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Toby Carvey Hilsea

Toby Carvey Hilsea

Copnor Road, PO2, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Wine • Meat • Pasta • Coffee


"We have been using Toby Carvery from the early days when it first opened and have always enjoyed the food and above all the friendly service. Unfortunately on our visit last night we didn't !! We had pre booked a table for 3 persons and...were due to meet our grand daughter there when she finished work which was due to be shortly after our booking time .The manager who was working on the front desk told us we could not go and sit at our table and have a drink whilst we were awaiting the arrival of our grand daughter.She was quite blunt and rude and basically said if you want to sit down now you will have to change to a table for 2 ? I understand if the restaurant was busy but it was 5.30pm and was less than half empty ! We then spoke to our grand daughter who was working a little later than expected and she told us to carry on and that she would go home instead as she didn't know exactly how long she would have been. This wouldn't have been a problem as we would have sat down and ordered a bottle of wine to drink whilst waiting for her. So we went and sat down very disappointed as we had not seen her for awhile we ordered 2 Heinekens which we promptly sent back as they were totally flat in dirty glasses. Things got even worse when we ate our meal as it was truly awful,the roast pototoes that had obviously left there for hours dried up and inedible,stringy chewy fatty beef, dried up cauliflower cheese,over done carrots,etc etc. This was undoubtably the worst carvery meal and experience we have ever had. The only plus point was that our young waitress was polite charming and served us with a smile,please take a leaf out of her book manager !!!"