The Isambard Kingdom Brunel - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in Portsmouth

Weatherspoons has a certain clientel: seasoned day drinkers, students ( who also day drink but are not seasoned in the finer arts such as not spilling your pint) and random individuals looking for a quick meal. Despite being with my academic daughter, we fell into the latter catagory. I am more than happy with a fast food outlet but it was decided to have a 'meal'.

There is an unmistakable heady aroma of stale ciggarettes and urine as you enter the premises. I may have been able to over look this if it was 2am saturday morning rather than lunchtime on a Thursday.

To avoid several rowdy group of drinkers, the stench of the door way and the smoking area we moved into the bowels of eating area. Walking through I realised that there are no families eating here, it is a very adult only centric clientel, whether by design or happenstance, I cannot say and having ankle biters roaming and screaming while you munch on microwaved meals is a personal preference. That is not to say we were not treated to throwing of glasses, temper tantrums, and a cacophony of intelligible shouting. From the look on one patrons face I would not be surprised to learn they required a nappy change.

But alas we remained at my daughter's request.

The food is basic standard pub grub. Like everything else in life, you order via an app. In a moment of poor judgement I fell for the hype of the 'new' fiesta burger. Beef patty, salsa, guacamole, onion rings and chips.

I know Weatherspoons has made cuts but I was surprised to learn they had cut all seasoning.

If you have ever wondered what the colour green tastes like, order the Fiesta burger. The gucamole was just smushed avocado. No salt, pepper, lime juice or garlic. The salsa was chopped red peppers which had the consistencey of rubber and tasted lime advocado. The beef patty was a third of the size of the bun. Chips and onion rings were cold - standard for spoons.

In a desperate attempt to try and inject flavoring into the meal I raided the condiments but alas, the power of green cut through the ketchup, mayo, salt and pepper.

My daughter told me to just get a jacket potato but no, I had get a meal thinking that I would not have to cook later on. What I hadnt accounted for was that the 'green' would ingrain itself into my palette and everything I have eaten since now has a 'green' after taste.

We did not stay for dessert. My daughter took pity on me and released me from the...

First of all, we're fierce Wetherspoons lovers, and have visited almost 70 in the 3 years we've been back in the UK. This is the first and very likely the last time we have to give 1 star (would give 0 if I could) and will escalate our experience to the Head Office. We've been in this pub twice now, both times absolutely appalling service (so much for giving places a second chance eh). Today was completely unacceptable. We went in there at 11 am on the spot, pub was quite full due to Comicon and football. The vast majority of people were just having a drink. My husband went to the bar to order breakfast. After 25 mins, we asked the waitress when to expect the food. She informed us that there was a ONE HOUR wait for food, which nobody bothered to tell us when ordering! After 50 mins, my "fresh fruit" came - a plate half full with 6 pieces of rotten strawberries and brown mushy bananas. No sign of the ordered cooked breakfasts. We had enough, took the disgusting plate to the bar and requested a refund for everything. The lady told us that they were simply not expecting this many customers (no why would you on a Matchday with Comicon next door!) which still doesn't explain why nobody informed us about the hour wait. It didn't say on the app either. Clearly the management isn't up to their job and needs to be replaced. Shame for all the other really decent Spoons in Pompey. Needless to say, we won't give this one a third chance. Avoid...

Was in a rush so didn't have time to complain but have to say this was the worst meal I can recall . Popped in about 6pm Sunday and ordered a large mixed grill and it was awful . I mean really bad. All the meat had obviously been sitting on hot hold for longer than the legal 4 hour period . It was all so dry, dark , tough and discoloured from sitting so long . It must have been flashed at the grill if at all when plated up as was all so cold . Even the chips . Use wetherspoons once a week . Normally the Palmerston road , or Havant one near where we live and is always good . Great Yarmouth one 2 weeks ago was good . This was terrible. On top of that the app wouldn't let me order a pint of beer . I thought maybe if I go to the bar and ask but the gas was down so no pints . I asked if I could have coke instead as I'd paid for a meal and drink and the abrupt lady behind said that wasn't possible as meal had been ordered already . FFS it's a coke on tap which costs about 10p a glass . When I said I would like to cancel my order I was told I couldn't do that either and if I wanted a drink I'd have to pay for one (despite I'd already paid for one ) so another near £5 to get a drink . I'd avoid this one in future and try one with a decent chef and nicer barmaids . Sorry don't have a photo of my meal or you would see...