Portsmouth Arms - Basingstoke

Local pub so perfect for getting too. Menu not very creative and been the same for a while. Very busy so very loud and was difficult to hear conversation at our own table. Quick service.

We had a pleasant meal although my fish wasn't as good as usual. The service was slow but they were very busy. Didn't stay for coffee!

Really good food great place for a leisurely Sunday Lunch beef was really good extra Yorkshire’s to boot . Would definitely visit again.

Although the food was good, the waitress was not only miserable and unhelpful, she also managed to mess up the order as well as reaching over me with hot plates while I was eating with no warning. If id turned round i wouldve been scalded. She managed to put a bit of a dampner on the evening and has lost any repeat business.

On one of our previous visits we encountered a small problem with service but otherwise our experiences prior to this latest visit had been very good. Sadly on this occasion it was very poor. Having been given the opportunity to review the menu and make our choice we were then told that three of our selections were not available, so the choice was very limited and the service starting from there was poor with us needing to chase up even the jugs of water we had been offered, (they turned up with desert). Perhaps even worse was the poor quality of the main course food. Clearly the restaurant was understaffed for the number of customers and this reflected in both the service and cooking activities. A disappointing evening all round and means I can not plan to use this Pub/Restaurant again.