Arcadia Garden Centre in Hambleton

ARCADIA GARDEN RESTURANT Never again will we return. There are certain standards that people have and this place isn't mine. The resturant is like walking into the 70s. The bread on the sandwich was grey and limp the lasagna was orange cheese with no flavour and hardly any meat and of course the chips are frozen oven chips terrible. I should have know as soon as I walked in but I didn't and paid £29 for 2 meals and I couldn't face eating the sandwich so left it. It wasnt even worth explaining to any staff as they truly think they are serving good food. The quality of food is terrible and the place is too big. Again it's about standards and some diners will think it's the best! Please dont reply with apologies as in other comments as it is not good enough!.

ordered prawn marie rose sandwich which I had ordered previously and enjoyed. However today very disappointing. After half an hour wait was served two slices of bread with mostly salad inside and had to search for the prawns and sauce. More like shrimps and fairy tasteless.

Have used this garden centre in Teesside for quite a number of years now. Always a vast number of items to choose from and at Christmas, the selection is superb. Added to that, the restaurant is top-notch. Always enjoy eating there! We'll continue to return to this great garden centre for as long as possible.

Gorgeous place for adults and kids.

Always a top notch Sunday carvery from these guys. I will say it is popular. So expect a bit of a wait on occasion, but that’s expected because it’s delicious. I’d recommend it to anyone!

Lovely garden centre, shop and restaurant. Wheelchair access. Reasonably priced. Helpful in all areas.

Gorgeous Christmas rose bedding plants and Xmas Dec's

A nice centre with a decent christmas selection, but overall pricey

Great and wonderful offering almost everything you may need from a garden centre and more ...👌👍🏻

Lovely meal in the cafe as ever. Little browse around for Spring bulbs. One of our favourite garden centres.

Very good plants and gifts and the cafe has a calm soothing atmosphere and the food and drink are of a really good standered The staff are very helpful and friendly. It is a great place to visit .

First time in here after passing on my way to work numerous times. I didnt get far round as spent most of my time in the Pavers shoe shop which is just to the left as you go inside. My Mum, sister and myself ended up buying shoes and boots instead of plants. Will definitely visit again but put some blinkers on as I enter.

Cafe had quiche , bland , no cheese just egg quiche , tasteless

First visit today with family that live in the area. Will definitely be visiting again. I am gluten free and the food in the restaurant was absolutely top notch, the selection was excellent and the cakes were out of this world. A full shelf of gluten free cakes to choose from! I have not been anywhere that has had such a large amount of GF cakes, I was in cake heaven so had to pick 2 different ones to take home with me. The staff knew how important GF food was for me and were very reassuring about the cakes being GF, and the portion sizes were fantastic. Customer service second to none, well done to everyone there.

The large range of plants in this garden centre are usually in good condition, even the ones on the sale table. It's a bit of a wandering one way system around the site. My wife isn't keen on the cafeteria "it's like a large open canteen with no atmosphere " but I haven't been there myself. The Pavers shoe shop is popular and they have occasional savings on the already discounted shoes. Lots of space to park.

I like Arcadia, it's a good place to visit. Whether you're on a horticultural jaunt or looking for unusual gift ideas, I'm always happy when my wife suggests a trip there. Having seen some unusual boots on a recent visit, I suggested to one of our daughters that she might like to have a look at them. We went, and she was indeed interested in a couple of pairs of Dr Marten 'look a likes' at a fraction of the cost. Bouyed by our purchase we went to the cafe for a drink and snack, which diminished our visit somewhat. Biscoff brownie (I think) and fruit scone with jam (clotted cream not available) called to us, and we yielded to temptation. Gosh, I wish we hadn't. Both were dry and majorly disappointing. Oh-so-near to an excellent experience.

We love a day out here, we usually go at Christmas but we thought it would be good to go in summer so my children could enjoy the outside play equipment too. We had a carvery lunch first which was nice. Quite pricey but we enjoyed it and would eat it again. When we went to the little dinos soft play, we were really disappointed. We've been before plenty of times but this time is was absolutely filthy. To the point I took my baby out, out of fear he might put things in his mouth. The floor tiles of the soft play had gaps between where they had moved and inbetween you could see the filth on the floor. It looked like it hadn't been hoovered underneath for months. It was VERY noticeable, so there's no way staff could tidy up the soft play and not realise it needed a hoover. When we sat to have a drink, my partner pointed to the corner of the window by the door way to enter the building and the build up of cobwebs was unbelievable. I feel like my outdoor, spider infested garden shed would be a cleaner place for my children to play.

My sister and I haven't been here for ages. Great garden centre has all sorts of different things from plants to clothing and shoe's so enjoyed walking around and then having coffee and scone in the cafe. Will definitely be there again

One of my favourite garden centres to visit. Gift shop as you enter is brilliant and the garden centre itself has a wide choice of plants, containers and gardening equipment. Lovely helpful staff as well who always seem happy to help me. All level access with a slight incline within the plant section but still wheelchair accessible

Brilliant place for plants and food

Great shop excellent food very pleasant staff Had a great day there.

Worth a visit! Great little garden centre, cafe served great breakfast food although was a little pricey!

The restaurant here is a hidden gem and does a delicious carvery! Can't believe I hadn't tried one until today! The park outside is great for children too and the garden centre itself has a fab selection of products :)

Great store, plants, shoes, gifts,toys, pet beds, food and treats. Lovely cafe, dog friendly. Serves delicious food plus carvery.

Went for the cavery, bit disappointed. Meat was luke warm, yorkshire pudding cold. Veg had been out for a long time and the stuffing balls had the potential to break teeth. Not good.

Interesting place to visit, plenty of gardening products available and other nick nacks also nice coffee shop / eaterie well worth a visit.

We called in today, it was the first time we had visited in years and what a lovely surprise it was. The garden centre is clean, well stocked with several members of staff available to help. The Christmas displays are probably the best I have ever seen in a garden centre, the details are just amazing. From singing reindeer, to polar bears to a giant pink swan, absolutely stunning.

Stood an hour waiting for a carvery 1 person serving queue of over 50 people walks off every 5 minutes for plates after queueing 20 minutes for tickets absolute joke organisation

Spent over an hour queuing for carvery to bs offered dry lukewarm chickrn breast. Managenent couldnt careless and refused to see irate customers and whinge people wanted drinks that had gone cold refunding. Customer service lessons required but they happy to keep taking peoples money for irders knowing left

Arcadia is your onestop place for not just gardening supplies and plants but lovely gifts, cards, shoes and more. There is a nice cafe serving everything from drinks and snacks plus a carvery. There is also a dog friendly sitting area.

Lovely place to go, cafe is very nice

Amazing selection of plants and the Gardeners Retreat restaurant is lovely with great food

The shop and nursery are lovely if you don't mind a 2 mile hike to find everything.. Especially the cafe which is up a hill basically..It wore my 86 year old mum in law out! The configuration is all wrong.And then you have to leave going all the way around the nursery again when the car park is through some gates that are locked and there was no need to walk all the way back again ...Very annoying place and i wont be returning with my mum in law any time soon..Sorry..

Visited cafe before shopping in the Garden Centre. My wife is a regular but this was my first visit, As it I was a hot day I unusually decided to have the Chicken Tikka salad, but was told they didn’t have all the ingredients to make any of the salads. Instead I had the turkey pie with chips & peas. The chips were superb. All the staff were especially helpful and friendly.

Great split sight with a huge food hall, great indoor and outdoor plants; plus a great dinosaur themed play area

Ate in the restaurant. I think you are taking advantage of the OAP clientele. Over priced for small portions.

Lovely place to shop,great sale prices,plants are very good.

Excellent good choice of plants

Shame, could be so much better. The play area stinks of raw sewage and the food is very average and over priced. The scoops of ice cream are tiny! Way over priced. Our kids where so disappointed.

Quiet but friendly place, there's a decent selection of patio furniture to look at considering the size of their building. They also had a decent selection of bedding plants. I bought a plant, but it was tricky to pick one because I found a lot of them had long roots coming out of the bottom of their pots. I'm going to watch the plant, to see if it does well after its root trim.

My go to garden centre with helpful staff, lots of well looked after plants etc. I usually leave with more than I went for. Great cafe, clean toilets and also sell gifts, shoes, lots of other things, beautiful at Xmas as well. Wheelchair accessible as well, my husband uses one.

Always a good quality and good place to visit good staff and lovely food cakes out of this world

Can’t praise the staff in the restaurant highly enough! Helpful, friendly and amazing with my 3 year old grandson who was being very difficult! He calmed down and thoroughly enjoyed our visit - thank you ladies, you now know toy tractor do not run in a straight line!! 😂 Food excellent, staff amazing, experience of our visit perfect!!

HAVE BEEN TO BUY PLANTS AND ALWAYS CALL IN FOR TEA AND A CAKE OR LUNCH STAFF VERY FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL. ALSO DOG FRIENDLY WHICH IS GREAT AS WE CAN MAKE A NICE TRIP FOR US AND OUR DOG WHO LOVES WALKING AROUND WITH ALL THE NICE SMELLS .

Good variety, wide stock to tools and everything else a gardener would need.

Good selection of plants and vegetables.

We enjoyed our drive from Northallerton, and there is plenty to look at,, helpful staff and the food hall had good food though a bit pricey

Good range of plants Easy parking

Very busy in restaurant but nice meal Getting a bit pricey

Garden centre is nice, however we had a Sunday carvery which wasn’t. The veg was soggy and chewy and my wife had the veggie option which was all the veg plus veggie sausage. Unfortunately the sausage didn’t turn up even after asking twice for them, so my wife just had a plate of vegetables for the same price as a standard carvery despite you serving veggie alternatives.

Family group for Father’s Day breakfast (9 of us) staff were polite and attentive, served by twins who were great, food was served in a timely fashion, few bits missing from big complicated order, sorted immediately with no wait, enjoyed it, the food was lovely and made the day. Thank you.

Great selection of plants as you can see in photos, go for a look round and can't stop buying, great place for a day out.

Great got everything we wanted great place to visit

Lovely garden centre. There's something for everyone here. It was my first visit but I'll be back again. The plants were really good and healthy looking and reasonably priced. The staff were very helpful. The displays were good. The cafe was excellent. We didn't get chance to look at all the other stuff they had but there was plenty to see. The children's areas looked good too

Very enjoyable day out. Excellent garden centre, cafe and unusual gifts.

Garden range is great, relatively reasonable prices. The cafe has a good choice of food, we had the carvery which wasn't amazing unfortunately, soggy tasteless vegetables and Yorkshire pudding rock solid. The cups/mugs/teapots served for coffee and tea we're also quite dirty and looked as if not washed properly. Staff did apologise and I was given cleaner ones, but still not great.

Had a lovely time here bought some gorgeous plants loads of choice great prices the restaurant was lovely too fast service friendly staff

Plants and other items where a bit pricey, however the selection was very varied lots of plants I hadn't seen before.

Great plant selection. Stroll all day with restaurant for nice food. Great garden centre - my favorite in the area.

If you enjoy a good cup of tea don’t go here. Both myself and my mum took one sip and it was vile cheap teabags, come on Arcadia it’s a cup of tea it’s not hard.

Good size lots of plants and fruit trees gift shop and garden furniture.

Love the garden centre and little dinos but the food has gone down hill so over priced for what you get 9.99 for 2 sausages beans and chips on a kids size plate wasn't even cooked nice but apart from the food love it

Good range of products with some useful offers

FIRST VISIT TO THIS GARDEN CENTRE VERY PLEASED WITH PLANTS ON SALE PURCHASED A CAR FULL COULD NOT GET ANYMORE IN ALSO PURCHASED DRINKS AND FOOD WHICH WAS GOOD ONLY THING WAS THERE WAS ONLY ONE DOG FRIENDLY TABLE INSIDE WHICH WAS TAKEN AS THE WEATHER WAS NOT TO BAD WE ALL SAT OUTSIDE MAYBE A FEW MORE DOG FRIENDLY TABLES WOULD BE REALLY GOOD FOR DOG OWNERS. WILL RETURN IN A FEW DAYS AS STILL HAVE LOTS TO PURCHASE STAFF VERY HELPFUL AND FRIENDLY MANY THANKS SUE CORPS

Fantastic place: the food is good too

Excellent food and atmosphere. Great selection of drinks

Fantastic place - huge range of plants and the restaurant has a big gluten free menu.

Great plants well looked after.not brilliant on outdoor Dec's tho

It's a very nice garden centre there's also a restaurant and play area for kids bit expensive like looking around but can get plants cheaper elsewhere still worth a visit though

Love love this garden center. It has a natural beautiful flow around it. Dangerous for your pocket but great for a step count lol. Great value for money across the board for home and garden items. You can never have enough shoes, plants, ornaments and cake right?

Lovely garden centre and the Sunday lunch was 1st class, I would recommend it to anyone to go

Always popular cafe, tasty carvery. Lots of options for plants 🪴 good value and offers changing regularly

We go here a lot with both sides of our family. However on 3 occasions now there is a particular member of staff (lady with tattoos) didn’t catch her name and she is so rude speaking to people like they are stupid. I actually dread her being on the till. It’s such a shame because the rest of the team are lovely, food is lovely and nice garden shop. However after our last visit we won’t be returning.

Called here recently and spent a few hours deciding what’s plant and pots i needed for my garden also called into restaurant for some light bites,lovely food and good atmosphere as was getting busier also nice clean areas with plenty of seating,also lots to see and buy in each departments in garden centre all staff very friendly especially tall young lad who was a fab help and professional and arranged delivery of one of my plants .we spent a bit of money in garden centre after a few questions to pleasant and knowledgeable staff.would recommend to all .we will be back

This place never fails to amaze me, always have what I want,

It was so busy. We managed to get a seat but when we saw the queues to buy your ticket and the queue to collect your dinner we decided to leave but the Carvery did look really scrummy.

Lovely place and friendly staff. Well worth a visit. Play area for children and pottery craft work shop.

This place is huge, plants seem good quality, they have some nice outdoor furniture selections, there is a cafe on site and staff are friendly.

Not impressed with cafe called in today ordered cheese burgers after paying for them staff came out and said they had no burgers only had chicken burgers it was served with chips which were obviously frozen they were so chalky and dry you couldn't swallow them I wanted a cake out of second display cabinet got told I couldn't have one as they were for tomorrow I wasn't the only person asking for cake out of second display cabinet in my opinion a sale is a sale not saving them for next day very bizzare so I got apple pie it was cold and apple was hard like undercooked it wasn't cheap cost over £36 for 2 of us !!!!

Huge Garden Centre and well presented

Lovely garden center lovely cafe home made food outdoor and indoor play area lots of free parking

Arcadia garden centre is great for all your gardening needs, there is everything you could want from hoses to greenhouses and everything in-between ,the café is lovely with a nice menu, the biggest problem is the very strong smell of drains or sewage which can be quite strong and nauseous.

Well stocked well looked after plants, flowers and veg

Reasonable price and well stocked

I visited Little Dinos Soft Play with my two daughters. It was my 3 year olds birthday so we thought we’d treat her and her little sister to lunch out and a play.  My 11 month old was in the ball pit playing with me when an older child grabbed her dress and scratched her face and head until she was screaming. The mother pulled him off after a few seconds and very casually just said “oh sorry about that.”  My baby’s face was bleeding and covered in scratches so I immediately picked her up and removed her from the area.  A few minutes later another parent who I know from nursery approached me to ask what had happened so I pointed out the little boy and said that he had grabbed and scratched her. When the mother of said boy came over and started screaming and shouting at me saying that I was “calling her son” and asking if I wanted her to “batter him” to make me feel better over the incident. I responded by saying that I was simply letting my friend know what happened as she could see the damage to her head. She continued to scream and shout in my face and tried to get her friends to join in. I just walked away and took my baby to get cleaned up and put a cold compress on her head.   Around ten minutes later the deputy manager came in to speak to me and the group of women started shouting over “oh she’s got the manager involved! He’s only one! Grow up!” And kept saying it was an ‘accident’ - take a look at the photos, it was no accident. She looks like she was mauled by an animal!!   I hadn’t notified anyone, it was a different member of staff who went to get help after she saw the mother shouting at me while holding my bleeding baby.  The deputy manager then spoke to the women and did absolutely nothing, she seemed more annoyed that she now needed to write an incident report. She kept saying “kids will be kids” but the issue was the aggressive mother who was shouting in my face while I was holding my baby and my toddler nearby. She just left them to it and they were continuing to say things about us. So we just packed up and left. The entire place felt incredibly hostile and didn’t feel comfortable letting my girls play with that child still in there after seeing the damage he caused in only a few seconds.  All we wanted was a nice trip out for my little girls 3rd birthday and we left with an upset toddler after witnessing a group of women shouting at her mother while holding her baby sister. And my 11 month old full of scratches all over her face and head.  This is completely unacceptable, that place is supposed to be a fun and safe place for our children. Parents should not be able to act like that with no consequences whatsoever. The way we were treated was absolutely disgusting and having multiple children witnessing it too with no staff member standing up to deal with it.  I now feel like I’d think twice before bringing my daughters back here if the parents can act worse than the children.  I’ve since had an email response from the centre but it was from the deputy manager who I was complaining about. So I feel this is just inappropriate and it should be passed on to higher management

Excellent shop and lovely cafe, reasonably priced

I visited Little Dinos Soft Play with my two daughters. It was my 3 year olds birthday so we thought we’d treat her and her little sister to lunch out and a play. My 11 month old was in the ball pit playing with me when an older child grabbed her dress and scratched her face and head until she was screaming. The mother pulled him off after a few seconds and very casually just said “oh sorry about that.” My baby’s face was bleeding and covered in scratches so I immediately picked her up and removed her from the area. A few minutes later another parent who I know from nursery approached me to ask what had happened so I pointed out the little boy and said that he had grabbed and scratched her. When the mother of said boy came over and started screaming and shouting at me saying that I was “calling her son” and asking if I wanted her to “batter him” to make me feel better over the incident. I responded by saying that I was simply letting my friend know what happened as she could see the damage to her head. She continued to scream and shout in my face and tried to get her friends to join in. I just walked away and took my baby to get cleaned up and put a cold compress on her head. Around ten minutes later the deputy manager came in to speak to me and the group of women started shouting over “oh she’s got the manager involved! He’s only one! Grow up!” And kept saying it was an ‘accident’ - take a look at the photos, it was no accident. She looks like she was mauled by an animal!! I hadn’t notified anyone, it was a different member of staff who went to get help after she saw the mother shouting at me while holding my bleeding baby. The deputy manager then spoke to the women and did absolutely nothing, she seemed more annoyed that she now needed to write an incident report. She kept saying “kids will be kids” but the issue was the aggressive mother who was shouting in my face while I was holding my baby and my toddler nearby. She just left them to it and they were continuing to say things about us. So we just packed up and left. The entire place felt incredibly hostile and didn’t feel comfortable letting my girls play with that child still in there after seeing the damage he caused in only a few seconds. All we wanted was a nice trip out for my little girls 3rd birthday and we left with an upset toddler after witnessing a group of women shouting at her mother while holding her baby sister. And my 11 month old full of scratches all over her face and head. This is completely unacceptable, that place is supposed to be a fun and safe place for our children. Parents should not be able to act like that with no consequences whatsoever. The way we were treated was absolutely disgusting and having multiple children witnessing it too with no staff member standing up to deal with it. I now feel like I’d think twice before bringing my daughters back here if the parents can act worse than the children. I’ve since had an email response from the centre but it was from the deputy manager who I was complaining about. So I feel this is just inappropriate and it should be passed on to higher management

Very big poorly signposted inside. You have to walk through umpteen areas to find what your looking for. A bit like a supermarket, hoping you'll buy something else other than what you came for.

Have passed this garden centre on several occasions and not realised how big it is. Apart from the obvious plants and gardening equipment there is a large area devoted to garden furniture and outdoor dining,an area selling pavers shoes, an area for clothing, one for toys and another with displays of jewellery,soaps,scented candles ,pictures and soft furnishing to name but a few. There is a large cafe/ restaurant selling a good range of snacks, drinks and meals and there is also a carvery. Within the cafe there is a designated area for those with dogs. The children's play area looked OK and although we didn't go in,there was a separate indoor soft play building. Definitely worth a visit

Food is out of this world and the service is amazing

What a lovely place to look around. And so cheap also well worth a visit for you gardener's

Lovely selection of plants at a fair price.

Nice garden centre with amenities for kids. Nice restaurant if a little understaffed and lengthy counter service. If you do visit the restaurant, be prepared for a long walk to the exit for if you have walking difficulties.

Always enjoy a visit. Huge dinning area.

Love going out afternoon lunch and buying my plants and bought a nice blouse

Staff informative about plants .Good parking area. Prices not bad, very clean restaurant on site

Always good to look around. With lots of free parking

Great selection of plants and garden bits etc. Lovely cafe

We had afternoon tea staff very attentive and food really nice

Poor lighting and not very inviting.