Dobbies Garden Centre

Enjoyed the afternoon tea what there was of it. The cost of £16 was not good value for money. When we booked, the price was £13.50 and we were advised of the increase in price when we arrived. However, the staff were friendly and efficient but we won’t be going again. .

Long queue with just one lady on her own doing tea and coffee and taking money.By the time I got my coffee,teacake was cold and hard ,no proper butter.Cups were chipped and had lipstick stains.No point joining long queue again to complain.Felt sorry for the poor lady doing coffees and till,it was not her fault .

Absolutely shocking a 25 minute wait to buy drinks, breakfast had finished and cleared away and lunch not yet out so the queue is mainly made up of people wanting hot drinks and cake, two girls trying their best to make drinks and take payment all the other staff appear to be doing not a lot. Surely at times like this they could open the drink station opposite Ver carta

Absolutely ridiculous prices was busy attending to children and hadn't looked very closely at prices , 2 cokes 4.50 cans 2 bowls of frozen chips around 15 chips in each 5.98 3 slices of millionaire 9.75 1 children tube yogurt, sandwich, mini milkshake, and chorale covered marshmallow 5.99 Will never return this is a rip off wouldn't have mind if the quality was good but all items were cheap amd certainly not worth the value. Children meal was not a full box and had picked single items .

This is not a joke, the management needs to reconsider their establishment! The environmental health and food safety inspectors need to inspect the food. It was left on the bain-marie for too long, making it dry and a breeding ground for bacteria. It was inedible. Don't be fooled by the long line, the service is poor. They also have a beeping system to signal when the food is ready, but when I asked what to do with my order, the assistant replied, "I could tell you" and laughed. I wouldn't even feed this food to a dog!

Called in for a breakfast, didn't realise you have to do that at the food counter as I had never visited before, queued for ages at the till area where they do the tea/ coffee etc , was like watching paint dry , one person dealing with it , when I finally got to the till I was told I needed to order my breakfast at the food counter so had to go back , got that sorted but really think they need to look at the system they have in place , especially the amount of staff on show , toast was like a brick when I tried to eat it , but other than that food was ok , staff friendly, but doubt I will return Ver carta

Disgusting cold uncooked food. We went for breakfast early Saturday morning. The place was cold to start. The £9.99 breakfast is just awful. The meal was first of all cold. The sausages were not cooked and were raw where they were not ready and much cheap meat. Went away to never return to this place. How we have not been ill from the cold, uncooked food is beyond me. They are making a lot of money out of this breakfast. never ever again. All of it is cheap ingredients and disgusting and cold. Lady serving pleasant but not using gloves to do toast. Honestly, this is the worst overpriced breakfast ever. Avoid

The food was OK. Nearly £9 for a sandwich seems a lot with just a pinch of salad. The organisation was chaotic. There were huge queues at coffee time and even huger ones at midday partly caused by it being totally unclear where to order hot food from. So the queue for cake and coffee blocked the hot food queue. People were not happy to reach the till then be sent back to order food. Bizarrely one of the two tills was closed at this time. It would be so easy to solve with two queues, some signposts and a manager in evidence. The cafe area is huge and soulless and a bit cold would definitely not choose to eat here again.

We were of the first to be served breakfast on a Sunday 10am. It took an insanely long time to plate. The long line of customers building up behind us didn’t seem to make the lady go any faster. It then took another 10 minutes to get the drinks and pay. We had two full English breakfasts- both were stone cold, cooked probably 2 hours before, dry and tasteless. The beans were over cooked, bacon hard as rock, cold chewy toast, rubbery pale scrambled egg and poor quality ingredients. The fried egg was the best bit (although our friends were solid and over cooked) ! We couldn’t eat it all even though we were hungry. A bonus is that they are doing kids eat free- however my child refused to eat it... Ver carta