new venture. You lot don't have to go. There are hundreds of other cafes serving up the dead (possibly horse who knows) . Those of us who want to avoid animal cruelty will frequent the place knowing that we are in the company of kind individuals who don't mock the afflicted. Soya milk is great . Cow milk is produced by the mother cow for its offspring whicht will have been killed (if male) and certainly removed from its mother , so that you can steal its milk. Compared to you Heather is an angel,

Is their something in the veggie diet that makes some, not all, veggies pompous, holier-than-thou and a conviction that the moral high ground is controvertibly theirs?

The only thing that I dislike about this story is that it is there. Apart from being a gold-digger who was once maried to someone famous I have no idea who this woman is, or why the Argus is giving her free advertising. It doesn't do that to anyone else who opens a restaurant, do they. I can understand if it's someone famous, even Dermot O'Leary but Mills?

Just as an aside, if veggie food is so great and meat is so evil why do you call veggie food after meat - veggie burger, veggie sausage, even veggie bacon sandwich ffs. I would have though that you would want to distance yourself from the evils of meat as far as possible. After all, I don't tuck into a steak and pretend it's a carnivore carrot!

aat99 wrote:
Been there once admittedly a while a go but found it was all soya replicas ..... soya hot dog, soya bacon butty, soya burger ..... I'm not a veggie but eat a decent amount of veggie food and her offerings doesnt really hit the mark .... why give a poor meat substitute ... just makes me want the meat dish more ... if I'm going to eat vegan or veggie I want to eat something to change mind with interesting flavours ....

Yes, she soya coming.maybe.

Vegetarians live longer than meat eaters, unless they get caught up in an argument with the wrong person about men growing large breasts because of the additives in meat.

Will they be serving veggie horse meat or the real thing? The supermarkets refused to sell horse meat...and look where that got us.

Angie Wright wrote:
There is virtually nowhere I would eat in Brighton, Hove or any other town for that matter. Lots of us have become civilised and no longer want to eat the dead bodies served up everywhere. I notice that many of you can only poke fun at Heather Mill's disability. It just.shows what cruel people you are. I like her food and it is a shame that she closes for the winter but if there is no custom with it being off the beaten track/bus routes and no one spending time on the beach park then it makes financial sense. I wish her every success in her new venture. You lot don't have to go. There are hundreds of other cafes serving up the dead (possibly horse who knows) . Those of us who want to avoid animal cruelty will frequent the place knowing that we are in the company of kind individuals who don't mock the afflicted. Soya milk is great . Cow milk is produced by the mother cow for its offspring whicht will have been killed (if male) and certainly removed from its mother , so that you can steal its milk. Compared to you Heather is an angel,

One of the meat is murder brigade.
No it isn't murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of one HUMAN by another HUMAN.
Killing animals for food is just that - but it isn't murder.
That's why no one takes you lot seriously. Using inaccurate language to make some ill conceived point.

How incredible , given all the failings happening in this City of ours , that people have time and effort on their hands to unload/upload,whats best describe as vitriol regarding this subject ! Nobody bats an eyelid at all the high street shops that have closed down or the independent shops that have gone bust. I recall the first 2 winters that vbites stayed open throughout the winter, anytime i visited with the dogs , i thought they must be crazy to stay open with the howling wind and rain blowing about, after 4pm in winter its pitch black down the lagoon, and people fear walking around the area,what dictate claims this to be a community asset ? is it one of the same assets that keep getting pulled down or sat empty for years on end, we PAY for those assets,but nothing gets said about them, Vbites,i assume pay their rent, if not i would have thought BHCC would have thrown them out .
Moving to East street seems to me to be a great business move on there part, at least there they can operate the menu they want to, after all in was the hotdog and chips brigade at the lagoon who insisted they adapte their menu to a version of cafe fry up food , instead of the well thought out good food/menus they started out with.
I am not a vegan or even a vegetarian
but i find it appalling that some people have left disparaging remarks on this issue , just because a person chooses to stand up for what they think is right or wrong , where are we living now, North Korea ?
Given the Sweeney Todd style issues regarding the burgers and ready meals you all seem so fond of,its about time we all started thinking more about where the meat is coming from,Horses today,god knows what animals it will be next !

Ugh, meat eaters are so ignorant.

den friend wrote:
Ugh, meat eaters are so ignorant.

Whereas lumping millions of people that you don't know anything about into one category, based solely on their diet, is a perfectly intelligent and rational attitude, isn't it?