"You probably couldn't get closer to the sea without literally being (the Cafe) on the Beach. This tea rooms flavour cafe is actually on the promenade probably where the photo was taken from, and comprises half a dozen tables in the open air, and more (rather more cosily) inside the simple but agreeable cafe building. There are simple snacks on offer as well as simple cooked dishes, tea and drinks (not alcohol). somewhat apart from the main part of the town, the cafe has a bracing, Sussex by the sea, air: wonderful on sunny, warm days, but (especially outside) you sometimes need to wrap up against risk Channel breezes. I write as a Bexhill resident, and in fact it's a year or two since I went there, possibly earlier than the date given below; but it doesn't change much."