Annie's Tea Room in Milton Keynes

Not bad. Food expensive for what it was. Staff sullen.

We were walking past and just popped in for a quick coffee. Looked lovely. Coffee was very nice

Really nice place. Lovely food and great service. Can go for a walk around too.

It was ok . Expensive food and coffee. The buildings look a bit grubby.

Great location with lots of outdoor seating. Good coffee and a good selection of cakes - including gluten free.

Lovely Tea Room, great service, staff were very helpful and the surroundings were fab. Would highly recommend a visit.

While I would like to give them a higher rate I can’t. The place has been beautifully made. The terrace is great. On the other side the coffee machines were not working, not in the cafe nor in the ice cream shop. I would expect to be able to have an espresso ☕️ in a cafe. It’s also useful from the customers’ point of view to have an easy access price list.

Lovley location, and nice staff, but thats where it ended. £9.50 for a coronation chicken roll, what a joke. Came with a few manky salad leaves but that's it. £1 of raw ingredients at the absolute most. The roll was tiny. What an absolute rip off. Don't stop here. I know Oxfordshire is expensive, but this is beyond belief......

Great service, kind staff, beautiful garden, delicious ice-cream.

We had a really disappointing experience this morning. Having waited in the queue for ages, we were then told we couldn’t order a breakfast, even though it still wasn’t 11:30 (the cut off point for serving breakfasts). Without wanting to be difficult I asked if they could make a simple scrambled eggs on toast for my children, but they refused, even though they could make fried eggs as part of other meals. There are no obvious food options for children once they stop serving breakfast. The worst part - I was stood behind a woman who had brought her brother out specifically for breakfast. She explained that he had Alzheimer’s and it had taken them longer to leave the house due to his condition, but they had been looking forward to a full English at Annie’s. The person on the till refused to process their breakfast order. I understand that there has to be a cut off, but it wasn’t 11:30 yet. If the cut off is earlier, you need to make this clear. It resulted in a huge amount of disappointment for us and this other family. A little bit of flexibility and empathy would go a long way.

We went to Annie's Tea Room this summer, on a rainy afternoon. It is quaint tea place for afternoon tea. We had tea and scones and a carrot cake. The feel was very good. It is a cosy place. They have a limited menu. But they have a marque outside in case you want to have an outdoor tea party. There is plenty of parking, although there is a charge. It is adjacent to the Trupp canal. First, we had a walk along the canal and then we went for tea. It is a nice unique experience. It gives a village feel.

Stopped for a late lunch/ snack

Fab little spot. Great tea and scone!

A cheerful, colourful, tidy, welcoming cafe with indoor, covered outdoor, and open-air outdoor seating. Service was fast and friendly, and the food was hot and tasty. Lots of charming details; signs, flower baskets, blackboards, and picnic tables in all sizes and colours. It was a very pleasant spot for a nice vegan breakfast.

Almost canal side, great rural location.

Great food, lovely atmosphere and location, a d very friendly staff. Really recommend a visit!!

weird set up where you have to wait for drinks orders with food orders, so if you just want a take a way as we did we waited twenty minutes for a drink but couldn't wait any longer due to canal restrictions, didn't get the drinks, was rudely spoken to when questioning their precious system, never go there if you want a quick taka away, waste of time

on a lovely sunny day, what nicer place to be for a light bite or ice cream

Out on a motorcycle ride and decided to pop in on the off chance. food was very nice staff were friendly and lovely outside seating area or you can sit by the canal. We'll recommended.

Nice traditional tea room……but very expensive

Delicious late lunch of homemade soup and quiche for two very hungry ladies!

My friend works there! Great scenery and friendly service from the staff. Good place to stop on walks or canal routes. Overall a very enjoyable experience.

Cute cafe, really nice scones and tea

They do a lovely bacon buttie, I often pop in for one after walking my dog. I don't know what the last reviewer is talking about because they always have free dog treats and this week they have bigger dog treats for you to buy. This is a great very dog friendly place.

We went on a rainy day in April. It was supposed to be ( according to their website) National Pet Week,with a free treat for the dog and even a doggy menu. There was none of this. The place was freezing cold, the cakes were dry and tasteless, and the service was unfriendly. It might be okay if you go on a sunny day and sit outside. The location is nice, but that's about all it has going for it.

Delicious cheese scones and coffee. Friendly staff.

Great for a bite and a coffee. Outside seating is lovely in the sunshine. Still has free parking if you are eating there.

Friendly staff and atmosphere, nice selection of breakfast/brunch choices. Enjoy your food surrounded by beautiful local artwork! Plus free parking.

Lovely food made and served by lovely people

What a splendid Mother's Day Tea we had. Very tasty sandwich,s ,& lovely Cakes, Sausage Roll and Scones, with a garnish of salad & Crisps. Tea & food served in lovely bone china. Nothing was to much trouble for the staff. Who provided us with a box to take home ,items of food we had no room for. Prosecco is available, I would rank this as good, if not better than a tea at a well known Castle. Will have to go back to Thrupp for another.

Food tasted nice but £25 for four small sandwiches made from two pieces of bread, a scone, a slice of cake and a tea is absolutely outrageous. Staff were friendly. Facilities inside are tiny. Not much space for more than a dozen people inside and maybe twenty or so outside. Difficult to reach, especially if driving.

Lovely place to stop after walk along the canal from Enslow. Food good, staff were friendly and has large seating area outside for warmer weather.

Just had a fantastic bacon and egg butty! Great service and cosy atmosphere

Took my baby daughter here for lunch. The beef stew was hot and delicious; the portion was just enough. Nice rabbit theme in the tea room. The outside setting is nice too. Staff was friendly. Seems very popular with families. Two high chairs available so you should be able to use one if you need it.

An absolute gem of a place. Fantastic food and friendly owners/staff. Highly recommended.

I love going to Annie's, food and service is always good. They have free parking still which is great. Still my fav spot with my family.

A very nice cafe next the the canal. There is parking however need to be a a marked parking space & get a note from the cafe.

So disappointing. Their own website says open until 5pm as does google etc. Just drove 40 mins, arrived at 4:17 and told we’re closed.

Nice place for coffee and cake after a walk in Wytham Woods

A real shame, our previous visit years ago was good. This time we were very disappointed. Macaroni cheese was small and over nutmegged. The coronation chicken bap was small, dry and over priced. We will not return which is a shame because there is so much potential.

Great cakes good price good for families quick service 12 of us

Delicious tea, cake and atmosphere and what a lovely canal

Food was ok, the breakfast bap was a little greasy. Over priced, £1.20 for a bag of crisps. There is now a parking meter in the car park.

Cottage pie was burnt but lemon drizzle was very good so good in parts

Good location alongside Oxford canal. Ideal for refreshments and toilet break after a towpath walk.

Second time coming here and it's lovely. Nice place for a cuppa and a relax.

I'm not sure how to approach this review, as ordinarily I'm very fair when writing feedback. The location is great, the tea rooms are well presented, clean and tidy. Sadly, we felt for the price the service was below average. My wife ordered a full english at £14.95 and had the bacon substituted with extra sausages (4 in total) as they'd apparently run out. Initially, I let this go as we were tired, we'd just come back from France and so wanted to refuel on our way home to Norfolk. However, several minutes later, the couple who ordered after we'd already ordered and paid, were served full english without any substitutes. I was a tad annoyed to say the least. Not to mention the lady was feeding scraps of bacon to her dog. I genuinely felt like we'd been singled out as we weren't local. I felt the gentleman serving was quite rude and patronising toward some customers. We went out of our way to visit the tea rooms, sadly we shall not bother in the future. Such a shame as this little place has huge potential with the correct level of customer service. I appreciate there were a handful of customers before us, but to run out of the basics within 10 minutes of opening is a real let down.

Great place worth a visit. English fare, nice position near the canal, a great spot to stop if you are on a canal boat. Well sign posted if you come by car.

Bit overpriced for what you get.

Shameful experience, had called beforehand to see if they had wifi and if it would be ok to use it provided I bought something. They said that's fine, they're not an internet cafe but a few hours shouldn't be a problem. We bought a tea and coffee, couldn't drink the coffee as it was far too acidic and it had curdled the milk. They asked us to both leave the premises after 90 minutes. A staff member had also made a point of staring at us for an hour prior to this. Unfortunately I believe the behaviour was likely partly racially motivated. Such a shame.

Absolutely amazing food. Went twice and loved everything we ordered. However, some of the staff were very unprofessional. I watched one young man grab a desert by the tines and then present it to me for use. How does that happen? Same young man sat down at a client table, back to the door, focused on his phone and ignored an open door on a wet and windy day. Other staff were great. Worth going for the food, but keep on eye out on the prep.

I came to have a cream tea with my two daughters and grandchildren, very disappointed, there were not enough scones for us to have cream teas, we ordered carrot cake and victoria sandwich, coffee and teas. When the order arrived there was no victoria sandwich, tea and milk, when we questioned this we were told it would be rectified, a tiny piece of victoria sandwich arrived in a food box, milk and a tea bag in a disposable cup, not a tea bag in a tea pot and a china cup, very disappointed

Delicious savoury tea with a cheese scone. Like everything in the world right now, felt quite expensive... But was delicious!

Great coffee and cake as usual.

Lovely cafe in a peaceful location

First visit, certainly won’t be our last. Great find. Highly recommend you visit. The Rock Cakes were great.

Great ice cream, lovely area near the canal to relax on a sunny day as part of a walk around this beautiful place

Popped in for Coffe and Cake... Friendly staff...

Highly recommend the homemade scones of any variety! Queues can be long in the sunshine so be aware. Separate area for delicious ice creams in crunchy waffle cones

Excellent service and customer service was.ok.

Excellent service polite staff plenty of choice. Prices are very good freshly made food .

Had a sausage and egg bap. Disappointed that fried breakfast was not on offer later for those of us who get up later with a slight hangover

Coffee and cake was good but curiously came in disposable cups and boxes, unmarked, so we weren't quite sure who got cappucino/latte/flat white - no problem with cakes! Good place for watching boats and kayaks on the canal and walking.

Lovely weather for a nice coffee ☕ outside. Plenty of seats

Sorry Annie, but you've lost the plot. Lovely cake and nice coffee, but sadly very overpriced. Slow service at at time when it's not busy as well, used to be a regular stop off, but doubt I'd visit again, despite the lovely location.

Annie's has been around for quite sometime now. It's a great place for proper, traditional, home cooked food. Cakes fresh that day. The scones with jam and cream are amazing. Proper sandwiches which will not leave you hungry or disappointed with lovely teas, coffee and hot chocolate - which is whipped and so good.. It is very popular all year round with lots of outside seating. Toilets are nearby and you can walk off all your indulgences down at the canal bank. Service is good, and everything freshly prepared so don't go thinking this is conveyerbelt food, it isn't, its gorgeous freshly prepared just the way you order it. This is in my top ten of favourites.

What a lovely little spot. Right by the canal with a lifting bridge - very picturesque. Excellent coffee and cake - what more could you ask for?

Great little hidden spot by the canal, to stop for a quick bite to eat or afternoon tea or an ice cream... also a place next to it that you can hire a cannoe to go paddling on the canal.

Carrot cake was lovely but the tea was wishy washy and didn't taste at all like tea.

Wonderful place for food ,friendly efficient service quality is very good and perfect for lunch and walk along the canal

Absolutely love Annie's. Good food, great variety of teas and coffee. All in a beautiful location in Thrupp. Beautiful walks from here along the canal or the river Cherwell.

Pleasant staff. Nice food. Lovely setting.

A lovely tea house in a gorgeous location with both plenty of seating and parking and some wonderful walks around. Minus one star as it’s quite pricey and the coffee isn’t particularly tasty. It’s also popular so on weekends there’s usually quite a wait. Toilets could also do with some updating.

Stumbled across this place on Mothers day. It was very busy and they were running low on food but we managed to get a lovely lemon drizzle cake & a coffee. We sat outside. Lovely little place. Pity it wasn't a hot day like it had been all week. Im sure its very popular due to its lovely location by the canal.

Not at all worth the money. Nothing wrong with the food just not worth the amount they are charging. £35 for 3 sandwiches 2 drinks, and a savoury afternoon tea. Which was a scone, cheese, salad and some pickle it also included a coffee. Which they got wrong. The sandwiches were small, good bread though. It used to be a lot better years ago, I'm not sure why it's changed so much.

Rather suprised to find at 3pm on a sunny day on a Sunday that there were no scones available !!

Izzy was so lovely !! A real asset to the business

Always great service! My 4 year old even commented how nice the staff are and he's never said this anywhere else!

Nice cafe by the canal. Kayak hire. I love their “boater” sandwiches.

Lovely coffee and cake. Nice to be able to sit outside. Staff friendly.

Abrupt, short tempered staff and steep prices. £8.65 for a solitary white bread sandwich in a cardboard box! Pffft

Lovely homemade cakes, warm & friendly staff, fab coffee choice, tea, soft drinks. Fresh sandwiches, we had a BLT but a huge variety of homemade food ranging from a full cooked breakfast, scrambled egg on toast, jackets etc. Beautiful setting next to a canal, across a bridge. Gorgeous.

Ham roll on what tasted like a five dp Asked if any mustard was availa,asnno

Cute little place, serving tasty cakes and hot drinks. Perfect little stop whilst walking along the canal.

Went during Christmas Holidays, drinks and cakes were ok but Staff were pretty rude. One table asked if the table could be cleared and cleaned and were just told 'No'.

Visited based on Google reviews and Trip advisor. We had an all English breakfast, was OK, enjoyed the location too :-) Very popular with walkers it seems

Super friendly staff and quick service love coming here except for the dogs 🐕 in the tea room I think they should stay outside there is not enough room for them plus they smell when wet.

Friendly people in a great sett

A quaint place. Very good scone and coffee. Early closing but let us lurk. Plenty of parking behind. We'll be back.

Very expensive & inflexible.£50 for café lunch for family of 4, consisting of jacket potatos & sandwich. A bottle of Fanta/coke is £2.50, which seems crazy for a country café. Shame because its a great location.

Lovely spot for a walk and a snack by the canal.

Lovely location basic a bit pricy

It took nearly 30 minutes to get a dry and overcooked bacon bap and machine coffee for £7.90. Prices are v high - £3.75 for hot chocolate for example - as its a nice location . But if these prices are charged, you expect service and quality to match.

It's a lovely location, but all the laminated signs give this place the vibe of some joyless bureacrat's office. Or maybe an nhs clinic. Anyway, our visit could have been transformed by a bit more communication from the staff (e.g. "there's a 40 minute wait for hot food, is that ok?". Instead we were served coffee and my cake after 10mins, and then had a baffling further 30 minute wait for my partner's scrambled eggs. If everything could just be a bit friendlier, with more active communication, it would be a fantastic coffee shop.

Great food, huge portions, good value for money, delicious coffee with fantastic service. Highly recommended.

A very nice area, outdoor seating only. I have a blue light card which I forgot to mention before buying lunch, drinks and cake. I asked the owner to get the discount added (something that has never been an issue elsewhere) and she refused. I thought that was abit unreasonable. You pay almost £8 for a cold jacket potato, which they do not give you the garnish on (as stated on the menu) if you have beans, I think it's very unreasonable to charge such prices and then refuse to give a discount when I have presented my blue light card. They have a small notice by the till stating they give you a discount for this, it isn't very easy to notice and I only saw it after having made the payment. I am sure most people will enjoy this small pleasant little place, however, my partner and I did not enjoy the food much which was topped off with this sort of service. We will not be returning here.

4* review because a great location. Very pretty area. The food was very tasty. But not 5* because the prices are pretty steep, especially £8 for a sandwich with small side salad served in take away boxes. And the service. Wouldn't have taken much for a quick 'hi , I'll be with you in a minute'

Ran out of items so choice was limited

Really nice spot by the canal with good parking, serving really good hot food, coffee and cake. Excellent for cooked breakfast as well as coffees

Terrible customer service. Arrived at 11:28 to be told “we stop serving breakfast at 11:30”. Then the coffee machine stopped working and I had to go and chase for drinks or a replacement drink 4 times over a 20 minute period and then not even offered a refund. Very disappointed.