A vegetarian restaurant has slashed its menu prices for one night only to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Food For Friends, in Prince Albert Street, Brighton, will be dishing out the same menu it served up when it first opened in 1981 - and at the same prices.

In an era when prawn cocktails and vol-au-vents were de rigeur, Food For Friends blazed a trail for vegetarian, wholefood cuisine.

When the restaurant first opened its doors, the menu included turnip and dill soup, 40p and Hungarian goulash, 70p.

Since then, the selection of dishes has changed on a daily basis. But on Thursday the menu will be repeated for the first time in the restaurant's history.

Quiche Provencale at 50p and Chinese fried rice for 60p will also be on offer, with salads at 30p each.

Not everything, however, has been caught up in the time-warp. Booze will not be available at Eighties prices, but there will be discounts, with a glass of wine costing £1.

Founder Simon Hope said Food For Friends had been a pioneer for organic, healthy eating during the last two decades, and this was a way of celebrating its continued success.

He said: "When we first opened on Prince Albert Street, my bank manager told me he wouldn't even let his wife walk down there during the day. It was called the street of a thousand thieves. Now it's more like the street of a thousand restaurants.

"I am glad the business has survived all this time. We have expanded and developed and continued to experiment with our menu. We feel very proud of the place, and this is one way of showing how we feel."