The Kitchen at Portland Marina in Weymouth and Portland

Lovely place! Great location! 4 adults and 3 children popped in midmorning for drinks and a snack while waiting for others out on the boat. They didn’t have anything snacky available at that time so we ordered some toast and the staff were so accommodating and brought out some little extras for the kids. Delicious food, lovely drinks! All round great experience!

Ordered salmon & scrambled egg on sourdough x 2 with iced coffees…£33 needed a chain saw to cut the bread, scrambled egg was loaded with black pepper not complimented saturated! The salmon plentiful but looked too risky to consume…. 🤔 Returned and questioned the dish, when I said Gordon Ramsey wouldn’t have fed it to the dogs she laughed and offered something else….. Crying shame when the locals are the bread and butter of the KITCHEN during the winter…..it’s not difficult for the chef to prepare a simply dish as described, go learn from Pascals in the square or watch Hells Kitchen for ways to improve!

A great place to grab a delicious breakfast, looking over the marina. It's very good quality food and delicious coffee.

Had a table booked for 2.30 Sunday, booked 2 weeks in advance online.arrived to find cleaners cleaning up and told it had closed earlier. Had our email address and phone number but guess what,no-one bothered to let us know ,luckily got a table in another place nearby. Shocking way to treat customers

Alot of people leaving miserable reviews about this cafe/restaurant. My partner and I came down camping for a few days and decided to eat breakfast here one morning. We sat outside because the heat inside (from the sun) was unbearable so it was lovely to sit with a breeze by the boats. Food ordered as pictured came out within 10 minutes, if that. Was absolutely delicious and very filling - perhaps on the pricier size at £25 for everything in the photo but only £5 or so more than any other average cafe we'd have gone to. Was worth paying the extra for the location and service. The cafe was extremely clean, well decorated and friendly atmosphere once entered. Staff were helpful considering we'd never been there before. Was also given a free 2 hour parking voucher so no need to worry about that. They had a ranged menu for both breakfast and lunch. Would definitely go again if we were in the area.

Stopped off at The Kitchen for a drink while the teens in our party had a watersport session on the Marina with the intention of all having lunch once they’d finished. Received such a rude ‘welcome’ we didn’t bother staying, there is a much nicer place next door.

Fantastic breakfast again at the Kitchen. I had the regular mariners and was certainly large enough for my appetite. Lou had the smashed avocado on sourdough with lots of different types of Tomatoes. First rate!

Lovely food and lovely staff highly recommend it to anyone Great quality lovely view the sunshine helped prompt service

Lovely nosh, good cider, do recommend 👍thanks to Bonnie.

Lovely lunch at The Kitchen. Staff Bonnie was lovely and the food was delicious and came out very quick.

Bought 2 cokes. Charged 6.72!!!!!!!!! A crazy price ! Never again! No wonder she did not tell me the price when asking me to tap my card, I had to ask her the cost.

It was our second time heading to the Kitchen for breakfast. We ordered x2 large breakfasts which came out but the server not knowing who had ordered it because there is no table number or order number! They both had a couple things missing from each plate, we asked if they had been forgotten for which the waitress replied "Im not sure" we asked if she could check, which she did, and we were told they have been replaced for an extra tomato. Sure enough we got some extra hash browns a few minutes later. (Thankyou!) Another gentleman was sat next to us on his own politely asked from some brown sauce when his breakfast was served in which the same waitress replied "You will have to get it yourself" leaving a full breakfast outside on the table with plenty of seagulls about also probably not the best idea! (Also it wasnt particularly busy at this point) Anyway he walked back inside and after a minute he couldnt find any sauce and asked the waitress if there was any and then replied "No we dont have any" after sending the gentleman looking... (obviously this wasnt our own personal experience however it was something we couldn't ignore) The food was very nice and fair priced! We would love to keep coming back. However the staff need some customer service training and order numbers may speed things up lots!

First rate coffee and marvellous friendly service from Bonnie-thank you Would definitely recommend this venue for a coffee stop

Lovely food,good service,great views

Very tasty sandwiches and lovely staff. Would definitely recommend.

Beautiful spot lovely and clean venue the food was great have a chicken burger and it was excellent the staff Chloe and Bonnie was really friendly and happy to help 10 out 10 amazing place and views

Food ok. Staff could do with some customer service training. Were generally rude. Was there for about an hour and saw one staff member rudely speaking to customers at least 10 times. Won’t be going again.

Delicious breakfast - the waffles with bacon and berry compote was great, and the cooked breakfast was composed of genuine produce, with thick slices of bacon and good meaty sausages. Coffee was also excellent! Service was lovely, with Bonnie looking after us and making us feel very welcome. Will definitely be back, as it's excellent value for money.

Wonderful breakfast. The 11 of us, which included 5 children all ordered different items including drinks. Service was really good, no issues, no dramas. Food was exceptional value and delicious. A little gem on Portland.

Really lovely space, seriously delicious veggie breakfast and SUCH kind helpful staff! Charlotte was really kind and gave amazing service, her coffee making skills were fab! Thank you we will be back x

Lovely cafe that is a good alternative to the pub for lunch. The cakes are amazing, I fully recommend the Bueno brownie. The jacket potatoes and sandwiches are good too. The ladies serving are so nice and friendly. There's plenty of outdoor seating for when the weather is good or if you're still wet.

Visited with family had bacon butties for breakfast, very nice and good value. Excellent service from Chloe and Jodie. Will definitely visit again.

Last Friday I visited the kitchen before I headed home and I could not fault anything about it! Lovely atmosphere in the place, the staff was friendly and nothing was too much trouble for them. I can’t wait to come back and see Chloe and Jodie again for another friendly visit. Also the food was simple but delicious thank you to the chef for filling up the stomach before the journey 🙂

Lovely café, very nicely put together & decorated. Had coffee a couple of times but on our last visit we decided to haves scones that looked delicious only to find they were very dry on eating them. Please refresh your food regularly so old stock is not served.

Fantastic food and efficient service, good price point only let down by condiments in nasty plastic wrapping, brown sauce hard to get in to... Hopefully they will bring condiments up to the standard of the food x

Only an hour or so before closing so not many people around. Great view whilst I enjoyed my sandwich and glass of wine!

The premises is clean and comfortable. A really great situation overlooking the marina. We were told the menu was on the board on the wall which was fine. We chose fish and chips and were told there was no fish. My friend then said he would have macaroni cheese and was told it wasn't available. There was pie of the day on the board but no pies were available! How difficult can it be to remove items from the board that aren't available? To be fair the food we had was ok but the whole place gave the impression of poor organisation and an uncaring attitude.

Terrible customer service. Asked for lunch menu, got shouted at “it’s on the blackboard”. Won’t be returning.

The new menu, chilli squid entree and pan fried hake with seasonal vegetables were excellent, thank you for the attentive service too

I never leave a bad review, not very welcoming and friendly. Had a sausage roll that was overpriced and a coffee and I couldn’t eat it as tasted awful.

Great place to go, the food, staff and ambience just right, and being dog friendly makes it just perfect. They go out of their way to get you what you want, if they have it..

Not a great experience 😳 We waited over an hour & was overcharged for the order! Our 2 teas were half full. Eggs Benedict- only ONE egg, muffin not toasted and hollandaise sauce was cold. Large breakfast ordered- regular given which was burnt and over cooked. Unfortunately we won’t be returning. Really disappointing….

Completely ridiculous bad service massively overpriced 2 bacon and sausage baps cost me £13.90 and that was 1 sausage per bap and a poor quality sausage at that the worst breakfast I have had and at that price I will never be going back the burger van round the corner is much better quality and value (musheys) I would not recommend going there at all

Had a full English, staff pleasant, nice venue, food good, reasonable price

I had eggs Benedict and my husband had a sausage bab both delicious

Maybe it is all new staff for the summer season but it wasn't great. They are polite an everything but Inexperienced. Drink turned up after food, got our own cutlery, no mid meal check up. Others were left waiting for their orders. Nice enough food but staff need a little guidance and training to deliver the service expected.

The service was pretty poor. Web had to wait a lot time.and the menú was justo on the board.🤔😪

Where to start? if I could give it less that 1 star I would this place dosent deserve a star rating at all, THE CHEF - You need to sort your chef out. The way he was speaking to a member of staff was absolutely disgusting, you could hear it all through the small cafe, I am not surprised that the most frendly member of staff, you probably will ever have walked out I didn’t get her name (the lady with grey hair.) THE MANAGER / OWNER or whoever she was was not much help anayway in the situation anyway, DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE

Whilst the food was enjoyable, the service was lacking. We had the 'kitchen burger' and 'fish finger sandwich' and were impressed with both. Great quality and a really good portion size. For every single simple question we posed to staff (e.g. do we order with you at the till / wait to be seated, where can I find the sauces? Can I have a car park ticket) were met with a careless attitude. We were made to feel like we were repeatedly an inconvenience. It didn't feel crazy busy, but can totally appreciate if you are short staffed then you may be more easily frustrated. However, we were polite and friendly and were asking simple questions that weren't explained from the get-go (that perhaps usually would be, as every restaurant operates differently). No sign of a kids menu (we had a two year old with us) and so we ended up having to choose an adult portion. We parked on the marina which advertised it was refundable if you ate at a restaurant on site, and then were treated as if the request for the code was a major inconvenience. Overall, this made us feel like we weren't welcome. Not sure if we just caught the staff on a bad day, but the location was lovely and so was the restaurant itself.

Such a shame. This was our second visit, the first was lovely. We ordered the Chicken Burger, Fishfinger sandwich and Marie Rose Prawn sandwich. The chips were triple cooked and delicious, but the ‘fish fingers’ were cod in batter the bread was very dry and inedible and our coffee was cold. The chicken was dry and tasteless. Lovely staff but very disappointing food etc.

Pre booked a table, not available on arrival, Sunday wrap option not available ( reason for visit) ordered the crab sandwich instead £9.50 with side salad and crisps. Only it came without crisps, when queried told I was wrong, but it was on the menu, it’s a small thing but, if you change meal then change the menu and don’t belittle the customer and accuse them of being wrong. Not worth the money or just have a coffee! Crab meat was brown mush just disappointing

On our second visit this month, another bright, sunny day (today), we tried this place again. Great friendly welcome, good service, and really, really great food, superb value for money. Slight misunderstand about fries but immediatly corrected, with a smile. If you park in the adjacent parking area, the staff will organise a 'two hours free' ticket, so ask. We will be back again soon.

Had breakfast this morning, the service was terrible. Breakfast was cold. All l got was apologises, not good enough, they need too get their acted together

The perfect place to grab a beer (Beaver Town’s Neck Oil) and a VERY yummy fish finger sandwich after a mornings SCUBA diving.

Good foods and service exellent

This is a daytime cafe that also does food on Friday and Saturday early e rnibgd. It's open Sunday but there's no food. The food is basic and generously portioned and everything comes with chips. There are three seating areas: inside, outside at the front and the only one that is free from kitchen smells, a small outside area around the corner. It's dog friendly inside and out. Staff are friendly and helpful and there's a pleasant atmosphere, even if it does smell of chips.

Lovely location, love Portland.

We wasn’t in time for food but the staff were so lovely and gave us recommendations for somewhere else

We went to The Kitchen as a family for an early evening dinner. We arrived at 5pm, the staff were very friendly and accommodating. There is a children's menu consisting of fish & chips, sausage & chips, kids pasta, chicken & chips, good size portions. My husband had gammon & chips which was huge and I had the kitchen burger which was really tasty, and the beer was lovely. The meal and two large beers and two diet cokes came to £69.50, very reasonable. We will definitely be visiting The Kitchen again. If you park in their car park, tell them and you get 2 hours free parking.

Excellent friendly service by the team. So much so we visited every day of our stay be it for breakfast, lunch or drinks. Julie became our local guide too and gave us good advice on where to visit. Thanks for being so helpful in our time at Portland.

Excellent friendly service by the team. So much so we visited every day of our stay be it for breakfast, lunch or drinks. Julie became our local guide too and gave us good advice on where to visit. Thanks for being so helpful in our time at Portland.

The food was expensive but the views were great the restaurant was clean and tidy as were the toilets too. A nice location we enjoyed our visit

Nice food friendly staff but drinks very overpriced not a place to go for a economical evening out

Good view, good beer, comparable prices.

Food was fresh and service good. Staff were friendly.

Lovely spot and very dog friendly. Teenage service needs some work! Food slow, eggs overcooked with no butter on toast. Hopefully just a bad day.

1st time I've been. Went for Knit and Natter. Lovely to meet friends old and new.

Good coffee, even better customer service for our takeout coffees and hot chocolate. We took a trip to Portland Marina to take in the views and found this restaurant which does takeout coffee. We ordered coffee to-go and then started walking but then our eldest asked to get a hot chocolate so I headed back with him to order hi hot chocolate. The girl serving asked my son if he wanted marshmallows. Of course he said “yes.” A few minutes later she presented my son with a hot chocolate- to his delight. But, she had also made a small hot chocolate and a small cup of marshmallows for our youngest, which was amazing. It was a real surprise and very unexpected. Very kind and just great customer service. We will be back again to return the gesture. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the name of the waitress but we are very thankful for her kindness.

Beautiful location, lovely staff, great food!

Nice food on the Marina, counter service was a little slow, but not terrible and staff were friendly

Unfortunately for vegans a very limited choice and pricy for what your given , especially when you look at the comparison with fish/meat dishes offered and often the same thing but with the main expensive ingredient taken out . Lovely setting , but a disappointment. Wouldn't recommend for vegetarians or vegans . Sadly.

Polite and friendly service Dog friendly

Nice place, very friendly staff, great BLT but the Coffee 😱? Sorry but in this day and age there's no excuse, ordered a flat white and got a i bowl of hot milk with a vague hint of coffee a lot of which was in the saucer... They seem to have a decent Coffee Machine so Barista training is probably needed......

Booked a table inside for Mother’s Day. Turned up at the restaurant to be told we have to sit outside in the cold with my children- one being 4months old! When confronted about the booking system the lady shrugged her shoulders and said I’ve been on my own. No apology, nothing. Has now ruined mothers day because nowhere has any last minute bookings This would have been the first visit to the kitchen! I will never return and will never recommend the place to people! Absolute shambles! Awful customer service absolutely appalling!

Called in for coffee, gave in to carrot cake; delicious. So 2x coffee & 1 cake under £7. Brilliant value, polite & pleasant service. Enjoyed the wind-shielded outdoor seating.

Delicious, Sunday yorkshire pudding wrap. A different take on a traditional dinner. Good decor.

Did not eat anything apart from cake this time, but fantastic.

Popped in for a coffee and was pleasantly surprised to find The Kitchen was clean, modern and tastefully decorated. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff, especially the chef. Coffee and cake together cost £4; most places are charging over £3 for coffee alone. They are dog friendly too🐕‍🦺

Sadly, it was for a special occasion, a funeral, but the staff were discreet and efficient. The food was of high quality and made it a fitting day for someone who lived being by and on the sea sailing.

Could do better. Quality has to be top notch for something out of the way. In winter soup is a must.

We turned up for lunch at 12pm, I had soup and my friend had BLT. I expected a roll with the soup, instead I had 2 slices of cheap white bread. The BLT came with cheap white bread as well. We sat next to a couple who still waiting for their full English, they waited over an hour and 15mins. The atmosphere was awful as everyone was complaining not having their breakfast yet? This delay was caused by the Navy ordering massive order of breakfast rolls. As we were leaving the 2 chefs were sat outside smoking, while the poor service/waitress was dealing with angry customers. she even came out to look for the chefs and they did not looked bothered at all. Also you need to update your menus on the website, I was looking forward to fish salad, it was not on the paper menu.

A great dog-friendly rendezvous! Cheerful, friendly, helpful staff, (with a stash of doggy treats too!!). Will always visit when in Portland.

TERRIBLE. We went to The Kitchen to have some cake and coffee. HOWEVER, they had no coffee and no milk, but only told us after we checked the order twice as we had to wait half an hour. When the cake arrived it was dry. So bad! I mean, how can you have a café without coffee?!

Lovely place. Good coffee. We've only been there 4 times. Kyle knows my order when I walk in. Lovely kind lad xx

Only managed to have coffee there so far but it is a lovely location.

1st time visited had good coffee and efficient service, however the second time service was very slow ad the food unpleasant

Friendly and helpful service would recommend

Brilliant trad. cafe. Lovely atmosphere.

I came here for Sunday Lunch I was greeted by both Kyle and Jay who were very friendly and helpful!

Love how they have styled the Kitchen. We were meeting for breakfast. Young men on duty were pleasant and helpful. Unfortunate that chef had overslept! So we had a wait for our food, but happy to chat. Food when it came was ok but plates and toast were cold so could have been better.

We've eaten here 3 times now and the food has always been great. Friendly, helpful staff and a great view!

Fantastic food We had a late lunch here in the week. Front of house were friendly and accommodating, although not on the menu they made a cheese sandwich for our toddler. The ham, egg and chips was great. The ham thick cut and tasty. My fish finger sandwich matched. Coffees were nice, a wide range of milk alternatives were available. We didn’t stay for cake, but judging how many empty trays there were they were clearly popular. The decor was modern and fresh and very in-keeping with the setting. This is now our go to cafe in the marina complex and we’ll certainly be back.

2nd time here, first was great. This time not so great. Ordered a dish with pita, came out with flat bread. Asked where my pita was. After asking again on his return to our table, they had apparently run out (half their menu includes pita and never busy so can’t understand why they have run out) kitchen hadn’t communicated this with the staff apparently, and I said I didn’t like flat bread and would never have ordered that dish. Brushed off and no offer to change it. I was really hungry as hadn’t eaten all day so ate what I refer to as cardboard, but I didn’t enjoy it. No one came back to our table during our meal to check everything was ok. We would have had more drinks at £17.25 (2 drinks 😱, one of these drinks has gone up £1.80 since 5th September! Not risking ordering pudding just incase they had run out and decided to swap with something else, and not communicate it with us, we didn’t spend a further £32.25 and went to the boat that rocks for drinks and pudding. Ps Haloumi does need to be cooked to a golden brown colour, when it comes out, white… it’s not cooked properly. It should be a bit soft not hard as it was last night. Such a shame as it was great to have another place to eat in the marina, sadly not for us.

Very enjoyable breakfast. Really lovely people. Highly recommended!

One of the best breakfasts I've eaten. If you're around the harbour area it's a must for a tea and something to eat.

Very delicious food and Professional and nice Service 😍

Good coffee, yummy cake and very clean tables and toilet facilities. Coupled with a glorious view, a very nice experience.

Worst breakfast. Eggs Benedict was flooded in cold sauce. Was supposed to be on a muffin but was on a bread roll. Ham was bacon that was so salty needed to drink a bottle of water straight afterwards. And the "Chef" could not even cook the eggs that just looked almost raw. To be fair I have to say the bottle of cold water was nice. I can not understand why the management are simply not reacting to the comments on here. Please be warned that the negative comments on here are experience that we share. I am happy that some people had a positive experience but it really does sound like it's pot luck on the day. Please if nothing else, correct your menue to reflect what someone will get on the plate otherwise it is simply false advertising!

Good food good staff and great hot chocolate. Definitely a place to visit

I was looking forward to going here being a local sailor we are often in Portland Marina but we had scallops for starter which were terribly cooked followed by The worst Steak I’ve ever had with about 5 oven chips it was £27 I will never go back. Not sure what was going on most of the menu was not available and everyone seemed all over the place, even the Table behind sent there food back.

Just revisited since the new chef joined. The food was unreal best meal I have had in a long time. Will be back again very soon

First visit with my Sister for coffee and coffee and walnut cake it was excellent. Staff excellent can highly recommend

Very friendly staff, great food for a fair price. Really enjoyed our lunch there today. Amazing views too! Definitely recommend and will be back soon.

Wanted to pop in while out for a walk, stopped to have a coffee my husband wanted a coke,my coffee was 2.75,my husbands coke ( a can) was 3.05 I'll leave it up to you how I felt

Great gluten free fish cakes, lovely setting looking over harbour

Breakfast excellent, staff very friendly highly recommend

Great spot to sit outside and enjoy the view of Portland harbour / marina. Food was cooked well, staff were friendly but definitely could do with a bit more training / closer management.

Good breakfast food in a lovely spot.

Great food and really really great service! Shouout to the staff on evening of 3 September 2022!

How standards change! We had a breakfast two weeks ago and it was so good we posted a picture. Today the bacon was miserable the sausage burnt with a skin like leather and needed a microscope to find the mushroom. Told the chef had changed. This is no way to encourage locals to become regular customers