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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Annabelle Thorpe

The battle for Hastings: a seaside town on the up

Goat Ledge café in St Leonard's On Sea.
On the waterfront: Goat Ledge café in St Leonard's On Sea. Photograph: Nick Moore/Alamy

There are some cafés with such great names, you just have to eat there. So, in spite of grey, drizzly skies and a stiff breeze, we head to Goat Ledge in St Leonards – set on the seafront with tables on the shingle – for breakfast. One of the town’s new breed of hip cafés and eateries, Goat Ledge is a brightly painted beach shack, with bookable huts for dinners of freshly caught fish or crab-loaded fries, and lip-smacking breakfast baps, washed down with Coldblow coffee, hand-roasted just over the border in Kent.

Traditional wooden fishing boats on the beach under the cliffs
The right track: a view from the Hastings shore up to a funicular. Photograph: Getty Images
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