Markham Grange Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Atmosphere and Environment

Pros:

• "The whole place is heated via the large shed next door. This is the home of a steam museum with some impressive machines on view. It's a great place to visit particularly when it's miserable outdoors."
• "Handled this strange new world incredibly well, hats off to the staff and management."
• "This is a good place to go it has changed over the last few months On Wednesdays there is a Steam Engine museum lots to interest old and young alike the garden centre is really all about Christmas something 1/2 price."
• "Lovely garden centre plenty of variety of plants and flowers well priced plenty to look at it definitely worth going and we did get 10% discount but we did spend over £300 lol go and enjoy yourself and have a good look round."
• "Brilliant place. Has everything you could want for gardens animals steam trains beautiful little cafe with live singer."
• "It was a lovely atmosphere with plenty of visitors."
• "An enjoyable place to visit with plenty to see and buy, a huge variety of outlets on site."

Cons:

• "Compared to other big garden centres it needs modernization so is turning into a pensioner paradise."
• "Visited today, the place was freezing inside."
• "The only downside was being inside an old greenhouse converted to shops the heat from all the people was causing a lot of condensation and this was dripping regularly as you walked about so you would regularly get a large droplet on head or down neck."
• "Arrived today to find a dark depressing garden centre where a lot of the plant tables were empty."
• "In the middle of major refit so a lot of the drops like big clothing and brick a brack shop not open a bit disappointed really."
• "It's changed. All the old stalls / shops have gone. Replaced with overpriced stuff."
• "Unfortunately no Dogs allowed and the toilet block is the carpark so."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Staff very helpful and friendly."
• "Staff are lovely people friendly helpful."
• "Friendly staff. So much to look at."
• "Very well informed staff, happy to answer all your questions."
• "The staff are always lovely and always available to help."
• "Staff very helpful. Could not resist a coffee, scone and massive walnut cake. Reasonable price and tasty."
• "The staff are well informed and very helpful with nutritional advice."

Cons:

• "The staff were very busy unloading boxes, but only one checkout was open, they really needed another."
• "Staff not very helpful."
• "No staff available to ask at all."
• "Staff are friendly apart from the tills where they look miserable."
• "Worst place for service. There is a young girl there called Millie Burrows who works in the cafe and she is rude and a nasty piece of work."
• "The staff were very good when I complained."
• "Staff very helpful with all aspects of the produce, they were undergoing a layout change with new stock arriving, so was difficult finding what we needed, however at check out the server willing to leave post & show us where we needed to be."

Cafe and Food

Pros:

• "The cafe has an amazing chef and the food is great quality and not too expensive."
• "The food is generous in portion sizes and tasty."
• "The cafe serves delicious home cooked food, and the choice of cakes will make it difficult for anyone to decide which to have."
• "Lovely cafe - clean, beautiful fish & chips, crispy batter, delicious haddock & even a little pot of very tasty tartare sauce."
• "Then to end our day had amazing meal at the café food was delicious staff were very friendly happy smiling faces."
• "The cafe has been expanded, with a great new look and an even better menu."
• "The restaurant/cafe is very well priced and good value for money and has a very big portion sizing menu but well worth the prices paid!"

Cons:

• "Review for cafe: There was no chef so they only had scones and ice cream which was a shame."
• "The only reason it wasn't 5 star here was because of the horrible chocolate drink in the cafe."
• "The cafe is not the best. (burnt coffee)"
• "Cafe is awful. Went for Sunday dinner (used to be very good) but no longer doing them, now under new management."
• "Also they need to incorporate their toilets inside the garden centre in this day and age I feel and perhaps clean them more often as they were sometimes quite dirty and smelly."
• "The Cafe sorry only 1 star, I ordered two Latte coffee's this was a cup of hot water and milk no taste of coffee what a rip off."
• "Everytime we go we queue in the queue get drinks as you get those before you order and then at the till get told they have just stopped serving hot food."

Products and Pricing

Pros:

• "Prices are competitive and plants we've had previously are all thriving."
• "Good selection of plants and just about everything you need for your garden."
• "Lovely selection of very healthy plants, trees and bushes at very reasonable prices."
• "Plants and accessories at a reasonable rate and Plenty to choose from."
• "Fantastic choice of plants."
• "The range of plants here is good and colours are beautiful, plants are well looked after and prices are good too."
• "One if my favourite garden centres for plants. They have a huge range of healthy plants and you can even fund more unusual selections here."