The best restaurants in Kempshott Basingstoke and Deane South East

Always use The Spice for our Indian takeaway

food cold due to wait by delivery driver to arrive

Friendly team, great food with great service

My partner and I ordered several items: - Mac and cheese - Mozzarella sticks - Lemon and herb wings - Medium meatball Italiano pizza The portion sizes worked out perfectly for two people, but unfortunately, most dishes fell short. The mac and cheese was mediocre and forgettable. The mozzarella sticks were unusually sweet with a honey flavor, and lacked the classic stringy texture you'd expect - they were stiff, similar to halloumi fries but without the saltiness. The lemon and herb wings were particularly disappointing. They were dry and tasted like soap rather than lemon, likely due to cilantro (warning: if you're sensitive to cilantro's soapy taste, avoid these). The chicken's color was also concerning. The only redeeming dish was the pizza, which my partner enjoyed, though they mentioned it would've been better without the onions.

I made sure I booked a table in advance, as we were a party of 8 and so glad I did, as it was very busy. You certainly noticed they were either short staffed or extremely busy due to the large groups there. We were greeted by the manager who was extremely helpful and showed us where everything was, as never to this place before. Our server was also really friendly and the food was nice. Two issue we had was the salad cart wasn’t replenished, we asked a member of staff if she could ask the kitchen to replace items, she said they would be out but never came, we chased her again and the only reason she dealt with the issue was because a kitchen never of staff came out. Honestly she was rude and the kitchen member of staff looked like his world had ended as we asked for the items to be restocked! When it came to desserts, our original server must have been on a break, as someone else took over, unfortunately he took slow to another level! My friends order a hot drink and mini dessert, it was advertised to come together, however they got their hot drinks was told the dessert would come shortly, after 10 mins we chased, they finally received the cake, but we were still waiting for the other desserts. We arrived at 2.50pm and left just after 5.30pm, I appreciate we had time for dinner to settle etc, but the kids were getting bored by this stage and couldn’t see a member of staff to chase.