Rouken Glen Garden Centre Coffee Shop

A fine place to visit at this end of the park. Leave the car here, go for a walk and then have a coffee before heading for home.

I recently visited this place to meet friends for lunch and some Xmas shopping and have to share the fantastic experience i had.

Beautiful place but Coffe was rubbish. I ordered latte and it tasted like someone poured lot of milk in Americano. Rouken Glen Park is undoubtably beautiful place though.

I had a chicken burger with chips here and it was pretty bad; everything had been microwaved from frozen including the sesame bun, which had turned almost rock hard on top. Chips were barely warm. The only plus point was the salad was fresh.

Ordered 2 rolls on square sausage, 2 teas,2 cakes.....£17.68...Absolute daylight robbery... On taking my first bite of my roll,I came across something solid hard in the sausage. Totally turned my stomach so couldn't eat...won't be recommending or visiting again.

Ordered the veggies curry and veg sausage rolls, expecting something bland but filling. Very pleasantly surprised by the colourful and tasty curry, with perfectly cooked rice and flavourful salsa on the side. Also two very happy kids with their veg sausage roll chips. Great fortifications for a winter walk!

When we went I was very surprised that we had to put our own details on a clipboard that was on the table before you went into the café, for track and trace. I feel that this should have been monitored by a member of staff. How many people have used that pen before we used it. It made me feel a big uncomfortable.

The Garden Centre seems to be well run. The shop area inside is huge and has plenty of gardening related stuff along with Christmas displays in September, dried flowers, gifts, pet shop, garden furniture. The plant selection is not huge- it feels like the cafe is bigger than the plant area but the plants are in decent condition and there is a reasonable but not extensive variety. Urban garden centres like this need to diversify and this business has done this successfully. The restaurant is pretty good for meals and coffees and, of course, cakes.

I had lunch in here with two small children who had something from the kids menu and I had a coffee. The children’s food was very mediocre. The chicken nuggets and chips were pretty standard but the macaroni cheese was tasteless gloop. My coffee was poor. However what finished me off was ordering the kids a cone. The younger one can’t eat a whole ice cream before it all melts so I asked for an empty cone to put a little of the ice crea in) and was charged 80p. When I suggested this was a total rip off I was told that they ‘can’t give these away free as they are expensive’, That’s just nonsense. I was looking for it free anyway but 80p is outrageous. I did not like the attitude nor the feelin...