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Garden centre cafés ... recommendations

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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Our local paper has been compiling a list of garden centres with good cafés

http://www.eadt.co.uk/ea-life/the-best-garden-centre-cafes-in-suffolk-and-norfolk-1-5460634

My thoughts are

1.  How do you get the job of researching these?

and

2.  Do you know of garden centres with good cafés that you'd like to recommend?

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd have to confess to never once having used a garden centre café
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My last place of work was just down the road from a Wyevale ... it was home to a little independent café ... a favourite place for Friday Team Lunches  :D

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  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444
    My local garden centres are a wyevale and a Haskins.but have good cafes but you need to sell a kidney to buy anything in the Haskins.
    my favorite cafe is a independent GC  called The Mayberry on the old shoreham road at portslade. The GC is very reasonable and the cafe is huge and always very busy.
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited April 2018
    Haven't spotted one in France yet - GC with café that is - and none in Wallonia when we lived in Belgium.   However, there was one  we used to go to in Flemish Brabant for our garden group Xmas raid for baubles and decorative plants and doings and it not only had a café but a restaurant with serious as well as normal brasserie food and croque monsieur and baguette sandwiches.

    I think it's changed hands again but, if anyone's passing, its an Intratuin on the left hand side on Diestsesteenweg between Aarschot and Rillar.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    Longacres Bagshot have an Italian restaurant inside, it's the biggest GC/GC eatery I've ever been to or seen. 

    Oaktree Bracknell have a newly renovated cafe with very reasonable prices 
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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    edited April 2018
    Dobbies in Kinross has a great cafe / restaurant.  A cousin of mine who lived alone used to go there often for lunch as it saved her from her own cooking (her words, not mine).
    Our local Wyevale is OK too.  Sometimes really nice scones, other times like bricks but that's pretty obvious before you pick them up.  Trioscape at Newent have some really nice, home baked cakes too.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    We used to have a lovely cafe in our local independent garden centre , (Hamptons)  a proper cup of tea or coffee and a gardeners breakfast was my usual choice . They have now 'done it up' and you can only get fancy coffees and you need a mortgage to buy a meal. 
    West Yorkshire
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