Advantages: Great food, pleasant location, children welcome Disadvantages: Baby changing facilities are pathetic and the prices are over the top.
The Hatch Family Restaurant and Public House
DIRECTIONS AND DETAILS : Situated on Greywell Road, just off London Road, Old Basing, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 7JL.
Tel: 01256 473077
e-mail hatch.2111@thespiritgroup.com
www.pub-explorer.com/hampshire/pub/hatcholdbasing
From the M3 coming from London, take the junction marked 6 for Basingstoke / Southampton. Just off the A30, follow the road round until you come to a large roundabout, from this point turn right into Old Basing. The Hatch is sign posted with a small square sign if you are approaching from Basingstoke town centre.
London Road is the main road off the motorway and leads you through to Old Basing. Keep going straight for about two miles and The Hatch is on the right hand side of the dual carriageway. There is a large VW dealership on the opposite ...
Advantages: great food, good prices, pleasant staff. Disadvantages: not good for the waistline
fix of rubbish food and my husband found by chance this wonderful family friendly pub in Hatch Warren, Basingstoke.
It is called quite simply ?The Hatch? and is situated opposite a VW dealership and close to the Old Basing turn off.
There is a huge well lit car park to the rear in which I noticed there were many MPV?s situated. That?s a good sign when you?re looking for a family pub!
To access the Hatch you have to go over a small bridge in which my children will stand for ages looking down at the fish. The garden is safe and secure, ideal for the summer evening out (weather permitting).
Inside it is very quaint, with old wooden beams and candlelit tables. There is a separate side for smokers. Watch the candles with the little ones. They don?t mind if you blow them out on your table.
The Hatch is owned by the Chef and Brewer ...
Advantages: Almost all species of freshwater fish like maggots. Disadvantages: Keeping them in the fridge might upset your other half.
There are three main types of maggot that anglers use in coarse fishing today. They come from the Bluebottle (Calliphoria vicini), the Greenbottle (Lucilia caesar) and the common Housefly (Musca domestica Linnaeus). All three have slightly different characteristics. Then there's a fourth type of maggot that only hardened anglers use, these are known as "Gozzers". I will talk about gozzers, how to get them etc., later in the review, but for now lets have a look at the breeding habbits of flies.
Life cycle of a fly
First an adult female lays its eggs onto some decomposing meat/fish. The eggs then hatch out after a few days, these are now baby maggots. The maggots then feed on the meat until they are large and fat, at this point they stop feeding and quite quickly turn into casters (this only takes a few days or so ...
snake_plissken 09.05.2006
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