The best restaurants serving American food in Nelson Portsmouth South East

At 9:05 last night, my daughter and walked up to the Goat after going to 5 other places who’d stopped serving food already. We were traveling and hadn’t eaten dinner yet and my daughter was starving. The place was dead. All of the tables outside were open. To our delight, the waiter told us that they were serving food until 11. So we asked if we could sit outside. Immediately a very rude woman stepped in front if him telling me that they only serve 21+ after 9 pm. I explained to her that we are asking to sit outside where no one else is, and are definitely not ordering alcohol. I communicated that we had not eaten all day and that every other place we’d been to is closed and we just wanted food. She refused to consider it. I will never step foot in that place again. I completely understand to have a policy like that when it’s a party scene with drunk people everywhere. But when the place is completely dead and you’re not even asking to sit inside, that’s just ridiculous. They should hire people with basic common sense and social maturity to make decisions.