The Ship Inn in Southampton

Lovely food well presented, tasty and delicious, good portions

Came as a family of 6 for Sunday lunch. The roasts were good although I did have to request the advertised crackling, I was told it was "on the rind" but then a waitress bought a bowl over. When our plates were cleared we were asked if we had ordered deserts, which we had. After 45 minutes we asked where the deserts were and was told there was a delay. I don't have an issue with the delay if I'd been told, instead of having to ask?? I appreciate Sundays are busy, but common courtesy and customer service would have prevented this review

Haven't been here for years. Lovely old pub tucked away, but quite busy for a Saturday afternoon.

Fantastic food. Friendly staff.

Very much enjoyed my visit here. Was a Friday night so busier than usual, still enough seating though. Had a couple of very well priced pints and the nachos which were a great size.

Skittles evening, was a nice relaxed atmosphere. The main bar area is well preserved , tidy and historic

Had a wonderful Sunday dinner with my partner special thanks to Mark with his colourful shirt on to make it a very enjoyable experience

Food is excellent, portions are huge, massive choice.

Came across this pub by chance - and what a find it was! Friendly staff, quaint pub and excellent food. Highly recommend it.

Nice atmosphere and the beer was good. I didn't eat there but the menu looked attractive.

The food is really good but Im not to keen on the beers San Miguel the best they got but not the greatest feels like more of a restaurant than a pub and the staff dont seem to have a clue but it's local to my dad's so will be back again I'm sure. The pub is probably the oldest pub in the whole of Southampton so should definitely get a mention for that just needs a better selection of beers and a good line clean every pub needs to stop selling these new beers and go back to the traditional ones starting to find it hard to find a nice lager anywhere these days they say it's down to the brewery but if I'm honest I just think they know they can sell these beers as premium even though there not

Very nice food good and didn't wait long.

Always a warm welcome and food very good

I’ve heard of this pub recently from friends of mine, they had come here previously for a Sunday roast. They recommend it, I’ve been for many Sunday roasts in Southampton but this one is up there. Thank you for the amazing service and exquisite food. Will be returning very soon! Throughly recommended

Weve been coming here on and off for 15 years. The Menu always improved over the years and for the better. This is our first time back for a while, like 12 to 18 months, and unfortunately, we have to say we're not impressed. It was OK. But that's the problem, it was just OK. Good for the money. Buy nothing to right home about. And it seems very corporate run now, which is probably a big part of the problem. So we'll leave it another year and we'll try again then. 😕

Had 21 booked in they took orders and only 16 meals were prepared, tried to say it was because some were outside which wasn’t true. Then said 19 were ordered so where were the other 3 if that was correct? The order was taken by 7 pm and the last meal was brought at 8.45 chucked on the table but who wants to eat by themselves when everyone else had finished so was left then charged for. Won’t recommend to anyone

Amazing food, polite staff, loads of seating. Really good pub.

The restaurant is very attractively decorated, the service was very friendly and attentive. You have to order everything at the counter, including the food. The food was delicious and the portions were large. The price was more than reasonable.

Great pub,great food and great staff

Sadly, 3 of our 5 meals were wrong and had to be sent back, 1 twice (which meant he literally ate alone, as we were all long finished by then). 2 had clearly simply had the salad (I'd stated no salad) swept off the chicken burgers (there were still some bits left). That's unacceptable. The staff were lovely, every server, but the lady owner/manager was dreadful, tore strips off the poor guy who took our order in front of us.. and made the entire experience unpleasant and very upsetting, especially since it was my daughter's 13th birthday meal out. We were refunded only the meal we'd had to send back twice.. and didn't *dare* complain about anything else (the mash was lumpy, the gravy tepid, never mind a bowl of chips with a thumb in it.. etc). Will neither be returning nor recommending. We felt sorry for the lovely servers, who were *all* doing their best. Ugh.

i was served by a amazing waiter called Jack!!!11!

This is only the best place to eat out. Alison and her friendly staff always make us welcome and the food is excellent - we've tried a lot of places and this is our favourite. We're going back tomorrow.

Been to eat here today for at least the second time in 3 months. The food portions are like if you've been away to university and going back to your mums and she's trying to feed you up. ie flipping huge! And bloody tasty. 10/10

This time last Friday 12th July I was celebrating my 60th birthday. The food was delicious we had a ploughmans buffet for 45 guests. Alison & her team were lovely and looked after us. A great night was had by all my guests. Lewis (pearcedj.events) kept us dancing with some fab tunes too.

I’ve been to The Ship on a few occasions and had a lovely experience. Sadly this time I came down with a bad case of food poisoning. I contacted the staff to make them aware to which they denied it was caused by their food. During the meal, three family members saw two members of staff cleaning out one of the fridges which had bad smelling food items inside. We heard the waitresses themselves complaining about the smell and condition of the fridge (we had already eaten our food at this point). I mentioned this when we contacted the restaurant and were told this was not possible because they clean their fridges weekly. We would have been happy to put this down as a bad week or ‘one off’ experience, however the denials and bad attitude of the manager has put us off ever returning.

I don't like brioche buns, they were very helpful in sorting out a different one for me.

Excellent food though quite expensive but big portions

Fathers day meal off of the main menu. Excellent. My wife goes here regularly with her friends and absolutely loves it. Portions on the large side!

Went for a Sunday lunch and the food and hospitality were outstanding. This is an exceptional pub tucked away but well worth going the extra mile to. Attentive staff and very large portions of Sunday roast, reasonably priced. Thank you.

1st time I have been to The Ship Inn @ Redbridge I went to a Garthering of former AC DELCO workers who use to work at the Factory in West Bay Road Western Docks the Atmosphere at The Ship Inn

Wow what an amazing place the food was delicious the beer battered cod was beautiful staff were excellent friendly & professional will definitely be returning in the not to distant future. Thank you & compliments to the chef 👍

Lovely evening enjoyed with friends, food was fantastic, all six of us had great food no complaints. Good portion size, reasonably priced.

Very friendly and hospitable, accessible for wheelchair or mobility scooter, very tasty food

Popped in with a friend for lunch - what a wonderful place

Excellent service nice food and staff, a great selection of Ales from St Austell brewery too .. can recommend the Sunday roast dinner make sure you're feeling hungry good portions..

Really nice. Went there last week. Food was good. Staff were nice. Couldn't fault it.

Just great food and plenty of it for your money

We stopped here on route to board our cruise on the MSC VURTUOSA. The staff were exceptionally friendly and welcoming. The food was enjoyable, as was the atmosphere. It was a family meal od six people to celebrate an 18th birthday.

Excellent food, been many times here and never had a bad meal

Lovely cosy environment with great service. Totally recommend the roast dinner

Cosy pub just off the road with wonderful staff and food 😁

Six of us stopped at the Shipbon the way to our cruise. 18th and 67th birthday. A lovely atmosphere the staff were friendly and the service was excellent. The food was exceptional and good value fir money. If we lived locally it would be without doubt be our local.

Bar staff and waitresses brilliant

Food discusting, steak pie, very dry and pastry sand yop portion of beef burnt, no taste or flavour. Wanted scampi and plain jacket potato, charged for whole scampi meal and jacket meal, dont mind paying for good food, will not be going again

Gluten free menu, delicious veg curry

I booked a meal here today for me and my family I have lived in the area for 2 years and always heard good things about The Ship and its food. I took my parents and grandad here today for lunch and the service was terrible, I am hoping that it was just a bad day for the team. Our drinks order was wrong and the waitress was ready to argue with us that we had placed the wrong order, however that wasn’t the case. We then had to ask twice for condiments to be brought to the table, and we were missing our chips from the order, so we had to wait for these. As I said i am hoping it was just a bad day for the team, but unfortunately whilst living local it wasn’t worth the trip down there for lunch.

We had a wonderful experience at The Ship, after being turned away at two other pubs due to being full. We headed over to the Ship, although it was late on a Wednesday we were welcomed and quickly seated. We had the friendliest person serve, who went above and beyond and had a great sense of humour and customer service. I had the ship burger as did my daughter, the tastiest homemade and cooked burger I’ve ever had. Be warned the portions are large. The deserts looked so good that we couldn’t not try them and they were delicious too! Would highly recommend.

Great place to be, food is fresh and homemade🤩

We went for lunch for my husbands birthday with the family,it was a perfect meal,ribs to die also had scampi on the plate ,my lasagna was the best,,salad,garlic bread and fries.The sweet well,beautiful.Well worth every penny,hope to go again.ty

We would like to thank Alison and the team for what they have done for us on our wedding day. The marquee was beautifully set up, and the food was also at a very high standard. Communication with Alison in the build-up to the big day was exceptional, and we can't thank her enough for that... I highly recommend that people use the ship for any events, and i promise you won't be disappointed. We will also be using to marquee for future events

Although very busy, as it was mothering sunday, our meals came out all together, hot and well presented. Staff very polite and friendly, overall a perfect time. Waitress Grace was extremely good too

Jack and David are the perfect barmen! Great atmosphere and friendly punters! 5*** Will definitely be back! Keep up the good work 👏

Our group was in a small corridor type room with a low ceiling, Too noisy.

Excellent service lovely meal liver bacon n onion gravy n vegetables 😋

Middle of town pub with an out of town feel, food wonderful and plenty of it at a good price 😀

Had an amazing lunch today with my family. There were seven of us celebrating my birthday. The food was excellent. My Sirloin steak was cooked to perfection, as were my other two family members steak. We all loved our food choices. The staff were friendly, very welcoming and give us excellent service. Perfect!! Thank you. Highly recommend. Helen

We ordered the pork chop with bubble and squeak and enjoyed a huge meal, beautifully cooked. We've tried most of the pubs but The Ship is the very best. We have a terrible problem - do we order fish and chips: divine Chicken curry: wonderful Chilli con carne: excellent What a dilemma.

Absolutely fantastic meal I had the steak pie it was to die for and it was as I say a proper pie and I had the Eaton mess. Fantastic food and amazing service will definitely go back thank you

Best roast beef I've ever had in a pub/restaurant. Lovely staff..went above and beyond for us. Would definitely recommend and we will return

Always a good place to have a drink

Met up with family for a meal and a catch up. Had a Sunday roast which was a great size and very tasty! Every pudding looked amazing.

Just great!! We had a birthday get together in the skittle alley. 28 people. All ages catered for. The food from the winter menu was good and served quickly. The staff were attentive, friendly and happy 😊 Definitely recommend to everyone

Always a warm welcome, great for either a snack or a full meal

Being going there for years and more to come cosy and warm

We stopped off here on the way home to London and were very pleasantly surprised! The staff were SO friendly and attentive - especially Dave, thank you! - and the food was yummy. Also, we sat beside on open fire, which was an absolute delight! Highly recommend.

Very delicious! Came here for our Xmas dinner and the portion sizes were huge! Very quick service from start to finish.

Fantastic! Old ship theme Pub! Great crowd & great selection of drinks with mouth watering menu! A must for a good old English pub experience!

Been to The Ship Inn twice over two weekends. Both times the food was delicious. We hired the Skittles Room for our family Christmas party. There's 33 of us. The bar man was really lovely, food was top notch and service brilliant. Would recommend 🫶🏻

Great meal and service. We visited as part of a group of 10 for a Christmas meal. The food was amazing. Definitely the best I’ve ever had here. Service was not rushed and little things by the meals being brought out to peoples names rather than the usual “turkey” really made the difference!!!

Excellent Food portion size is very good. The Staff are very friendly

Lovely meal, huge portions! Great place. Quick service. Well done everyone x

Have visited this pub for Sunday lunch several times and the roast is normally very good with succulent meat fresh veg and lovely crispy roast potatoes and gravy. This evening we pre ordered on their Christmas celebration menu and it was really disapointing The Turkey was tasteless the roastys were overcooked and well steamed so had gone really soft as if they’d been covered and kept warm. . The vegitables were diced swede carrots and pale coloured sprouts. None of it looked like the veg they serve on a Sunday . This cost more than the Sunday roast and was not worth the £26 95 that we paid for 2 courses. We complained to the waitress and she came back and said the landlady was sorry we didn’t enjoy it but she’d had no other complaints We then asked to talk to the landlady and she was very flippant and was not interested in what we had to say. Didn’t really get a satisfactory apology . We certainly won’t be going back in the future .

We turned up and asked for a table for two and we're told that it would not be a problem if we could be finished in an hour ,which wasn't going to be a problem, ordered food and drink at the bar then noticed the table was booked for an hour earlier than we thought giving us 15 minutes. Called over the waitress who told us that they could not contact the people who booked it to confirm so they would have to wait, they didn't turn up anyway so we were told not to rush, the food was plenty as we both left stuffed and the quality was superb. All in all an excellent place to eat with great atmosphere

Once again the Ship at Redbridge has excelled. My wife's birthday was completed with a family meal at The Ship. All staff members were polite and friendly and Alison the Proprietor even delivered our home made cake singing happy birthday even though were depriving her of six puddings chosen from their menu.

What can I say have just been to celebrate my birthday with family, the service was excellent, the food was outstanding, such good portions and very hot, and very reasonably priced, would highly recommend to anyone pay a visit

Went to there for my partner's 50th birthday. Nothing was too much. The food was outstanding, the service excellent and the atmosphere was great.

Nice place to eat. Home cooked food large portions but it's quite expensive around £16.95 a meal now days. But it's nice food. Certainly will return.

We had the skittle alley in the back room for a family get together. The food portions were very generous and very friendly staff. Have been here before and would definitely go again

Nice warm pub, but the food was quantity over quality. Will not be back.

Attended a private function in the skittles room with a bar. Had a great time, the basket meals were very good and the service at the bar as well.

Nice atmosphere, although a little smoky due to open fire.

Great food and beer. What's not too like. Great to see a pub as it should be. Let's hope they can maintain the standards

Food was lovely, just took a while. Beautiful views

Nothing to complain about, good food I enjoyed the meal.

Had a lovely meal nice log fire

Had my 50th party here, would absolutely recommend for a party venue. Great food, great set-up in outside marquee, staff very good. Definitely no complaints.

Food was average and loads of flies.

Food, service and place was excellent

Great place for lunch. Baguettes are fabulous. Dog friendly too.

Almost perfect. Food was delicious, service fantastic. Only complaint was the amount of flies situated on the mirror by our table. I get it, it's a food establishment, but it was a bit off putting

The food here was really good and a reasonable price. My husband had gluten free loaded nachos with chilli con carne. He says it is the best gluten free meal he has ever eaten outside the home. 5 stars for food and welcome

This is our local pub, we go at least once every week, some times more to go and eat. We attend the quiz on a Tuesday night, we love it, the staff are amazing. This Saturday we threw my Mum a surprise 85 Birthday party in the Marque. We ordered a buffet for 30 people and when it came out it would have fed 50. Hot and cold food and so much of it and lovely food at that. Not just a basic buffet. We can not thank them all enough. A brilliant pub, with brilliant food and staff. We love you all.

It’s perfect that’s it the food is brilliant the staff was amazing Kamil and rose done a brilliant job serving (there was one Indian guy I forgot his name he was fantastic) thank you very much for looking after us.

A big thanks to the Ship Inn for accommodating 43 of us for my daughters 25th birthday skittles party. The service was outstanding and a big thanks to Josh in particular for running the bar so efficiently and making us feel so welcome. The food was plentiful and served in good time considering the size of our group. A really enjoyable evening, thankyou Ship Inn and thanks again Josh.

Had a great evening meal here. Staff very efficient and pleasant. Can't fault the food - generous portions. Met two local couples who had been regulars for many years and provided interesting info into its history. Next time in Southampton it is a definite visit to this super place. N.B. One of the few restaurants we have visited able to provide white pepper.

Great place for a tasty meal with good service

Wonderful place for food and drink.

The whole day was fantastic, the meal and evening food was just amazing. The team were so helpful and nothing was to much trouble for them, especially Becky who oversaw the whole event. We had an amazing day and I would recommend holding a wedding here. It was the hottest of days and again all the staff helped with ensuring plenty of water was available as well as very quick bar service, thank you for making my day so special xx

First time in years that we've been to The Ship. Won't leave it that long again. Staff helpful and friendly, food amazing...and huge. Decor classy.

Lovely place, friendly and welcoming. Food tasty, big portions and the gf menu is by far bigger choice than most places with the added bonus of being able to have chips! Very happy 😊 Will definitely return.