Langlands Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Stew and Dumplings takeaway was just like home cooked. Very tasty, lovely dumplings and very filling."
• "The food (especially the quiche) is always of a high standard tasty piping hot and very prompt at arriving at your table."
• "Fish and chips with garlic crushed garden peas and tartare sauce. Batter on fish was nice and thin and not at all stodgy."
• "Had Eggs Benedict & it was delicious, bacon just right, poached eggs fresh & perfect, holandaise sauce perfect."
• "The food was very good. I had a full English breakfast and my husband had soup and roll- would definitely recommend."
• "The cafe had scrumptious food."
• "The cafe serves excellent food."

Cons:

• "No salads and everything with chips and when I asked for extra salad instead today all I got was leaves! Very poor."
• "The Yorkshire Pudding and roast Potatoes were hard as nails and burnt."
• "The roast potatoes were like rock and flew off plate when tried cutting, the Yorkshires were gooey and the peas and carrots were cold, really disappointing."
• "The food choice was limited and chips were undercooked and peas were like bullets."
• "The quality was very poor, all processed not fresh."
• "the quiche was burnt on top and sloppy in the middle and the chips, well, they were definitely not fresh."
• "Unfortunately the veg sausages were completely inedible and tasted of processed plastic."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were incredibly helpful and friendly."
• "Very friendly and helpful staff."
• "Staff are wonderfully helpful."
• "The staff were very attentive and the food was delicious."
• "The staff were friendly and helpful."
• "All staff approachable and superbly helpful."
• "Really friendly, helpful staff and plentiful parking."

Cons:

• "Coffee shop waited 20 mins for someone to take our order. No one came served people that came in after us."
• "Most of the plants outside and in required urgent watering, only spoke to two staff members, others ignored or blanked me."
• "Service is so slow, main restaurant doesn't do sandwiches smaller cafe is way to small."
• "Staff rude & unhelpful ☹️"
• "Service was a little disjointed and needed someone taking managing the whole event."
• "Staff stood looking at me waiting in the queue."
• "I do not recommend. The service in the Cafe was appalling."

Facilities

Pros:

• "The disabled toilet was big enough to take a wheelchair in and was very clean."
• "Highly accessible for the disabled."
• "Plentiful parking."
• "Langlands has some useful features including free car parking and toilets within the garden centre."
• "First class garden centre. Cafe and restaurant. Good standard of food on offer - especially in the cakes and scones department. Wheelchair friendly."
• "Accessibility - good, lots of disabled parking bays near the level entrance. Best loos for disabled I've seen for a long while."
• "Plenty of blue badge parking right outside the door and easy wheelchair access."

Cons:

• "Visited the classic car show on Sunday long walk through shop no parking nearer for disabled."
• "The only thing that was disappointing was the farm shop which didn't have much apart from cakes."
• "The tables were not cleaned in the 60 minutes I was there."
• "Only downside for our visit was lack of suitable toilet/changing facilities when I needed to use for my non mobile wheelchair using son."
• "The toilets! They are not large enough to cope with the amount of folks using them!"
• "Then to add insult there are not many disable parking bays."
• "The tables are wood and the groves are full of crumbs and make it feel dirty."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices in the coffee shop are reasonable and the cakes are epic."
• "Large and very well stocked garden centre. Plants are really well tended and healthy: not the cheapest, but they are good."
• "Gave it a 5 star as huge parking area, also got a stunning fresh cream scone, £2.99."
• "Fantastic garden center, ample parking, nicely set out displays and reasonable prices."
• "Not cheap but good value."
• "Food is really good quality and reasonably priced."
• "Choice of restaurant or cafe both having good food at reasonable prices."

Cons:

• "The restaurant was freezing cold, every time the door was opened into the garden centre, we got an arctic blast."
• "Not good value, won't be back."
• "The cafe inside is a rip-off £7,50, for a sandwich, so not as good as they used to be."
• "Went for a walk round with friends. Bought a couple of plants, bit expensive compared with other garden centres."
• "Expensive food! We called for lunch but they didn't have anything light all substantial meals so we shared."
• "The plants are now so expensive I won't go anymore. Stick to Reighton Garden Centre."
• "Whilst you can pretty much get what you're looking for here, the prices are generally a bit high."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Love the farm shop, had loads of nice cakes, scones and seasonal produce."
• "They often hold events here, just recently a dog show and craft fairs."
• "The cafe is very good and popular with shoppers of all ages."
• "Overall a really nice garden centre and well worth a visit."
• "The whole place is laid out in an inviting way that says to you, [COME ON IN]."
• "A very nice restaurant and a separate coffee shop WOW unheard of good gift and farm shop a good experience."
• "The Christmas display and stock is impressive. Lots of stock for the festive season."

Cons:

• "The dog show wasn't very well planned not many stalls and the show was just people paying to get their dogs judged as cutest pup, handsome chap etc and couldn't hear a thing that was going on as too noisy and no microphone."
• "Visited on Thursday for a teatime meal... we find it going downhill. And pricey to boot. We will be voting with our feet in future."
• "The vast majority of the indoor garden related items have been put away for now, replaced by lots of Christmas goodies, which were plentiful, quality and original."
• "Outdoor plants are poorly laid out with little sense to the order making it hard to find anything."
• "Was really disappointed as they were changing shelves and displays so not much was out."
• "It feels like they are catering for people of the older age groups as it's definitely not for kids."
• "What a great pity this has ruined our formerly good opinion of Langlands."