The Lambing Shed Farm Shop & Kitchen Reviews Summary

Food Quality and Taste

Pros:

• "Their roast dinners on a Sunday are the best I have ever had, wonderful meat and amazing veg that actually tastes like it should."
• "Brilliant food in the cafe, really top quality."
• "The fish and chips were crispy, the meat was amazingly cooked, mac and cheese was well done and flavorful."
• "Delicious food! You can tell they use quality ingredients."
• "The slow cooked lamb shank was a huge portion and absolutely delicious."
• "The best all day breakfast ever. The baked beans were homemade and really tasty."

Cons:

• "The cafe is a shambles! Waited ages for food! The coffee was awful and tasted burnt."
• "The milkshake was very very sweet, inedible."
• "Had the fish and chip sandwich and it was INEDIBLE! My stomach was churning within 20 minutes."
• "Poor quality cooked food in the breakfast, bacon was hard and dried."
• "Food dreadful; stale burger bun, relish much too sweet."
• "We had 3 cooked breakfasts, the bacon was thin, cheap tasting and dried out."

Service and Staff

Pros:

• "Friendly staff. I ordered the wrong drink and they kindly changed it."
• "The staff are all fantastic, so helpful and lovely."
• "Lovely food, great and friendly service in a very clean, modern and homely setting."
• "Service was very friendly but a bit on the slow side as there were only 2 members of staff covering both areas."
• "The staff are friendly and helpful."
• "Young lady waitresses are most pleasant and polite."

Cons:

• "This experience was nice! But getting the attention of any of the staff was an issue."
• "We waited 40 minutes for a drink after being told they’d forgotten about us."
• "Poor customer service -Waitress had a bad attitude and was unhelpful."
• "Ordered coffee & cakes but the couple who ordered breakfast having arrived after us were served before we got our cake."
• "I always bought sausages from the lambing shed but no longer. Not because they are not good but from the way I was treated by the girl behind the counter."
• "Very disappointed went in for drinks and snacks. Ordered 3 hot drink and 3 toasted teacake. Only for them never to arrive!"

Pricing and Value

Pros:

• "Really enjoyed the food. Fairly priced and fair portion size."
• "An absolute delight. We discovered this place by accident. Really nicely done, a lovely restaurant which is dog-friendly, has a decent menu and is sensibly priced."
• "We decided to try this place as an alternative to the M6 service stations which are always crazy busy and stupidly expensive."
• "Very nice cafe restaurant near Knutsford. Coffee and cake really good menu looks good too."

Cons:

• "It has a lovely, but rather expensive farm shop."
• "The cafe, again that wasn’t cheap for ‘lunch’."
• "Our brunch was really lovely but I have to query whether paying £1.75 for a side of black pudding is value for money."
• "2 drinks and kids Mac & cheese for £20 isn't worth it."
• "The shop was the only saving grace. We paid to visit the pumpkin patch, only to find 99% of the pumpkins were already rotting/squishy. £4.50 for a rotten muddy pumpkin."
• "It's a lovely setting, plenty of parking space but.....outrageously priced farm shop."

Ambience and Setting

Pros:

• "Lovely place. Worth visiting if you are driving on M6. Very spacious, clean and nice atmosphere."
• "Absolutely beautiful coffee shop, best I’ve been too in a long time."
• "There is indoor and 2 types of outdoor seating available, 1 of which is in a kind of orangery with a retractable roof."
• "An oasis when quiet, yet can get very busy bordering on the chaotic when packed."

Cons:

• "The toilets were dirty and there was no hand soap."
• "Having been hyped in the Times last Saturday it was a let down to visit here. Not busy when we arrived but the table we sat at was in need of a good clean."
• "Good food and good service, BUT it's a real shame there doesn't appear to have been much thought about the immediate surrounding."
• "Nice looking place out of the way, well laid out and clean. The service wasn’t great with the waitress walking away from the welcome area as soon as we walked in."

Shop and Products

Pros:

• "They have a lovely farm shop as well."
• "The farm shop and meat counters are lovely and can’t fault them."
• "Lovely little farm shop with a really nice cafe attached."
• "Fantastic service with plenty of choice. Fully recommended for your weekly shop or just a quick snack."
• "The shop has a good variety of items, a butchers and deli."

Cons:

• "The shop was the only saving grace. We paid to visit the pumpkin patch, only to find 99% of the pumpkins were already rotting/squishy."
• "I found the shop massively overpriced compared to others in the area and less choice."
• "Shop rather pricey but didn't have any gluten free produce or the Blackstick Blue cheese that was on offer."
• "Not as good as I'd hoped unfortunately, table and the chair felt sticky to the touch, ordered breakfast, the coffee was lovely and the breakfast was ok, only the sausage is worth a mention as that was really good."
• "I have no idea what the last reviewer was on about… Social distancing measures were perfectly adequate. However, such measures require customers to maintain a distance from other people - and unfortunately on some occasions people simply don’t - which is not the fault of the establishment."