The Pacific — Restaurant in Portsmouth

Very disappointed with my first visit to the restaurant early on a Friday evening. We were recommend this eatery by a friend who had joined us for this visit, they also were disappointed too. The service to start with was fine, we were seated promptly and our drinks arrived swiftly too. We then proceeded to order starters and main courses. The starters took thirty minutes to arrive at the table and the mains then took a further hour, which considering there were only approximately thirty people in the restaurant seems to be excessive. We did ask one of the many waitresses how much longer our food would be, to which the reply was, they would go and find out. The waitress never returned so we were non the wiser. When the food did arrive I felt it was of a mediocre standard, the jasmine rice I had ordered was like sticky rice (one big ball), not at all light and fluffy as it should be, non of our party was very impressed with their food. From comments that was over heard other patrons were experiencing the same. Finally to add insult to injury when we checked the bill after leaving we discovered we were charged a ten per cent service charge for a party of three!! for our shocking experience. All of the party has stated they would not...

My partner decided she wanted to go here for her 31st birthday meal. I emailed over to see if they had anything for our 7 year old to eat and if they did anything for birthdays. The response was a little vague answering that they can do plainer versions for kids, so I wasn't expecting great things. However, we went in anyway last night (Monday). Obviously, it was quite quiet (being Monday), so we got to pick where we wanted to sit. My daughter of course wanted to sit next to the big fish tank. We ordered our drinks and food, ordering chips for our daughter, the waiter then said he could do some chicken nuggets if we wanted, which was great. The food was absolutely fantastic, I had the lamb shank, which just fell off the bone and everyone else was happy with their choices. At the end of the meal we were too full up for dessert, but the waiter brought over a slice of fudge cake with ice cream, whipped cream and a candle in it for my partner. It was a very nice touch to finish off the night. The cocktails were also really good. We will definitely...

Well i have eaten in many Thai establishments over the years, and my review is distinctly average food/back street cafe, for restaurant prices. We had fish cakes for starters, these were mass produced straight out of the freezer things and not nice ones at that. We also had Tom yum soup and red curry both with prawns. The flavours were nice but the prawns were definitely out of the freezer and over cooked giving them a mushy texture. The bean spouts were ok as was the rice. But overall I feel we had about £15 worth of food but it cost us £30. So not quite a bad review but not nearly as good as hoped for, and certainly not worth the prices charged. Nice to not have to cook, but we would not...