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Dear Strada - please try harder...

Advantages: Nice enough food with average portions. Discount vouchers easy to source.
Disadvantages: Fifty minute wait for our food with no apology or explanation. Expensive drinks.

A recent trip to Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth saw us looking for a spot of lunch after a morning’s shopping. As per usual I’d taken a wee peek at Money Saving Expert the day before we went to see if any of the restaurants at Gunwharf were doing any speci ...

Bollinger28 13.03.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Strada, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth, PO1 3TW, Portsmouth

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Bella Italia: Luglio, Leicester

Advantages: Lovely food and good prices in nice surroundings
Disadvantages: Not much of a special pudding menu

There are only 3 places in the UK where I have had many restaurant meals, St Annes and Manchester where I grew up and now live, respectively, and Leicester where my sister has whiled away her undergrad, PhD and Rocket Scientist days. With Italian as my fa ...

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Issy Zizzi It Wasn't Busy

Advantages: Tasty grub
Disadvantages: Everything else!

<sigh> I didn’t really want to go. I’m not very good at goodbyes, y’see, and this was no exception. A leaving do had been organised by for one of my work colleagues, and I didn’t really fancy going, but if I didn’t I’d be singled out as a misery guts. ...

peppersinclaire 14.07.2002 · Read full review
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Good

Advantages: Good Menu
Disadvantages: Depending on the resturant

Garlic bread with caramlised onion is enough for 4 people to share, it comes in the size of a 12inch pizza and very tasty. Lovely range of pasta dishes with tasty pesto and creme franchice sauce - to die for!!! Best value for money salad would have ...

dollyvan 06.04.2003 · Read full review
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Minimum Fuss, Maximum Flavour? Well sort of....

Advantages: Great coffee. Nice desserts. Discount voucher applied to final bill.
Disadvantages: Food pretty average. Staff lost interest towards the end of the evening.

Carluccio’s opened their 61st outlet in Chichester in September last year. We were due to dine there in October, but we had to cancel as I had a stinking migraine. We finally got around to rebooking our long overdue meal there at the end of January. For t ...

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