Stag & Hounds Basingstoke

Visited for breakfast. Ordered our food relatively quick. 3 year old wanted a fruit bowl, which the waitress, (bit of an airhead) replied they didn’t have. So we ordered the pancakes with fruit which they did have. It was the same fruit. Took just short of an hour from sitting down to getting our food. My wife’s and eldest child food came out with ingredients missing only to be told when asked that that’s how it comes today as they have run out of them (would have been nice to have been told at time of ordering). Ordered a breakfast 2 over hard fried eggs, burnt sausages, black pudding that was like biting a biscuit, a portion of beans (all 37 of them), a portion of mushrooms which was 1 and a half button mushrooms cut in half, bacon was cold. The hash brown however was delicious. This used to be really nice to visit. I don’t know if they have new owners or lots of new staff but it has plummeted from the high service standards this establishment used to set to somewhere that seems to not have a care anymore

Absolutely terrible!! I ordered the Beef brisket,the meat was so tough I couldn't even cut through it,the crispy onion was simply not edible and as fir the mash. I've attached a photo so you can see how bad it was. Complained to the female manager in charge as i didn't touch the meal so was leaving and not going to pay and also like to add had no starters just one bowl of salad. Her response was" hope to never see you back here" . After this experience I certainly won't go back here again

We had a table booked at 10:15 and arrived slightly early (around 10:10). We were greeted and shown to our table. The table we were sat at was next to the fire exit doors at the back on the restaurant. The table was very sticky and unstable, there were also a large amount of cobwebs between the blinds and the windows, in addition to this, there was dried food stained across our menu. We asked our server if we could move and he accommodated it. Once sat down he promptly took our order. We waited almost 10 minutes for two unlimited refill drinks (which when delivered, there was no apology). We then waited almost another 25 minutes before being presented with our food. My partner and I both ordered the create your own breakfast, one of which had poached eggs & mushrooms. When the food was finally delivered, there were three, count them, three mushrooms on the plate and fried eggs instead of poached. We raised this with the server who said we can order more, so we did. The overall quality of the food was poor and cold. We ate what we had as we didn't see our server again. We didn't have anyone come and check our meals, so once we were done, we walked to the bar to pay the bill (still waiting for the mushrooms & eggs to be delivered). As we walked to the bar, I heard our server say to another colleague 'where are they going, they haven't paid'

We have been given the best service we can remember ever. Such a helpful, welcoming, professional and interesting lady looking after us. She didn’t stop - always ensuring each table was well looked after but also making us feel valued customers. Claire is a credit to the restaurant. The food was good too!

Me and my friend thought we’d just pop out for dinner and decided we hadn’t been to the Harvester in a while. I was straight away greeted with smiles and friendly service, and swiftly taken to our table. Our waitress Ellis gave us excellent service, telling us the best house drinks. I had the vegetarian bbq chicken stack, which was genuinely phenomenal. It is very rare to find a pub with decent selection for us veggies, and so I was pleasantly surprised to see their range and give it a taste. Overall a 10/10 and highly recommend. Many thanks again to our waitress Ellis and compliments to all the chefs.

Food was good but expensive considering the service was shocking. We got sat in the bar area because they were full in the restaurant bit which was fine. It took a lifetime to get our food then no one took the menus away or gave us cutlery, or took away the dirty salad bowls, also kind of fine but we're at a bar table which is a bit smaller and we just had no room to breathe, the we ordered a drink, still no one took anything away or even questioned it. We ordered two ice creams to share and I had to ask four members of staff for spoons by which time the ice cream was a milk shake and we had mountains of dirty stuff piling up around us and not a single person who brought us anything out asked if we maybe disnt want to eat amongst dirty plates and menus it was silly. After spending £90 it just felt like it was way to over priced for service that is dreadful.

Had a perfect lunch. Lovely food, attentive staff and very good value for money( so much so we needed to doggy bag some food)
I will definitely be returning to have another meal here on my next visit to Basingstoke.
Easy parking as well, which on this day was very much needed as it started to hammer down just before we were leaving.

We were staying in a Hotel in Basingstoke, and not knowing the area, and having passed the premises earlier. We gave it a visit. Really friendly staff & the normal fare offered by a Harvester.
The visit to the salad bar, pretty standard.
The wife had grilled chicken with jacket potatoes, green vegetables & gravy. She said the gravy was really nice.
I had the ultimate mixed grill ,- no lie there then. Steak,ribs, gammon steak, chicken, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, fried eggs, peas & chips. All cooked deliciously.
A total meat feast.
Really friendly & helpful staff.
An enjoyable start to the weekend.
Plus we got diesel from the Fuel station opposite- perfect.