Avenue Nurseries Garden Centre in Basingstoke and Deane

Lovely place . Lovely cake and coffee . Helpful happy staff

Great cafe with super selection of meals to.suit all tastes and pockets.

All the things needed for your garden sold here plus very decent food and butcher shop on site

Had a truly terrible lunch here. Salmon and Dill fish cake was a thin specimen which was white in the middle. I have never come across white salmon! It tasted vaguely of dill but otherwise bland. It was the worse meal I have had for a long time. The food was very cheap so I guess you get what you pay for. The restaurant was rather like an aircraft hanger. I will not be returning. Staff were pleasant, efficient and helpful.

Good takes for ever to come out not the best food

Most extensive garden center in the world, restaurant, clothing, toys, garden furniture, garden items/tools, plants, trees, flowers, books, animal food, ornaments, etc. etc.

Have to give it a low score being how expensive they have got on some things. I wanted a chilli and cheese jacket potato, chilli wasn't on, which is fine so thought I'd have a ham and cheese jacket instead. Until I looked closer. You get a plain jacket and salad, for 6 pounds, but you don't get a filling for that, you need to pay extra, ham was 3.50, and cheese 150. So a ham and cheese jacket is 11 pounds. That is shocking. So I ordered sausage egg abd chips. Which was OK for 9 pounds, could have added 2 eggs not just one for that price being you can buy a full English breakfast for that price in most cafes. They have got a little bit beyond themselves. Shame as they used to be really good

Lovely food and friendly service

It was really convenient for me to pop in and have some breakfast on the way past, the staff seemed nice and friendly. I'll be back soon.

Improving their selection of all items now, worth a visit. Always very nicely laid out.

We often go to Avenue Nurseries Garden Centre for lunch. They have an extensive menu and cook to order. They also have a specials board, and some of those are homemade. We also like to look around the garden centre, which is very open, and easy to get around.

Awesome restaurant! Friendly staff

Expensive but my mum and grandma like it here

Inside garden centre looking quite run down and cobwebs everywhere. Cafe however great and very good value

Dog friendly and a very nice cafe

Great . Fresh home cooked food. Cakes and meals I'm the cafe.

Stopped here mid journey on numerous occasions. It's a huge garden centre with lots of in house outlets. Main attraction is the very large cafe. Loads of seating in and out and a wide range of food and beverage on offer at very competitive prices. Even when it's busy there's not much delay for food, because of the large number of staff available. Our coffee was good, as was the lunchtime food we chose. Breakfast is good too.

A great selection of plants, perennials and annuals, I didn’t look at the shrubs but I’m sure they were good too. Very reasonable price too for nice size plants. All planted 2 weeks ago and growing well.

Go there a lot for garden bits,plants and a good seating area for good food again today for compost and a house plant

Nice garden centre and you can have breakfast lunch and any drinks you Want and it has the works and Edinburgh clothes shop and a butcher and a lots of plants and decking and chairs and tables and BBQ as well and plenty of packing for anyone to park and disabled parking space

Best Garden Centre by far in the area. Take a good look out the very back areas. 👍🏻

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Garden centre Plants are in good condition. Didn’t visit restaurant.

IT SEEMS THEY HAVE CHANGED CHIP FRIES SUPPLIER'S THE CHIPS NOW ARE TERRIBLE COMPARED WITH PREVIOUS SUCH A SHAME

Well impressed 👏 good restaurant on site plenty of garden equipment and plants i am disabled in a wheelchair ♿ good parking space and disabled toilets 🚻 clean and big plenty of room

Nice food, and a great price good choice of plants 🌺 🌼

Now autumn and selection is now concentrated on spring bulbs, sale priced christmas gifts and decorations. Large selection of flower and vegetable seeds still available, along with trees, furniture & parasols. Onsite Vintage Butcher seems always busy and there is a good selection of groceries including speciality locally baked cakes. Also has "The Works" & "Edinburgh Wool" shops on site As always staff are helpful and friendly. Good selection of bedding plants, bushes, hedges and gardening sundries. Restaurant is always busy but have never eaten there so unable to comment.

Always a pleasant experience home cooked meals.

Restaurant was lovely as usual. The nursery itself very helpful staff. One of the most beautiful nurseries around.

Pretty good, biggest in the area of say

Monday 6th May 2024. Five of us had a meal, but two of us were ill. Last night feeling very unwell and then early morning diarrhea. We were the only rwo who had the custard with our puddings. When I feel better I will inform the café by telephone.

Cafe..What an awful English breakfast. After a 40 minute wait not one element was cooked properly. Everything felt it had been overcooked or just reheated. Hash Brown's that were like concrete and the cheapest sausages on the planet. Never again!

Garden centre was good however we decided to ear in the restaurant The eating area was not clean and tables were not cleared, it felt like we were sitting in the middle of a rubbish tip, very disappointing We had to find someone to come and wipe down our table

Wonderful home cooked food Great quality ~ great portions Thoroughly recommend the restaurant and the garden nursery as a good afternoon out

It's locality appeals to me but this Nursery is one of three that adequately fill the needs and requirements of the gardener, the large restaraunt more than competes with other units in this area at competitive prices. The plant and garden areas do sometimes appear "Lived In" but then so do most gardens. A large car park appeals but be careful when leaving the road is well known by locals to be a fast one.

Great place for everything garden related, whatever the time of year. Plus, the restaurant is brilliant. The Sunday roasts are great 👍

Lovely freshly made food 😋. The Cottage 🥧 Pie is delicious.

Quiet, a remote location, must be well known as the restaurant is enormous, and I didn't eat as near closing 4 pm arrival! Usual 'large' garden centre. It had a butcher's section, which you don't often see.

Good garden centre with a very reasonable and roomy cafe. Dogs welcome.

I've visited a few times for a coffee and cake stop. A good selection of cakes and you can get coffee in 3 sizes. Loads of space to sit indoors and space outside too. Ordering is at the counter, which can be a bit sluggish. Lunch times 12 onwards can be very busy with a substantial queue.

People very friendly lots to see. Food very good shall be back.

Great garden centre with lots of extra items for your garden and home needs. Good restaurant and clothing outlet. 👌

We went there for lunch and looked around at the plants

The food is nice, some of the staff are nice but the main issue is the lack of care for their tortoise or turtle is shocking every time myself and my partner come the top of it's habitat is filled with cobwebs and there is a tub of food up there that still hasn't been opened, there's nothing in there for it to play with or keep itself entertained the tank itself is filthy.

Bit dissatisfied. Paid for 2 x chicken Kiev chips and salad. Came with no salad. No succulent plant food. Things a bit highly priced.

We visit this location on a regular basis and eat here, normally enjoying the food. It seems that over the last few weeks things have taken a downward turn. Perhaps the chef has changed I don’t know. I had cod and chips today and my partner had omelette. I thought I had a very large piece of fish but it was mostly batter that was over cooked and there was very little fish and that was dried out. Both of chips were just warm and I feel had been hanging around for a while!! It was such a shame that we have had to leave a negative review.

Good nursery. Very nice cafe. Very good food. Friendly staff. Go try it out.

CAFE; lady who served us at the counter had an attitude, and was not polite. Overall service was particularly slow even though there seemed to be many staff members standing about. Waited 25 minutes for x2 coffees and cake. Generally not impressed.

Lovely garden centre, plants are in v good condition. Staff always helpful. The concession stores are good too. I am told the cafe is excellent , but haven't tried it yet.

Great place to go and get all your gardening items, and the Christmas decorations etc are just amazing so much to chose from. The cafe / restaurant is highly recommended. Great food and drinks

It's a rare experience to find a garden centre like this one. It feels traditional & unspoilt, yet bursting with gifts, Christmas displays & of course all of the garden items & plants you'll ever need. The whole experience from top to bottom is brilliant! They have a large carkpark with ample parking, a nice large indoor & outdoor garden centre, The Works is here & then you find a real treasure. The restaurant! We love to come every weekend for a spot of breakfast. It has great home cooked style food with very generous portion sizes at really reasonable prices. The cafe is airy & calm with designated dog seating for our woofer. It's nice to find a garden centre that isnt offering food that appears 'fancy' but is just overpriced rubbish. Here you pay for what you get & you get what you pay for. You'll always leave well fed. Stay the same & keep doing what you are doing Avenue. This garden centre is a gem!

£4.50 for a bacon bap that comprised of 2 small rashers and a shriveled up roll...not good value....other meals looked good though so I'd opt for something different if I'm there again

Lovely breakfast, nice quality, good value for money.

Amazing restaurant. Great choice of everyday food.

Nice little GC but please can the management look at the restaurant set up. Sundays are a nightmare when it is busy. Hour and a quarter for a sausage sandwich. Coffee took half hour. Other customers were asking for refunds as they had lost the will to live waiting.

Have always had good experience with this place for last 20 years but today was terrible. Ordered food at half past 1 waited an hour got told we were next everyone else had been and gone and still waited another half hour. Then got told some of our food was no longer available. In future if you can’t meet demand please stop serving or provide wait times we did receive a refund and no issues with staff but the day to day running has been terrible.

Such a huge and appealing menu. Nut roast delicious and a filling meal for under £10 🤗. Lovely for all ages and won’t break tge bank. Christmas selection fantastic

It’s really lovely garden centre with restaurants which I remember when I was little it used to be small greenhouse and was amazed how much it have expanded to bigger garden centre with, lovely selections of foods in the restaurant

Nice garden centre, better value than some. Good value cafe with plenty of choice, traditional menu items. You won’t find any trendy foods here. Do the usual nice coffees though and nice ice cream.

Went for lunch and a browse round.

Visited the cafe, food was reasonably priced, service was very slow

Had an awesome breakfast in cafe and then a bit of plant R & R in the nursery. Brilliant and staff are great and very friendly 👍 😀 👏

The cafe is the star of the show here - good ‘homemade’ style food which is served in good portion sizes and at a very competitive price. The speed of service was acceptable and staff were polite. The shop part of the garden centre is a bit overpriced but staff were friendly and engaging. There is ample free parking and the site is fully accessible for wheelchair users etc.

The people were very friendly, the man on the checkout was also jovial. The restaurant has loads of seating areas. There is also an outdoor eating area. It has a fantastic selection of food to choose from and lots of it, and the service is good. I am not a dog owner but there are some tables reserved for dog owners. The toilets are exceptionally clean. A good choice of plants, gifts and clothes.

Went for lunch, scampi and chips was excellent. I then went to the counter to order puddings. Stood at counter two members of staff just walked past and ignored me, I was holding menu. So left and went somewhere else.

Disappointed. Arrived early hoping for breakfast in middle of house moving. Not many people but a cooked breakfast took over 30 minutes to arrive. Sadly plates cold so eggs congealed from kitchen to table and other food cooling fast. Miserable and sullen staff (as they always are). Not motivated in anyway to help or engage. Made to feel like an intruder. Sad as garden centre is a good one and we visit often. We would go to the cafe more if they upped their game.

I cycled from Winchester with a friend who knew this garden centre whereas I was a stranger to the area. I love good ham but I am reluctant as too often you get reconstituted ham (compressed floor sweepings?) however my friend assured me it would be OK. It was more than OK. I had the Ham baguette. The ham was an absolute delight, off the bone, and the baguette was lovely. I found a member of staff and thanked them. My friend had a prawn baguette and thoroughly enjoyed that. Refreshed, fed and watered, well tea'd and coffee'd we cycled back to Winchester. A thank you to the friendly staff.

Wow, what a delicious Sunday lunch, Roast Pork and all the trimmings, followed by a wonderful slice of iced lemon sponge and a latte. Food was amazing, staff all pleasant, happy and helpful.

First and last time at visiting for food. After waiting 45 minutes for our food someone finally came over and confirmed food order. They hadn't written our table number done. Food came out in minutes it had been put under heat lamps. My chips were warmish and my cheese burger was overcooked, burnt!!! Disgusting and even worst they had the cheek to serve it!!!. Would NOT Recommend AT ALL. Deserve A Zero!!!!!

A vast dining area and popular. We simply chose the vegetable soup which was not listed as 'spicy'. Unfortunately it had chillie seasoning and was almost too hot for either of us to eat. We asked for some milk to make it more edible which was happily provided by an understanding waitress.

We had a lovely afternoon here and have visited several times. I particularly appreciate the large size of the restaurant and well spaced out tables as you don't feel on top of other diners and can usually find a quiet table away from others, plus there's plenty of room to manoeuvre a wheelchair. The menu looks extensive but I appreciate being able to have a small snack such as a bowl of chips when taking elderly visitors who don't have a big appetite. We were also delighted to get rum & raisin ice cream here as so many other places seem to have stopped selling it. Service was good and cheerful. It's very refreshing to visit a family owned independent garden centre and we drove a fair distance to visit in favour of more local ones, which have been taken over by a chain and have become clones of each other. Other customers we spoke to had come from Odiham and Basingstoke and were clearly enjoying their visits too. The checkout assistant in the garden centre couldn't have been friendlier if he tried and had so much time for us, whilst the lady in The Works clearly took pride in her shop within the garden centre and was very friendly and helpful too. Well done to all the staff and we look forward to returning.

Poor food - I ordered vegetable soup and it was a tasteless mix of what seemed to be mainly swede and turnip. Dry, overcooked chips and a bland salad. The experience reminded me of school dinners. Avoid.

After a look around the garden centre I Stopped for coffee and cake, system needs to be reviewed as 20 mins to serve up coffee & cake (which was dry) is not great- & didn’t get cake I ordered either. Cafe was busy, observed their system whilst waiting - orders put on a bulldog clip - but appeared that orders were dealt with out of order, some taken from top & some from bottom of pile on clip.

Waited 55 minutes for a mediocre meal, what was more disappointing was the response from the manager

If you have all day this is the place to come if you dont mind waiting half an hour for a tea and a coffee. We regularly visit Alton and on the way we often stop here as my partner loves gardening. The garden centre itself is very expensive for what's on offer but we like the works and EWM so this offsets it. On our last visit there was no-one in the queue for the cafe so we decided to give it another try, we ordered a tea, latte and a small millionaires shortbread. There were several restaurant staff milling around and didnt look like they were doing much. There were other diners eating and others waiting for food, after 20 mins we asked a member of staff where our order was, its on its way and after 5 minutes it duly arrived. 25 minutes after we ordered it. In future we shall continue to Alton and either give the garden centre a miss or just bypass the cafe all together. Get your act together.

Met some friends at the garden centre so we had some drinks in the cafe. Just teas and coffees. I had a latte which was OK. Waitress was helpful. Would be good if they had Roibos tea as an option (they don't today) instead of the weird tea flavours. Contactless card payments. Sat outside in the sunshine, very pleasant.

Good selection of shops.. great cafe .Good selection of pots and plants

Yes went here to browse ended up spending friendy staff and free delivery if you spend over 30 pounds

Came for late lunch ,had the prawn salad ,tasted lovely and presentation too ,staff very polite 😊

Lovely garden centre. Good selection and great cafe

Very good restaurant. food lovely.good selection of plants.

Too many of same plants. Bit expensive

Good garden centre, with great cafes. However very annoying that the EV chargers are all out of service, as hoped to get a top up whilst having lunch (dropped a star)

This was our first visit to this garden center and we were very impressed, there was an excellent range of goods available and the prices compare favourably with other garden centres we visit. The restaurant was clean and well organised and the staff very pleasant and helpful. The food was good and very reasonably priced. The toilets were spotlessly clean and had the advantage of having 'proper' toilet paper and not the awful thin tissue paper used by most places. There was a very good range of plants although if you are looking for larger shrubs this is not the place to go. They had a good range of fruit trees.There is also an Edinburgh Woolen Mill and The Works outlets. Also a small food area as well as the butcher's. All the staff were friendly and helpful.

Love this garden center. It's very affordable compared to other major stores with a great selection. Easy to get to and plenty of parking.

Inside the nursery was great they had a little selection of Peter Rabbit stuff which I'm into. The Christmas selection was brilliant. They had what I wanted in the works which was the main reason for going.

Very nice garden centre, has a good selection of gifts as well as garden items. There is an Edinburgh Wool Mill shop there, which I can never resist. Today we had lunch in the cafe, good selection of food at a good price. Nice friendly staff.

Good garden centre lovely staff, cafe running well under its potential, a good staff to customer ratio today No where near its capacity, waited 35 minutes for a cooked breakfast, 5/10 it’s like it’s at there own time, very relaxed, teamwork is key with a good but clear ordered captain

Great place to visit.Relaxing to walk around.Frendly staff.Outside garden area has a good selection of plants.Next to Bluebell Woods ! for a lovely walk.

Helpful staff and reasonable prices, Good level wheelchair friendly.

Disappointed again by the availability of decent plants and poor presentation. Having said that - a great selection of clematis!

Kind chap left his till to find me what I was looking for.

Lovely food and service, nice to have a meal then look around the nursery

Always like this garden centre, competitive prices and always a good selection of plants for sale.

Handy place to.meet friends. Had a lovely brunch.

Lovely to browse, nice for a coffee and cake.

Nice garden centre. Lovely plants and helpful staff.

Appalling cafe experience. We were the first to order breakfast at 10.05 am - poached eggs on toast - which arrived 40 minutes later presented as boiled eggs on over margarined toast !! On complaining staff seemed incapable of handling but offered a full refund. The manager was called who was non apologetic and rude !! Great garden centre but avoid the cafe unless you have lots of time and accept the food will be basic and uninteresting

A nice place to go with your dog when the sun shines. Not so nice when it is wet or cold as there is no covered area. Always a good selection of plants, cakes, meat and pies plus gardening tools etc.

Great coffee and cake. Always good to browse garden centre lots of new stock. In store concessions are also worth visiting