• Portsmouth
  • Restaurant 69, Southsea

    Restaurant 69, Southsea, Portsmouth, FB Pocket Orchestra, belly pork, ameretti mess

    My husband Geoff and I passed Restaurant 69 in Southsea back in May on a wonderfully hot sunny Sunday and heard music coming from the front of the restaurant. The music’s not normally our kind of thing, sort of 20’s ragtime/jazz perhaps, I’ve no idea what it’s called for sure but it sounded pretty good. The […]

  • Portsmouth
  • The Tenth Hole, Southsea

    Billy's breakfast burger, The Tenth Hole, Southsea, Eastney, hummus, houlumi, chocolate fudge cake, fruit cake, Cockleshell Heroes, The Rose Garden, coffee, roasted vegetables

    UPDATE: see bottom of post. Everyone who lives in Portsmouth knows of The Tenth Hole tearooms in Eastney and has more than likely been there at least once. For years I used to visit at least twice a week in it’s heyday and would have the same thing each time. Tuna & mayonnaise sandwiches on white […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 28/03/2014

    Ben & Jerry's, Greek yogurt, Malteaster, Durleighmarsh Tea Barn, lemon polenta, cake, bakewell tart, Capers, Southsea, rice balls, Vietnam, backpacking, sweet treats. lovelifelovecake

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. Helen enjoyed these ‘strange jelly-like balls’ as she describes them in yesterdays blog post and found out later that they were actually glutinous rice […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Capers Cafe, Southsea

    My husband and I decided to return to Capers Cafe in Marmion Road, Southsea today for brunch. We first paid them a visit at the beginning of December and again a week or two later and both times it had been very good, the service friendly with great food. We couldn’t get a seat at first so went […]