October 2024 by Peter Jacques
Nice restaurant bit pricey food was good, table service for hot food. I use a stick to walk but no help in taking food and drink to table
Dietary restrictions: Gluten Free
July 2024 by Mark Pardoe
Food is good. Speedy, ample full English delivered for reasonable price. Only downside is that dogs are not allowed in the restaurant unlike most other garden centres which can?t be related to hygiene because they allow children.
May 2024 by Catherine Roberts
Good garden with a very nice cafe. Quite often, go to the garden centre and stop in the cafe for lunch or a cream tea and have not yet been disappointed with the food. However, it is a bit on the pricey side, and when busy service can be a bit slow but that can be expected.The cafe is nicely laid out with a small outside seating area and has free WiFi.Today, our server was Cassandra, a very nice young lady, very friendly on arrival, as were the other staff and excellent service.
May 2024 by Sue R
Popped in for a look around the garden centre and stopped in Magnolias restaurant for a Cream Tea. Excellent service provided by Cassandra and the rest of the staff.
March 2024 by Strato' sphere
Called yesterday, no complaints whatsoever.Friendly staff, efficient service, good foodWould definitely go back.
March 2024 by RB Locks Auto Locksmith
I got very lucky with my timings as it was gloriously sunny as I stopped for an early lunch. Magnolias Restaurant was already getting busy so I headed outside to bask in the sun.The food was a good standard and the staff were very friendly
December 2023 by Simon Dobrzanski
Great place to eat.
July 2023 by Adam Vince
Popped in for a late lunch today, lovely staff very friendly! We both had coronation chicken panini with chips, one of the best I?ve had! Will definitely go back again soon! Was a bit pricey but then again everyone?s prices have gone up recently.
May 2023 by Helen Williams
Used to enjoying going there but it's gone downhill. The sandwiches used to be lovely with salad and some crisps. Now the price has gone up but the crisps disappeared.The staff take up the best seats (comfy/in the sun) at busy times and loudly swear and moan about work.And one member of staff demands your tray the moment you take your last sip
May 2023 by The Reiki Saker
Coffee way overpriced, now £3.50 for a small latte, Costa £3.20 for the same!Also, witnessed staff eating food wearing her blue serving glove, who then rushed to help out ppl serving, by getting cake out, in the same glove! Also using her mobile phone, with same glove.Staff are lovely and friendly but prices and hygiene let it down now. Such a shame
April 2023 by Morna Dearden
Tomato and pepper soup in minuscule bowl with a grotty brown roll, not mixed properly streaks of white through it. Pappy and horrible, can taste the cold where it?s been frozen.. £6.00 !!!! Total rip off !! The bowl has a thick base making it look bigger. Soup had a strange twang to it.Walking away very hungry!!So much for my treat to myself. Never again. I hate being conned
April 2023 by Claire London
Cafe was unclean. Service really poor, no atmosphere, no welcome. Simple black coffee was weak and at £3 a cup a complete rip off. This place has such potential but seems to be lost, unambitious and scruffy. Real shame, missed opportunity to be brilliant instead of (charitably) mediocre.
April 2023 by Colin Hunn
Rip-off Britain thriving here. Coffee £3.50 Bacon Rolls £6.00 Loyalty Scheme discontinued. Not top-quality either. Sorry, you?ve lost our custom with these prices!
April 2023 by D W
This is the second time we have been here and it?s ok. Not good or bad.
March 2023 by Les Champion
We have been going to TGC for years, and often stopped at Magnolias. Only out of convenience, not preference. It has seldom been an uplifting experiance.It appears to be run by a large number of mature ladies who are probably excellent cooks and nutritionists in their own homes, and think it works in a mass catering establishment. The layout, the system, the customer awareness, just about everything about this place is amateurish and chaotic. On our last visit a week ago, we sat waiting for 20 minutes for our main meal, which gave us plenty of time to notice a considerable number of 'finished' plates being collected, with uneaten food left on them. We also noticed that hot, uncovered meals were being carried to the tables by the longest possible route.I went to the counter to enquire about our meals, producing our receipt, and after a few minutes was told our order did not exist, it had got lost between the counter and the kitchen, at which point we gave up and asked for our money back, and left.
