The Waterfront Brasserie

We’ve just come back from Portsmouth as I was demonstrating in the Cookery Theatre today at Gunwharf Quays as part of the Hampshire Food Festival, in the rain, but with some fantastic hecklers just to liven things up. It would be so boring without hecklers, they’re brilliant.

Anyway, my husband and all 3 children came down with me on the basis of going up the Spinnaker Tower and around the Ships (gave the last bit a miss as it was still raining heavily). So we decided to have a nice lunch instead and chose the Waterfront Brasserie as the children had been in there earlier in the morning and had loved the fresh fruit smoothies.

Children’s menu looked fine apart from chips with 3 of the 4 options but it was chicken (roast chicken not nuggets), battered fish (really fresh fish in a lovely light batter), penne with a fresh tomato sauce and I can’t remember the last one.

Big girl chose seared tuna – not a child’s portion, the full on adult one and did justice to it (I had the same). Medium sized girl chose the fish and chips and as she didn’t like peas they were really happy to change them for broccoli in garlic butter (not too much butter, just a tasting, it wasn’t drowned but tasted really yummy). Small boy didn’t want anything off the children’s menu, he want roast beef and yorkshire puds, so the waiter immediately agreed to do a half sized portion of the adult option, no quibbles, no going to ask the management – fantastic, that’s what I like in restaurants.

The food was wonderful, the staff handled the children brilliantly and we’ll definitely be going back, everything was great, including our food.