The Explorer's Café is one of the best bits of Drusilla's, a well loved and established family zoo-park that has thrived in historic Alfriston, and been passed down from one generation to the next as a family-worthy destination.

So often the catering in tourist hot spots gives every appearance of being low on the agenda; captive audience, all that sort of stuff. This is certainly not the case here and discerning explorers both young and old emerge from the jungle with appetites to match, and head for the Explorer's watering hole. For parents there is beef lasagne and chilli con carne, whilst the young can pig out on pork sausages of integrity and pasta bolognaise. Everyone enjoys the eat all you can ice cream deal, for £1.99 per person.