The Phoenix — Restaurant in Portsmouth

Great little pub just off the main strip, very kind and friendly staff and owner, lovely to chat with them and offer good recommendations for drinks.

The perfect place to meet before or a place to go after a trip to the king's theatre. You may be lucky and bump into the actors/actresses after they have performed!

It has a large array of drinks on tap and in spirits at one of the cheapest prices in Portsmouth, especially an amazing selection of Rums, they say about 40 and I'll give it my best to try each one lol

There's also a large beer garden which is great in summer and also some heaters in the winter for the smokers. It's great having a cider during the summer. There's dart boards and some game machines, there's also some interesting local historical artifacts that you...

Omg who would believe it this pike was caught at southparade pier in 1937 by the lord mayor Daly which is now in this fantastic location of where the stars of the world's best theatre of dreams the king's come to wind down and relax only way to find out if this is true visit the phoenix and be served by fantastic staff which is the same as the royal Albert (halls) and the fifth hants volunteer arms and also the LJR team work makes the dream work merry Christmas to all the staff all the community god bless I think that you may see the...

The Phoenix is something of a Pompey institution. A quality, old-school boozer with excellent atmosphere, a stone's throw from Albert Road and the Kings Theatre (see misc notes & headshots on the walls), regularly full of locals but welcoming visitors. They've got a decent selection of beers, ciders, wines & spirits but a less impressive selection of food, that appeared to consist of jars of cockles &/or whelks or McCoy's crisps on my last visit! Fortunately, we'd eaten before we got there, and the jukebox was free, so we had a...