Go Local

Exactly what the others say about this place but this review is for the fresh warm Falafels they have just taken to serving outside the shop which you can have either in a baguette or flat bread wrap served with FIVE Falafels, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, picked gherkin and lemon, Tahini and chilli sauce — all for £2.75! That is as good as it gets!

Go Local are another corner shop in the North Laine, although these guys stand out for all of the right reasons: a bigger selection than necessary, focusing on fresh local produce, and cheaper prices than most of the competition. With so many corner shops in the area, its good to know there are places that aren’t adding massive card charges and offer fresh fruit and veg: unheard of in most corner shops, I would imagine!
Being on the same street as Farm and Bills, I can see why Go Local has gone for the fresh, local produce: the whole area is a local produce Mecca. Undercutting the competition as the cheap option, as well as offering regular corner shop goods, is a fantastic move by this little corner shop, and one I applaud. Almost a grocers/​corner shop, the selection is cheap and perfectly good quality: nothing on Bills, but a fraction of the price. The fact that you can buy cigarettes and booze as well, not to mention organic chocolate and regular corner shop staples, is just a bonus.
Go Local has become my corner shop of choice when I travel through the Laine, and I can only recommend a visit if you’re traveling through the area. In the end, it is a corner shop: it won’t have everything in stock that you’re looking for and hasn’t the clean, corporate allure of the nearby Co-​Ops and Tesco Expresses. Still, if you like to go local, the clue’s in the name really: stop in here instead.

This convenience store seems to have popped out of nowhere, and I was pleasantly suprised when I stumbled upon it a few weeks ago. As Jessica W. says, this place isn’t really a ‘convenience store’, as although you’ll find your milk and loo roll here, the stock is predominantly fresh local fruit and vegetables. An excellent unpretentious little store, the kind of which it’d be great to see more of in Brighton.

Although Go Local calls itself a convenience store, there’s enough inside to make it more like a small grocers. Two aisles of fresh looking (and I can only assume) local produce are set up in the centre, dividing the shop into two halves.
One had basic groceries and last-​minute needs; milk, cereal, cans of soup, etc; as well as home supplies like kitchen towel, soaps and batteries. There’s an offsale section near the back, with a modest selection of wines and ales. The other side of the shop is basically just for sweets — and there’s a lot. Candies, cookies, chocolate bars and chips are really about half of the items for sale here.
A small cooler displays pre-​packaged sandwiches for quite cheap — 99p gets you a sandwich and apple or banana deal. I’m not sure whether that was just a holiday deal, but it’s worth a look.
The two shopkeepers were friendly and helpful, offering to help me find anything as I looked around. As convenience stores go, this one is quite impressive.