Bury Lane Farm Shop in North Hertfordshire

Lovely farm shop with great produce

Lots of things to buy. Not cheap though.

Friendly staff, good value, delicious coffee and teacakes

The cafe serves great food and the shop is full of fresh produce. Love this farm shop.

On Monday 30th September I met up with friends as an ideal place between where we live. We enjoyed a relaxed brunch , the chef was very accommodating for particular dietary requirements. It gradually became busy towards lunchtime. But we were not rushed and all staff were friendly and obliging. The whole place has been extended over the years. Which means there is such a variety of things to browse and buy. Well worth a visit. Brilliant fruit and veg display. So nice not to have plastic containers.

A seriously wonderful farm shop. Everything you could ever want from a farm shop with amazing food.

This is a great farm shop/garden centre. Even leaving aside the soft play which has a decent sensory room and a really awesome outdoors beach area (open seasonally), and the café, this farm shop and seasonal pick your own is excellent. Shop has Kohlrabi and Victoria plums, two varieties I always struggle to find elsewhere, as well as the standard veg and fruit, with a lot of it grown locally (Cam valley farms). Shop asleep sells really nice gifts and cards, esp for children, has a meat counter and I think another deli type counter. There are garden tools and plants for sale in other areas of the building. Finally the pick your own operation runs through the shop and having used it I think the pyo quality is high, you just need to bring along secateurs for the dahlias, otherwise you have to buy scissors or the like, which they are happy to sell you. Nb disabled access is good, though I've only used the disabled toilets in the soft play, which were great. Disability discounts in the soft play on request. There is a loyalty card for the farm shop and cafe with stamps for every £25 spent.

Great fresh produce plus an enormous range of gifts, housewares, accessories etc. Better still, an excellent cafe with friendly staff and a wide selection of delicious dishes at very reasonable prices

There has been some thought and care put into this restaurant and , in my view, they've got a lot right. On the plus side, the food offerening is decent, if a bit slow, the waiting staff were very good (working in a madly busy environment), the appearance of the resturant was pleasing, and it was great to get things like jam and cream in small dishes, as opposed to being served minimal portions from pre-packaged plastic containers. Also, if you are there for coffee and cakes, they have a nice selection to choose from. Well done to the owners on all of those fronts. Where the restaurant falls down badly - enough to make my return unlikely - is that if you go on a day where there are lots of young mothers and kids, it takes on the acoustic feel of a monkey house/school canteen. It's hellishly noisy, and if you want to have a converstaion you certainly have to raise your voice. The issue is that the restaurant is pretty large and serves lots of people. The sound bounces of all the walls and there is plenty of it. If I owned the restuarant I would experiment with acoustic dividing boards between the nicely padded bench seats that they have, and some acoustic boards on the walls. I do like the look and feel of the place, but I was very glad to get out because of the noise. How the waiting staff deal with it every day beats me, they must get exhausted.

On our way to Cambridge, we stopped at this beautiful farm shop which had almost everything. The cafe was beautiful and we ordered jacket potato with cheese and salad which was very delicious. The atmosphere is very nice and cozy. Also, we experiences picking our own Dahlias there. We had to but our scissors before picking our flowers. So I would recommend taking your own scissors before visiting this place. Also the market was very big and had everything. All the staff were so welcoming and helpful and we enjoyed our visit to this farm shop. Highly recommended 10/10

Pick your own Dahlias, fabulous idea. Busy farm shop, looks like a great place for children to play, wonderful farm shop, butchery and fresh fruit and veg. Top draw garden centre and café

It shouldn’t take 20 minutes to get a coffee and a bit of cake. Ignored when we stood at the ‘Please wait here sign.’ A group of people with no clear leader. The food looked good but the service is slow and doesn’t work. Consider looking at the set up they have at Scotsdales where customers are allocated a table, then collect their drinks and order food. That way they have something to drink whilst they wait. It’s a shame..

Had a great couple of hours here. Firstly in the play area there is so much to do for the kids and brilliantly priced. A quick walk around the garden centre to buy some goodies and onto the resturant. All day breakfast £10 😋 £13 if you have the bigger one

Love it.. the dahlias were amazing yesterday... So beautiful.

A very long wait for a plain chicken burger and burnt chips and the coleslaw was out which we found out after we had waited for 20 minutes and the burger was about to be ready. Definitely not worth the cost and not a convenient lunch stop for a longer journey.

Lovely Farm Shop, happened upon by chance. We didnt have a chance to fully explore as we arrived half hour before closing. Lots of delicious meats and homemade pies at the butchery, fishmonger looked delightful and a huge range of products and accompaniments and the fruit anf veg looked lovely too. Would definitely return to explore more when in the area. The homemade steak pie out the fridge was amazing!!

Well-stocked garden centre. Obviously quite pricey!

The grandchildren loved the play barn .The food was very good ,staff lovely friendly

Poor quality cafe food and very slow service. Even the menu is poorly designed, 2 options for eggs, toast and salmon, except one comes with cream cheese and the other is creamy scrambled eggs. Waitress bought the wrong option.

Great coffee if it was hot but they was busy. Great entertainment for children for soft play, the sand beach and activities, plus nice ice cream. Nice food from the chef. Would highly recommend if you don't have a screaming nut job 5 year old daughter. But my other daughters love it. I definitely need a drink after today.

We go mainly for the soft play and beach. A lovely not too expensive activity for youngsters.

I took my little girl here after enjoying the PYO season. First thing that I found a little odd was that it is table service. In a cafe? Anyway we have it a go. Anyone with a young and inpatient child may be slightly put off by table service however I am happy to say that the service was extremely speedy. Unfortunately the prices are just really extreme for me. It's a gorgeous shop and cafe with great facilities but the mark up is really out there on some of the items. I'd recommend it for maybe a coffee rather than a full sit down meal because it's going to hurt your pockets!

It's very expensive, yet you can get everything and it's all well made. If you want cheap and tacky there are other garden centres to choose from.

Bury Lane farm shops allows visitors to come and do seasonable picking. We visited for their Dahlias and it worth the trip from London!! They have a cafe, deli, groceries, indoor plants and more available to keep visitors busy at their site. Staff were very friendly. I highly recommend a visit to Bury Lane Farm shop, and don’t forget to bring scissors and a basket for the picking 🌸

Very nice place to spend half a day. Very pleased with the service and the food and service was excellent

Extremely noisy and slow service in restaurant. Away from restaurant fruit and vegetables are excellent quality and a great range of foods, alcohol and cakes. Prices across store are high. Pick your own section really nice.

My friends and I really enjoyed our time picking strawberries and dahlias!

Went to granddaughter's birthday party at their fun barn. She and her friends had a fantastic time. The play equipment kept them amused for ages and the food barely touched the plates!

Very nice softplay and beach and play area outside with lots of activities for all ages. This was our 2nd visit with my grandchildren from London . They really enjoyed it there.

Good food, clean and friendly efficient staff

Great little stop off before getting to cambridge

Huge softplay, very clean and plenty to do. The farmshop has an enormous variety and some heritage vegetables which are delicious. The indoor plant section is delightful and the garden centre was packed full of beautiful, colourful flowers to choose from. Highly recommended for a family day out.

We regularly visit for lunch and always have a lovely time. Even when busy we are usually seated relatively quickly and the food never disappoints. It's tasty, well-presented and very reasonably priced. Our only suggestion would be to provide some additional training for younger members of the waiting staff.

Love it, just expensive unfortunately

Customer service was quite sad, and I waited 20 minutes before being served while people who came in after us got served before us.

Excellent farm shop. Has a great butchers with lovely sausages, burgers etc. Great fresh fish. Nice selection of cheeses.

Love the produce served here. Bit disappointed no fresh fish, aparently its Thursday to Saturdays for that. Quality of meat and fish exceptional. Other areas also great finds. Not cheap. But all amazing. Staff very helpful and knowledgable. Shame cashiers look in pain when standing all the time, there could be enough room made for them to sit (like in scotsdales !! Bury Lane be kinder to your staff. Otherwise perfect visit as always x

Lovely time strawberry picking and lunch.

Every single pack have a bad item in it ,and very expensive

Absolute stunning place. Many different varieties loads of different shops. The only disappointment was the price to get into the children's play area. And pick your own is absolutely wonderful.

This place is Amazing. Great staff. Fantastic restaurant. Food is amazing. Would highly recommend a visit to everyone. Top place. 10 out of 10.

Loved this place. Went peony picking and it was great and the flowers superb. Cafe is big, very busy when we were there but good service. Difficult to comment on food as we only had toast.

Great cafe. Really good well stocked and varied produce in the various shop departments.

Very nice place and fresh products. I love the pick your own events they promote. Picking peonies is my favourite.

Good to buy local organic food items for a fair price

Fantastic place. Lots of wonderful peonies.

Nice place, good quality products

We went to the beach & picked Peonies - fantastic morning

Great place with peonies fields

What a wonderful find - fields of peonies, cut your own and very reasonably priced. We all LOVED it

01/06/24 I visited the farm couple of days ago. It was truly an impressive experience. I didn’t pluck any flowers but thoroughly enjoyed walking through the flowers. There is well maintained garden center, souvenir shop, cafe and a lovely play area for little ones which needed advanced booking. PYO strawberries on its way. Will defo be there for it soon as they let the public know the details. Highly recommended

We visited Bury Lane Farm this weekend to have a spot of breakfast in the cafe which was scrumptious. I went for the fresh salmon and scrambled eggs on sourdough which was cooked perfectly. Refreshed and satisfied we ventured over to the pick your own peony field. The field was a spectacular view with row upon row of exquisite blooms. There were serval different varieties of peonies with a mixture of colours from delicate white and soft pale pink to cerise pink - it was a breathtaking view. The perfume from the peonies was also a real delight creating a peaceful atmosphere. The staff member was really informative and friendly. The price of the cut peonies were reasonable and the wasn't an admission fee to the field so if you just wanted to take a few photos and enjoy the field you were more than welcome to. I would definitely recommend visiting Bury Lane Farm.

Lots of choice of colours, great value for money.

Just had a little look at Farm Shop everything you would expect. Went to pick your own Peonies which I enjoyed very much. PYO Strawberries, Dahlias and Pumpkins later in the year. Peonies not over priced.

Great for a little trip out. Plenty to walk around and look at. Cafe/restaurant has lots of choice. Definitely worth a trip. Can always find something for gifts and they have really nice Christmas/seasonal items.

Very pleasant staff lovely surroundings excellent restaurant!also good quality meats and produce

Over priced, especially the cafe. £3 for a can of coke, and no hot food after 3pm!

PYO Peonies - even in the rain..simply one of the best experiences of my life! Thank you Bury Lane !! Xx

Wonderful Experience ..Great Food.. Fantastic ambience and very supportive staff.Has a great Gift shop too, with large variety

Travel all the way from Coventry. Love the experience

Huge farm shop with fantastic quality produce and a wide range! We came for the PYO Peonies event that they had on, which made for a fantastic day out and was great value at £24 for 30 flowers

The cafe and farm shop were excellent 👍

Such an amazing place. The shop had beautiful bits, and staff were kind and helpful. We went for the peony pick your own where 5 stems were 6.50£. The field was kept clean and the flowers were beautiful.

Lovely big farm shop. Cafe was a bit dirty but food was lovely despite being busy. Pick your own peonies was fun

Really nice place and don’t need to book to visit.

I recently visited Bury Lane Farm Shop and had a wonderful experience picking our own peony flowers. The farm shop is beautifully maintained, with a wide variety of fresh produce, local goods, and delightful treats. However, the highlight of our visit was undoubtedly the "pick your own peonies" activity. The peony fields were stunning, with vibrant colors and a sweet fragrance filling the air. The staff were friendly and helpful, providing us with all the tools and guidance needed to pick the perfect blooms. It was a relaxing and enjoyable experience, perfect for a sunny day out. After picking our flowers, we explored the rest of the farm shop and were impressed by the selection of artisanal products and the charming café. We enjoyed some delicious homemade treats and coffee, making it a complete day out. Overall, Bury Lane Farm Shop offers a fantastic combination of a charming retail experience and delightful outdoor activities. We highly recommend visiting, especially during peony season!

I highly recommend this farm🌸my second visit in one week. Worth the drive and, the peonies are utterly divine!🌸

Terrible place. Far below the expectations I had expected. Lack of staff in the restaurant and staff eating food whilst working on the deli counter. Management just brushed out complaint aside. Won't be returning again.

It’s a lovely farm shop with so much on offer and some very nice items in the store. We went to the cafe but the food was not to a great standard which would be expected of such a nice place.

All round great farm shop. Go to the buchers once a week

What a total rip off!! So expensive for v ordinary coffee. £1.70 for a tiny babychino. That’s just crazy. Please think about your pricing.

Swung by this café for lunch on a sunny weekend after browsing the garden centre. Managed to find a free table - although it was still dirty from the previous occupants. Sadly, the waitress who took our order was quite abrupt and didn’t offer to clean the table. Menu had plenty to choose from and all looked reasonably priced. Both of us ordered the Mixed Ploughman’s with ham, cheddar and sourdough bread. The portions were huge; a real bargain for only £11! We enjoyed everything except the bread, which was a little dry. Overall I’d say the food was good enough to make up for the lacklustre service so we’d come back in future. If management are reading this, then I would stop the servers from hovering together behind the counter and ensure they’re out on the café floor, checking on customers and cleaning tables etc. Fingers crossed for next time!

Went to see tulips, it was beautiful.

Perfect family day out, visit to a Tulip farm. You can shop organic and homemade products, art, craft, artifacts and spend your day in the cafe, garden centre. There is an indoor kids activity centre. You can buy Tulip stems for reasonable price and the best part is the entry and car park is free.

Wonderful experiences for tulip picking. Helpful staff, good choice of product in shop.

Very nice very expensive a once in a while treat but will definitely go back

Quite disappointed as we went there just for tulip tapping, my little girl was excited with her bag packed with a scissor in it for tulips . When reached they said its closed for the season and there is no information about it on the website. They should update the website, if its closed and tickets are non refundable. Complete waste of the day. ********************************* As ,I am unable to reply to the response by the owner of Bury Lane Fun Barn.I am editing my initial review to add the response. -First of all ,thanks for replying. I hope you also spend time editing your webpage with the up-to-date info as well. As on until the day of our visit we haven't seen any updates on tulip closures on the booking web page. I agree now as I have seen the information for tulip closing was made on Fb page in advance. But ,just to let you know that not everyone is on Fb or Insta. I am myself a computer engineer ,but don't have time to follow fb pages for each places we would like to visit. We opened the webpage and there wasn't anything there about tulips being closed and we made the booking. So, please keep this in mind that the business webpage should always be updated with any changes. Suggestion, I have seen at many business that you can add on your webpage that your fb/Insta pages are always updated , so please check them regularly. On ticketing, as we (6 families) arrived with 8 kids, Main reason tulip tapping, there wasn't any reason they will not play in the soft play center, so we have to buy the tickets. But if we knew there weren't any tulips (as we couldn't manage to get tickets for Norfolk tulips) we would have thought or planned differently. I hope you understand how you feel when you plan for something and on a surprise find something else just due to lack of proper communication. We been to fun barn 2 times before also and loved it always.

Pleasant farm shop with a wide range of niche and delicious looking products.

A lovely place to visit just outside of Cambridge. Amazing flowers with the option to pick your own, it's tulips right now. Peonies up next!

I also really liked the store, a wide selection of the highest quality goods and products. Good service in the restaurant (Sunday roast - very tasty). A game room with a children's playground outside is great. It was especially impressive that you could choose and cut fresh tulips in the field with your own hands, and buy them 🥰🌷 Children and adults are satisfied, we will visit again))

they haven’t off for viewing . it’s not update at all tulip cut off all last thursday .🙄🙄. we came today from London and heard it’s been close.. very careless ..

It's a compact sized farm but with amazing blossoms and the day we visited was perfect. Weather perfect with moderate wind and high temperature and the flowers were in full bloom with a cornucopia of colours bringing freshness and suck a flock of people photo bombing. The crowd was a moving one, so we had plenty of eye pleasing memories and perfect clicks for the gram.

Great family place, huge soft play area for kids. Great for kids parties.

So lucky to live near this farm shop. I like their gift shop and cafe the most.

Excellent shop with such a wide variety of different goods - from fresh produce to a fresh butchers! Love the tulip fields and you can cut your own (but bring your own scissors). Could have spent all day here!

there Cafe Special has a very poor service - i ordered mocha but was given cappucino, they will let you sit but will take a long time to take your order. the food is a bit too long to arrive as well. over all they could inprove their service a lot more.

Fish was full of bones. Not impressed. Lots of people waiting to be seated despite plenty of tables going free. No one cared to tell us where we order or pay. Poor service and a dirty table. Edit following owner response: Your team was informed at the time given the health and safety risk, your inability to properly staff for busy weekends isn't the customers responsibility. The photo was taken at the start of my meal, this was not a few bones and was the case for both me and my partner.

We went for breakfast as an extended family (including 2yo) and we really enjoyed it. We all had the cooked breakfast which was made with high quality ingredients. The shop has loads of variety and fresh local produce.

Excellent value and good quality food in the cafe.

This review relates to the cafe. I have been coming here for years, and the food has always been great. But unfortunately since the additional seating has been added time and time again we have had issues with service. It's a classic case of being greedy and craming as many customers in as possible, but not having sufficient system in place to cope with the amount of covers. We ordered 2 Jacket potatoes a pancake stack and scampi and chips , we waited an hour for the food. There were a number of customers in the same boat. It's simple maths, if your customers have to wait longer than 15 minutes for there food then there is a serious problem, either the kitchen staff are not experienced enough or there just simply letting to many people in. Again the food was lovely when it arrived, but an hour wait is far to long

Brilliant farm shop with butchers, fishmongers, deli and fab home ware department. Also brilliant cafe

First visit for the Easter play barn and beach and what a fantastic set up it is! Would highly recommend this place to anyone even the soft play. Very clean fantastic friendly staff and can't believe how affordable it was for 2 adults and a 3 year old. (£10.50) Will definitely be returning

Ive always quite like Bury Lane farm shop but I went in on Saturday 23rd with a friend and went to the restaurant for a cuppa tea, and was quite disappointed, we didn't want much so had a bowl of chips to pick at while chatting, which meant we needed to use the condiment boxes on the table, if you can call it that. These had not been checked in a while, sauce sachets there was 1 vinegar and 1 mustard and some rubbish, so had to go table to table, finally found a bottle of ketchup and when we took of the lid it was pretty discusting around the top and inside the lid. Quite a basic requirement I would say. There was also a lot of uncleared and dirty tables which is so off putting.

Menu after 3.00 is limited to cold food only, basically sandwiches and cakes. But sandwich was very good and service was good. Very popular for lunch time particularly for families with pre school children.

My sisters and I wanted to take mum, somewhere local to her, for brunch on mother’s day so a couple of weeks ahead I called to reserve a table (as suggested on the website for larger groups or if travelling a distance - I live a 90 minute drive away) I was told that I definitely didn’t need to reserve a table for 10.30 am as that’s when they opened - even though it was Mothers Day and I had to insist quite hard that if they could reserve a table I would appreciate it and very reluctantly my name was written in the book. I am very glad that I had that ‘fight’ on the phone as we arrived at 10.20 and the cafe was already incredibly full. By 10.45 there was a queue of people waiting for tables. It feels like there is an opportunity for better customer service, it shouldn’t be that difficult to deal with a business. The service this morning was friendly and efficient. We ordered hot and cold drinks and all of us decided to have the pancakes with bacon & maple syrup. The drinks arrived quickly considering they were so busy. The food took a while which was not a problem at all. However, we were all disappointed with the bacon. It looked raw on the plate and had been microwaved (I hope - as I did eat mine!) It didn’t look or smell at all appetising and 3/4 of us didn’t eat theirs. One of my sisters has colitis and she just felt she couldn’t risk eating it given that it looked so raw. There were breakfasts going out left right and centre this morning and I can’t believe that all the bacon was cooked like this. Very disappointing. Had the cafe not been so busy we would have checked with the server but we were hungry and the pancakes were edible so we cracked on.

Lovely farm shop and brilliant restaurant.

Unfortunately this is our second time coming, the first time was bad but we decided to give it a second chance. However, this time was as bad as the first. They had run out of all of the food, every time I went to order something I was told it was unavailable. This should be mentioned when seated so customers are aware they can’t order what they want. We finally found something available. The 2 tables either side of us were very disappointed also and one left due to this. Our food took a while to come (jacket potato) and one was missing the cheese. There was a massive Que and the staff wouldn’t come over when we tried to get their attention so it took 10 minutes to be able to get someone’s attention. By the time the food came back the other one was cold. Overall a very bad experience. Last time we visited we ordered baguettes and were bought out sandwiches, we corrected them for them to tell us they had run out. Yet we were never told. Very disappointing both times and won’t be returning.

Fabulous play area for children and lots of lovely food, groceries, plants and gifts to choose from. Very busy and great fishmongers too

We have visited the Café previously but the standards have gone down considerably since. The tables were dirty, some of the waiting staff were clueless as to what to do first and when they did attempt to clean, they just flicked food remnants onto the chairs and even then didn't clean the entire table top. More worryingly, by chance our table was moved slightly to allow someone to get past. This showed the disgustedly dirty floor where the table had been. There were food remnants from who know when as well as general dirt beneath. For a food establishment this is totally unacceptable and showed a general lack of understanding of food hygiene standards by all staff including any supervisory or managerial.

Definitely gone down hill, the food was nice , but they missed of some of what we ordered, I did ask for it to be bought to us asap, never arrived. It's really dirty, needs a really good freshen up, don't know who cleans but they should be sacked, the window is filthy, covered in cobwebs. Bought some beef from the butchers, lovely staff always friendly. Bought some new china cups, was told by a very miserable young lady I could get a box, her exact works. Not sure who manages this place but they need to spend some time there, maybe do something staff training.