Applejacks in Cambridge - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

This is my first experience here to meet a colleague for coffee. The staff were lovely, and they informed me of the roast dinners prepared and served at a reduced rate on a Tuesday for local pensioners. How lovely and amazing is that! I managed to have a couple of roast potatoes that were left over and would highly recommend them. I also had a wander around the garden furniture department and observed some beautiful pieces. Worth a look.

Much better layout and presentation of plants of late. More of an enjoyable experience rather than just a place to get the essentials.

Lovely garden centre with a good selection of plants and a super gift section. Has a restaurant and a coffee bar.

Great restaurant with lovely selection of cakes and cooked items. Lots of tables inside and outside. Dog friendly. Good outdoor and indoor plants at reasonable prices. Outdoor garden items aplenty and good prices. Easy, free parking with lots of spaces. Friendly staff.

We went inly for the play area. We bought grazy golf but that was pointless..the moment my 3 year old saw kart's and sand pit she wanted to go there. She played there for 2 hours. There are slides, climbing rope, kart's, sand pit with some things in there. The place was very quiet between 2-4pm.

Usually, quite a busy place. Cafe was rather slow today.

My family and I had lots of fun doing mini golf. We then went to the cafe and got a drink and a bite to eat which was delicious. The staff are very friendly and professional which makes twenty pence garden centre a wonderful place to be.

Fantastic coffee restaurant and great variety of plants and prices

Just queued for food - one side was closed so a bigger queue on the snack side - asked for the gardeners breakfast ( full English) at 11.04 as if took a few minutes longer to queue ( their fault) - girl behind till informed me breakfasts finished at 11.00 am - she checked with kitchen but breakfast was closed at 11.00 am - so then I ordered my wife her choice of a toasted sandwich ( Brie and cranberry ) but told they are only sold from 11.30 am 😩😩🤣🤣😩😩🤣🤣- so came away with two coffees and observed a line of unhappy customers- duty manger called but no help whatsoever other than to say they are looking at it for the future - poor attitude to add to ridiculous rules of when certain foods are available - not your finest hour Twenty Pence - you may have been voted best garden centre - but not by us who will now go elsewhere to find something to eat !!!! Mike and Susan

Just stopped for a cuppa but the garden centre seemed well stocked x

After a long drive through France we needed a pit stop .. We looked on Google and this place popped up.. Crazy golf for the kids and a doggy play area for Dexter.. We spoke to one of your employees called Alyson with a Y not an I.. She said that.. She was lovely and told us all about the twenty pence garden centre and recommended the pizzas... They were delicious ... She even passed the Dexter test which is a rarity.... You have a credit to your team there with Alyson with a Y.. Well done and thank you.. PS the kids cheated at golf....

Perfect little town garden center but I had to deduct 1 star because it doesn't have enough big plants it has a bunch of small ones but not big ones Other then that it has great food with a blissful ice cream shop and some decent mini golf really a one off thing though

We only went for lunch, which was excellent with a wide selection of dishes and sandwiches etc. Recommended.

Lovely staff, a whole range of gardening equipment, plants, gifts, foods, etc. Very nice cafe, dog friendly with an agility area, mini golf, play park etc. Good parking and disabled access. Xx

Excellent, lovely independent garden centre. Cakes to die for, never mind about the diet

Nice garden centre. Good food in cafe. Roast dinner today

Had a wonderful lunch. The panini was delicious and filling. Definitely will have this again

Good garden centre with a very pleasant coffee shop.

Lovely garden centre. Definitely visit again

The best, most varied, generous roast lunch I have had in a long time. Thick, soft roast beef, Yorkie, stuffing, 8 veg and unlimited gravy for those of us who like a lot. Kind attentive staff...and the plants are good too! Brilliant. Will return whenever I am this way.

Popped by for a quick look round and a cheeky breakfast. Very nice, helpful staff and good choice across the store

A very nice and well-organised garden centre with not bad prices.

Fabulous Garden Centre, beautiful plants at the moment!

This is some were you do browsing lots of things you want but don't need

Only short visit seems okay unable to make a full rating

Fantastic breakfast here and great you can select what you want and make your own breakfast your way. Definitely would come back again.

Lovely staff, nice atmosphere, great kids area

Good Saturday menu. I felt the Saturday menu choice is better than the Sunday.

A very decent garden centre with cafe and restaurant.

The food is great. Pensioners roast on Tuesday is very good. Whilst a little remote the garden centre is excellent for plants and gizits. We'll worth a trip out.

Just been into Twenty Pence. The lady at the till was so engrossed in conversation with her friend, that she scanned the items and gave us a receipt without saying hello or acknowledging us as customers...in any way. Glad I didn't spend more money. We'll just go to Oakington next time.

Very pleasant experience, nice children's play area with a sweet little shop selling lovely ice-cream.

Only used the restaurant. Staff extremely helpful and polite. The vegetables needed a little more cooking, the carrots were hard.

Great nursery, they have a huge selection of plants, shrubs trees, vegetables seeds etc. Lovely inside area with anything you want or need for garden and house, bird seeds, houses, feeders etc. It's a must go to Nursery, oh they also have a restaurant and a new patio area outside to sit and eat.

Lovely selection of plants, also nice selection of goods inside, ideal for finding gifts. Restaurant is good too.

What a garden centre brilliant staff and super clean toilets and an outstanding cafe/restaurant

I personally don't like walking around garden centres, but my partner loves it. This place had a large parking area, big enough for my large van. Inside they had a large selection of plants and equipment, cafe, food shop, ice cream parlour, and even mini golf. A nice place.

Lovely garden centre, could easily spend afternoon there. has a bit of everything apart from plants etc, has garden furniture, jams local cider wine and various artisan foods, toys cards & lots of lovely bits & bobs. Outside area for kids, and dog play area, they also sell ice cream for dogs! Restaurant and coffee shop food & drinks high standard.

All good nice stocked garden centre.

Love this garden centre so much to see very well stocked with plants and other stuff for the garden. Also have a drink and something to eat.

Fantastic garden centre. Fabulous products. Great area for children too. Not overly expensive either.

Variety inside and out, good food and cake

Great selection, wonderful company and so fun!

Good garden centre & restaurant

Went for afternoon tea with friends, and it was nothing special whatsoever.

Well stocked with lovely plants but rather expensive so spent far too much. Nice cup of coffee in the restaurant. Cakes on sale in packs not too nice but probably chose the wrong ones. Everyone has there own taste so just try.

Love this garden center! They have a little bit of everything. Staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. Even if I'm running in for only one item, I always end up getting more. Love there restaurant! Nice to have something like this so close to the village.

Enjoyed the cafe and great selection of plants. However, very disappointed I couldn't find lavender, (which I can't believe you haven't got) so asked two men. One had no idea and asked another member of staff, who went off but never returned with an answer. Mrs P. Law

Great little garden center with a nice cafe. People always really helpful!!

Coffee and scone with butter after shopping. Cheese scone with butter, pickle and cheese £4.00 No thank you, just the cheese scone with butter - £4.00 !

Sunday roast great wish it was not 50 miles from home.

Nice flowers but could be cheaper. The deli is good and sell excellent cakes. There is now a pizzeria in the deli which serves decent pizza.

Lovely garden centre, great cafe and cakes

Fantastic service food brilliant staff very helpful and friendly

On visiting today we went to the orchard pizzeria for 2 coffee's and were told that we could not have them unless we purchased food. THEY

This is the first time in several years I have visited this garden centre. A lot of money has obviously been invested in bringing the restaurant and shopping facilities up to date. We visited on a Sunday and had some food and had a look around the retail area. The food was nice, but the service area was badly managed and organised. Staff were serving customers in a disorganised way which was confusing and also annoying. Though the tables were generally clean in the restaurant more attention should be paid to ensuring the space is also clean too. The retail area holds lots of interesting gifts and gardening tools, plus BBQs, plants, etc. In all, the place is well run, nicely kept, but it's a shame about the annoyances in the restaurant. Prices here are higher than Dobbies or chain garden centres but that's kind of what you expect from an independent.

Lovely place with so much choice and plenty of it. The cafe is worth a visit. Lovely staff especially Sarah who walked us round twice for items we couldn't find. Very personable young lady. Will be going back

Cheese scones in the cafe are £4 for one. If you head over to the pizzeria area, they sell the same scones in packs of 2 for £3. They were doing chicken sandwiches at the cafe for £12! And a very dry and sad looking full English was a rip off too. I really don’t recommend coming here it’s so expensive. The service was also really slow which they advised was due to training staff. This is fine when the food is decent when you actually do manage to get served, which was not the case.

A nice garden centre that does a fantastic sunday roast dinner, paninis and cakes. There's also a pizza cafe as well. Sells a good selection of pretty much everything you'd want to find at garden centre

Great place but like most garden centres over priced

Whilst visiting today we went for coffee and cake. Pizza cafe was empty but they wouldn't serve us drinks as they only serve Pizza between 12 and 2.30, were told to go to the main cafe, this was busy and crowded so decided to leave. I don't understand this policy!!

Good food and friendly service, Dessert are delicious 😋 Beautiful garden centre,now here is my favorite place ❤️

Very good Garden Centre, lots to look at. The coffee shop serves good food.

It's OK. Lots of markup on a multitude of items that by comparison elsewhere is a bit eyewatering. There are certainly some nice things here but in terms of manufacturing quality the are a bit substandard Food was cold and tasteless. Had the curry which for the price was unacceptably small in terms of a portion, more akin to a child's portion. The wait at the till to get drinks and pay adds to the food getting cold by my food thermometer read 29.8 degrees Con the curry and 23.2 degrees C on the rice. The Naan bread was inedible and could served as a clutch plate in a car.

Date of Visit: 02/03/2024 - The queue for the cafe (not the pizzeria one, which is what we initially came here for; but were put off as that was practically empty with not a pizza in sight) was VERY long and it took absolutely ages for anyone to get served. The two young boys who were on the till and serving coffee and cake were dressed very smart and were polite, but had no help whatsoever from any other staff members. There was about fifteen customers in the line and growing, but with such a small behind-the-counter space; perhaps more than two staff would have made it a bit tight. Our table was full of crumbs and the chairs were the same, although there was a nice young girl wiping around the one I chose to sit at. It is definitely worth mentioning that none of this was her fault as she was going as fast as she could, but I had to wipe it myself in the end with a napkin. The coffee was above average but my Millionaire Shortbread had ***FAR TOO MUCH*** caramel in (see photo) which made it ***WAY TOO SICKLY*** to enjoy. My wife didn’t make really any comment about her cheesecake either, so for that reason I’ll rate it as average on her behalf - Unfortunately we won’t be returning, which is a shame as we were so looking forward to trying the pizzeria at some point :(

Nice of coffee and fresh scone for our break on cycle ride. Popular and busy place

Took my son here. While I enjoyed a lovely pizza with friends in the restaurant, the staff kindly helped my 10 year old son choose some surprise birthday presents from him to me. They helped him at the till and then covered them up so I couldn't see them which I thought was sweet and endearing. Well done Twentypence - your staff were amazing

Very helpful and happy staff . Went in for secateurs came out with so much more lol

Staff were very friendly and there was a good range of items to choose from.

Been multiple times over the years and the food is wonderful, had a breakfast the other day and would highly recommend it. 5 stars

Excellent selection , local, and friendly

It's an over the top Christmas extravaganza at this time of year. Inside is a cabinet of horrors: all sorts of toy buildings and figures and trains, except that I found myself wanting a few of them. They really have everything you need to decorate for the festivities including the best tree I've ever bought. And as usual good advice from helpful and knowledgeable people. Doesn't seem expensive at all either.

I was more impressed with this place more than my last visit. Plenty of healthy plants. Nice Christmas trees and a huge choice of Christmas stuff, if that's what you are looking for. I came for compost & manure of which there was plenty of. And good deals on it too.

Lovely garden centre with lots of choice and pricing is reasonable. The car park was a little treacherous as there are a lot of potholes which are in need of filling. Wouldn’t want to be using a wheelchair and negotiating it.

Gorgeous place to shop and eat! The choices to eat are plenty, Sunday Roast is so good! Delicious cakes, scones to die for and the coffee and hot chocolate is a real treat! Amazing staff, they are fast, polite and so efficient. The Christmas Market is great, so many options, you'll definitely find the right gift!

Plenty of food halls and very well managed.

Not much choice in savoury items. A bit expensive for a garden centre. Disappointed

Carvery was lukewarm. Wouldn't have that again. Apart from that lots of choice in the garden centre/gifts sections.

Went for the Christmas market, or was nice and I enjoyed it however it is not as good as suggested. Got a hot chocolate at the café which was very nice and great customer service but was very expensive.

Very nice plenty of choice but a little expensive

The orchard cafe....staff went above and beyond to help cater for a dietary needs customer..(sally and muddy.)...us other foodies looked after aswell...can't fault anything..

Nice place to visit, lots to look at but like most garden centres, bit pricey.

Lovely garden centre and great for the kids

Tasty and filling roast lunch and loads to see in the Christmas sections. Well worth a visit. Puts many other places to shame.

Superb restaurant and huge range of fabulous plants

the restaurant was lovely, nicely set up and staff were amazing. will definitely be back as the food was delicious and the shop has lots to choose from !

Probably the slowest service & the worst food I ever had never again !

Extremely poor! Went for lunch. They could not advise as to whether the Tomato soup had garlic in it because they didn’t know! Had a Turkey sandwich with chips. The sandwich consisted of one supermarket Turkey slice, was wet and totally tasteless, and the chips were under cooked and loaded with grease! Two Americano coffees - both were simply warm coloured water! Absolutely awful! Never again. Certainly would never recommend!

Love our visits here! We last visited on a Saturday in the middle of October and got to see the Halloween displays, plus the Chistmas displays. Stayed for lunch, which was lovely, although it was as expensive, as most garden centres are. I'm going back for some gifts when I don't have the children with me!

A very nice garden centre and the menu was fantastic, plus a café

Not particularly helpful when asked a question. Cafe is certainly unfriendly & won't go in there again

Excellent coffee shop, Christmas shop and atmosphere

The garden centre offering itself is nice enough, they have a wide range of products and some of the pricing is very reasonable - there are always some interesting things to tempt you without breaking the bank. They do a great loyalty card scheme and special events like the Christmas late opening and discount offer events too. What really let's this place down is the cafes, in particular the staff customer service skills. On far too many occasions I have experienced poor service ranging from unhelpful to downright moody and difficult. If you have a request which is even remotely out of the ordinary, like daring to ask for onions in a toasted sandwich combo on the menu which doesn't feature them (when other combos do, so ingredients are clearly available) you get met with sighing and responses like "we can't do that" or flapping and having to ask a supervisor. Yes, it's asking for something slightly off-menu, but given the £10+ price tag for a simple panini and drink, a minor addition of an available ingredient is hardly a big ask. As it happens on this occasion, they even gave me the wrong panini altogether and I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of complaining given previous times I've tried to have an issue rectified! That's not to say everyone is like this but in general, the staff need some rigourous customer-facing service training so that things like this and the frequent bored/disinterested attitude and can't-do attitude aren't on show. Here's one piece of training for free: If a customer tells you their cakes before their drink order, don't give them attitude, refuse to do it and say that you have to do drinks first. Learn to be flexible, not reflexively rigid and unwilling to assist! We complained about this behaviour and were met with a defensive "sorry if it seems that way to you" - my second free tip: learn to listen when a customer is reasonably telling you that you got something wrong and don't essentially tell them their complaint didn't happen! We've had some really poor experiences with the quality of the food on occasion too, including yesterday when a posset desert was drinkable it was so poorly set. The member of staff we told stirred it and went "oh yeah" and walked off, no offer to rectify it or anything. I hate writing negative reviews and always try to look for the positives, but the simple fact is that if they had better customer service skills and attention to detail in their cafes then this review would have been an easy 5⭐ one but yesterday's poor customer service was just one time too many.

They even have wheelchairs to lend you

I like this garden centre. The plants always look well cared for, and there is a good selection. Also the shop has a reasonable selection of garden and home stuff. My biggest gripe, however, is that they already have a lot of Christmas tat on display!!!! End of September!! So irritating. My local garden centre is the same. Sigh!!!!

Good choice of seasonal plants. Very healthy. As with a lot of garden centres, there is a focus on "seasonal stuff," but the plants are good here.

Restaurant is nice and good service.

Lovely garden centre with good choice of healthy plants etc. Garden ornaments sold. Spaciousness areas not over crowded. Gifts etc. Lovely cafe areas.

Very nice large garden centre with lots to look around..

Lots of choice sad to see Xmas stuff out already. Nice plants can be pricey