The desire to establish a local, neighbourhood jazz & blues bar has a long history, ever since Lonnie worked at the famous 'Ain’t Nothin But the Blues' bar in Central London in the mid-1990s. Even cleaning the toilets at 4am after another down’n’dirty full-house Saturday night wasn’t enough to dampen the ambition to one day open a juke joint of his own! Now, some thirty years later, that feverish dream to ‘one day have me one of these!’ has come true, and it's very sweet indeed.
After six years of successfully running Nanima Asian Kitchen, establishing that unique venue as an institution in the culinary and cultural life of Kemptown Village, and Brighton & Hove more widely, Lonnie and his wonderful wife Nicky have embarked on a new adventure, significantly add to the nightlife of the local area and beyond by establishing Brighton’s only dedicated jazz & blues bar. This wonderful city is full of great music, and great music venues, but Deep Dive is different – a local, neighbourhood bar, fully committed to the glories of jazz and blues!
The renamed Nanima Kitchen Café is still be responsible for all the fantastic food and damn fine coffee available throughout each day, with a wide selection of awesome homemade cakes and pastries, fresh sandwiches and speciality savoury snacks, delicious soups, daily special main meals and evening small plates, but now as an integral part of Deep Dive Jazz & Blues Bar, adding a full bar with great cocktails, lots of live music, guest DJs, open-mic jam sessions, vinyl listening parties, album launch events, swing dance nights, conversational salons and lots else. Nanima lives on; please join us on the next step of the journey…
Finally, Brighton will have it’s very own jazz & blues bar; a place to eat and drink, hang out with friends, listen to great tunes, and get up and boogie! Do get involved, and tell everyone
