Order a drink in Spain and you get free food. Wow, what’s that all about? Now that’s all well and good but surely this can’t do much for business? You will either be too full to order any more food or you won’t order quite so much, for example we didn’t always bother ordering a starter […]
Portsmouth
Pie & Vinyl Record Cafe, Southsea.

We thought we’d try somewhere different this week and it’s a place I’ve been meaning to go to for a while now. As soon as you walk in to Pie & Vinyl in Castle Road, Southsea you get that cosy ‘at home’ feeling. It has an eclectic mix of almost everything, with a mishmash of old-fashioned chairs, cutlery […]
El Nico, Tapas restaurant, Old Portsmouth

********************************************************************************************************* UPDATE: Unfortunately El Nico’s closed it’s doors in April 2016. You can still visit their other tapas restaurant, Nicholsons in Albert Road, Southsea, which we haven’t tried yet. ********************************************************************************************************* After having a lovely lunch in Manna in the High Street, Old Portsmouth on Friday we came across a new place just along the road which had […]
Las Iguanas

UPDATE: 25/06/2017 see bottom of post- I love Las Iguanas. It’s a favourite with our family and we’ve been going for several years, the first being the branch at Royal Festival Hall in London, not long after they’d just opened up I imagine. We were really impressed with the whole experience, the food and the […]