Plowmans Garden Centre

This restaurant is a wonderful spot to meet up with friends and savor a coffee and tasty cake. The staff is friendly and provides excellent service. Definitely worth a visit!

Brilliants choice of Potted plant displays to choose from at reasonable prices. Also an excellent choice of plants for gardens. Plus friendly service and a nice restaurant with home cooking

Visiting Baskets Blooms this morning, so nice to see the lovely Squeaky Wheelbarrow cafe reopended today. They ran through the social distancing system with customers, there 's hand wash, and plenty of outdoors tables. Oh yes, our coffees and coffee and walnut cake were delicious and good value. Great that you 've reopened. View menu

We hadn't been here for a while but were glad we went in for lunch today. All the staff were friendly and welcoming and there was plenty of variety on the menu. The food took a little longer to arrive than we expected but when it did it was very tasty and portion size was good. The decor is attractive and vastly improved from when we last visited, and Covid guidelines are being strictly adhered to. Well worth a visit!

So, Baskets Blooms have revamped the Wheelbarrow café, now called "Blooms Café. Still huge areas of covered seating inside and out, good friendly service, popular snacks on the menu, (panninis/jacket potatos/sandwiches/cakes , and quality teas and coffees. Our jacket potatos with melted cheese/tuna sweetcorn were as delicious as ever, and good value too. Their covid measures are thorough. Plenty of parking here at this popular indie garden centre. Love it!

I don't understand why Golden Acres hasn't been changed to Baskets and Blooms. Reviews could confuse new customers. The restaurant offers a great selection of expertly made coffees, as well as other hot and cold drinks. Dorset Apple Cake, Carrot Cake, and Coffee Walnut Cakes are all popular choices at most cafes. Make sure to ask which cakes are the freshest. There's nothing worse than paying for a cake that looks good but ends up being dry and stale. On the day we visited, the Dorset Apple Cake was served with whipped cream on the side, just how I like it! Paninis, burgers, and Fish and Chips are popular lunch options as well. View menu

Now run by In Excess...we really enjoyed our light lunch here a couple of weeks ago. My ham, eggs and chips was delicious, on a hot plate and good value. Very good and friendly service, on the level, good value, lots of parking with a few disabled spaces near the entrance. My mother has walking issues, and the staff helped her so much, which getting the Covid measures just right. As a garden centre, it's very good here too; plenty of plants, pots and pretty-much all you need for gardening in the indoor shop and outdoor areas to the rear. A modest selection of gifts and greeting cards too. (If they'd put jacket potatoes back on the menu, I'd have given them 5/5!

I met friends for lunch at the Parley branch again. The last time I visited, I complained to the staff and online about the terrible condition of the restrooms. Unfortunately, this time I encountered lidless and unsecured toilet seats, debris around the bowls, a sanitary pad on top of the bin, no toilet paper, and a filthy wall behind the hand dryer. When I brought this to the attention of the cafe staff, I was told that the toilets are only cleaned once a day (early afternoon) and that they kept replacing items but claimed that "customers kept breaking them." Considering the average age and type of customers, I found this hard to believe. If this is the standard for the restrooms, it raises...

The tables outside had not been cleared when we arrived, the young staff all looked like they didn 't want to be there and were very busy. Had to wait for ages to be served, they weren 't sure if they could omit the tuna and give me plain cheese in my panini to start with!!. When our order arrived the young lad waiting gave my son his and said he didn 't know if he had the order correct but have it anyway. I bit in to mine only to find there was no filling what so ever, so they omitted the tuna AND the cheese just a plain piece of cardboard bread thinner than a flatbread. (My husbands had a miniscule amount of cheese in his. I informed the waitress of this who confirmed she thought it looked... View menu