Beckworth Emporium in Wellingborough

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

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

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

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.

Always nice and fresh organic vegetables

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.

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

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!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

Great meal as always service excellent.

Met up with friends and had breakfast. Very enjoyable

We love coming here! My only complaint is their lack of vegan options in the restaurant- particularly dairy free options. (Lots of lovely cheese/butter/milk alternatives available for cooking.) Why is there two vegetable soups and neither is milk free? Management - the feedback form on the receipt isn’t working it doesn’t show your restaurant on it.

Good food selection, plus plants and general garden stuff

Excellent service and choice of produce

Good selection of veg, fruit, breads, cakes plus a large range of good quality frozen meals and ingredients. Butchery meats and pre-prepared meats on site plus a wide range of other specialist foods and drinks, wines, beers and ciders, often from local producers. The posh cafe/restaurant is a great meeting place and very popular There's also a good range of fancy goods, cards etc and garden stuff in a separate area. Parking is well set out and there is plenty if you drive in beyond the entrance. This is a well-run premium site. My only comment would be to watch the prices! Busy on the weekends as many people come for a browse!!

Nice food and lovely atmosphere.

Nice place restaurant food very expensive and not great, we won't go again

Afternoon tea. Although there were lots of free tables we had to wait for half hour at 2pm Friday afternoon. Given a loud buzzer then wait to hand it in. Taken to a table, no rappor at all. Table was by the payment area. Behind my husband 2 really loud women discussing the till with one or 2 employees. Served by very nice trainee lad. Small latte coffee followed about 5 mins later by a tray of 8 quarter sandwiches, all packet white bread except egg which were on packet brown. 2 scores warm, cream jam half strawberry and 2 blueberries. 2 trifles in shot glasses, 2 shortbread biscuits with toppings, 2 carrot cakes. Cost £34. All tasted really fresh and lovely. If you could book it would be a superb place. Many people complaining they only wanted tea and cake but had long wait. Wasn't keen on the Black sort of uniforms staff had, looked grubby and down market for a bit of a pretentious expensive place. Food was very expensive. Plants looked very good, all well maintained. Toilets were excellent, clean and stylish. Parking was easy, although we have been vefore and parking was difficult. Excellent for disabilities within the structure. Car park is concrete and shingle which with a broken ankle I found difficult. Would I go again? Maybe, but they really need a reservation service.

was looking forward to a nice meal with friends because have heard great things about this place! we went and in all honesty we were quite let down with the poor service and rude waitresses. one waitress in particular stood out to be very rude to us customers who chose to came to this place. she was very blunt when talking to us, with a rude tone, and took an absurd amount of time to bring our food out, we even thought about leaving. i wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone. save your money!!!

The atmosphere, cleanliness, staff are all great you can't fault it. We were given an afternoon tea voucher which should have cost £32 for two, I felt it was a bit uneventful, the vegetarian sandwich choices are a bit boring now and I felt the portion size was a bit small for the cost. The sandwiches are cheese and tomato, cucumber and egg. I think in this economic climate it felt a bit expensive for what it was. Either reduce the cost a bit or improve the sandwiches and cakes for the price. The little carrot cake was nice, but the biscuit with a blob of cream on top was a bit mahhh.

1st time here as was recommend to catch up with family. And OMG it was absolutely brilliant. We had afternoon tea plenty of selection and more than enough for 2... Friendly and helpful staff. Spotlessly clean.. Plenty of parking spaces. . Will definitely be back again soon. Thankyou for such a lovely afternoon. x

Been to Beckworth a few times and it is a nice place for the unusual things you wouldn't find in a normal supermarket. It is extremely pricey and have started to notice marked up products that you can buy in your usual everyday supermarket at a fraction of the price also. So not everything is local and unique. We noticed that the few times we have been we saw people with their dogs grabbing their shopping so thought OK today we will bring our little dog with us this time. After about 20 minutes in there placing items in our trolley a member of staff approached us and informed us dogs are not allowed. We did question as we have seen dogs in there on each time we have visited but she said they may have been service dogs. They wasn't, they were pet dogs with no service labeling on them. However if these are the rules it might be best to put up a no pet dogs only service dogs sign up like Whites Nurseries does down the road in Earls Barton. Not sure if rules have changed and that's why we saw people with dogs a few weeks ago and members of family who have visited have also taken their dog with them but just be aware you can not take your dog inside if anyone else was thinking of doing so.

Well, 'What can we say...' Having been here a few times now thought it was about time that I acknowledged what a special place this is... We have a week of so it's always nice to indulge in a little Garden Centre magic... Anne-Marie so Love`s to mull around in the Plant area and as we don't come often...Thought is was a good day for a lunchtime treat... We have to make a special mention of Jane our 'Wonderful' attentive server... And not only that...She was extremely 'Informative' "Jane ... We thank you all so much !!! The food was divine as it it 'Always' when we have visited with family etc... Can't recommend this 'Wonderful' arena enough... Rob & Anne-Marie xx

Food and staff excellent had a lunch in there before going round garden centre which was also lovely

Lovely place to browse. Food hall expensive but a very good range of food. Lovely restaurant, food is lovely. Visited today a sunday, got a table straightaway,nice staff.didnt seem as busy I am giveing this 4 stars as after finishing our mains no one came to ask if we would like a desert and coffee,after giveing people their food on tables close to us. Decided not to bother after sitting 20 mins, Wanted to pay same thing noone to ask So ended up going to the till to pay .

Food in the restaurant was really lovely and a lovely selection of plants to choose from

A big garden centre Emporium with a large carpark. There are food stalls with quality meats, fruits and vegetables, drinks etc. There is a home decor area with lots of products from decorative bottles, drinks coasters to side tables and lamps. There is a very big restaurant at Beckworth Emporium. When it is busy they use a pager system to alert you when a table is ready for you so you can still wander around and browse instead of waiting in a queue. The food in the restaurant is great. Good quality and well presented. The staff were very good. However when it's full the restaurant can be very noisy due to the way the building amplifies the chat. The outside garden centre area is kept stock with plenty of lovely, well tended plants. Definitely worth a visit.

A really beautiful place to visit and look round. The food and drink is expensive and so is most of the stock in the shop. I also wish they'd bring back the ice skating at christmas time as my son loved it.

Good food ... and Polish pottery in England!

Good place to visit with a lovely restaurant. Lots of stock for the garden bits and pieces and a lovely food hall to browse. Like most of these places the products are more expensive but they are of good quality. Very popular but plenty of free parking.

Great food in restaurant and great food to take home. Wonderful gifts too, love going there

First time visiting this afternoon from the Midlands and really enjoyed our experience. Lots of quality food, household and garden items. Excellent restaurant with staff who take pride in their service. Definitely recommend and will return.

We'll worth a visit if you're in the area. Recent refurbs look great. Excellent cafe. Great choice of food in the shop.

It's a lovely place to meet for breakfast. The food hall is fabulous and the garden centre is good. Amazing loos! Just be prepared for how expensive it is.

Whilst the service and presentation and staff were all faultless, the restaurant left a lot to be desired. I was seriously annoyed at the incredibly poor choice of food available that was dairy free. Most of the dairy free food, was vegetarian or vegan, which I'm neither. They had a dairy free cheese alternative, but the make you use is very a very poor substitute. No soups are dairy free, and all but one salad isn't offered dairy free. Most meals are offered with cheese or cream within them, leaving a very poor choice left. You might have dairy free substitutes available but put them on the menu, instead of leaving it to staff to remember. I begrudgingly went with the burger, because the idea of smoked salmon slathered in a herb mayo, instead of a lemon cream sounded overwhelming against smoked salmon. The burger came with a bland tasteless coleslaw. It came with what tasted like precooked bacon on the burger. The burger itself wasn't nicely cooked with any kind of char or crust from a hard fry, nor was it juicy. No mustard on a burger? No real condiments on the table like mustard or fresh black pepper from a mill. No vinegar in a shaker, just from a sauce pot? (Huh?) Chips are straight from a frozen packet. The salad had a weird sweet flavoured dressing to it. My mum went with the quiche and potatoes with a salad. The quiche was dry, and the potatoes badly reheated, leaving them also dry inside with a shriveled skin. Just disappointing overall. Also, there's a weird, very obvious gender imbalance going on with the waitering staff being entirely female. The last time I came here I really enjoyed the food and sandwiches, but today, eating again, I would not come back again with such a poor menu, with very bland food on offer, mostly reheated so badly it appears and tastes ruined.

Wasn't too enamoured with the pager bit. Still lots waiting around for tables.

This is a top class outlet, selling wonderful fresh food of all kinds. A wonderful garden centre with top class plants in excellent condition. A wonderful, very large restaurant with excellent food. It is always busy but you soon get a table and your food arrives very quickly. Staff are very polite and friendly. It is a great day out. A great place to go for gifts for all age groups. Highly recommended.

Always a lovely morning/afternoon out. Beckworth has lots of cool quirky items you won't find elsewhere, and of course then there's the outdoor garden centre and houseplants. The restaurant in the glasshouse is always busy, however service is extremely quick and always on point. Prices are a little on the expensive side, but you get what you pay for. Good quality, and as I said already, unique too!

Have been coming for 8 years, great food, great staff and a pleasant shopping experience. See the odd negative karen comment but dont let that put you off!

Lovely place, Superb resturant and great food hall and gifts

Lovely afternoon tea, food was gorgeous

Food served at the restaurant was of questionable quality and tasted funky. Complaints policy and service is non existent, unfortunately they don’t care for their customers and have proved it multiple times. Avoid at all costs.