Shack Cafe in Hart

Perfect full English breakfast or any combination you ask for, friendly staff and good value. Well worth a slight detour to visit as you will not find better.

Great breakfast, great service !!!! Visit this place just about weekly now after doing our shop. Food is cooked nice and fresh and hot ! The only thing I would like to see would be a coffee machine rather than instant, but does not take anything away from this lovely breakfast place on the A30

This transport cafe has been in existence, in the same spot, unchanged for over 50 years that I know of. I popped in for a spot of lunch. Nice staff, good traditional transport cafe fare, and BIG portions. I had breakfast #2, it was too much to eat. A pile of fried bread served separate to a big plate with 2 sausages, 2 fried eggs, mushrooms, 2 rashers of back bacon, and grilled fresh tomato (tinned also available). I opted for just tomato and no baked beans.

Instead of my usual breakfast, stopped off with a mate whos a regular Shacker, both had Bacon Sarnies a a mug of tea. Laura and her staff are always pleased to see you and greeted upon entering. Great place with ooozes of character, sadly theres very few places like The shack. Congratulations for Serving "The Best Bacon Sandwich".

Had all day breakfasts. Absolutely massive. We are both big eaters but couldn’t manage to eat it all. Highly recommend good value for money and staff great.

Very clean and just what you want from a cafe, no frills, good service. Good breakfast selection and well cooked, pleasantly of parking and also outside seating area.

Finally venturing to places now lockdown is over and while planning a sunday morning motorbike rideout with some friends, I thought we'd go to the Shack cafe as I'd not been there before. My 1st review in quite some time so thought I'd share my experience. We sat outside and was taken care of quickly, making the service helpful, friendly, polite, thus, Great. Food was smashing. Don't let the transport cafe aesthetic fool you. Top notch. Been there again since as my mate wanted to eat there again, never a bad idea. Will visit again

Chef was very friendly, staff were lovely, food was excellent and surprisingly so good despite being a more than reasonable price

We decided to try out one of our local cafes for a late breakfast/early lunch so we choose the Shack Cafe, what an excellent choice it was. The Shack Cafe is truly a proper old style English cafe providing real home style English cafe food. I opted for an all day breakfast, 2 Sausages, 2 Bacon, 2 Eggs, Tomatoes, Beans, Mushrooms, Chips and Two slices of bread and butter with a cup of tea and free refill. Excellently well cooked and very tasty all for £7.00, really an excellent deal. My wife and daughter also had great value meals. Will certainly come back again soon.

Can not praise this place enough, Laura and her girls do a awesome job. We have become regular visitors, and after a bad round of golf they are definitely a light at the end off the tunnel, always so happy, and nothing is too much trouble. They do the best poached eggs, have paid twice the price at other places, and they are not a patch on the shacks. Well done girls and thank you 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Omg came here with some friends after a night out and it was the best breakfast ive had in a long time. Lovely friendly staff, great service. All food was hot and really really tasty. Staff were friendly and welcoming and the prices brilliant. Great portion sizes and I loved the decor. Thank you lady’s for the amazing tasty food, clean surroundings and great prices. The next day I also didn’t have an upset stomach as happens most f the time I have a full English so BRILLIANT all round. THANK YOU 😊 XXX

Just stopped for a quick bite too eat. Egg chips and beans and it was lovely too. Well worth a visit. Staff are friendly and welcoming. Thankyou

The staff at the shack are very jolly and Laura always has a story to tell. The food is well prepared and a pleasant meal awaits

The staff were very kind and welcoming, the food was very tasty and the atmosphere was nice. Would recommend

I was first told to go to the Shack about seven years ago, I finally went and I loved it! It's a unique little place, I think if you had a spirit level you wouldn't find an even surface, but that all adds to its charm. Friendly welcome and a proper fry up, just how it should be. If I lived closer I'd be in there every weekend!

As regular weekend visitors to Hook we've been in here quite a few times now. This is a proper "old fashioned" cafe and I mean that as a compliment! In a nutshell the food is excellent, the prices are very fair, the service is good and there is usualy a nice atmosphere. The lady who runs the cafe should have a special mention too. I went in there by myself a few months ago by myself and must have looked down in the dumps, which I was. Well she came over for a chat and I even had a cuppa on the house! Looking forward to our next visit!

Typical transport cafe type fare but very well done and a guilty pleasure from time to time. Easy for eyes to be bigger then stomach so be careful not to over-order!

This 100 yr old building serves the best Breakfasts ever, Laura and her team are very welcoming and deliver the food piping hot and its delicious every time, Keep up the good work team, thumbs up every time. These old transport stops are becoming a rare sight now, use it or loose it, Love it here, Highly Recommended

Good quality , good ingredients, good breakfast. Happy to swap out one item for another which some places dont seem too happy to do so (tomatoes and mushrooms were swapped on anothers plates for bacon I believe) definitely will return and would recommend to all.

Business colleague over from the States who wanted to have an ‘authentic English breakfast’ so we headed to Hook.

I use the shack often a good no frills greasy spoon cafe nothing is too much trouble for the staff good parking for cars and HGV and good transport cafe for HGV CHEAP AS CHIPS

This cafe has been here for longer than I can remember & they consistently serve the very best full English breakfast with bottomless cups of tea/coffee

Popped in yesterday for a late breakfast... nearly lunch!

The shack is a proper cafe selling just what you would expect, it't great qua;lity, fast, not expensive and really friendly. One of our favourite lunch venues

This place is a proper old school greasy spoon cafe. Numerous options for breakfast and lunches alike. I've been coming here for years

It's the real thing! No de-cafe soya lattes, just progressive working class catering aka. cafe grub. I love this place

Grade 2 listed shack that has been serving traditional British food to the traveller for decades. Good food at reasonable prices, full English breakfast £5.60. Menu from sandwiches to main meals served from 7am to 3pm. Friends an I meet here before or after golf on a regular basis. Very popular with the local community and passing traveller. My parents used to stop there enroute to Cornwall years before the M3 opened. Highly recommended traditional transport cafe.

We stopped off at the Shack for brunch /early lunch and chose breakfast meals. Staff were very welcoming and friendly. There's no pretence here - what you see is what you get. Service is good and quick and food is cooked to order and hot. Sausages are a little plastic but acceptable. Additional cup of tea is offered free of charge. A little over priced for the portion size but won't stop me visiting again - I like the atmosphere? Might try the Eggs Benedict next time :-D

We visited this place on a Wednesday morning and found the food to be better than average bearing in mind this is the transport cafe.

Quirky old transport cafe but does a good breakfast cooked to order. Place has been there since time began as my Dad used to go there as a young lad.

great place for quick pit stop for breakfast and coffee. the outside looks like a proper transport cafe and has the same feel inside

Had a change today. I had home made beef stew and dumplings and it was just lovely may try the home made curry next time. And as always very friendly owner and staff

Ordered the ‘number 1’ breakfast which consisted of fried egg, sausage, one rasher of bacon, my choice of beans over tomato, mushrooms, my choice of toast over bread and my choice of tea over coffee. The tea was served in a cracked mug and full to the brim with the tea bag and milk all in at the same time. When the breakfast arrived, the sausage was of the kind which are precooked then placed in a deep fat frier to reheat and was tasteless and greasy. The egg was swimming in oil and the mushrooms had also been either deep or shallow fried and therefore had absorbed a lot of fat. I understand that this is a ‘no nonsense cafe’ as some have described it, but for £5.30 I just think they could do a bit better. To cap it off, I had to change tables from my original seating as it had not been cleaned and had salt and grease all over the table cloth.

This small quirky cafe serves a great range of cooked breakfasts and lunches 7 days a week. The staff are friendly and considerate and the portions are generous.

despite living in the area for 23 years, we hadn't visited the Shack Café until recently - it's awesome!

Durante muchos años he pasado la Choza y yo prometió que un día me visita y probar sus comidas.

La clave está en el nombre - es una choza pero no dejes que eso te desanime!

He estado trabajando localmente y he estado aquí todos los días. Personal y un excelente desayuno. 10 de 10. . .

Llevo más de 10 años desde que he comido aquí, y nada ha cambiado.

If you've never tried it you simply must!This classic cafe serves a proper breakfast and a mug of tea, all with a smile. Try the All Day breakfast with half toast and half fried bread to really get you weekend going with a bang, with a coffee £6.50. If your very lucky you might even get to see Steve (Juan Carlos) the cafe chihuahua who sometimes does a weekend shift patrolling the car park.

Choice of several breakfasts, all come with a drink and toast just like a decent cafe should offer. The Ritz it ain't but it is a decent, inexpensive cafe.

very friendly staff reasonably priced and good banter from staff and regular customersgood variety of food on menu

Great breakfast again can't go wrong here and cheap as chips this was £6.50 with two toast and mug off tea and free tea top ups if required

this cafe is as good as it gets in transport cafe's proper breakfasts also good home made lunches , started using this cafe in the early 60s , it's been here ( so i'm told ) since 1923 . if you are looking for 5* dining not the place but if you want good food at very sensible prices it's here .

We use the Shack for special occasions including pre-wedding breakfasts. Its a fun place offering good value, old school eats!

Cheap eats....Served with a smile...Proper breakfast..the works,it is what it is,great for a quick stop with no hassle

cheap cheerfull and basic, but Good value for money. plus make great egg or bacon sandwiches to go . parking is a bit of a problem when busy.

Great breakfast and at a very good price friendly staff will be back soon helpful asked for poached egg with my breakfast not on the menus but they did them for me perfectly

The place has benefited from a bit of a sprucing up but has still retained that great truckers stop feel that we all love. The staff are very welcoming and the breakfasts are cooked to perfection ... and all at a great price.

Simple but fresh. Always made to order and the staff is friendly. Also, it is quite cheap as well. I've been here many times now and they have not disappointed. Just bear in mind it is a shack but it is a great place.

They try very and are very friendly and do the best they can in such a small property.Food is well cooked and very cheap/

This place has been there for years, it is a proper truckers cafe that is welcoming to everyone.The food is good, the portions big and you get a proper mug tea/coffee. Apart from the full english, they also serve other "posher" types of breakfast, basically you can have pretty much what ever you ask for, they will try and accommodate. Always served with a smile, always friendly and fast delivery. It is always busy, but worth a visit.

I stopped at this transport cafe recently, as it had started raining and I wanted to see if the food was as good as when I'd eaten here some years before. I'm pleased to report it was, if not even better than I remembered.I had the Breakfast #2 which was 2x bacon, 2x sausage, 2x fried egg, with beans, tomatoes and mushroom. This was topped off with 2x slices of toast and a cup of tea. At 6.50 I thought this was good value, especially when the staff were polite and friendly, and not only that, the food arrived quickly and was perfectly cooked. Free newspapers were available for customers too.The name is apt, as it really is a shack, situated next to a storage site for fairground rides, but it was very clean and I can report after a peek into the kitchen area, that was spotless. This isn't fine dining, but if you enjoy a first-class traditional cooked English Breakfast, then the Shack Cafe is highly recommended !