Brambridge Park Garden Centre Restaurant in Winchester

Always think plants are overpriced here - but there are bargains, too, if you're prepared to search...

Great place to find inspiration.

Great as ever, love the new layout indoors and plant selection was excellent.

I always find the staff friendly and helpful and products well displayed

Felt like in the middle of nowhere when we stumbled across this lovely garden center. The restaurant looked nice although we didn't have time to go in this time

Plants, plants and more plants. Oh and plenty of ideas for gifts. Coffee shop is nice too

False advertising! Don't even bother going here, it's a complete waste of fuel. They said they were open on their Google opening hours but decided to randomly be shut with no notices yesterday. Wasted half an hour driving, £10 getting there and had a VERY upset 2 year old who was excited to see the goats. Very unimpressed, I will never be returning. If you can't even be honest with your opening times what the heck else are you lying about?

We visited the garden centre on Wednesday. After a long trek through several departments we arrived at the cafe. After choosing a table we had to move our chairs due to the rain which was dripping through the roof! The Cappucinno that I ordered wasn't very hot and I think you'd run out of chocolate sprinkles!!!! (It is listed on the receipt) The price was really high because you charge extra for oat milk......haven't come across another cafe that does this for alternative milk!! £3.75 for a cup of coffee!!!! Our first and last visit I'm afraid.

Great garden centre with high quality plants. More expensive than other garden centres but most of the time, you're getting great quality stuff

Lovely place. Always nice to meet up with friends for a coffee too

Had lunch and very disappointed with ploughman's, very poor quality for £11

Not a good experience for me - £11.50 for a very small, tasteless tuna/black pepper mayo/cheddar cheese ciabatta with a scattering of chips. I won’t be rushing back in a hurry.

High quality plants. . Large indoor area of gifts, clothing, kitchen Ware etc. Always a fantastic Christmas selection. Nice cafe with conservatory and outdoor seating. Great staff. Check out the corner of sale/bargain plants.

Great selection of plants, well maintained and looked after. Cafe was excellent, great food and good prices. Only downside was the walk in...it felt like going to IKEA, being forced to walk through different sections including women's clothes, candles, Easter stuff to get to the plants!!

Such a well curated garden centre. Everything is top quality at great prices. They’ve got coconut scented candles which we all love

A lovely garden centre with a wide range of plants that are well looked after. Also has a nice little cafe / restaurant with a good range of food and a reasonable price.

Lovely place for loads of choice. Nice cafe. It would 5 🌟 if the prices were a little lower. But good quality. Look out for deals.

Lovely garden centre plenty of choice of plants, cards, home, gifts & women's clothes. Nice restaurant too with good menu choice and tasty food.

It has plenty on offer. The restaurant is nice

It was a lovely day out here😍. A beautiful place to visit and kids friendly.

Great garden center with everything you need for your home

Staff always very helpful. Nice variety of goods for sale. Nice variety of food in the restaurant, although prices had noticeably gone up on last visit.

A very nice garden centre with ample parking and a cafe. Garden items and plants as well as fancy foods, clothing, and home decor products.

Bad coffee. Cold and weak. Left food as bland and cold

So much to see, not necessarily of the gardening kind! Visited the café for a coffee, friendly staff and plenty of seating in the café area too!

Lovely coffee and toasted tea cake. My friends bought clothes, lots of plants as well

My friends and I highly recommend this garden centre. It’s really accessible with a huge car park. The staff are knowledgeable and friendly. We meet regularly to visit the restaurant for morning coffee and cake, which is always delicious. And we then spend time browsing through the wide range of goods on sale too. I bought several unusual presents there before Christmas. The post Christmas sale offers are really good too.

Good parking. Lovely selection of plants,clothes,garden ornaments. Nice cafe.

Such a lovely place to pop in. Cafe is great.

Ok, food average prices potato could have been hotter

Great Christmas area in the centre with musical penguin display

Great place to walk round great place to eat

A great place for plants and Christmas decorations

Not somewhere I'd normally visit but my mother in law liked it. V friendly staff in the cafe xx

Great garden centre. Lots of Christmas discounts and lovely pygmy goats outside.

Well appointed garden centre and restaurant. The large car park is also convenient to stop on in, for a walk along the river Itchen in either direction. This gets a bit crowded at the weekends and summer holidays and floods if the river is high. Now refurbished inside. You have to walk through the houseplants, household goods then ladies clothing to get to the gardening stuff, then there's no going back. Excellent range of garden plants, including veg, bedding and perennials. The garden at the back has been refurbished and the goats' enclosure enlarged Still extremely dog friendly :) There is a short, circular walk by the river (turn left as you come out of the front door) as well as the Itchen Way nearby.

Lovely garden centre with a wide variety of products and clothing along with the usual garden centre items.

Amazing place especially at christmas. Always lots of different plants and gardening stuff. Also homewares and clothes

Great café with choice of eating indoors, outdoors or in a large conservatory. Good range of plants and other garden accessories as well as a large giftshop, all good value. One of our favourite places, and has been for years.

Just love this beautiful garden centre. Treasure trove. A must visit when I'm in England.

Good selection of cakes and offers of breakfast and lunches and bevrages

Hivdo you still do theme evenings in your Restaurant it was years ago When the Manager/Restaurant Manager lady Rosemary Wheatley used to do really good party nights.

All you want for the garden, impressive quality products, especially at Christmas.

Great garden centre, Xmas display gets better each year - penguin barber shop singing statues at front the highlight but brilliant Xmas display inside too, our girls loved it. nice range of gifts and everything you'd expect. cafe is nice with good cake and coffee. 1 star knocked off for slightly disengaged/ slow cafe staff who were chatting away to each other and talking about finish time of shift rather than focused on customers and slightly chaotic/ long queueing experience to purchase items and exit store

One of my favorite garden centers. Lovely cafe, lots of beautiful items including the Christmas shop. Definitely worth a visit.

Fantastic garden centre brilliant Christmas decoration display and very nice cafe 🤩

Love it ,so much christmas decorations, gifts etc Cafe for food n drinks Dog 🐕 friendly

Nice garden centre. Good quality products and plants and a lively variety of suitable gifts. Excellent Christmas Shop. Lovely cream tea in the restaurant. Staff are always friendly and helpful. I travel half an hour up the M27 to go there so it must be good !

Brambridge is always so beautifully presented and the staff friendly and happy to help - worth a visit!

Beautiful garden centre, full of beautiful things to buy. The cafe is lovely with a beautiful conservatory. Highly recommend.

Always a lovely visit around Christmas time. Wonderful Christmas feel!

Lovely garden centre, spent a lot of time wondering around, so much to see. The Christmas display was excellent. Had lunch there, was not disappointed.

Heaven in a shop,thank you,😊🐶😼❤️

Great garden centre , huge parking area with a well laid out venue and a fab Christmas section. Well worth a visit.

Lovely choice of Christmas decorations

It always looks great at Christmas. There are lots of gift ideas getting through the checkout, which was a bit painful and very slow.

Excellent, the cafe was amazing and reasonable prices, lovely products

Service and staff were excellent. I ordered quiche of the day. Pastry was hard. Hubby had prawn & crayfish, baguette, which was very doughy. In retrospect we should have mentioned this to staff.

I called in for a coffee the other day and was very impressed by the apparent ease with which the staff had adapted from cafeteria to table service.There was a great deal of emphasis on cleaning, all staff made you feel welcome and at no time was there any feeling that they were anything but happy to be back welcoming customers.The tables were well spaced, greeting/contact detail recording was smooth, polite and friendly and service was prompt.All in all the staff appear to have embraced the changes forced upon them as opposed to just accepting them

At lunch time we were able to get a table, good social distancing and good service that was severely let down by the food. The Ham egg and chips had ham that was so full of fat that only half was edible. I had fish and chips. Sadly the fish was the size of a large fish finger and had no flavour. The peas were hard and tasteless. So most certainly not value for money.So while it was a lovely location, it was a BIG disappointment.

The lady who seated us was lovely, and everything looked inviting in the sunshine.Ordered prawn baguette, which arrived very quickly and the prawns were just swimming in sauce, sauce dripping everywhere from the baguette, salad and crisps on the side. Very weird. Coffee arrived but without a spoon and we waited to catch someone’s attention to finally get one. Also ordered a cream tea, the tea from which never appeared until we asked for it, a really long time after I had eaten the scone. Also ordered a bottle of Apple and Rhubarb juice, but was delivered strawberry and apple posh pop, which I didn’t realise until after I started to drink it. What a disappointment the whole experience was, just felt ripped off. No masks on any staff in the restaurant. Customer toilets tired and grubby.

I met a friend for coffee at Brambridge. The location of the table was good - plenty of spae around it.The staff seemed to forget our order, as the adjacent table had paid their bill, left, had table cleaned, and new occupants served with their order before our drinks arrived.I was most concerned with the entrance and exit to the cafe, and methos of payment. I was asked to go to a small till at the back of the cafe to pay. I did so, passing several tables on the way. I waited to pay. A number of waiting staff rushed in and out of a gap next to the till, (no masks), very close to me. After paying, the exit was through the same door as the entrance. A large queue had formed to enter. The entrance was completely blocked by people waiting. As I squeezed past, I looked for a way out. This was blocked by a customer's abandoned trolley, so I had to squeeze past the rest of the queue to leave.The store had implemented a one way system and provided hand gel, but the cafe needs more work.

Terrible very disorganised. Table service only, but not served after 30 minutes so left. WiFi was blamed! Server tried her best but failed. Went elsewhere and won’t return anytime soon.

The restaurant has implemented all Covid 19 precautions and is well laid out for eating eating both outside and inside. There is a good selection of food, which is excellent as is the waitress service.

arrived at 12.25pm was greated by pleasant lady who went through the new set up for covid 19. we then waited 30 mins before being attended to by a waiter who said we had been forgotten within the new system. the food was very good ,but then we waited ages to get the bill.also the staff were not wearing masks

Tucked away off the beaten track, this garden centre is a masssive pleasure to visit. They have a great cafe that has very clear covid social distancing measures in place with polite, professional and cheerful staff. Everything was immaculately clean and plenty of access to hand sanitiser.

First visit, staff very helpful, continually cleaning, food delicious,(jacket potatoe) prices reasonable, would recommend 😊

Ordered two jacket potatoes, one with cheese , one with coronation chicken. Both potatoes were overcooked, Rock hard skins and silky, slushy insides, never experienced that kind of texture from a jacket potato before. The coronation chicken placed at the side of the spud, was a few basic chunks of chicken in a cheap tasting curry sauce with no sultanas, almonds or such in the sauce itself. I have bought better sandwich/potato fillings from supermarkets. Overall disappointing, which is a shame as it’s a nice friendly environment with helpful staff in a pleasant setting.

Visited for a browse and coffee and ended up with a half price rather fabulous Christmas tree. Also bought wipe clean tablecloth which feels like fabric. All good...

Popped into Brambridge with a friend as we were in the area, primarily for a coffee which i knew was good there, but ended up having a full breakfast as we both couldn't resist it after seeing the display of food on offer. Really friendly staff who seem genuinely interested to talk to you despite being busy... A great deviation off the M3 if you're passing Winchester

This garden centre has a very lare outdoor area with ponds, statues and an enormous amount of all types of plants and shrubs.Indoors can be found a varied amount of household goods. indoor plants along with good quality clothing and a childrens toy area. There is a large clean cafe area which serves teas and coffees, tasty snacks and main course lunches available.

Popped here after alpaca walk for quick lunch and delicious hot chocolate. We also bought a few things using the 10% off voucher

Visited here with my family after seeing Santa. There were no queues for for food or drink but when i came to pay there was a long queue of 5 people. There was nowhere to put your tray so had to balance with 5 drinks and cake for approx 10 mins while passers by coughed and sneezed all over it. There were ample staff wandering round but no one got on the other till. The bill eas £30 so not cheap for tea and cake. Expected better service. So dissapointed.

Having had a mediocre experience at this venue a few months back I was somewhat dubious about going back for our annual family Christmas lunch, but I was relived to see things have improved. The service was top notch from start to finish. I can't recall our waitresses name, but she was very attentive, yet not intrusive. Our pre-booked table was decorated accordingly and as per our request we were seated in a spacious part of the restaurant due to accessibility reasons. Each of our three courses arrived promptly and with a smile. It's not easy working in the restaurant industry, it's hard graft, but our waitress handled everything with the upmost professionalism. As for the food our roasts were lovely, plentiful and fresh. However my white onion soup was with out doubt the weirdest thing I have ever tasted, which was a downer, but the roast made up for it. The best way to describe the soup was soulless. It was just odd and everyone in our party agreed. Also, my poached pear wasn't the best. Average at best, but the ginger ice cream was delicious! Hence the reason for my four star review.Would it be my first choice for a spot of light lunch or a Christmas dinner? Nope, but I would go back if I was passing.

Visited last year and gave a 2 star review as the restaurant was freezing cold. Visited again yesterday for a complimentary meal. The restaurant has been upgraded and was much warmer, the radiators were hot. We both had the roasts which were lovely. Staff all very friendly, would now recommend and will be returning with the family.

Beautiful presents for young and old , hadn’t been in a while and forgotten how much I loved going there , love staff 🎅🏼

Despite the seating area being very busy there was no queue to order food and our paninis were delivered very swiftly.there is a lovely choice of lunches,cakes and hot meals and the staff are very friendly and work hard to keep the tables turning in a very busy restaurant.well done to all the staff!

Brambridge garden Centre is a pleasure to walk around at any time of the year but Christmas is always that little more special. It has some great gift ideas, healthy plants and a great tea room (although slightly expensive in my opinion). It's dog friendly which is a bonus for us as we often stop in during a walk along the river.

Very pleasant staff, particularly the Manageress. Efficient service and definitely worth a visit for old and young.

A group of retired people from our company meet up on a regular basis to catch up with what’s happening in our lives. As always we had an excellent breakfast on our reserved table with first class service. I had crushed avocado and two poached eggs plus a refillable coffee - excellent but a bit pricey at £8.29. But our pensions are good!!!

Yesterday, Thursday 7th Nov, my wife and I joined a group of 7 to enjoy lunch which was a "thank you" from one of the group for the help we had given him recently.

service was quick and efficient. Staff very friendly and helpful. I thought our food was very tasty and good value for money.

We had afternoon tea after shopping and their selection of alternative tea were amazing. Love coming to this place. It’s a very nice treat.

After hearing lovely things about the garden centre cafe I decided I must try it for myself , I was not disappointed.

We went here to seethe garden centre and really enjoyed it. The little steam train was running and we went on that. There were also owls and hawks there which was lovely

The garden center itself is great! Very well stocked, with reasonable prices to match. There's also a small holding at the rear of the center, where a few friendly goats reside. All of whom seem well looked after and happy to interact with visitors.

Very poorly run and no management on Sundays - it's a carvery! Coming for a Sunday roast should be expected and the only staff are part time students.

My Friend and myself had lunch in the restaurant today, The sandwiches we had lacked filling, the bread was dry, and the portion was very small for what they are charging. We had herd staff say that the restaurant was quiet, we can now understand why, Even hot meals coming out on other tables around us, we equally as small and poor quality for money. Would not recommend to any one. On the quality of what we had received.

We took my sister for afternoon tea here for her 50th birthday there were 7 of us. We had a fair selection of sandwiches ham, cheese, tuna & egg mayonnaise on white & brown bread the fillings were over flowing. Next came the scones with a pot of jam & pat of fresh cream each (we could have had butter also if wanted) followed by a small selection of fancy cakes shortbread,mini macaroons, mini lemon meringue tarts & mini cup cakes, all washed down with as much tea or coffee as required for £9.99 our team was well worth every penny. The service wasn't rushed & nothing was toomuch trouble. The only drawback was that we were in the conservatory on a warm day with the doors open & we were inundated with wasps to the point of annoying & off putting.

Lots of varieties of plants. Great shop with lots of different things. There's even a couple of goats to see here. It's a brilliant garden centre with very helpful staff.

Stopped for panini and tea in the garden centre. Nice cafe with friendly staff and free Wi-fi. Food was typical for this type of establishment. Good but not special.

Brilliant food with great service. The team here work very hard to make it a real pleasure to visit.

Plenty of parking, lovely garden centre to walk around, and plenty of room in cafe, lovely cakes and fresh coffee.... play area for children, clean toilets, .?

Firstly the location of the restaurant is excellent. You can feel like you're in the nature when eating your food.

This was the second visit with my wife to Brambridges.

Four of us had booked afternoon tea at Brambridge, we were shown to our table straight away and it was all set out nicely for us, unfortunately because it was a very hot day, the heat was unbearable so we asked the waitress if we could move to a shady spot. The waitress was wonderful, she asked us to pick a table which we did nearer to an open door, she then moved the table cloth and all the place settings to the new table, she couldn't do enough for us. The tea itself was fantastic, sandwiches, little cakes and scones, there was so much to choose from and it was all delicious, one of our party was gluten free and she had her own plate of gluten free goodies, I could not recommend Brambridge enough, it was just a lovely afternoon treat and all this only cost £9.99, well worth the money spent and the staff are brilliant. We will definitely being visiting again.

I visit Brambridge on a very( too regular, according to my husband!) basis. To buy plants but also to eat and drink in the attractive and welcoming restaurant/ cafe area. I am always assured of an outstanding welcome from the ever helpful staff. Nothing is too much trouble. Be it in the restaurant or on the cash desks, I am treated with utmost courtesy and professionalism, but also real warmth and genuine wish to give you the best possible experience. The menu is varied and delicious and the choice of teas is amazing. If you are unsure of which to try, you are offered a free taster. I feel valued as a customer and cared for as a person. And the cake is too good!

Restaurant staff were pleasant and welcoming and committed to helping out, The restaurant was clean and tables wiped.

Last week a friend and I enjoyed 2 coffees at Brambridge, relaxing in the pleasant atmosphere. The first cup was delicious but the second was somewhat weaker although still quite palatable.

I think it’s true to say that most garden centres offer catering of one sort or another but few to the same high standard of Brambridge restaurant, I feel the current manageress