Hampshires finest independent delicatessen and real food bistro
Food doesn’t have to be pretentious or absurdly fashionable to be great. We love food and we love to see people enjoying healthy nutritious food. It makes everyone smile.
What we do: In the Deli
We have Hampshires widest selection of artisan cheeses, somewhere between 50 and 60 types of cheese are regularly in stock from the mildest ewes cheese to stinking bishop. If you love Cornish Yarg or Dorset Blue Vinny, Colsten Basset or Picos d'Europa or love to try something new like Umberica or deliziola its all there !
Dispense your own Oild and Vinegar, just like the Oil and Vinegar shops choose a bottle or bring back your own for a refill. We stock carefully chosen single estate olis as well as deliciously flavoured finishing oild liike the best seller, garlic enfussed olive oil.
Ice cream and Gelato, a lovely selection of award winning gelato and ice creams awaits the taste and figure concious. Yes some gelato is dairy free glutin free and less than 4% fat it is just ohh soo fruity!
Deli produce, all the staples and speciality items you would expect from a deli from jams and chutney to snails and confit de canard. We have glutin free and sugar free produce and try to keep a good selection of tasty foods for people with dietry issues like diabetise.
What we do in the restaruant- bistro
Lets start with the fact that we cook from ingredients and dont do boil in the bag factory produced meals. Stephen and Sue the Owners and Matt the head chef all love cooking and dont compromise on the quality of our food, so from a simple pasta to a fancy poached chicken roulade you will see care and flavour taking the front seats in preparation.
We make delicious sandwiches
serve a fabulous Lunchtime selection of contemporay favourites
and an a la carte evening menu of beautifuly prepared dishes.
If you dont have time and live in Portsmouth pick up a chef prepared ready meal, a tasty and effort free way of eating healthy and tasty home cooking. Ready to eat or oven ready frozen, a deli meal is a great meal on your plate.
At the heart of what we do is careful selection of great products, we don’t stock things that can be purchased in supermarkets for the most part, most of what we sell couldn’t be of acceptable quality if it were produced in bulk. We know you can get a cottage pie for less than £2 or a cheesecake for under a fiver, and we know that these bulk foods have their place. We spend over £2.50 on the ingredients for our cottage pie and three times that for our baked cheesecake with rich mascarpone cheese, organic free range eggs and genuine Madagascan vanilla. We know you will really taste the difference, that’s our philosophy in what we do.
Try a deli plate - simple cold cuts on a plate with some lovely pickle or chutney, no messing around, the produce doesn’t need it.
We hope you will drop in on us and try for yourself or if you’re a bit too far away then order one of the lines that we can send you. We know that some things won’t travel well so we wouldn’t dream of asking you to take it, but with modern environmentally friendly packaging we can get a lot of beautiful tasting foods to you in perfect condition.
So if you don’t like cooking, don’t have time to cook or just have better things to do then let us stock your freezer or send you a dinner party in a box.
If you also enjoy a glass of wine or spirits with your food why not take the time to look at our gourmet selection wine club offers and sample an eclectic selection of fabulous quality wines with sensible no nonsense tasting notes.