Mitre Tavern

The Mitre Tavern stands on the corner of Baker Street and Kingsbury Road, a neighbourhood pub that has served this part of Brighton since the mid-19th century. Established during a period when the area was home to workshops, small trades and skilled manual labour, the Mitre grew up alongside the working streets that surrounded it.

The pub takes its name from its earliest roots. A mitre is a precision joint used in woodworking, and the house’s first known landlord was a wheelwright by trade. In an age when pubs were often named for the crafts and occupations of their owners, The Mitre was a straightforward, working name — one that would have been instantly understood by the carpenters, joiners and makers who lived and worked nearby. The woodworking imagery that still features on the pub today preserves that connection.

​Built as a place of rest and conversation at the end of the working day, The Mitre has always been a proper local: modest, welcoming, and rooted in its street. Generations on, it remains exactly what it was intended to be - a corner pub shaped by craft, community and continuity.