Porters - Hastings

One of several perfectly adequate wine bar restaurants in Hastings, the food here is perfectly ok, but the manager was extremely unhelpful to me and my two friends. Also the two drinks I’d usually choose on tap both ran out. Overall a negative experience. They do book a load of excellent musicians, though, usually solo or duo — worth checking out.

My husband I met our friends for a Sunday roast, lovely atmosphere the roast was a 10/10 absolutely gorgeous! Generous portions very, very tasty, we would definitely go back! The wine was very good too!

Fantastic Sunday roast we had five roasts one veggie two chicken two trios the food was unbelievably good all of us voted 10/10 the staff were spot on

We spent a few days in Hastings for new year and had had this wine bar recommended to us and had booked for NyE dinner at 20:00 about 2 months in advance so we had plans for NYE. We had a phone call on 30th December to say the kitchen was now going to close at 20:00 when our table was booked for and needed to be there at 19:00. Ok we thought things happen but we will still be out and make the most of it. 31st December at 16:30 they called again and cancelled our booking completely as head chef had gone home, so now nowhere to go on NYE and to be honest it felt like they had always intended to close NyE. My advice would be don’t bother even if it is supposed to be quite nice as unreliable

We booked a table over a month ago for Christmas Eve. We were reassured over the phone that we would be on the ground floor. When we arrived (after queuing at the bar for ages) we were directed to a table upstairs that was obviously put in as an afterthought, right on the corner so we were constantly pushed by people going past. It was not reserved, or set up. We could only assume that our table had been given away. We left after one very expensive round of drinks. I have been to Porters many times over the last 20 years and after today will not be returning. It seems the restaurant is going downhill. One of our party said that they’d been let down recently by them and will not be returning either. A shame as it used to be a lovely place to go for a relaxed meal.