Las Iguanas - Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth

Went yesterday for birthday cocktails and food. The cocktails as always were great but we were a bit disappointed when checking the receipt today that they had charged us £7.95 for the 'free' birthday caipirinha board that they brought us. The inference was that this was a birthday treat not something that would be added to the bill. It turned an exciting bonus into a bitter rip-off.Limited gluten free options but the ones available are very good.

Good foodAll of the cocktails are 2for1.Miguel was really nice and friendly.But the place is more for pre night out feeling as the music was really loud just like in a night club.

Came here on Friday lunchtime for the bottomless brunch with friends. The food was amazing! The staff are great, our waiter was friendly and was great with checking if we needed more drinks. You definitely get your money's worth here food and drink wise! We upgraded to get the cocktails and there was a great choice! Sam, the manager was also really friendly and helpful. Overall, great place to eat/drink with v good staff!

First time here. I normally don't eat spicy food..salt is about as spicy as I get, but I tried lots of new flavours . The food was really tasty, the ribs, Brazilian mixed grill and my burger were delicious and our server was lovely. It was my daughter's birthday so she was treated to a free drink! My one criticism ( not the food) is that the cocktails were expensive, they were 2 for 1 but between the three of us it ramped up the bill a bit. We will definitely be back though as we really enjoyed the experience !!

Had a few starters/tapas which were good. The nachos were very tasty. The dips they provided were quite bland; need the chef taste a little before service? The cocktails were amazing too… decent place for a quick lunch before you head back to shopping.

Great food and cocktails loads of choice on the menu.. we would say this is quite expensive for what you get however it was VERY nice food.. i recommend the DADINHOS to start they are so yummy and the dominican goat curry or cuban sandwich it was really delicious! Quick service too we had our food and ate it within 40 mins and the waitress kindly warmed my baby's bottle for us! We would return to the gunwharf quays restaurant definitely.

Delicious food and great atmosphere. Staff were friendly and helpful but service was a bit slow - could have been because they were very busy? Tapas portion sizes were very generous and the cocktails were 2-4-1 so really good value. Would recommend and go again.

This evening was the first time I've visited here. It was a nice, clean atmosphere, with relatively comfortable seats, which allowed me to have a great time catching up with Uni friends! Also, there was a vast range of food and cocktails choices, with a few separate deals on meals and drinks.Staff were relatively polite and helpful, although we did have to wait quite a while for our plates to be cleared, even when there were a few other groups dining.In my opinion the food was average quality. As per the pictures, I ordered a steak and their banana sticky toffee pudding. The steak was cooked to how I asked, but was rather tastless, luke-warm and small for a £20.00 portion. I found the complementary sauces didn't add anything to the flavour and, again were quite tastless.The banana sticky toffee pudding was nice, but nothing special. It was certainly not homemade.In conclusion, with the range of restaurants available, I personally would not come here again - nor would I really recommend it to friends or family.

Very loud, couldn’t even hear the waitress speak to us, needs something lower than the ceiling, like hanging shutters etc to dampen the racket!Service variable, I gave up trying to flag down a server to order more drinks, we drank our first one whilst waiting for our food, I went to the bar, barmaid then related our order to our waitress, ugh. Disappointing having a £4 service charge added to the bill! It was automatically added, no choice to remove it! I couldn’t even tell the waitress as she would have struggled to hear me.Drinks were ok, but 50% crushed ice, the paper straws can’t handle it and become too soggy to drink through half way through the cocktail. We had to flag down our waitress to ask for more straws. They think they’re being eco friendly by not giving plastic straws, they’re not! The paper straws have a wax coating, so can’t be recycled.Food wasn’t good at all, chilli was bland, rice mediocre (no better than microwave rice which can be pinged at home), Mexican poppadum was rock hard, don’t eat it unless you want to break your teeth!Ximxim was revolting! Just 6 tiny crayfish the size of a little fingernail in it (hubby even mentioned he had never seen crayfish that small before). The chicken in it made me vomit…at the table! I have never done that before. First bite had a membrane on it, like trying to eat a thin condom, second bite had the cartilage running through it, which made me gag when I tried to eat it.The waitress offered me another dish, if they can’t cook something as simple as chicken, or a chilli, I certainly didn’t want anything else! Obviously clueless cooks in the kitchen. This was removed from my bill fortunately.We certainly won’t be eating at a Las Iguanas ever again, ruined hubby’s birthday. Disgusting food at expensive prices with poor service in a deafening din. Plenty of nice places to eat in Gunwharf fortunately.If you value your stomach, and your ears, this is a place to avoid!

Awesome steak, our waiter tonight was friendly and provided good customer service. And my cocktail was delicious. Will definitely be coming back! 😀