• Shopping

    "No banks, no hedge funds or shorting. Just some cool shopping, a decent lunch and a walk by the sea; a most civilised day away from the madness"
    ANTIQUES & ART
    The Heart of Norman Road.
    Portobello of The South Coast
    RETRO
    The Heart Bypass of Norman Road
    Recherchez les taps perdu
    PRETTY COOL
    The Pretty Face of Norman Road
    Sweet as honey
    NICHE
    The Soul of Norman Road
    "That'll do nichely"
    BUTCHER, BAKER, CANDLESTICKMAKER
    The Backbone of Norman Road.

  • Featured in:

    Norman Road has recently featured in:
    The Observer
    The Times
    The Telegraph
    Coast Magazine
    English Tourist Board website
    Essential
    Hastings Handbook
     and many other websites, blogs and aspirations...

  • Contact & Map


    Please contact via:Norman email
    Map for Norman Road HERE.
    If you have any ideas for us, or are a Norman Road shop, or a Nearly Norman and would like to be included, please email us.

  • Name calling

    In fits of enthusiasm, (hopefully) strained through humour, Norman Road has been called
    "The Portobello"
    "The Bloomsbury"
    and now
    "The Hoxton"
    of the South Coast.

    More suggestions are, (cough, ahem, grin), most welcome...
    The new face in the banner is
    Ms. Mellow Fruitfulness.
    A niece of Norman's..

Food, Drink & Bed

COFFEE SHOPS and SANDWICH DELIS.

QOL Fine foodstuffs, light meals and sandwiches, coffee and teas. Licensed.

Kassa Light meals and sandwiches, coffee and teas. (A Nearly Norman)

Smiths Meals, drinks, coffee and teas. Smiths (A Nearly Norman)

RESTAURANTS

St Clements A local restaurant, specialising in local fish, with an anything but local Michelin Bib award. (A Nearly Norman)

Pasta Pasta Handmade, home made Pasta and Pizza; light, bright and fabulously Mediterranean.(A Nearly Norman)

Ghurka (A Nearly Norman)

PUBS and BARS

Horse & Groom The best pub in St Leonards. And in Hastings. (A Nearly Norman)

PLACES TO STAY

Hastings House Boutique Bed & Breakfast. (A Nearly Norman)

  • Plenty. Our new Provisioner

    tom New on the Seafront Plenty is our new Nearly Norman, a provisioner of fab breads, great groceries and delightful deli stuff. PLENTY
    Norman Road is changing and refining eclectically, and we are going to welcome some Norman Neighbours: people who are nearby but don't fit in any category known to Norman. Artists, Book publishers and karmic creatives will all be here.
    The Bloomsbury of the south coast, thats what we are now. Allegedly.

  • Nearly Normans

    There are a few "Nearly Normans" here: places so cool, and so close that they just had to be included.

  • Creative Normans

    Creative Norms abound, altho', being creative, are a little backward in coming forward. We have logged a couple, painter and publisher, and know of more... Please watch this space: CREATIVES

  • Friends of Norman

    Friends of Norman, (FONs), are too numerous to be left alone any more. Artists, musicians, shop owners, ...anyone with a connection and a Norman friend can be found here, enriching the Norman Experience far, far beyond the bounds of 1066. And all that.
    Fun FONs here

  • Shops’ area

    Private: Shop's area
  • History