The best restaurants serving Seafood food in Paulsgrove Portsmouth South East

I nearly fell off my perch when I found out the cost of a fish dinner for two at what was Mother Kelly's in Portchester. I left this takeaway, went a quarter of a mile up from there and visited Tony's bar in Saunders house, Leith Avenue. Got two nice bits of fish cooked to order/ perfection and more than enough chips for the both of us. Sorted.

First time visit from a recommendation. Ordered a regular fish & chips, peas and curry for around £16 (after a discount code was applied). Didn’t think too much of that as fish and chips are pretty pricey these days. Once I saw the size of the fish finger I was getting served I had already decided that I was going to leave a disappointed review. However, somehow that relatively small sized piece of fish was chunky, flakey and delicious. All in all, I’d say I’m disappointingly impressed. Not sure if this place has nailed it for it to be my go to chippy in the area. Maybe next time I could just order 2 fish.

Avoid over priced and average food. On ordering drinks and food was presented with the bill and a service charge of £12.00 was added without my consent! sharp practice before you have even had your dining experience, that's more like an American dinner than a restaurant if I had known this would never have booked it. Starters. I had Scallops not fresh and very small like the frozen ones you get from an Asian cash and carry just very average. The prawns in chilli sauce also just average the sauce not anything special. Mains. My partner had surf and turf Ribeye steak and half Lobster she was content with that but nothing special had far better. Chips very average mass catering product not made fresh. I ordered a 10oz Fillet steak medium the steak was shaped like a fist, I started eating the steak around the edges first, when I got more into the middle of the steak lots of blood I had to soak it up with a serviette. How can you cook a steak evenly that is that shape. I called the server over and she agreed it wasn't cooked medium she took the food away and took advice from the chef/owner. On her return I was advised I could have a free drink and they would put the steak back on the grill. I had refused this, as it had put me off eating it, but more seriously they were prepared to put a half consumed steak back on the grill, really! wow just wow that they were prepared to even suggest that breaking food safety rules, and yes this will be reported to Environmental Health Protection. The server asked me what I wanted I asked her to knock the price of my steak off the bill she went back to the Chef/owner and he refused that, and said that he would knock £15.00 off the bill because the steak had been half eaten. I said "fine but I wish to speak to him in person" he refused this twice as I wished to raise my concerns over food safety. The restaurant was not full and their was plenty of staff working so it doesn't wash with me that he was to busy to speak to me. For me the arrogance of just hiding behind the server and front of house manager for the sake of £15.00 I wasn't even offered another steak. The reason for this review is because as an owner he should have addressed my concerns and try to resolve this to my satisfaction. Toilets. The men's room the hand dryer wasn't working and no paper towels to dry your hands on. The server offered me a refund on the service charge that I excepted and on leaving the restaurant I gave her a £20.00 tip as I felt that she had tried her best for us. Theirs a principle here it was the arrogance of the owner not to work with me to resolve this, wasn't looking for a free steak just one that is cooked properly in a steak house I gave the server more than what he offered me for substandard food. A disappointing dinning experience beware!