Han’s Buffet opened in Basingstoke in 2025 and occupies a sizeable upper-level unit in Festival Place.
The format is straightforward: pay a fixed price and work your way through a broad mixture of cuisines including Chinese, Indian and Italian dishes, desserts and other buffet staples. The larger evening and weekend selection also includes things that do not appear on the cheaper weekday lunch service.
This is not somewhere you go because everybody has agreed what cuisine they fancy.
It is somewhere you go because nobody has.
Prices
At our last check, the adult weekday lunch buffet was £10.99, and evening and weekend prices were around £20.99–£22.99. Prices change, so check the current menu and prices before you go.
Lunch or evening?
The weekday lunch buffet is the cheaper option, but it is also the smaller one. The restaurant says several items, including teppanyaki, dim sum and pizzas, are kept for evenings and weekends. If those are the reason you are going, lunch will disappoint.
For opening times, see the official opening times page.
Where to find it
Han’s is on the upper level of Festival Place, which has lifts and step-free routes through the centre. Use the Festival Place car parks, which are large and convenient but not free.
Why it is useful
Basingstoke already has plenty of restaurants where six people can spend twenty minutes passing menus around before somebody reluctantly agrees to pizza.
Han’s removes most of that negotiation.
It is particularly suited to groups, mixed tastes and people approaching lunch with the sort of tactical planning normally reserved for military exercises.
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