Kids eat free in Eastbourne

Good for a relaxed midweek tea or a holiday-week dinner when you genuinely cannot face cooking. Eastbourne suits families who want a reliable sit-down meal without much faff — the four venues here are all established chain restaurants, so you know roughly what you are walking into. Bistrot Pierre brings a slightly more grown-up feel to the mix; Harvester handles the crowd-pleasing, salad-bar end of the spectrum. Two postcode areas carry most of the weight: BN23 has a pair of venues, with BN21 and BN20 covering one each. That matters because Eastbourne is spread enough that it is worth checking the specific address before you set off. Three of the four chains run their free children's meals during school holidays rather than throughout the year, so the timing of your visit shapes what you will actually find on the table.

Holiday-only chains in Eastbourne: Harvester. These quietly flip in for half-term and summer; outside the school holidays they drop off the list.

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