The Lord Palmerston in Portsmouth

One of the better J D Wetherspoon Pubs in Portsmouth. A decent atmosphere and pub was packed. Went in mid afternoon so we were able to get a table. The Wetherspoon Spoon App was actually working on this occasion for ordering food and drink to our table. The App was extremely slow but service was very quick!! Food was ok but could have been a bit warmer. Will visit again in future as used pub many times.

Worst brekky so far, usually decent standard, not great this time

Have been to other spoons for breakfast and normally they good. When placed our order the person taking our order kept trying to get us to order something different as couldn't find what we wanted on the till. It all seemed like too much effort to be there!! The food arrived quickly but wasn't great as could tell it had been under a heat lamp for ages and some of the pancakes were hard. Lots of dirty tables full of plates and left over food.

Exactly what you expect from a spoons

It's a wetherspoons. Staff freindly

Food used to be really good here. When ordering the mixed grill I asked if I could have my steak cooked a certain way and the staff informed me that I couldn't as it all gets cooked as one together. He wasn't wrong. I know people will say what would you expect from a weatherspoons, well we expect to be able to tell which is which on the plate. Other spoons I have eaten in recently has been a lot better

Really good pub. Lots of space. Staff excellent. The toilets smell like a sweaty bollocks is my only negative. I always come here, it is overall one of the good spoons.

Good for gathering with friend or family. A spacious free house. The food quality is fair (seems little lower than high street pubs. But the free house seems to paying the tribute to Lord Nelson. They launch a tasting festival if ale, nice to explore.

Typical wetherspoons, good choice of food which appears to be discontinued in other spoons, appeared to be popular with students only down side to me was the air conditioning, it was freezing

Fantastic breakfast, cheap and very quick service. Friendly staff for the time of day, 9am, very large floorspace and was filling well when we left.

It's a nice location. Good outdoor seating. Typical Wetherspoons. Good location though :)

Decent enough Spoons. A cooked breakfast and a pint for around £5. Can't go wrong .

Great place busy food is always good

A cracking Wetherspoons. Really buzzing on Saturday night and a decent breakfast on Sunday morning!

Always good food. Great value.Staff always willing to help. Good service given.

I set in here whilst I was waiting for the ferry. The food wasn't the best even by wetherspoons standards but the service was friendly,atmosphere was as expected quiet but enough back ground noise for it to feel comfortable. I'd come back again if I was waiting for the ferry again.

Nice weatherspoon. Great outside seating 💺

Typical JD pub. Range of beers good & well kept based on our choices. Went for breakfast & apart from the toast, which was a bit rare, you just can't beat the value they offer.

Cheap and easy. Plenty of room for an office party for a good 200-250 people I would guess. Also good for a cheep dinner with the family after something like a football match. Staff are friendly, but the prices are even friendlier.

This pub used to be very comfortable but it's now so cold that I can't tolerate it unless I have a coat on (and eating wearing a coat is not very practical). Overheard from an adjacent table: "Shall we have another drink? No, it's too cold in here lets go elsewhere. Which they did. Please get the HVAC adjusted properly.

Even when coping with the crowds from Victorious the food arrived quickly and everyone was friendly and helpful.

Great 'Spoons. Lovely sunny day. Enjoyed lunch.

Good food nice vibe outside. Abit dingey inside but that is most weherspoons lol. Great staff

A Wetherspoon’s where the toilets aren’t up 300 steps! It was opening day of Victorious Festival so the pub was very busy. Food and drink service was still fast and the staff were very happy. Great atmosphere all day.

The internet is ropey but ho hum it's a big old cavern 🍺

Wetherspoons food tastes delicious as can be expected. The service here is excellent, such kind staff!!

lovely pictures of local people and history clean tables clean toilets

It is what it is. Cheap n cheerful

🛑 2 reviews 🛑 On the 8th of August 2024, me and a good friend, (who i hadn't seen for a year, because of a serious illness, he had been recovering from. We both attended this weatherspoons pub, for something to eat & a drink & a catch up in this weatherspoons pub in Southsea I wrote a review below, a year or so ago & i then gave this weatherspoons a 4 star then 🌟 On Thursday 8th of August 2024. Me & my friend ordered a meal with a drink.. The meal cost a little over £23 for the both of us, the over tattooed rude young girl, who survived us was in a rush to take our money, while ordering the staff loudly in front of us, her mannerisms & very poor attitude and attention to detail, was very unpleasant and unprofessional to say the least, we ordered "Fish & chips" that took about 25 minutes to turn up. When first seeing the size of the portions of food i was initially shocked to see two "child size portions" of micro fish and chips 🍟. The Garden pees were "Hard like Bullets" & cold, the Chips 🍟 were about 20 chips that were partly cold & the fish was just warm, small & quite tasteless, also unfortunately i found a "Human Grey Hair" in or on my battered fish, the "Tattooed girl, who we had seen & who had taken our order in the first place, at the bar, turned up at out table & i had spoken to her about the situation, to say how upset i was with food & the poor service, i asked why did she give us child portions, (especially as we are adults) "she said that is the correct size, of portions, i said i feel that a extra free portion of chips 🍟 should be given to us as the food is cold & really the size of a oap or child 🧒 portion. Anyway the girl Who served us & was asking if the food was ok, said their was nothing she could do for us both. As she walked off laughing.. After leaving the table, she proceeded to walk over to some young guy who fondolded her in front of a packed restaurant, with children in the pub restaurant and families & kissing her, then they proceeded to get her coat & leave the weatherspoons. A while latter, after me and my friend had drunk our drinks and eat the cold, tastless food we had purchased. I went to the bar to order 2 drinks & spoke to another lady, who said i should not be complaining about her staff member, unfortunately this girl was also tattooed up to the point i couldnt make out if she was speaking to me or the till. A very disappointing time, i will not be wasting my time or money in hear again. 🛑( (what a difference a year makes) ) 🛑 🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟 BELOW IS A REVIEW & PICTURES I TOOK 1 YEAR OR SO A GO. The restaurant & pub area is not how it was when i wrote the pervious review below as i had given 5 stars then, but niw i only give two stars & that is only for the atmosphere in the pub itself ... PLEASE NOTE, thank you. 🛑 🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑🌟🛑 The Food Is excellent, menus are brilliantly prices, the staff are friendly and especially everything is clean, tidy & in ship shape order, you can eat, outside or inside, massive range of alcohol drinks and special beers, some for everyone if your over 21..... Lovely looking venue,, really really tasty food.... Everything is well presented, when there is s lot of people in there is quite a lot of noise, but mostly it's the regulars... Lovely looking flowers hang from the outside & as you woukd expect, there is lots of interesting pictures on the walls, especially as it's a Portsmouth Weather Spoons.... Pictures of famous people, such as Peter Sellers, who was born on the corner of castle Road, (above the Chinese takeaway..) less than 10 minutes walk... The pub, is well worth a visit.. It has Free cloud WiFi access, multi refill hot drinks, The only draw back is the toilets, mens are quite smelly, the Gents cubicles really need looking after better & sometimes the smell of toilets not being flushed, came make a person really feel sick, (so be careful, to breath through your slight open mouth.. Other than that it could do with toilet Brushes and a air fresheners... Through out.... Hope both reviews help

Need better red wine, but food is good value for money.

I've no problem with Wetherspoons. Used them all over the Country and consistently good food and excellent value. The Lord Palmerston was extremely disappointing. Food was luke warm at best. Very slow, indifferent service at the bar. I often use the App but the signal was awful in here. Nice friendly waitress was the only good part of the experience. Otherwise it was very poor and I wouldn't go there again.

It's a wetherspoons you know what to expect

Worse Wetherspoons I have ever visited….food was cold and sent back and the second lot was no better! Got the impression that the staff were not bothered! Toilets were a disgrace and the place was filthy…sorry Wetherspoons but this place lets the Company down!!

Good choice of beers, great value.

At least the toilets are downstairs but they are inside no windows and the smell of urine. God

Only one coffee mashine gives big ques but otherwise lovely

The Falkland Vets, and a bunch of widowers are being bullied by a member of staff at the Lord Palmerston. Several members of public have complained and stepped in to stop this happening but the pub manager bans them or does not listen to their complaints. The bully culture to the vulnerable at the Lord Palmy is sickening. Please do not support these vile members of staff and protect our veterans and vulnerable.

What an experience! For a fat lazy dog like me just to be able to sit at the table and order something and the waiter delivers it to the table. Well! It could make me feel like being part of our royal family. In sober reality, I give my huge thanks to pub, the very good service, the beautiful decor and ambiance. Thank you.

Everything as you may expect from a Wetherspoons. Our party of 7 after meals and a few rounds were told to leave because a 70 year old who was with us dozed off... manager said it didn't look good.

You can always count on the palmie whether you wish for a quiet meal during the day or a few drinks at night!

Only had a breakfast which was tasty and enjoyable although it wasn’t hot enough when delivered. Service was a little slow. We sat in a booth and the bench seats need replacing, lost all the spring, I’m 6 foot tall and the table top was level with my chest.

Rude asking my 17 year old son for ID when he was eating food with family!

Whilst visiting your establishment with family this was the second day of eating at your pub . We had just finished eating when who appeared to be the shift manager a female approached my son asking him for ID he was sat with myself and his father. We had been there the previous night and the shift manager who had longer hair not tied up serving meals didn’t have a problem. We found this upsetting and disappointing!

Not impressed took order then harassing behaviour to leave because our son was 17 and it was 9pm. Get with it spoons you need to get things in order.

Couple of visits. It's clear weirdly that female members of staff always have basic manners but the males give up easily. Otherwise tables can be often cleared after an age.

Cheap like any other Wetherspoon

Had two £4.99 breakfasts. You get what you pay for, they looked miserable and we're cold. Vote with my feet I won't bother going back again.

Good standard spoons, cheap pints, good food and friendly staff. Also toilet is downstairs which is a bonus

Great location for imbibing, shopping and eating. Sit outside and watch the world go by, or, join in.

This place is a whetherspoons. Good food, pretty good service and great offers.

In. Street with more than its fair share of ‘craft beer’ pubs it was a pleasure to have a drink of a draft beer at a vey reasonable price.

Very nice Wetherspoons, might come here more often if moving to the area!

A weatherspoons is always a lovely place. Consistent food, service and atmosphere

A typical weatherspoons. Enjoyed a drink and no issue's. Would happily go again.

A nice place for a cheap meal and cheap drinks

Typical Wetherpoons but loved it.

Wetherspoons is fine...cheap cheerful and does the job.. its pub grub...

Good central Pub to spend the morning for breakfast before heading to the Portsmouth Docks and museums. Service was quick and food good quality and hot.

Nice and friendly staff good value for the money

Properly English food, very tasty.

The Best Fish n Chips I’ve tasted in England. 🥰

Solid Spoons pub, thoroughly recommended

This is quite a big pub and centrally located, although it's a bit dark inside. I ordered two wraps and a refillable coffee and both arrived in good time, both were well cooked and both were nicely presented and tasted fine. No problems here at all. Thank-you.

Frightened by member of staff who threw out food at me and my partner, slammed a tray on the table and then the cleaning stuff in front of us to indicate us to clean it. So we moved somewhere else where he threw our plates at us and started loudly gestering to his colleague towards us

Had gourmet steak....had to put fingers in my moth to take it out was choking on it.talk about tuff and full of fat.stay well clear .

Had 2 great breakfasts at this pub when we were visiting for the weekend. The staff were really friendly especially the Manager. Service was quick and just what we needed. Great value for money too!

Its a weatherspoons you get what you think

Got lovely cranberry juice spilt all over my white jumper and offered some blue roll to take the stains out!? Now £100 down thanks to that...

Food absolutely disgusting apple crumble tasted salty and chicken burger just about cooked never again would I eat here

Quick lunch break. Food and drink good. Service speedy. Clean and tidy.

Arrogant staff. Food and atmosphere is fine, but the approach of staff towards customers is very bad.

Had good breakfast and meal here both excellent at reasonable price nice atmosphere

Handy place to have some food and drink.

Mixed. Sometimes good but woe betide if your drink is late, sits on bar over 10mins, no apology.

Since covid-19 staffing has dropped off. Most times bars under pressure to serve. If you like coffee expect a queue.

Often go in here for a meal. Usually great and good value. Friday we had steak and chips, hubby had the 'gourmet version. The steaks were as tough as old boots. If we hadn't had a steak knife there is No way we could have eaten them. Full of gristle which they would have seen left on the plates. Chips were kiddies size and for the first time ever no one asked if our food was OK. Diet coke tasted like dr pepper. Will go in again but never have a steak again. Sad to post this.

Whats happened to Weatherspoons food? Poor quality and price .

Friendly happy staff and quick service

Good pub. A bit overcrowded tho

Great for an all day breakfast and coffee with refills

Great place atmosphere 😃 bit to warm inside 😉

I tried a pink gin and lemonade with a splash of bubble gum syrup. Delicious and the lady serving was friendly (can't recall her name).

Decent food decent drinks plenty tables

Cheap food and drink with good service.

Having spent a few days in Southsea, we have visited this wetherspoons and we have found the place to be very clean. The tables are cleared quickly bar is cleaned regularly. It is a well run Wetherspoons, well done to the Staff.

There is no doubting spoons great beer and great value but this spoons is a bit lifeless. I think it maybe that Southsea has so many great and characterful pubs with reasonable prices. There is a distinct lack of atmos in here in comparison, depends what you want I suppose.

Great place full of history very polite staff & all the customers very friendly too would recommend 👍😊

Nice! Quiet at breakfast time. The Lord Palmerston presented well. Clean and cared for! Good food and great service 👌 Couldn't fault it.😀

Food was quick after ordering. The app wasn't working inside, probably due to connection.

A member of our Party had never eaten an evening meal in a Wetherspoons before having been put off by a cold breakfast they'd been served at another venue. They were pleasantly surprised at the standard and quantity, so much so that we returned another night. Standard Wetherspoons venue, no pretty or spectacular building here. Toilet cubicles were large and clean. The food was usual standard Wetherspoons for the rest of us and we've had a few. Good food, hubby pleased the gammon and eggs are back on the menu, good value, it's usually the standard of service that sets each venue apart. Service here was very good, no complaints. However the lost star is for 2 things, sitting in the lower ceiling section it was far too hot and the WiFi reception was rubbish. Other than that everything else was great.

They have the best chicken wings and Chips, they are a must try. Staff is polite and cool. Leffe on tap is simply amazing.

can't argue with the prices! well done Weatherspoon's :-) -Could defiantly do with more bar staff at busy times. Good, honest, food and drinks.

Nice pub but the WiFi wasn't working so couldn't order on the app and the signal was rubbish. It was very busy but the service at the bar was pretty quick.

Typical Wethers, nothing special and as always no dogs allowed, so minus a star

Decent Wetherspoons in a good location close to other bars.

Great little traditional pub, good atmosphere and a nice selection of real ales.

Been twice now, first time they left our order in the counter for 20 mins so we asked them to warm up, which they did. Good size restaurant, would take some doing to not get a table.

Nice for a weatherspoons food is ok and staff are welcoming

One of the better wether spoons fabulous old building and value for money.

It's a Wetherspoons, so you know what you get. But nice atmosphere, clean, tidy and quick service.