A tiny beach-side cafe that’s sat on the same spot of West Sussex coastline since the Fifties and started life selling scoops of vanilla ice-cream and sausages to British tourists is still going strong after 70 years in business – with the same family at the helm.
Imogen Steel’s enterprising grandfather first bought Salt Cafe in 1957 alongside some caravan sites and a pub in East Preston, a pretty – but still relatively unknown – stretch of the West Sussex coast.
The right-by-the-sea kiosk has had many different lives but has managed to stay within the Steel family throughout, although Imogen tells the
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