Eat @ The Park Café

slow mornings suit lower park road. the pace down here, away from the seafront's churn, lends itself to lingering rather than rushing, and eat @ the park café sits right in that rhythm. it's the kind of locally regarded spot you end up returning to not because you planned to, but because it made sense the first time. hastings has a particular texture to it, part working town, part artists drifting in from london, and a café that holds local trust in a place like this tends to do so by being consistently reliable rather than flashy. if you've got a free weekday morning and nowhere urgent to be, lower park road at td34 2ld is a reasonable answer to that. start with a cortado.