The Goat - Portsmouth

As a local I have to say that I used to really enjoy this bar but it has gone downhill significantly. The food is okay, no real complaints there other than it's overpriced for bar food (unless you want wings on Wednesdays). It's 2024, I can deal with food prices.What I can't deal with is inexcusably bad service. We get sat down, our drink order does not get taken for 10-15 minutes. We ordered beer and glass of wine, we didn't get our drinks for another 20 minutes (The beer was flat the $16 dollar glass of wine was under poured).Now, 30-35 minutes after sitting, we finally get to order food but we don't actually get our food until 25 minutes later. The food came and we did not receive utensils, waters or napkins. I ask for water, napkins and utensils just to only received water and utensils (another 10 minutes after receiving our food). At this point I'm just annoyed and wanted my bill.This is unacceptable. It was a busy night, yes. But this has happened with the same waiter on multiple occasions. I don't want anyone to get in trouble, but this place genuinely needs better training and attentive management. I hope I can try again one day, but for the foreseeable future I do not see myself returning to the goat, even less considering there are better options all over Portsmouth.

So bad. For real. I don’t write reviews because I know they can be harsh, as someone in the industry, but this place does not do Portsmouth justice at all. As a local, I can tell u there are a million other good restaurants to eat at in Portsmouth. Service is so slow, which as a server I can understand on a busy night. But our server was genuinely rude and honestly didn’t seem to care or even pretend to. We stopped ordering cocktails there a while ago after everytime we went there, they were either super watered down or wayyyyy too strong. I have given the Goat Portsmouth many chances and every time I am genuinely disappointed. Waiting 25 minutes for a beer and wine was somewhat understandable, when it’s busy. But, the server didn’t even bother to look at us or speak to us at all. Zero words when even dropping a cashed out check?! Asked for multiple little necessities like utensils and napkins… which never came. I can understand service being slow on a busy night, but when you know you have made people wait a long time, to not even try to be decent or nice to make up for it? Crazy overpriced, other restaurants in Portsmouth are priced the same if not less and you will at least get decent service. Go on wing night Wednesdays for the 10 cent wings because they’re the most affordable thing the Goat will ever put out, but don’t expect literally anything else and expect to wait a long time for any drinks or food. I do not understand how this place has any customers at all. If you have heard from “a friend” that it’s a great stop, they are lying to you. The goat needs to fix their service, management, drinks and food if it wants to survive. Maybe go to another restaurant owned by the same guy. Fleury group we expect better….train your staff appropriately and have actual good servers provide the training.

Long island iced coffee long island iced coffee. tables were way too close together but all together great food and drinks.

Came here on a whim for Easter with the family. Great food, great drinks and great service. Highly recommend the fried pickles for an app. Fries were cooked to perfection and not over loaded with salt. Good size portions. Overall good vibes.

We visited Wednesday. I just want to say the wings were delish. However the onion soup was terrible. Very bland and who puts beef in onion soup? The Goat skins were bland and terrible.Our waitress was pleasant unfortunately we never got her name. At one point she was MIA maybe on break. No one else picked up for her.We were seated right at the door VERY UNCOMFORTABLE and freezing whenever the door opened; and it was often because The Goat is a busy bar restaurant.Would not recommend or visit again.