Honesty at The Base — Restaurant in England

I have been here a lot and the coffee is great, lots of staff, very busy, always long queues. However I have yet to have good food here. I have had a salad, panini, and my final vegan sausage bap. Every time the food is so stale, salad slimy, so yuk, panini, dry, hard and yesterday my friend had a scone, and as she was moving away from the counter a waitress just snatched her scone and threw it in the bin! So she ordered another and said it felt like rock and when she bit into it not only was it hard but tasted mouldy. I had a sausage bap with tomato sauce that was again so dry with the most miserly scraping of tomato sauce I have ever seen. This time we both took our food back and I won't be eating there again. How dare they serve us stale, probably days old food. The staff are young, some polite but there's always a miserable one there with attitude. It was a busy rainy day and the second day of a weekend craft fair but that's no excuse. This is the first time I've complained after 4 visits so I think more people should complain if their food isn't up to standard. Going out is a treat so one expects to enjoy food and especially at prices...

Nice place but food generally very poor at latest visit last Friday. It was better a few weeks ago. Last Friday however my sandwich consisted of 2 slices of dry processed bread with a slice of processed cheese and some processed pickle. My husband's was similar. It was humus and cucumber with no butter and the same dry manufactured bread and very tasteless. The tea served was extremely watery - I guess using a very cheap tea-bag. Decided to cheer ourselves up with a cinnamon bun but this had obviously been sitting around all day and was so dry and tough it was difficult to get a knife through. Sorry - no problems with the youngsters serving they were very pleasant but there are clearly serious problems with a management that thinks it is OK to serve this kind of thing these days. We were there just after 1.00 but the lunch options on the board...

I haven't been to the base at Greenham for some time, for many reasons including Covid-19! So, got a big surprise today with all the new buildings that have arrived and especially the Honesty Bakery!

Beautiful interior, beautiful outside area with lots of seating.

The food is delicious and the pastries were divine! The drinks were lovely and although I didn't have the coffee myself....others in our group said they were lovely and really tasty.

One thing to bear in mind is that there isn't much shade if you intend to sit outside on a hot, sunny day. They don't have parasols for the outside seating area yet.

However, dogs are welcomed and they even provide bowls of water for them.

Highly...