Rutland Arms - Portsmouth

We often visit the Rutland Arms before the football game. The staff is incredibly friendly, helpful, and skilled at what they do! The beers are high quality and the snack bar in the garden is fantastic, offering delicious burgers and hot dogs at a reasonable price.

Lively and friendly local pub. We visited shortly after football had finished, being local to the ground it had been a busy Saturday. Despite this the the staff were very friendly, welcoming and accommodating with advice on the various gins. Both the men’s and ladies loos were exceptionally clean for a pub, especially after a busy football afternoon. Looking to return for the quiz as we enjoyed the vibe so much.

Another prominent Southsea back street corner pub with an attractive frontage with a brewer's Tudor upper level and the trademark corner turret often seen in Pompey pubs and was the second one we had visited on the day designed by local Architect A E Cogswell. Internally it remains a two-room set up albeit now connected by a large opening. The right-hand side is more loungelike whereas the smaller left-hand side has a pool table and dart board and less seating. The bar has four handpumps with three lined up as you walk in but the fourth may be missed (as I did initially) as it is hidden behind one of the timber balustrades supporting the pot shelf. For our visit three ales were available in the form of Shepherd Neame Hop County, Wandworth Horizon and Fallen Angel Pompey Royal with one unclipped. The Pompey royal was OK from remembrances and this looks like a decent pub with a lot of community activities going on such as weekly meat raffles and quiz nights. I liked it here, but it didn’t quite give me the wow factor of some of Southsea’s other traditional pubs we visited on this crawl.

Visited here, as a Barnsley supporter, after game on Sat. Lovely pub- Mel and Alan are great hosts and doing brilliant job with the pub. Although good for sports, it also a good all-round pub and food was excellent and well-priced. Even the Pompey fans were friendly too ... lol !

They serve a delicious Sunday Roast and have a great selection of drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Went for dinner tonight and enjoyed my pie chips. Lovely family friendly pub too.