Cafés

Top up on olde-worlde charm at Bluebells Tearoom in Battle. Work up an appetite on the water in Bodiam before heading to Lime Wharf for tapas or stick-to-your-ribs burgers.

Those on a health kick will love the vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free offerings at Eggs to Apples in Hurst Green.

For elegant lunching, try the De La Warr's café bar views of Bexhill's curving colonnade and sea, Webbe's Fish Café in Rye, or the oak-panelled mezzanine lounge at Kino Rye, a cinema in a converted Victorian library.