Beckworth Emporium in Wellingborough

Went for afternoon tea with my wife, we had a lovely time the staff were friendly as always and there was the usual array of fresh fruit and veg, breads and sweet treats. The problem is ( as others have mentioned) the food in the restaurant both quality and presentation isn’t quite what it used to be before the takeover. Additionally, the toilets were a bit shabby in terms of tidiness and hygiene (something that would not of been the case previously). Hope it’s just teething issues, for the restaurant which will be addressed, it’s one of the main draws to the site and the new menu does not seem to be impressing thus far.

Absolutely spot on,good meal in the restaurant and we purchased yet another Marmite loaf ,very tasty and ya can't get the anywhere else!!

Went on a Saturday morning on a bank holiday weekend and was pleasantly surprised how quickly we got seated. The waitress was very polite and took our drinks and food orders. The wait for drinks was pretty bad, our cooked breakfasts arrived before our drinks but I assume the breakfast is all cooked and just put to the plate so this is why it came quicker. When the food did arrive it looked appetising and was quite tasty but one thing that let it down was the temperature of the food. Most of it all was luke warm and butter for the toast was rock solid like it was straight out of the fridge and as the toast wasn't hot it wasn't spreadable. Out of the three eggs we received between the two orders two of them were riddled with egg shells which was not particularly pleasant. Overall I think the breakfast was okay but I have had a lot better locally so that's the reason for giving it only 3 stars, there is quite a lot of room to improve.

Great service, and the food was exceptional value for money. Clean W.C. Friendly and curious staff. The food was piping hot, and the coleslaw chilled. The food arrived very quickly considering how busy it was. ☆☆☆☆☆

Afternoon tea was amazing, so much food for 2 but they supply a box to take away

Great shop, lovely plants, and superb food.

Nice array of goods at ridiculous prices....... £36 for a frozen ready meal, £4.10 for a loaf of bread. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef by trade so I do know a thing or two. The butchery here is quality but again comes with the addition of the Beckworth mark up. On the flip side the restaurant is fairly priced and the food is really good, the service very good too. I'll definitely be returning and I highly recommend a visit. I then moved onto the Outdoor Furniture event. I was particularly interested in BBQ accessories. I had fingers crossed hoping that an establishment like this would stock in particular Kamado and Kamado style BBQ's and accessories. NOPE just the trendy fire pits, and Gas rubbish. When I spoke to the lady advising there she had never heard of Kamado or Kamado style!. However they do carry a nice range of lumpwood charcoal, that I will be purchasing when my Kamado has finished it current supply. UPDATED MAY 2023 KAMADO'S NOW STOCKED.

Not particularly impressed with the food side of things since the takeover. Issues a couple of weeks ago resulted in me receiving a £10 sorry voucher. Today the breakfast was ok but the bacon had obviously been cooked a while ago and the mushrooms were from a frozen packet. Why, when you are in a farm shop and can get fresh. I only went again to please my wife but no more!

Excellent customer service and product selection.

My husband and I along with 2 of our friends visited this beautiful garden centre. The farm shop is amazing as are the gift and plant sections. The staff are friendly and helpful. Our main visit was for the glasshouse restaurant (please note that you cannot a reserve table). They have amazing choice of food and drink that includes afternoon tea. We were all very impressed by all the excellent waitress staff. They made us feel very welcome. Our main waitress Holly, she was professional, kind, friendly, sweet and had a great sense of humour. She was very respectful, personable and excellent at her job. The food was excellent and even though they were busy, our food and drinks arrived very quickly. Overall our experience exceeded our expectations and we'll all certainly be visiting again. I highly recommend this beautiful place. Although this is a high end garden centre and restaurant and the prices do reflect this.

Very helpful staff and an amazing garden centre selling lots of fabulous items

Lovely Garden Centre. Great choice in horticulture and other areas. Waiting time at the restaurant was quite long, up to an hour, though it was a bank holiday!

Went for breakfast yesterday excellent the staff are always polite and helpful .

5 stars isn't enough . All I can say about the restaurant is that it should have a Michelin Star . The food was excellent . It doesn't matter when you go , the standard is always High

Lovely garden centre, farm shop and more. Big selection of would be gifts for birthdays etc or treats for self. Nice parking areas too.

Beckworth Emporium - A garden center that integrates gourmet food, desserts, home furnishings, garden plants and restaurant. Every corner full of dazzling items, can spend half a day wandering around. Comfortable glasshouse restaurant serve with nice appearance afternoon tea set and unlimited drinks. And the BBQ pulled pork Panini served with slow roasted pulled pork and melted cheese is delicious.

Excellent class Garden centre, Restaurant is amazing well worth a visit

I was very disappointed my wife's chilli jacket potato was bought to the table barely warm. She complained, and it was taken away it came back to the table, and it was so hot after being microwaved that it almost burnt her mouth. They did take it off our bill, but we were very dissatisfied. Shame really but we won't be going back there in a hurry.

I loved visiting this last Christmas, truly the best selections I have ever seen for decorations and food. Everything here is quite fancy, which makes it very fun to look around and choose a few treasures! (I recommend trying something from the baked goods counter. I got a millionares shortbread, and the caramel was SO thick and luxurious.) Will be coming back whenever possible!

Always a great time. Good local food

Great Place. From the Farm shop to the Restaurant. We also visited the Outdoor Living area briefly, it's vast.

Wonderful clean, polite place. Gr8 shop. Excellent lunch. Thanku Callum... you are so good. Perfect day out:)

Came for roast dinner, 1.30 pm on a Sunday and no roast beef, so ordered two double afternoon teas instead and only two singles arrived. It was resolved but just not at all how it used to be. Sorry not impressed with customer service today at all.

Excellent restaurant and shops. Very popular.

All the staff were extremely friendly! Excellent atmosphere. Food 5* Highly recommended

The cafe is absolutely lovely and so are the staff

A wondrful Food Hall ~The PRESENTATION is a high standard. Everything is fresh fantastic quality. Good selections. ℒℴѵℯ their cakes 🎂Recommended Always🥂 Atmosphere is very relaxing in spring/summer. Friendly service everytime I have visited 𝓑𝓪𝓬𝓴𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓱❀𝓔𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓾𝓶 The Garden Centre has some gorgeous ornaments, plus lots of varieties to choose for your garden. {Buxus Topiary❀White Roses,❀Alliums} ~𝓒

Always a really nice visit for coffee, lunch or afternoon tea. The Staff are always well presented, friendly and helpful. Word of advice; if you go towards late morning/ lunchtime, because of it's popularity, you may have quite a wait for a table. If this is the case, you will be given a pager.

Went for lunch. Wonderful as always at Beckwith. Food was plentiful and delicious and the staff were lovely 😍. Then had a wander around the shop and garden centre.

Northamptons best breakfast, great staff, gorgeous environment, great food! Well worth the premium

Excellent food at reasonable prices...pleasant waiting staff

I brought my mother for her birthday lunch. We both ordered the steak pie. Our waitress said "Good choice!" and she was right! It was glorious!

I absolutely love Beckworth Emporium, either for a shopping trip or for a bite to eat. The food is always delicious, and the staff are very friendly and generally quick service. Personally, my daughter always finds the cafe here overwhelming as it's very noisy, but I've been with other children who have had no problem here! Highly recommend the afternoon tea, it's delicious and both times I've had it, have had to bring leftovers home with me in a little box! They do gift vouchers for afternoon tea which I love to give as gifts for friends/family. The shop is also beautiful, the produce is amazing and the rest, gifts, gardening or nick nacks... so much to look at and so many beautiful things. Generally a bit on the pricey side but great quality stuff!

Quite expensive, but unique. Had the fish and chips that they serve on a Friday they come with bread and butter and mushy peas, I recommend. The meal was plentiful and tasteful, the veg they sell in there shop is always fresh with so much choice and the deli is amazing so much to see, we come back once a month at least.

Came here for lunch today very good food and service would highly recommend here

My wifes breakfast was the poached egg with advacado and it was better than my emporium grill. Could not fault the presentation of either but a my breakfast was disappointing because for the price I expected freshly cooked sausages and bacon and they were not.

It was great, birthday lunch. Always great food and great service.

Have been popping here for years and always impressed with the variety and quality of the food on offer but had never eaten at the restaurant until now. Went on a busy Friday and had to wait 30 mins, but the pager system notifies you when your table is available so you can wander around and browse while waiting so no problem. Lunch was excellent, well prepared and presented and totally delicious, altogether an enjoyable experience.

We had a different, less enjoyable experience at Beckworth Emporium. Our lunch was fish and chips, but not up to the standard we have had in the past.staff were friendly, and we were looked after by Jane, who was attentive but not in your face.

Hope no one travels a distance to visit ‘the largest range of outdoor’ furniture in Northants. It’s closed. No reference on the website or on site, but if you get as far as the front door you’ll find it’s completely closed- and will be for some weeks

We were treated like royalty from the start! What super service, staff very attentive throughout. It is a glorious venue; large, airy and busy, but one never feels hemmed in. Excellent menu choices, especially for veggies like us! The array of patisserie at the cake counter was awesome. Elaine served us and was really friendly, helpful and gave sound advice. A very chirpy person. She was easygoing re me needing to take my shoes off!! My 3cheese scone was delicious as was the chilli jam. A good deal for nearly £7, including a fab coffee(top class beans obviously &v smooth). My friend had jacket potato with home-made baked beans&cheese, which she really enjoyed. It was quite costly at £13+(!), but real quality food. What can one say about the gateaux?! My chocolate&raspberry Italian-style cake was to die for! It reminded me of the superb gateaux such as Opera which I ate when I lived in Paris! That is some recommendation, given the quality and reputation of French patisserie! We had a very relaxed hour there, with Elaine just checking we were OK and chatting amicably with us when she could. Afterwards we shopped and made the most of the 75% off on Xmas items. We did really well. I was very impressed by all the beautiful food in the shop and the quality of other items on sale. Staff at the till were extremely solicitous, given the amount of stuff we'd bought! Thanks everyone at Beckworth Emporium and particularly Elaine. We'll be back! Maggie and Marianne

A lovely place to go and the food was excellent will definitely be going back, the staff were lovely as well.

Always nice and fresh organic vegetables

Great place to eat and shop, if a little expensive. Restaurant is huge, service excellent. Lots of goods from food, home and garden items. A brilliant shopping and eating experience.

Before the chef disappeared and stopped serving food through his hatch in the restaurant, the food was delicious and good quality in the restaurant and shop. But now since the chef has gone and the restaurant had it's revamp the food is appalling at times and very hit and miss if you get a good meal or a bad one. What a shame!

4 people 3 of which ordered poached egg breakfast dishes all 3 were over cooked, yolk was hard! My local cafe does amazing poached egg breakfasts at half the price!

Food is amazing well worth a visit

Lovely lunch with friends and attentive staff.

A great place for eating out and great produce to buy. Good service and friendly staff. The shop is packed full of all sorts of things, the food counters are amazing! Still the same wonderful place to go for great produce and brill service! A great place still......had a lovely new year's Eve lunch with our family!!

Brilliant place. Friendly staff. You can go shopping for garden here as well as having a farm shop on site and able to buy all sorts of great stuff. Love this place. Will come back next time I'm in Northamptonshire

Very full car park. Lots of Xmas sales on inside. Wasn't too busy inside the shopping areas as we found out why! The restaurant was heaving and quite impossible to get a table. Very dissapointed again.

Garden center with an amazing cafe. The food was excellent. They even do afternoon tea for about £20pp

A great place. Food is very good and different. Chips great. It has really nice and unusual items to buy. One of our favourite places.

Pure scum. Ordered afternoon tea vouchers and paid extra recorded delivery and they didn’t arrive. When phoning to get a refund got accused by a till jockey that we would use vouchers if they turned up anyway. Won’t set foot in this putrid set up ever again. Avoid its past it anyway. Much better food options at Wythmails in Orlingbury

Quite a wait but afternoon tea was very OK except Latte was Luke warm. Asked for a second cup,this time filter coffee, by the time you have added cold milk result is also Luke warm coffee. Ordered chips and these were not as good as on previous occasions. Considering the cost of the food the experience I think is going slightly downhill. Clotted cream served in Rhoda's tubs and jam in little jars is not what you would expect as you can get these in any cafe. You expect something a little bit special at Beckworth. That being said the cakes were good although I'm sure you used to get chocolates.

Excellent food hall. Got everything we wanted.

Blue diamond garden centre and it doesn't allow dogs. Really?

Pretty good selection around Christmastime. You'll find here things you won't find elsewhere. Tends towards the traditional - which I prefer!

This place is full of seriously overpriced bric a brac and food. They do have some well presented products but you do pay over the odds for it.

Excellent selection of all things pertaining to Xmas but rather expensive compared to other similar places. The restaurant is always full so be prepared for a lengthy wait. You can reserve a table on arrival and be issued with a pager to let you know when your table is ready. We had to wait 45 minutes but it gives you the opportunity to have a good look around. The food hall is great and has an amazing selection of fresh and frozen foodstuffs,but again rather more expensive.

It's a very nice garden centre, so it's unnecessarily expensive.

Went yesterday for the Christmas collection and it was fantastic. Brought some homemade apple pie cookies, divine

I visited the Emporium today, 03/12/2023 and on the way, saw a pack of fresh Blueberries (£2.99 per pack) with rotten, fungus covered Blueberries in it. I took the product to the Security Guard on the left near the exit door and said that I felt having this on display was disgusting. He replied that the felt "it is not disgusting at all". I will not visit the Emporium again, never mind shopping there. Unfortunately, I did not take a photo to share with the readers of this post.

I used to come here a lot. The last couple of times I have given them the benefit of the doubt.However yesterday will be my last visit until it improves. The food quality has considerably gone down hill, Costa’s panini’s have more filling than beckworth’s and that is saying something. The prices have stayed the same but food quality and service has drastically changed for the worse. The food was cold, the chips were over fried and the afternoon Tea, left a lot to be desired. What a shame it used to be one of my favourite places to go to! As usual a greedy garden centre chain has taken them over bring back the previous owners!

Busy but I only go for the omelets & good company . Both 5 star .

This is our favourite midway stop off when visiting our daughter and family. Today, we met for a lovely Sunday roast, which was excellent value for money and huge portions. Our granddaughter was totally enthralled by Santa telling a Christmas story. Would recommend the emporium as a great shopping experience. See you again soon.

As always a lovely shop, well managed went about 3pm very busy but then it's that time of year.

Drove 30 mins to the garden centre to be told my dog isn’t allowed in. What garden centre doesn’t allow dogs? Absolutely ridiculous. I turned around and left, it’s cruel to have to leave a dog in the car

I love it because you can find good meat, especially venison stake, my favourite

Great place but....... Lovely place to visit and pick up nice things but almost trying to offer too much now. There is a lot of lesser quality tat now that must get sold off cheap later on. It has changed hands and not been the same since. The restaurant used to be great but the service and food has reduced in quality considerably IMO. The service particularly. We live near by and used to go every month or so for lunch, but I won't be returning for food until I hear it has improved. We mentioned how weak the Tea was, and According to the waitress, "the Tea is weak here...." so cheap bags then... Shame as it was a real Gem on our doorstep. Hope it can get back to where it was.

Great place for shopping and dining. In addition to the usual garden centre items there is a food hall and a large selection of gifts, cards, etc and a fabulous restaurant. It can get extremely busy on occasions but always worth it.

Very nice place. Food great big portions worth the visit.

Great garden centre with lovely restaurant. Now in full swing for Christmas with both high end and cheaper options. Fram shop counter and cake heaven a must visit.

Cafe staff distracted had to ask 3 times for the bill. Food hall has too many frozen ready made meals same as any other big garden centre. No longer worth the drive out to it.

This place is amazing. Full of amazing produce and quality items. Highly recommended

Great place to take a friend or the family. Lovely atmosphere and wonderful service. The food is really nice. I go as much as possible. The cake counter is amazing and the choices of plants are good.

Today, my friend and I had a spontaneous trip to have lunch together! Wow, in the restaurant, we were greeted with a big smile and seated promptly. Louise was looking after us, and she was an absolute pleasure. Her smile and service were spot on! The gingerbread latte is divine. Our lunches were well presented and very delicious. We later went on to shop, and we were greeted by Penny on the tills! Another happy member of staff that made the end of our journey a delight! Really enjoyed our visit today! See you again soon.

Seventh year in a row for Christmas Dinner, always pleasant staff, friendly, welcoming and reassuring in the current climate. Food was excellent and service prompt and professional, thank you. Already had the track and trace app so not a chore or issue to scan in as requested and rightly so. Tables well spaced and I felt happy with all Beckworth have done to keep both us and their colleagues safe. Special thank you to Carole and Virginia (?) for looking after us. Merry Christmas. Update 02.11.23 - just called to book Christmas dinner as I have done for many-a-year as you see above, no longer taking bookings - BLUE DIAMOND have made changes. Shame, won't be returning and reduced my review to 1 star. Change isn't always for the better.

Great place for everything garden and a nice place for a bite to eat.

Loved it! There are so many quality plants, gifts and food to choose from, many of which you would find difficult to get elsewhere, especially not in one place. Will definitely be going back again soon!

What a disappointment. We have been loyal customers of Beckworth for over 5 years, but that’s no longer the case. We visited Beckworth on 27 October and the customer service from staff in the restaurant was none existent. They had run out of the soup one of my party ordered (this happens) but a senior member of the restaurant staff called across to the table to ask, almost as an after thought, if we were aware. We weren’t and no apology was given, though the table next to us received not one but two apologies. The poor service continued, but I won’t prolong this text when my point has been made. The Beckworth burger also no longer comes with a brioche bun, so fans of that may miss the luxury the burger once had. We were so shocked by the restaurant service that we left a basket of goods we were planning to purchase behind. The food court is still fantastic, but seeing a member of staff crouch down behind the counter to check their phone isn’t quite the standard Beckworth once hand.

Is a nice place to visit and the food I had - a breakfast- was really good, not the cheapest place though.

Not as good since sold. Beware of the Pate on the menu, says it’s vegetarian but it’s not. Instead of resolving this by covering the vegetarian sign up below it they are waiting for the new menu in a couple of weeks and relying on staff to remember to tell guests it’s not vegetarian…. Not a very clever idea… club sandwich chicken dry as a bone and bread so hard it shreds your gums! The Christmas market area looks “makeshift” and prices seem to be going up, somethings are way overpriced. Disappointing.

Lovely afternoon tea, staff really helpful. Bit of a wait but that was fine. Only one thing out of 8 little cakes between two, three were battenburgs and three were vanilla sponges , could have had a bit more variety. Otherwise lovely.

The emporium itself is beautiful- I cannot fault that! However, the restaurant wasn't. Our food came out luke warm, we spent 10 minutes trying to get someone's attention for sauce and more drinks as when the food came the waitress didn't even speak let alone ask if we needed anything else. The quickest part of it all was clearing our plates and taking payment for the bill! We will be back for the shop side but will be giving the restaurant a swerve.

Certainly not what it used to be. The new owner seems to have made a few changes to the food they bring in. The Victoria sponge was very disappointing, and some of the patisserie cakes are rather tasteless. Definitely not an improvement with the change of ownership.

Upmarket garden centre with some really gorgeous homewares and gifts. Also grocery, butcher, cheesemonger and bakery. Nice big restaurant but it was too busy for us to get a table. They do offer a pager service if you wish to wonder around whilst waiting for a table to become available.

Best place for breakfast and shopping I come from Yorkshire to enjoy breakfast and food shopping

Still as good as ever👍(setting and service) however didn't think the bread used in sausage/bacon sandwiches was as top quality as it once was SHAME!🤔

We go most Sunday for breakfast 🥞🍳 or brunch this week had our first problem and they had lost our order first time ever

An amazing garden centre! Plants here are always amazing and well presented, the house plants are usually my go to and the variety always changes, while being reasonably priced, which is nice. I try and make a trip here every couple of months to see what’s new and I’m always pleasantly surprised, there always seems to be something new in whether that’s the food, alcohol or homeware. They always decorate fantastically when the seasons change and there Christmas displays are always one of the best! Always feels like a luxury going here and grabbing some bits. Have only been into the cafe once but it was delightful and is always super busy when I do go. Would recommend to anyone, even if it’s just to have a mooch around!!

Lovely foodhall until you get home and realise you have bought dairy and bread over 2 weeks past the used by date

Price of afternoon tea significantly more. Used to be £25 for 2 people now it's £41.90 and fewer cakes and fewer sandwich choices, very disappointing, slow service.

Great breakfast and love the early start on a Sunday!!

Must be one of the best garden centres for many a mile, always a pleasure and doesn’t disappoint. It has a large food hall with loads of wonderful bits and pieces , a showpiece very large glasshouse restaurant which serves a superb range of things to eat and drink from an extensive menu- difficult to choose but it’s all very yummy. Has a large outdoor garden section, inside is a sizeable range of home bits, gifts and toiletries etc , one thing that is more minimalist is indoor plants- this is something they are not hot on . Considering it’s out of the way , it seems very popular, has a following which is easy to see why. Along with a large free car park makes for a lovely trip out.

Avoid 4pm as staff not really interested in dealing with you in the restaurant. Poor service and food quality is not good for the extortionate price of £14 for a burger.

Always a good day out. Did a little early Christmas shopping before enjoying an afternoon tea treat with a friend. Staff are polite and helpful. I would have given a 5* review if I hadn't noticed that the teapot lid and the jam pot were both badly chipped.

Really enjoyable place to visit and eat, great food, friendly staff.

Quality personified. What isn’t there to love about Beckworth Emporium. A great restaurant that caters for all parts of the day, quality products throughout the store and fresh food counters galore for daily shopping. Special mention to the Delhi and cake counters, just awesome. If you’re in the area, fill your boots 😊

Absolutely fantastic.,lovely meal and good product,