Prachee in Portsmouth

Simply the best Indian in Southsea (and there are a few), have had most of the chefs specials over the last year, all,stunning, can't be faulted

Fabulous food, friendly waiter and the owner really invested in serving top quality food also made us feel very welcome .

Maybe a Friday night is not the best of times, but I was so disappointed. We'd booked early (1845) so beat the rush that shortly ensued, but a quality restaurant should be able to maintain its standards at all times. The SERVICE was EXCELLENT and GRACIOUS, but the food was ABYSMAL - no nose, no taste, no fire at all - I ordered a Royal Venison starter and an Ayre (Catfish) Jalfrazi main - both totally insipid. There were just eight small pieces of fish completely swamped by onions and nondescript goo with no detectable spices as descibed. I would call this this place THE CON MERCHANTS - and I certainly don't recognise it from the website descriptions or some of the many rave revues. Please tell me you should have have done better - 07730 982 809 - ask for TONY

Jalfraizi was greasy, tikka masala was sugary and chicken wasnt great. Won't be going again, but the reason it's not 1 star is because the onion bajis were actually very nice, and the naans were good.

Family of 6 Visited on a Thursday at 6pm so not busy. One of us made 3 attempts to get a glass of cola, 1 of us didn't get the rice accompaniment for our meal and 1 of us simply didn't get the meal ordered and one of the side dishes didn't arrive so we all just shared what we did get. Lamb Jalfrezi was ok, but both Chicken tikka masalas, and chicken biryani,the chicken was tough, 2 sides of chips both really over cooked and onion bahjis similarly dry and overcooked, in fact they tasted like they were yesterday's just refried to make them hot. All in all really disappointing. Good job there's lots of choices in Albert rd so won't make same mistake twice