I tried out the new cafe with fresh food and a food science spin.

Thriive is the new kid on the block, a takeaway café on Bilton Road offering more than just coffee and sandwiches, instead a menu featuring foods rich in ingredients to promote health.

The café is owned by Dawn Wright, an extremely sunny woman with a passion for food and wellness, who makes you feel incredibly welcomed the moment you step through the door.

Basingstoke Gazette: Lola outside Thriive

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Perusing the menu, I settled on a classic latte and ‘The Full Pot’, a hearty meal featuring free-range poached eggs, bacon, sausage, and mushrooms all for the extremely affordable price of £4.25.

The food was cooked fresh, and seasoned to the heavens, especially the 'poachies' (poached eggs).

My time in the café was spent seeing regulars pop in and out for their fix of the ‘Full Monty’ baguette; egg, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, and hash browns in a fresh baguette, which regular Adam called ‘delicious’, for the low, low price of £3.95, only 5p grander than buying a Tesco meal deal without a Clubcard.

I’ve eaten my fair share of breakfasts, so much so that in a few months I think I could become a critic solely for an English brekkie. In terms of value, taste, and service? This makes my top three for sure.

Nothing is worse than your meal being completely ruined by a slimy, badly cooked mushroom. Every time a slimy mushroom is placed on top of a perfect meal, an angel loses their wings. This was not that, my mushrooms were cooked to perfection.

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Beans, you can't go wrong, unless you're my mum, who burns them somehow? The bacon, sausages and eggs were all delicious, there was no passing off one shrivelled piece of bacon as acceptable to be seen, I'm looking at you McDonald's. 

The menu also features omelettes, beef/chicken burgers, carbonara, mac and cheese, mac and hock (mac and cheese with ham), chicken Caesar salad, a dish featuring rice, spinach, chicken and kale, which as a kale aficionado I will be going back to try, and a soup of the day special.

If you aren’t in the mood for a hot meal, however, sandwiches, paninis, sausage rolls, and a selection of cakes may interest you.

All in all, if you are around the area, pop into Thriive, I doubt you will regret it.