The Spice Merchant

First time here, cannot fault the food and service. Lovely to have a different type of restaurant in our village. We saw two of the Thai chefs as were bringing food to the tables. All home cooked and they will amend meals to suit. Our Green Thai curry was made mild, on menu as hot. The restaurant is behind the traditional village pub making it quite unique. Booking is probably advisable as gets very busy towards the weekend. Can't wait to return

Thank god I don’t live closer to this place - I’d be bankrupt. The food is incredible, the service friendly and efficient, and were pleased to have found this gem!

Booked a table at this Crookham Village pub. Staff were very pleasant and amenable. Ordered a Red and a Green curry with Egg Fried Rice. Both were very tasty. For dessert it was Banana Fritters and a Strawberry Sundae. Nice way to round off the dinner. Would recommend a visit.

Food was really good, packed with flavours and generous portions. Pleasant ambience and live music. Service could be improved, however the team was friendly and smiling. Definitely one to go back to!

I cannot rate this place highly enough. I took my (extremely frail, wheelchair - bound) dad for Saturday lunch and Ashleigh could not have been more helpful. She offered a smaller version of the excellent Massaman curry for dad, and only charged us the children's price.
We've visited a number of times now and just love it.

What a great take away we had tonight! So fresh and flavourful! Starters and mains were just a delight.
Staff on pick up were really efficient and lovely. Thank you!

Beautiful food and great service. Will be a treat when we return, though, as the prices are high, but the food is worth it, so for us; it's special occasions only.

This was our first time here. Although I had mentioned when booking that it was our first time and that we were celebrating a birthday, there wasn’t anything done to make our visit special. I think it’d have been a nice touch if this had happened.

We were very happy with the food (taste as well as portion sizes - in fact, we had ordered too much and had to take some food back with us). The green curry was my favourite while my wife liked the massaman curry.

We were well looked after. Our waitress Ellie listened to our requests regarding vegan food, gave us the allergen menu and despite the allergen menu listing crustaceans/eggs, was able to get us vegan curries without these, made from scratch for us, and also the pineapple fried rice without eggs. She kindly got hot water for my dad from the coffee machine.

Towards the end, we were waiting for a little while to catch Ellie’s attention to get the bill - the layout of the restaurant and where we were sat, meant that we couldn’t see her nor could she see us unless she was in our section of the restaurant. It was also a bit too busy/noisy for my dad’s liking. As it was a Saturday night and slightly busy, this is perhaps understandable, but we would have said our visit was perfect had this not happened.

We were confused that the bill included service charge because it referred to hospitality but we have now found out this was some tax. The next time we are there, we will make sure to leave a tip for Ellie.

Overall, we would say we had a very good experience and will definitely return. I would definitely recommend the restaurant.