The Old Vic, Southsea

Official site of the Old Vic, contains menu and event details - www.oldvicportsmouth.co.uk

A terraced pub in a mix of styles, with a lower half of brick and salt glazed tiling and an upper half in timber frame and white render in Jacobean style. It also has a beer garden. The pub is also a music venue and does food. The interior has three rooms. A small beamed side room, in wood panel and had lots of Victorian pictures and posters, including Little Titch, as well as ephemera like jugs and things. There was a pool room, in white and then there was the main room bending around the bar, with a black stage area and food serving hatch, which was in white with a wood bar, a few decorative barrels and stoneware cider jugs. There was a wood floor. The service was fine, the clientele consisted of a few regulars and the music was a decent level – Neil Diamond and such like. Beer; tap stuff, with one handpull, a nice Irving Brewery’s Red Plum I visited the pub last year and wanted to go back to review it and I wasn’t disappointed.

Official site of the Old Vic, contains menu and event details - www.oldvicportsmouth.co.uk