Carter & Co. — Restaurant in Portsmouth

May I say the newly opened Carter & Co eatery is well worth booking a table. Read on if you want my long winded appraisal. “Elevated Casual Dining & Drinking” and that is exactly the experience we both had tonight. When ordering food, we could not decide on which main dish to go for, so we opted for a couple of “Small Plates” each, Mrs B going for Sweetcorn Fritters, Smashed Avocado & Chilli Jam plus Vegan Halloumi Fries, Spiced Tomato Relish & Dressed Rocket which she wholly enjoyed giving tom marks to each dish, all GF choices. I went for British Cure Meat Plate, Olives, Peppers plus Pan Fried Prawns, Chilli & Garlic, Lemon Aioli, wowsers, the prawn small plate literally blew me away, instantly awarding it 10 out of ten with three gold stars. The meat platter had lovely stuffed peppers with cream cheese, olives, salad and three slices of bread with a selection of exceedingly tasty, preserved meats, half which I had never seen or tasted, they come from a West Country farm that specialise in hand crafted cured meats, top marks for this dish too. The only minus that I felt the choice of bread, possibly focaccia was bland, and a sourdough being a more substantial bread that would work better, that said I can only say our experience as ten out of ten, in 15 years of marriage we eat out a lot, this is fine dining in a pub, and I think our best experience yet. Nearly forgot the deserts (only took piccies as I woofed down the other food to quickly), Mrs B has Strawberries & Cream, White Chocolate Crumb & Basil, I had Baked Rhubarb, Puff Pastry, Granola, Crème Pate, just like the prawns, amazing, like a deconstructed rhubarb crumble, here the funny bit, I questioned the waitress over why sticks of carrot, she then informed me it was rhubarb, quickly finished all my “carrots”, divine, worth the embarrassment & Mrs B can ‘dine out’ on that bit for months. Lastly, thanks to our lovely server, made the experience so nice in such a nice atmosphere. Can see coming back again & again, what diet. Thanks the Amelia Bartlam for giving me the heads up, she knows the owners and new most of their...

We visited Carter & co for the 1st time with friends on a Saturday night and I can say with confidence that I will never go back. What looked like a quality eating place away from the chains, was actually very disappointing. I paid around £20 for a burger and 'chunky' chips, what I got was an overcooked burger - that was much small that the bun- cover in a tiny amount of melted cheese and a small limp piece of lettuce. The 'chunky' chips turned out to be overcooked 'fries'. Definitely not worth the £20. When I complained I was told they only cooked the burger 1 way (so I assume that everyone gets an overcooked burger - oh wait my wife had exactly the same). One of our friends had the fish, we she had to send back as it was so salty it tasted like it was still in the sea, it was so salty that it was hard to eat. Again we're told that this is the only way they cook it so couldn't offer a replacement. As well as service flat Prosecco, it all added up to a very poor, expensive experience. Would not...

Amazing decor, service, ambiance and food

I don’t usually go for a Sunday roast as I find them a bit boring but not the Sunday roast here! It was amazing and a very generous portion - there must have been 5 or 6 different vegetables with a lovely onion bread, huge Yorkshire pud with delicious, rich gravy, homemade apple sauce and a large piece of belly pork - it really was amazing and great value for money

I did have a starter and pudding too, I don’t know how I managed to eat it all but I did as it was all so delicious- added to the wonderful food, the ambience and decor was great, never felt rushed and the staff were warm, friendly, charming and attentive

The whole experience was amazing and we have booked to go back for their amazing looking Christmas afternoon tea - can’t wait to go back

It’s a very special place and I highly recommend it to anyone...