Star and Crescent: News for and by the people of Portsmouth
  • HOME
  • NEWS
  • POLITICS
    • WANTED: PORTSMOUTH SATIRISTS
  • SOCIAL ISSUES
  • CULTURE
    • REVIEWS
    • POETRY
      • POETRY SUBMISSIONS
    • FICTION
  • HISTORY
  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT US
    • Contributors
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Corrections and Complaints
    • Comments Policy
  • YOUNG PEOPLE’S VOICES
Latest
  • [ 7th November 2025 ] Local Writer to Launch Novel About Race, Gender, Colonialism and Magic Events
  • [ 5th November 2025 ] Two Poems for Gaza Poetry
  • [ 31st October 2025 ] Families in Portsmouth to Join National SEND Awareness Event at Guildhall News
  • [ 27th October 2025 ] Black History Month in Portsmouth Celebrates Filmmaking and Influential Women Culture
  • [ 21st October 2025 ] Planet Building Blues: A Senior Saga in the Dolomites Memoir
HomeFood and Drink

Food and Drink

Culture

An American in Pompey: Dinner, Supper or Tea, What Say Ye?

6th March 2020

Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. This is part seventeen of his ongoing [… read more ]

Culture

An American in Pompey: Waitrose is Like Mary Poppins, it Betters Your Life Through Magic

7th November 2019

Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. This is part eleven of his ongoing series, in [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: The Last Stop and a Sad Goodbye

9th May 2018

Emily Priest announces the end of her local restaurant and cafe review series, the Southsea Food Tour, and comes to some sad conclusions about competition and collaboration in the local community. After a month-long hiatus, [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: 6oz Burgers

18th April 2018

This week, food critic and freelance writer, Emily Priest, snags a bargain and gets her hands messy on the latest stop on her Southsea Food Tour.  As I reviewed Two Doors Down last week, it [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: Two Doors Down

11th April 2018

In this latest stop on her Southsea Food Tour, Emily Priest heads to Two Doors Down and discovers that you don’t need to go far in our city to find culture, colour and vibrancy.  This [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: The Southsea Beach Café

4th April 2018

When a storm strikes suddenly, S&C’s reporter and reviewer Emily Priest finds shelter from the rain in a little pocket of comfort on the shore.  For so long I’d heard good things about the seaside eatery [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: Twins

8th March 2018

As we enter the Chinese New Year, S&C food critic, Emily Priest, discovers a tasty eatery close to home – and concludes she ought to have stayed in, though not for the reasons you may [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: The Southsea Village

1st March 2018

Roving reviewer Emily Priest explores Southsea’s brand new slice of ‘hipster paradise’, once a rough and ready local.  Before it was The Southsea Village, 81 Palmerston Road used to be Owen’s. I never went there [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: Cinnamon Café

15th February 2018

S&C’s roving gastronome Emily Priest finds a gem on Winter Road this week for meat eaters and vegetarians alike.  Cinnamon Café rests on Winter Road and despite despising cinnamon, I cannot hate this lovely little eatery.  A [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour – Sakura

13th February 2018

S&C’s food critic Emily Priest finds her new favourite restaurant amid the colour and chaos of Albert Road.  Sakura, situated on Albert Road, was established in 2009 as the first Japanese restaurant in Portsmouth. Now, in [… read more ]

Posts pagination

1 2 »

Latest News

News

Families in Portsmouth to Join National SEND Awareness Event at Guildhall

31st October 2025

On Monday 3rd November 2025, families will gather outside Portsmouth City Council’s Civic Offices in Guildhall Square from 10:30 am to 1 pm as part of the national Every Pair Tells a Story movement.   [… read more ]

News

Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]

News

What’s Missing from Local News in Portsmouth? And How do we Fix it?

11th June 2025

S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton shares insights from her PhD research on the local news crisis in her second article for Indie News Week (9th-16th June 2025). Building on her first article about the local [… read more ]

Indie News Week 9th-16th June 2025. No news is bad news.
News

What’s Happened to Local News in the UK and What Does it Mean for Portsmouth?

8th June 2025

This week, to mark Indie News Week 2025, S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton is drawing from her recent PhD research on the local news crisis to talk about the dramatic changes to local news over [… read more ]

Post shows logos for Indie News Week, reading: Indie News Week, 9th-16th June 2025; No news is bad news; and support local news.
News

Local News Crisis, Portsmouth: Sign the Petition to Help Regenerate Independent News

8th June 2025

This week – 9th-16th June – is Indie News Week, showcasing the importance of funding community-based journalism across the UK. The campaign’s organisers, the Public Interest News Foundation, has launched a petition calling on the government to support independent local news publishers and even up the playing field between independent local publishers and the large news corporations that own most of the UK’s local news titles.  [… read more ]

Show Your Love!

Follow on Facebook

Stay connected

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

About Star & Crescent

We are an independent news website written for and by the people of Portsmouth. We believe in journalism to create social change. Read more about us here.
Image show logo for Indie News Week, reading "Help Indie News Thrive: No news is bad news.
Pages
  • About Us
  • Contributors
  • Join the S&C Contributors
  • Be a Co-Editor
  • Wanted: Portsmouth Satirists
  • Poetry Submissions
  • Comments Policy
  • Donate
Categories
  • News
  • Politics
  • Social Issues
  • Editorials
  • Events
  • Culture
  • Reviews
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Memoir
  • History
Popular on Star & Crescent
  • Is Austerity Bad For Portsmouth’s Mental Health?
    13th February 2017
  • Dear Anti-Abortion Protesters: An Open Letter to 40 Days For Life
    5th October 2017
  • The Rubbish State of Recycling in Portsmouth
    22nd February 2018
  • David Bowie: From South London to Heaven, Stopping at Southsea
    11th January 2016
  • Preventing Crime, Not Picking Up The Pieces: An Interview with Simon Hayes
    3rd May 2016
Find out how to report corrections and make a complaint here.
Star & Crescent is regulated by IMPRESS: The Independent Monitor for the Press CIC.

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 | Star & Crescent | All Rights Reserved