Tokyo Joe's

So I don't live in Portsmouth but I came here on the recommendation of a friend. The experience however was spoiled by irritable and rude staff members.

After paying for my drinks (the card machine reading accepted - and the money coming out of my account), I was asked to repeat the purchase because it didn't go through.

After explaining it had, the unstable staff member repeated "I'm not stupid" among other things, while raising her voice.

Have you ever heard of customer service skills? Imagine this occurring in another hospitality role like a cashier at Tesco's, it's unreal.

Luckily it was Friday, which meant I could finish my bitter drink and move to Astoria quickly.

I wouldn't recommend this place, except as a stopgap ONLY on Fridays. Unless you like paying double for drinks :/

On holiday going to Victorious Festival and couldn’t get in because my 46 old wife hadn’t got I.D., really???

Edit: oh, and the bar was fairly empty too! You just turned away paying customers!

Good place. You can drink some drinks, dancing, playing beer pong...

If I could give 0 stars, I would... absolutely awful security on the door, no respect for people. We'd just come from the Guildhall Village to meet with friends before going on a night out and the people on the door were rude, the security wouldn't let me step outside to meet with a friend who wasn't with us, asked me once to move, after I'd said I was looking for my female friend, then they grabbed me and pushed me out off the way. Left crying, never returning, young women please don't go here.

Very disappointed! queued for an hour plus, and when we get the the guy that lets you go to the barrier let’s 30 plus girls go through. When questioned upon this, he said that one of them worked there. When we said that’s not fair he was very threatening and said “do you want to get in”. This caused us to queue for a further 30 minutes. Very disappointed about the way we were spoken to.

What a good night out. Decent bar with friendly staff and opens into a nightclub later on in evening on particular evenings

amazing venue, Always full of energy. Staff are all extremely friendly and quick (also very good looking just has to get a picture of them). definitely the best bar to go to before a night out

Great night out! Lovely cocktails. All the staff were polite and helpful. Felt very safe walking around with all the bouncers. Can’t wait to go back! Would definitely recommend it, well worth a visit.