Porthead Tavern - North Ayrshire

Visited for lunch with other half at the weekend. Soup and chicken tempura were lovely. Hubby had his first turkey dinner of the season and was very impressed, good portion size and sticky toffee pudding. I had my usual cajun chicken which was lovely too and apple crumble. Crumble was a bit soft but still nice. Staff were very pleasant and checked we had everything we needed, food was ok etc. Well done guys, will be back for more turkey next week if Hubby has anything to do with it.

Early Saturday night dinner for 2 was happy with food choice anything from 2 course 3 course or just simply main course. Wife had steak pie said it was OK but would not order again, now she normally would order steak or burger, but we decided to try comfort food. Steak pie came with Boiled potatoes and Veg would rate it 4 out of 5 I enjoyed my Cajun Chicken presentation maybe looked more like some curry sauce However it was lovely really enjoyed the dish and would recommend 5 out of 5 Was so happy decided to try and make my own and was happy with my attempt Only issue I had was my pint of Tennent larger was a slight tangy taste usually caused by end of beer keg Over all would recommend anyone to visit staff really welcoming and nice atmosphere I’m sure we will enjoy working our way through Hamilton menu over the next few Months

Fabulous food and service. Reasonable price highly recommend . Ate in the bar once an twice in restaurant more than happy on each occasion.

What a great night out with friends, the food was amazing and the staff fantastic, very attentive and friendly. Will definitely be back

Came in for some lunch as we came in before and had a nice meal with some small issues but overlooked it due to all the reviews I thought maybe they were having a bad day on the last visit we came. We came in and ordered two colas (draft) it went from the wrong order been brought to being told sorry we have to fix the gas which wasn’t an issue as we happily waited then to be told no it’s not getting fixed now (no idea why) you’ll have to pick something else so two cans of cola later we finally got a drink (20 minutes or so) my wife is a bar manger and knows a thing or two regarding changing the syrups for cola and other drinks so I think our diet cola to begin with wasn’t a mistake they just didn’t want to change the syrup since we asked for normal cola. Our starters came they were nice then the mains came .. my was okay chicken seemed a bit fatty and processed for the price your paying. My wife’s macaroni however came in a Tiny dish it was a full portion as I asked a member of staff is this the FULL portion and not the “wee” one to be told yes it came with chips so it’s the full portion. When leaving we asked to see the recipe turns out it’s £4 for the small silver dish of chips on the plate to make your tiny macaroni a “FULL” portion to top everything off it’s £2.50 per can of cola when we didn’t order that in the first place ? And had to get it because of your mistakes and waited a long time for you to sort it. Personally as someone who works with public in a similar environment I think the least they could’ve done was not charge full price for there mistakes! I don’t think it’s very fair on customers to be paying full price for your mistakes. I’m afraid I won’t be back there’s lots of nice restaurants now of days and customer service goes along way!