Portsmouth
Pie&Vinyl

Pie&Vinyl

61 Castle Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO53AY, PO5 3AY, United Kingdom

Pizza • Seafood • Asiatic • Fast Food


"the first time in portsmouth, and just came over this caffe by turning a wrong and walking the castle road on the way to catch the coach. this caffe is located on a street with other amazing independent shops, including a few antique and quirky bric shops. When I was there, I was about to kill ten minutes too soon and I had half an hour before I had to leave. I had a look at the menu and I was pretty impressed. I don't like a cake, but I like music and I like quirky and strange and the names of the cake are so kreatiw, named after band names or songs and there are also vegan cakes and they also do cocktails and not alcoholic. and they also sell vinyl and have events. and it's a tiny room with many strange bits and music posters and film posters, dinosaurs and elders. I fell in love with this place as soon as I got in. there was so much to see, all in small places, a mish macular of everything and everything. I ordered the pink floyd cake and was offered maic, fertilized and gravy to go with it, but I had only the gravure and had cocosnuss tee with milk (they have option.) this cake was so perfect, best cake I ever had and only liked. with pebbles, scabs and pebbles had the torte a bit of a purple leaf and it was all edible. so much love to detail in this place, the little timer I got to choose the small milk bottle, the different types of cutlery. the music was great and everything felt right. the staff was very friendly and responsive. I will definitely come back here if I have more time and eat more cakes!"

Pizza Express

Pizza Express

Gunwharf Quays, North Promenade, PO1 3, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Pizza • Pasta • Vegan • Vegetarian


"After enjoying a lovely family film at the Vue cinema we made are way to our reservation at PizzaExpress when entering the restaurant we had to queue in the doorway for about four minutes as there was a couple in front of us waiting to...be seen to . A host eventually arrived and sat the couple didn’t acknowledge us and then disappeared , On her return we were asked for the name which i gave and she said table was for three persons I corrected her that we were a four as myself and my husband and our two girls were stood together, she then argued the fact the booking was a three not a four until I presented the email. She ran off then return to say they didn’t have my booking so again i presented her with the email confirmation she again left to talk to what I’m guessing was a manager of some description . she returned and said that it was policy not to hold tables more than minutes so we had missed are reservation and could not be seated . When I point out that we had arrived at and it was now as we have been going back and fourth and had to wait to be seen. She then ran off again to the Manager who then threw his Arms up in the air and stormed over to us and told us that we had missed are booking and there was nothing he was going to do about it , I explain to him that we had arrived in time I’ve been a lot of back-and-forth we have too hungry seven-year-olds so when could he seat us he said about but we needed to wait outside !! I explain to him that I wasn’t happy to wait outside with two in the cold and dark he said if we didn’t leave he would call security to remove us !! I have never been spoken to with such aggression and so rudely in my adult life and would never expect someone in the hospitality industry to speck in such a manor , there was plenty of empty table unlaid as well as laid and people waiting to pay their bills clearly everyone in that restaurant was under pressure and couldn’t cope with the volume but this is not an excuse for bad customer service And to threaten a mother with ludicrous actions in front of her children . it was a horrendous experience and wouldn’t want anybody else to have to deal with someone with no professionalism or manners."