The best restaurants serving British food in Upton Grey and The Candovers Basingstoke and Deane South East

Excellent place, we been to the restaurant here and had a meal . Amazing food and service was great especially from the receptionist had drinks and food in the bar and conservatory restaurant. Food was delicious starters and main course and will highly recommended and will definitely visit again .

We opted to go to this gastro pub having read great things on line and the fact that the fish and chips here are supposed to be a speciality. However, it turned out that those who ordered the beef and burger dishes made the best choices. To my mind, the haddock and chips - ordered by three members of our group - were definitely inferior to what one gets at the nearby Oliver’s fish and chip restaurant where the price is at least 50% lower. I suppose one must take into account the lovely decor of this pub and the very good service but not the place to head to if you are a fish and chip aficionado. On another day my verdict may be different but today was not that day.

Lovely interior, the staff were very friendly and attentive. We went for the fish finger sandwich which was a disappointment. It was basically birds eye frozen fish fingers in Warburtons "farmhouse" bread for £10.45 which I did not feel was worth the cost of the meal. I was expecting home-made fish gougons with local bakery bread. Reading other reviews, I think it's recommended to go for the Thai option instead.

We had a booking as part of a cycle tour we had planned but, in chasing up on an unanswered question about our bikes, we were advised that they would probably be closed on our booking date for refurbishments - seemingly our responsibility to find out about this and, to enact the cancellation process?!

We did a hike in the area and called into the Fox for lunch and a pint. The pub exterior looked a bit tired so our expectations weren't high, However, as soon as we entered the pub and were met with a friendly welcome things started to look up. Like a previous reviewer we had the tuna sandwich and the steak burger with Stilton but our experience was far more positive. The food was simple but very tasty, especially the chunky chips. Likewise the beer was well kept and very refreshing after a long walk. There was a large group of ramblers in the pub who had clearly arranged to park in the pub car park before doing their walk. They all appeared to be enjoying their post walk food & drinks too.