Abarbistro Review

Lovely lunch with friends, great service & really appreciated the opportunity to give feedback.

Excellent covid spaced perfectly layed out all in place excellent meal recommend it a place to eat any time well done

Really popular restaurant with great food, friendly staff and lovely atmosphere. Even if you're just having a drink in here, they bring small canapes round to try.

Throwing down some pretty yummy food here, service is great as always! menu is diverse, meaning I can have something different and know I'm going to enjoy it every time i come here without a doubt, can't get bored with the menu at all! Great staff and management.

Great mix of people. good and wine range and quality fab. would eat here again

Rather a disappointment I'm afraid. Poor availabilty of vegetarian menu items for my wife and what was available lacked any sophistication. Although my shepherds pie was tastey the accompanying vegetebles were very sparse and it appeared to be only half a meal. Inattentive staff meant we gave up waiting for dessert and went elsewhere. A little pretentious so we won't be returning.

From the outside this little hidden gem doesnt do it justice on how spacious, light and airy it is. We arrived from up North for a few days and felt the big shopping complex with its designer bars too overcrowded. Luckily we find abarbistro in the old town and had the best experience. The food was to die for, one fish dish and a meat dish, fabulous and then chocolate brownie heaven! Thank you to the lovely team, will def return.

The food was amazing. Great atmosphere. Our waitress was brilliant and service was superb. Would reccomend

Pleasant (but not cheap) bistro and bar with a focus on sea food and a good wine selection.

Much bigger than it looks with a rather lovely courtyard for summer dining.

Loved the food and wine here! Lovely friendly staff too and amazing atmosphere

As ever the food was fantastic. The environment was comfortably safe the service was excellent as ever; all overseen by the ever attentive and proffesional James.
Thank you and wishing you a very happy Christmas and a much recovered 2021...
Bob n Alison.

Food was over priced and tasteless. Disappointed as we've previously enjoyed it here.

amazing place, good prices, great food selection and the food served is fresh thanks to the amazing chef and staff smiling all the time, and not rushing while taking orders thank you

Was expecting so much from this independent restaurant but sorely disappointed with our first visit. Very limited menu choice for food and pretty pricey. Fish and chips were tasteless and other dishes were disappointing. To their credit, the drinks list is extensive and the staff are friendly and attentive which was a redeeming feature. Hope to visit again and improve my anticipations.

Good food. Service very slow. Good customer relations though as desserts were complimentary because of long wait.

Great place on the waterside on foot (but Plymouth by car is a nightmare)

Great tasting food from a seasonally changed menu. The surroundings are of superb quality, perfect for a lovely slap up meal, or just drinks if you wish. They have an excellent selection of wines with knowledgeable staff to help you choose.

It has a very friendly environment and first class service. The outside seating areas (front and back) are most enjoyable in the summer months.

My favorite lunch spot in Portsmouth. Best and freshest seafood. A building housing American captains during the Civil War, Mussels and the greatest fish and chips. Yummm. At the dockside.

This is a great place to eat beyween Gunwharf Quays and Old Portsmouth. Staff very helpful and friendly. Tap water for once brought without request to all tables! Lovely fish on tge specials. We ate their twice in 3 days for dinner. Excellent. Heartily recommend.

I was treated to a fantastic birthday lunch here. The mussels were very tender and of a decent size (better than they often are on the Isle of Wight). The mariniere sauce was a little too rich for me and I couldn't finish it but I thoroughly enjoyed the meal. The malbec by the glass was excellent and the service was very attentive. Lovely place for a special (or just a casual) meal.

Lovely bar friendly staff and great choice of larger

The quality has never changed and we keep returning to enjoy it

Relaxed atmosphere, great outside sitting. Lunch with good tapas options. Small bites quite substantial. Good wine choice with Vinho Verde. Attentive staff.

Every time that we go do Portsmouth we definitely go on that restaurant to have our moules marinare.An unbelievable plate which we love!!

Only popped in for a quick drink but received a very nice welcome. The bar and restaurant are ambient, nicely designed and decorated and the food smelt amazing.
I will return for a meal when next in the area without doubt!

Lovely place. Great customer service and friendly.
Food was great.

Lovely food, went there for a work Xmas dinner and was great ! Food so much better than any standard christmas mass produced and was up to usual high standards

We always have a great time, very good food and drink, we have been going there for quiet a few now.

Horrible service. We were left to sit on the terrace on a rainy afternoon without even drying the table and chairs for us! Very poor hygiene!

Food was brilliant and was really tasty, but our service was a bit slow

We have visited Abarbistro a few times in the past to find we are always ignored at the bar in favour of regular customers or those who are of a particular clientele. This review by the way is with reference to 2 particular barmen who blatantly ignored us after making eye contact and decided to divert their attention elsewhere. One was drying glasses and the other served a customer next to us then turned his back when he knew we were clearly waiting to be served. I could understand having to wait if it was busy but it wasn t and this was demonstrated by their pig ignorance.
We will not be visiting here again and will take our custom elsewhere as we didn t enjoy the experience given by the pretentious unwelcoming staff who manage the bar.

Thank you for the chef, we ordered the main dishes and were the delicious sea food box and fish plat we recommend!!!

Stopped in for lunch before catching the ferry and wow, really impressed. Easy parking outside, nice decor, good service, great selection of wines and the specials and mains were both fantastic for what felt like a very reasonable price. Will make it a point to come back when I m down this way again!

The restaurant is a bit cramped with the maximum amount of tables which makes it really noisey. The food was really nice not over pricey. The reason why I am only giving two stars is because. After the starter and main came out which was really slow. This is not the fault of the servers. We were told that we could order deserts but we would have to eat them really quick as the table was booked for another group. So we had to pay before we got them and eat and Finnish our drinks to accommodate the manager. This we thought was really bad. Therefore we won't be going back.

Brilliant place. Great food and service and the largest display of giant wine bottles I've ever seen. Fish and chips were fantastic, great value for the area too. Service was faultless. Especially as they took care of use after being let down by the spice island

Everything you need, Everything Perfect, Great Location sit and enjoy a good meal by the seaside, Lovely, Very Clean, Great Place, The Food was Great!
The Staff were Real Stars, Exstremely Nice and Friendly!

My local and I love it. After 20 years I still want to love it. Sadly, last week I visited with a friend for lunch and the quality (not up to usual standard), portion size (which was mean) and cost (too much for too little) were compromised. Come back to the good old standard we know you are capable of please Abar, too much competition to let slip!

We had a meal for four for my mum's birthday they made it a lovely evening service was fantastic and the food was amazing I had the ribeye with palenta chips try them , this place is a little gem and better food ,service and wine than loch fyne if your after seafood

I just went to have a drink. It was very nice place and waitress.

Been a few times now and always good food and service.

This place is run by a family who've shown that they know how to run places in the Portsmouth area. Apparently it used to be the American Bar, hence the current name, but I digress. The food and drink here are both a very decent standard. Today, we had cuttlefish with avocado in a [lovely] chilli and lime dressing, crevettes with lemon mayo and pitta bread with garlic humus. Would recommend.

A hidden gem! Do not miss! The food is top notch and the staff are very professional. Compliments to the Chef and the owner! The cutlery is the cleanest I've seen in a restaurant! Highly recommend!

What's always obvious here is that's it's pretty well managed and has staff that care, its clean and tidy and well supported, tho at a fiver a pint of guiness that should be a given. Next to the ferry and worth a visit.

Love this place a great find . Goid service and lovely food . Came away with a bottle of gin and a nice wine . Will be back

Did not book, was very accommodating and very good service. Food is normally very good. No different this time.

Lovely little restaurant the sound in the conservatory with the rain was really nice. Staff are friendly nice place for a meal or a quiet drink away from gunwharf.

Top notch food and Hoegaarden. not the cheapest place to eat... but worth it.

had a glass of wine and a nible here while sheltering the rain. The nibble was excellent (spicy hummus) and the whine just brilliant. good service too

Amazing lunch today for our Wedding Anniversary, Thank You.

Nice and friendly bistro with reasonable price. All the starters are so delicious. Don't forget to make a reservation first since it's so popular!!

We stopped for a quick drink and sat outside. Staff very efficient and friendly.

Food was super. Lovely friendly service. Not the cheapest but "you pays your money, you take your choice" as my Dad would have said. Highly recommend.

Great vibe, great food, great service and amazing wine

Amazing food, excellent customer service, good vibes and excellent customer safety concerning covid. Great place! Going again in a couple of weeks with family x

The food here is great, however the service was lacking. We were sat down for a good 10mins before another couple arrived and although we had the same waiter they were served first, for the rest of the night they were given preferential treatment and free drinks (we think they were related to another one of the waiters).

Cool, trendy place to hang out with the weekend set. Great food, excellent service and nice surroundings. Nice to have a drink on the pavement bar area before dinner...

Most consistently good place in Portsmouth. Great staff. Great food.