The Titanic Pub & Kitchen — Restaurant in Southampton

This is one of the final few traditional English pubs remaining that still trades regularly. It doesn’t do the Wetherspoon large floor plan and muzak, offering cheap prices but a small range of lager that’s mere days from its use-by date. Maybe not so well known as the Red Lion (this most likely due to its location - outside of the city centre - along with the Duke of Wellington and the Juniper Berry) but unlike the others it doesn’t offer food not even a Sunday roast, and I suspect it’s for these reasons that only immediate locals or thirsty passing foot trade are the typical customers you’ll see nowadays. The landlord is always there and serves the pints himself and is incredibly friendly and approachable. Smoking isn’t seen as the deadly act it seems to be thought of by some other drinking establishments, so you can have a smoke along with your drink at this pub while just sitting outside the door on the tables and chairs put there for your convenience. It’s a shame that there isn’t more foot traffic or passing trade because The Titanic is a decent pub and has a fairly large main bar even though it’s of the format of the traditional, cozy, familiar local with bars the size of your lounge and comfy chairs like your sofa rather than wooden stools. And the building itself has the more ornate architecture and lead light windows you only tend to see on older style purpose-built pubs, as well as having all the traditional public house amenities such as a pool table, darts board, piano, dark furnishings and so on because comfort and a relaxing pint whilst chatting with mates is clearly the most important focus of English pubs as opposed to the big groups of people that high street chains aim to attract whilst encouraging them to spend money by offering a wide range of shots and alcopops preferred by their younger market. So, to sum up, if you prefer a quiet drink in a pub reminiscent of your traditional local with a warm and friendly atmosphere, then seek out the Titanic. Besides if you don’t wish to stay or you want food, there’s another similar pub just down the road (in either direction) as well as ‘the dancing man’ and the ‘Platform Tavern’ within a few hundred feet, both of which are well known for their food and also...

Used to visit the pub (as the Atlantic Queen) when I studied at Southampton some years ago. As The Titanic it's been opened up and the light's been allowed in - to positive effect.

The dining and lounge area is pleasant enough with some comfortable, if shabby, not chic, sofas and tables of the wrong height for sofas. Not quite sure what's being aimed at with the partially stripped back chimneybreast and removed coving but it looks like an unfinished and abandoned project.

Staff at the bar were friendly enough, and we were served swiftly for what was a very quiet early Friday evening. Having sunk our first drink I returned to the bar for another round. The chap, whom I assumed to be the landlord, who initially served us, and another, was now on the punters side of the bar chowing down on some take-away food un-wrapped in its paper plonked on the bar. No great surprise that The Titanic has a food hygiene rating of 3 with "little confidence in management". There was another member of staff to serve so no need to eat at the bar, and/or stink the bar out with - what was admittedly a seafaring - salt and vinegar chippy aroma.

It was nice to have a local (to me) pint of Suffolk brewed Ghostship in Hampshire, so points for that, although I suspect it was the name rather than the excellent drinking quality of the beer that sold it to The Titanic. The theme is carried by the uniforms adopted to a greater or lesser extent by the bar staff and management, I think Steerage Class being the order of the day both there, and with the food handling protocols. Some White Star memorabilia in the form a couple of 'coffee table' books and pictures hung about. White Star service should not, however, be expected here.

Put it this way, if I'd cruised to New York on this Titanic, I'd definitely wait for the introduction of commercial trans-Atlantic flight for the...

Place mats and bar towels were stained. No food being served that day even though it was half term (ideal time to be serving food I'd say) and the outside noticeboard clearly stated food was being served (between the hours we visited), the owner (we assume) was pleasant but had all paperwork in messy piles, tobacco products and personal items scattered everywhere on the bar top, on the only few tables available as the rest of the 'restaurant' had been curtained off for reasons unknown. Half used red bull cans left open in the fridge. Horrible musty smell as soon as you walk in. A generally untidy and horrid place to go, especially as the outside looks to nice and welcoming. Really disappointed that it is not living up to people's standards particularly after being named after such an iconic ship. The only good thing I can say about this place is that the choice of films they had playing in the background really cheered my girlfriend up (old 50s film cancan starring Frank Sinatra) as she was so upset about what turned out to be not what she had hoped for- somewhere that at least...