The best restaurants serving British food in Charles Dickens Portsmouth South East

Full of students they get heavy drunk then spoil the place by swearing shouting and generally being a pain in the ass door staff not interested rather just stand on the door drinking coffee the. Dealing with unpleasant students behaviour not a place for families in the evenings

I did not visit the Ship and Castle, I merely looked it up online as I was around there in 1977/78. I was then asked to rate the pub by Google!

First the good parts. Excellent location for Mary Rose and the rest of the historic dockyards, right by Isle of white ferry and train station and spinnaker tower. On the other hand the pub only serves food at lunchtime and despite what the instructions say check in is at the Keplple Head hotel 2 doors down. The room was sparsely furnished with no reading light and a blind instead of curtains. The parking next to the B& B is only for residents of the Kepple Head Hotel and so you have to street park with a permit you buy from reception

We did not get the chance to eat at this venue as apparently the people who had just started to queue behind us took priority. Let me explain... a lovely young lady who looked like she was relatively new there, greeted us and asked what we would like to order. We said we would both like fish and chips. This young lady was not rushing and I could see that she was concentrating on getting the order correct. While she was dishing up the first dish a second older lady who clearly had more experience appeared out of door behind her with some trays and place them down on the side, as she turned towards the servery area a second couple started a queue behind us. The older lady asked them what they would like and they too said fish and chips. There were three portions of fish in total and without any regard for her colleague proceeded to barge in front of her and take the remaining two pieces of fish leaving us with only one piece of fish and an awkward looking staff member as she stood there trying to figure out what had happened. The older lady turned to her and said "don't just stand there you can sort the lemon slices out". The young lady just looked at us and said I am sorry you will have to wait for the fish to cook. She looked at my husband and said you could pay and sit down with the plate I have just done and I will bring over the other when it is cooked. My husband said to the young girl that he isn't sure he even wants the meal now as what her colleague had done was out of order. The older lady over hear this and asked what was out of order. When my husband said to her that he wasn't happy with the way she had barged in front of the girl who was serving us, took the food we had already ordered, and that he wasn't sure he wanted to pay for the meal that had already been served ( He likes us when at a restaurant to eat a meal together and not one at a time) she took the meal put it in the bin said "yup goodbye" and walked out the back through the door she arrived. All we wanted was two meals at the same time but she didn't even give us the chance to order it she threw away a perfectly good meal and two customers.

The cafe is situated right behind the main historic dockyard reception area and has a great view out towards HMS Warrior and Spinniker Tower. Although there’s a large restaurant further inside the dockyard, a number of other cafes are closed due to the current Covid situation but it’s quieter here as most visitors head straight on to the dockyard attractions. Not sure about opening times as it closed for a period in the afternoon whilst we were there - not sure if it was due to staffing or some other issue?

Modern bright café with a good ambience and obviously plenty to look at. Twinnings Earl Grey and a nice Granola bar. No complaints.

Saw the Illegal Eagles, great venue with very lovely staff. Quick entrance into venue and a great atmosphere. Would go again

Great clean environment. Friendly atmosphere. Safe and friendly customers and staff. Very clean large garden space well maintained

Had to wait 40 minutes for a burger