Restaurant review - 7bone: I went to this Portsmouth burger bar - and it's up there with the best

We’d take great joy in matching our esteemed restaurants and cafes to countries… perhaps Monster Mick’s would be Brazil, ever-present and multiple-trophy winning. Five Guys would be the USA - burst on to the scene with promise, faded slightly but now a solid performer who can hold their own against most sides. Burger King: Romania - used to be exciting, now barely qualify. McDonald’s can be Cameroon - normally at the tournament, can lead to anticipation of excitement but in the flesh not very nice and actually quite boring. (For those with long meaty memories, 6oz Burgers of Osborne Road would be Zaire - attractive mavericks who no longer exist).

And so to 7bone, in Guildhall Walk. Where would they stand in the hall of fame? Semi-finalists or better? Or crashing and burning at the group stages?

The Dish Detective went after a wholesome afternoon visit to the almost-next-door New Theatre Royal with a three-year-old. The three-year-old was delighted to see television characters turned into on-stage puppets, and after getting used to the real life/screen collision laughed along uproariously with the rest of the pre-schoolers.

Afterwards, the little one needed feeding as the evening drew near and I felt it was just and proper to exercise an adult reward, so with a few steps we were inside 7bone.