Highbury Cafe & Restaurant in Portsmouth

Always friendley staff, thank you for being open on a Sunday lovely breakfast. Enjoy your Tuesdays.

Freshly cooked food. Beautifully presented. And spotlessly clean. Highly recommended

Good greasy spoon. If the had a preset vegan breakfast it would be 5 stars

Good food, big choice, the food smells wonderful

Best food! Highly recommend !!!

Been going for years never been disappointed food amazing especially the chicken grill . Staff and management couldn’t do enough for you . ☺️

Excellent breakfast excellent service

Excellent service, friendly environment and great food to start the day :)

Always great food and staff go out of their way to help you enjoy your time spent there .

Visited the cafe in Portsmouth and had an excellent experience! The staff was friendly, the food was delicious, and the service was prompt. The overall atmosphere was great, and the cleanliness was commendable. Fantastic value for the price. Especially loved the Chili Con Carne I had – it was absolutely delicious! A must-try dish at this cafe. Highly recommend!

Very friendly staff and clean environment.

Amazing food, portions are great too fantastic prices. True value for money. Staff are lovely. Highly recommended. My favourite place to eat

Me and husband popped in today was our first visit because was recommended we had 2 BLT baguettes sadly there was more tomatos and green then bacon 2 poor sad looking bits of bacon did say to the cashier was nice but bit more bacon would of been nice

Had a breakfast which was lovely and the service was friendly

Great breakfast . Proper workman's portions but with awesome choice . So much better than mcdonalds .

Lovely people fantastic breakfast. Sat outside and enjoyed the warm weather.

Excellent food and service, the monster breakfast was just what the Dr ordered. Definitely recommend.

Father’s Day breakfast, just love the fried bread here and the staff are always so happy and friendly

Absolutely perfect breakfast, excellent service... Can't fault anything here at all.

The best cafe in Portsmouth the range of food is amazing. Been going 8 years strong twice a week the staff are super lovely treated like family 😊

Best brekkers in Pompey! Tasty, well priced, and great service.

Always friendly, and great food.

Good menu choices, clean, staff very friendly and food is very nice big portions for your money would recommend to anyone.

Best breakfast! Very clean. Brilliant service. Will defo be back!

We had some time to kill unexpectedly on Sunday morning and wanted coffee. The cafe interior is very inviting, the staff very friendly and the food was freshly cooked and speedily prepared. I ended up having poached eggs on toast which were perfectly cooked. The only thing that could have improved it was a choice of brown toast. It was surprisingly busy for 10am on a Sunday morning with a number of regular customers. Highly recommend!

Good food but really no space to move , last table outside the toilet..not ideal

Perfect breakfast was very clean and staff very friendly

the address of fresh delicious food And friendly staff

One of the best cafes around, great fast food, good portions and good prices. A tiny minor niggle is the accoustics aren't great so when busy it's quite noisey.

My rating scores are all 5stars as this is a 5⭐️ venue.

All great meal to start your day.

Lovely food very quick service Lovely and clean

Happy helpful staff nothing too much for them, food great cafe and kitchen really clean🫠🫠

Popped in for bacon baguette having read reviews sadly very disappointing not really a baguette more of a part bake sub roll with two extremely small pieces of bacon . I would be so embarrassed to serve this up to anyone . Don’t get me wrong cooked well and staff polite but all bread no filling . Two stars for effort

Been using this cafe for many years always friendly and helpful staff and the food is very good.

Nothing of quality here. If you like cheep food and you like it all the same griddled falvor food and deep fried sausages then this is the place. I'm from out of town and have eaten here 3 time and today was the last. 1 vist i had ham and cheese omelette cooked and burnt on the griddle. and chips salad. 2nd visit roast beef dinner edible pre cooked roast potatoes and microwave veg didn't even bother eating looks like it has been dished up out of a dryed up saucepan. 3rd visit today egg sausage tomato mushrooms and bubble and squeak. There is no love in commercial griddle cooking. Had much better from burger vans It's just bad food. Avoid if possible.. I'm a fair man and give everyone a fair trial. And it's not exactly cheap to keep trying this place out. To keep getting black bag food.

Been coming here for a few years now. But just before covid a large breakfast was about £6.50. It’s now £9.90. Every few months the price keeps going up. For that price I expect a better quality breakfast. Can literally get the same breakfast in Wetherspoons for half the price now.

Good food and very good variety service excellent

Breakfast is costing more and more these days. Gone up 35% in 2 years. Cheaper sausages. Not as good.

First visit to the cafe! Seems to be very popular, quite busy when we were there, staff pleasent, food was enjoyable good value for money, the only problem was parking there is a strip of road outside the cafe with 3 hours parking but this filled up quickly.

Always a good breakfast!! Servers need to cheer up mind you.

Lovely cheap and cheerful breakfast with all the extras available! Nice milkshakes and good friendly service 😊

Usually has my full 5 stars as I order on Uber Eats Just Eat Deliveroo but not been happy to check every day of the past week. now this week, to see that it keeps saying, “opens Sunday at 8am.” “Opens Monday at 8am.” Now, “opens Wednesday at 8am.” I usually need to order due to have a family and a disability.

Very varied and extensive menu, guaranteed to find a dish to suit everyone's tastes. Had a lovely cooked breakfast. And the prices were very reasonable too.

Cannot fault this place at all fantastic

Always good service and good quality food

Great breakfast good price very enjoyable

Great breakfast and friendly staff.

Great tasting food value for money clean friendly staff best cafe in Cosham by far highly recommend

Good breakfast with excellent service

Been using Highbury Cafe for well over 14 years. Food is always good and staff very friendly, clean and they have daily specials, and roast dinners all week. Would highly recommend 👌

This café is very popular with workers and passers by. I am part of the Portsmouth Healthy Walkers group and call in every Thursday for a drink and sometimes a meal which is plentiful.

Always very welcoming, gorgeous food won't go anywhere else for breakfast xxx

Lovely food nice staff. Great place to go

We visited with a couple of friends and were very impressed with the quality and quantity of the food. Service was prompt and the waitress was very pleasent. We will be back!

Ordered a takeaway from them, they use uber drivers as well as their own, Delivery driver was only 2 minutes away from my property but then spent 20-minutes go and everywhere else but our place Phone the cafe, they don't care who was delivering it as they got the money and they didn't care if they lost customers, Food was cold and not enjoyable. When not recommend them.

I found this cafe about 3yrs ago, the staff are friendly and helpful, the manager is really nice and always welcomes his customers. The FOOD....best ever and worth every penny they charge, I bet I could eat the entire menu and the last would be as good as the 1st meal on it! The specials are excellent but the real Jewell in the crown is his “special beef stew” he does in the winter months, not to be missed. I wish them all the best and well done for being the best ever cafe on the South Coast.

Amazing food quick cheap and lovely staff. Really clean too. Service is really quick and staff super friendly

A great place for breakfast, It is clean, staff are attentive with prompt service, and the food is well cooked. Finally the prices are reasonable.

A cheap and cheerful breakfast menu with simple choices such as eggs on toast for just over £3. Cant beat it. Why would you go anywhere else?

Le breakfast avec traditionnel breakfast avec les clients du pays. A proximité du lieu de débarquement à Portsmouth, l’accueil est sympathique, le service est rapide et les prix sont corrects et vous pouvez régler en euros ou en livres. Si vous êtes nombreux il est prudent de réserver car il y beaucoup d’habitués. Le patron et les serveuses sont sympas.

Easy to find, but less easy if you're driving - the parking spaces opposite are very hit and miss, normally a miss. (It's a busy main road.) Plenty of clean tables, and friendly service. A large menu of breakfasts, plenty of options and happy to swap the odd thing, and deals to include a drink with your plate. Portions are generous, never walked out hungry! Make sure you have cash just to be safe - I think they don't take card under a certain amount, possibly at all. Banging brekkie!

Good choice of breakfast items, friendly prompt service and clean tables. A great way to start the day.

We are a regular visitor to Highbury Cafe. We have always found the menu to have a great choice. The food to be tasty and the staff friendly. The food is traditional cafe food so if you are looking for a bagel or artesian coffee this isn’t the place for you. If however you are looking for a delicious omelette or a breakfast with bubble and squeak then definitely give it a try. Unfortunately they only take cash. Breakfasts are around £7

Well first of all I had to circle several times this quiet Sunday morning until I found a parking spot! Right behind the cafe in the service road! We ordered two no.2 set menu breakfasts both with toast, one tea and one coffee. And asked to substitute the beans on one for tinned tomatoes and requested that the beans were put on the fried bread on the other, with the egg at the side! This was accurately achieved by the staff yay. Ok as always the bad points first! It’s Cash only! Omg the Noise level was excruciating, 4 fellas on one table I swear were shouting to each other I do not know if it was just them or the acoustics in the cafe but it was so loud. I know this isn’t the cafes fault but just too warn you! The food had too much excess oil as you can see by the slick in the close up of the sausage! Any more and the USA would have invaded! The egg was getting for me to the very near the inedible crispy stage! Comparing prices to my current fave Cafe for almost the same price (45p more) I would have had extra on my plate:- 2x sausage 1x portion mushrooms 1x portion tomatoes 1x portion sauté potatoes (or 2x Hash Browns) 1x egg That makes this breakfast incredibly expensive in my opinion! Plus points The food came out quickly and was hot too! Everything was tasty Not too much fat on the Bacon! If I were feeling flush I would eat here again but it wouldn’t be my first choice!

Really friendly, good quick service. Lots to choose for breakfast. Excellent value. I will definetly go there again.

Food is always fresh and plenty of it, great value for money, friendly staff lots to chose from kids meals

A lovely place to sit outside with a coffee after taking the dog for a walk in the park over the road. The coffee is very good value and very hot and the service is always good and friendly.

It’s ok for quick breakfast Nothing really special And it’s cash only so a little bit annoying....had to go and get cash first

A clean, friendly, traditional British café. Excellent home-made food. At breakfast time it was crowded with builders, and they're a discerning lot. Thoroughly recommended, with the possible exception of the rather weak coffee. But at least we could order our coffee in English...

We eat here at least once a week, really good food and great value for money. Good selection - something for everyone

Had a really good Highbury breakfast this morning. The café is very popular because the food is so good and great value for money

came here Saturday morning our first visit and we were both impressed, whilst we were there plenty of people were coming in some had to come back later, service and food both good, plenty of choices... really enjoyed our breakfasts

Have been round a few breakfast places in Portsmouth, seen this one had good reviews so thought we would give it a go.

Superb food, lots of choice for breakfast, quick service, would come here all the time if I lived in the area

He estado yendo al café highbury mucho recientemente, especialmente teniendo en cuenta que prepara comida para llevar. Este es perfecta, sobre todo para tener un inglés cuando despertándose en un sábado y no se molestó para cocinar. La relación calidad-precio es buena, y la opción de crear su propio desayuno, es fantástico, especialmente cuando tienes un poco quisquillosos. Lo único que he notado ha sido pobre hay huevos que no son lo suficientemente cocidos, pero no todo puede ser perfecto, pero recomendaría este Café a cualquiera. También hay comida para todo el día, tales como un pastel o pescado, así que es genial para todo el mundo.

Si quieres un desayuno completamente cargadas burlar gut, te recomiendo este lugar. Siempre es completo, pero vale la pena la espera después de todo hay una razón por la que la gente espera. La comida es estupenda y satisfará las necesidades de las barrigas. El precio está bien para lo que te dan.

Great place and food I have been going there for about two years and the food quality and service have always been excellent

Visit here often for breakfast always has been one of the best break I've had would recommend this place one of the thing sis that they do black pudding on the breakfast menu waitresses little mood other then that great food

Excellent breakfast, staff are very welcoming and accommodating very busy but always clean and excellent service.

Popped in here with my partner and our friends on the morning of our holiday. We were being picked up at 9:00 so made our way over for 7:30. We were seated quickly and the waitress offered us drinks. The menu is vast and caters for everyone's Tastes. Even the set menu items can be tweaked. The place is clean and the food is nice. Just what you need to line your stomach!Would go back again! And again :)

Coffee tastes like water. Breakfast was mediocre at best. This place will always survive as the clientele will eat anything put in front of them.

Went here on our way to the Victorious Festival with 8 family members to line our stomachs for a long day. Wow! What a fantastic, large breakfast we had (No4). Lots of it and all tasty. Lovely friendly staff working very hard, and all with a smile. If you haven't tried it, get there before the word gets out. Thank you to the Chefs and staff for a lovely meal.

We normally go for breakfast on a weekend when we visit but this time and because we were on holiday for the week, we thought we would try the lunch time menu and we were not disappointed we both had steak & kidney pie, peas, carrots and cabbage with roast potatoes, and gravy very nice, there was lots of food we loved, loved loved it. We will be in again before we go home, I love this place and the service is quick, the staff are polite and friendly. We worth a visit.

My friend and I were travelling back from Portsmouth when she said that she really fancied a proper cooked breakfast. I suddenly remembered this café that I had visited sometime ago.The staff were so friendly & helpful, helping us to even save money on our choice. The food was freshly cooked, lovely and hot. Even had proper bubble and squeak...........very tasty!Will we go again...........YES!!!!!

I've been here many times in the past and have to say, it is one of the best cafes I have ever been to! The food quality, quantity and freshness is spot on as some cafes come out with food cold, hardly anything on the plate and not great quality. Also very friendly place to visit! Great service.

This is the worst place I have come across, not so much a hidden gem as someone else put it, it's actually a greasy spoon on the main road through cosham.Nothing really much to say about the food just basic cafe food, average prices , coffee not so good bit stewed .Sorry guys just not a good experience .

Well I certainly don't have anything negative to say, it's just an ok cafe. The service is as good as you would expect, the food is good and wholesome. The individual ingredients aren't anything to write home about but they aren't horrible either.A standard ok local cafe.

This is a hidden gem in Cosham. There are plenty of cafes in Cosham, but none are as good as Highbury.The staff are delightful and recognize their customers which is always important. I visit throughout the year and its always busy which just shows its popularity :)

On a recommendation, we visited the cafe on Thusday 14 April 2016. We both chose omlettes (spanish & cheese). They were served within ten minutes (all the tables were full) and to our surprise, the size of the portions and quality of the food was first class. This was only surpassed by a surprisingly small bill. We shall certainly be visiting this excellent cafe again.

Went here for a breakfast, plenty of options too many in fact, it was quite busy, ordered drinks first I had a Coke from a tin can't go wrong there they did give me a glass but it was chipped and to be honest not very clean, my colleague had a coffee the cup was really dirty and the coffee was stewed, cutlery was placed on the table in front of us interrupting our conversation the waitress asked What do you want, well at this time we not decided, so there was a grunt and off she went, anyway after weighing up too many options, dirty cups and glasses with attitude we decided to pay up and go.The cafe itself was OK a typical greasy spoon, but was fairly busy and it seemed as they new there clientele so I would say they have there regulars who live local and can't be bothered to do their own breakfast on a Sunday morning. Definitely won't go back to this one lucky we were only passing through. Sorry guy.I can see you have some good comments, perhaps we visited when someone was having a bad day.

Friendly small cafe. Personal service and as one of our party had very limited time her breakfast was delivered super fast. Food was freshly cooked and served hot. We will be visiting again.

always go for breakfast here, they cook the food to how you like it . service always with a smile ,lovely atmosphere well worth the money,always busy worth a visit.

We went here for breakfast as a family. Food was nice and hot and well cooked. Prices were extremely reasonable. Lots to choose from on the menu. They also do lunches - with typical british foods. Recommended.

Eat breakfast here every week at the moment and can honestly sayService is always fast and politeFood is always cooked fresh there and then. is always hot and good value for money.Would say this is overall best cafe/breakfast i have had the pleasure of eating in

I've visited this cafe a few times and have never seen it not busy. Given it looks just like another greasy spoon the service really is fantastic and the choice is fairly good as well. I've visited with vegetarians who were happy with the choice of food on offer and quality of vegetarian products.Whilst I wouldn't say any of the food is absolutely the best thing I've ever eaten, all of it, and I mean all of it, is excellent. Nothing falls below that mark. Usually with this kind of cafe you'll find the beans cold or the mushrooms soggy but that's not the case here. You'll end up paying about what you'd normally pay for a fry up, maybe a pound more, but you get such excellent food I think this place can be called good value. Don't expect a Flat White coffee here, you'll get "builders tea" and what I think is drip coffee, however I think that is part of the charm of a place like this, sometimes you just want a coffee and that's it.I know I'll be visiting this cafe in the future and would recommend the Bubble and Squeek!

Value for money café serving many things including traditional breakfasts. Prompt service and table clearing, Food cooked okay and of reasonable quality.

Short & sweet...it takes serious fry mojo to get named the best cafe in Portsmouth by a local daily. It takes authentic heart to garner a devoted customer base & confident word-of-mouth meme status.So I try it and am pleasantly happy for 20 minutes as I hoover the contents of an enormous No.6 into my mouth. The flavors are familiar and solid, with no confusing notes of herbs or MSG. The hash browns were sin-sational!It's a testament to how it all works together that I ended up leaving most of the bacon untouched, and I think bacon is the star of it all! It's like getting so riffed on Elle Goulding's front act you leave just as John Mayer comes on, and that takes much mojo. Will be back...,,

We eat here about once a month and usually go for the all day breakfast selections. The food is always good quality, hot and well cooked, they are happy to swap an item if you don't like something. Their tea & coffee are always piping hot, which I personally like, as there is nothing worse than luke warm drinks that some places serve.The staff are always happy & very efficient at orders and serving. Would recommend this cafe to anyone.

Outstanding quality of both food and service. The food is cooked fresh to order. The staff are very friendly. Fantastic value for money.