Cast Iron Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Portsmouth

We went this restaurant during Easter break. We booked reservation for a table for dinner when we checked in at the reception. When we went to the restaurant, the receptionist said there was no our table ! Crazy communication! The receptionist is very insensitive, said it’s full but actually it’s not. She asked us wait one hour, we couldn’t accept this so we asked the hotel receptionist to negotiate with the restaurant receptionist and hotel receptionist insisted she told the restaurant receptionist earlier, so... the restaurant manager came and let us in. The truth is that there ate still many tables left. We felt sick at this kinda service. Especially food is plain. Main course served very late after we had our appetizer. While we had dinner, there were quite noisy, baby crying ....We almost lose our appetite. Wouldn’t...

September 2025: Very nice restaurant. Ate here for lunch and had the hummus and red pepper sandwich. Was very light and tasty. Also shared a Caesar salad with chicken. Salad was very heavily dressed. Requested the dressing on the side but didn't get it that way.

For dinner, I sat at the bar and ordered the soup 🍲, which was a pea mint soup. It came with three different types of bread. It was very tasty. Probably my favorite item. I also ordered the Sri Lankan veggie curry. It was tasty with just a little spiciness.

Overall, enjoyed both meals. Service was very friendly. Would...

Apparently they have chef's here, more like cooks. Four separate times, I asked for my bacon in the morning, to be freshly cooked, so it's juicy and crispy, and every time it was reheated bacon, that was already cooked, and it was harder than pork crackling! Absolutely disgusting! A professional chef would be disgusted with that, because they wouldn't lower themselves to such a standard, and they obviously don't listen let alone care about...