Cannon Hall Garden Centre & Thyme Bistro in Barnsley

Haven't been to cannon Hall for years so went with grandson and wow has the garden centre changed The cafe used to be tiny and now I somewhere I'd go for lunch. Great food and even a cheeky glass of wine Lovely place

Visited the outside area, which is dog friendly. Food very good. Speedy service. BUT. so so busy, noisy and far from relaxing. Some lovely items in the Garden Center shop I was tempted to buy. Parking full and tricky at a weekend!

Exceptional selection of Christmas decorations and home decor. Cafe is lovely with a great selection of food and drinks.

Can be busy at times, food excellent, staff first class

Went for cream tea. Sandwiches were amazing with the nicest bread I've eaten in a long time. Cakes were delicious and the accompanying tea was lovely. Had a wander round after and the shopping is small and specific so you know what your buying when you do. Outside area was well stocked and the pet section is great for a treat or toy for the dog.

The cafe - We came here for a birthday lunch and the food was exceptional, very tasty and delicious will definitely be back again. Garden centre - great variety of products to look at and ended up getting a couple of bits (dog treats, terracotta pumpkin just in time for Halloween, some garden thing too). Will definitely be back here again, is not very far from home too which is good .

Loved the shop but the staff are really rude.

One of the best garden centres I've visited. Dog friendly with a great gift shop and cafe

Great place to eat. Great selection of food and drink. Good fast service. And Canon Hsll park is right next door for great walks.

Lovely friendly staff Kyle Helped us out with our garden furniture Friendly and quick delivery service and put it together for us :) Will deffo be buying from them again.

The thyme bistro was great lots of seating and great food ,especially for us as we have a food allergy we are both coeliacs but managed to have a choice of food from the menu

Lovely walk, through the grounds, ducks, swans and geese

Only had an ice cream it was good tho.

Plants are a bit expensive but well cared for. Nice gift section. Cafe still had a good selection of cakes etc to chose from - even on a late Sunday afternoon. It's a good menu. Plenty of choice.

Beautiful tranquil grounds, pretty walled garden and good cafes. Will be back to see the house. A good example of a wealthy family home.

Lovely country walk around the park with something for all ages. Boating lake (seasonal), kids play area, 2 cafes, wide open parklands and paved walks. The cafe at the house serves great food at surprisingly low prices.

Five star service from the woman working in Barbour, unfortunately massively let down by your rude and patronising checkout staff. You need to review your returns policy, as just firmly offering a credit note valid for 6 months is not acceptable, especially for someone who doesn't live locally. If it was a small purchase, I wouldn't mind, but we had just spent nearly £600 on various items today. Wouldn't recommend purely after that experience.

What a lovely cafe! The dog friendly side is called the Terrace. It is lovely. You have the option to sit on the high chairs or on the benches. It is all enclosed so it doesn’t feel like you’re sat outside. We had a toasted baguette and a sandwich. It didn’t disappoint. I would recommend this for anyone with a dog. We loved it!

Nice little garden centre to visit. Bistro closed at the moment. A tad on the dear side, but the products are good and can give you a lot of ideas. Usually visit when we go to Cannon Hall park and farm. Everything open and appears very popular. Nice garden centre and bistro

TBH the atmosphere is a little stuffy and customer service is not one of its assets. Toilets are on a pin number and is only available to cafeteria customers. Car parking, blue badge is changed be careful and is very limited space. Prices are competitive for most plants and shrubs some of the associated products are pretty expensive.

Lovely place plenty of room to picnic, farmyard great, farmhouse smashing and Cannon Hall interesting also good walks along the river

Visited on a Sunday for breakfast before walking around Cannon Hall grounds. Easy to find a table, easy to order, prompt and accurate service and really lovely food. What more could you ask for. Great!

Very healthy indoor plants and not expensive. has everything you need for indoor plants.

Very very nice food,took the family for a walk at canon hall and stopped at bistro for lunch. A great choice every bit of food cooked to perfection.

Stopped off with my daughter and grandson for a spot of lunch and found the service excellent and food definitely value for money. Thanks.

Brilliant outdoor space- good food

Don't have Sunday lunch. Very expensive. I had beef and it was torn up like pulled pork and put into a mould. Took it home fir my dog just short of £16. Yorkshire pud was so hard I couldn't get my knife through it. Very disappointed won't be having that again.

Garden Centre is good but the restaurant is what we went for, We ate inside although there is outside seating. Very nice food with quit a varied menu, prawn sandwich was well filled, too much for aged parents but doggie bags available from very helpful efficient and friendly staff. My lemon & herb baguette was very good Met family for breakfast recently, food was excellent especially my eggs royal special. Although busy we could hold a conversation without shouting thanks to the baffles on the ceiling. Much prefer this restaurant to Rob Royd farm shop as the ambiance is so much better for chatting and the food equally good, if not better. This restaurant is becoming our choice for a family breakfast meet up... good food and a very nice atmosphere Called for breakfast today and food was as good as ever. There has been one problem since we started using this restaurant, the outside area was sometimes smelly due to a stagent river feeding Cannon Hall lake. It wasn't a problem inside but affected the outside areas when the weather was good. I noticed today that the river has been cleaned up and there is now a strong flow so the likelihood of smelly stagnet water is eliminated, brilliant and makes outside dining a real option when it's warm. Worth 5* Another breakfast with family, excellent special, pancakes, bacon and maple syrup

The on site restaurant on site has been let down by an extremely un helpful, jobsworth of an employee. My small children were visibly upset from having to put their chat down. The lady serving at the counter refused to allow us to have breakfast 4 minutes past the finish time, despite admitting she’d just done it for the person in front of me who I assume hadn’t got 2 upset children. Then to show how much they value custom they respond to a Google review without any empathy or emotion.

My first visit and I wasn't disappointed. The food was lovely and tasty, amazing desserts! Staff were friendly and service was good. I will look forward to a return visit.

Absolutely first class food - cakes are superb - coffee delicious - service amazing - deserving of five stars in my opinion. Also my friend fainted whilst we were there today and firstaiders were with us within probably two minutes. Can’t speak highly enough of these staff - thank you so much.

Lovely place loved the icecream

Nice place but have to pay for parking

Lovely plant selection but a bit pricey

Ok for a walk around the gardens then a bite...

We only stopped for a drink and cake.. but it was nice, I haven't been si ce I was a little girl and things had definatly changed and it was so nice the staff ere really friendly and helpful and the afternoon teas Looked incredible!

Garden Centre has a lot of choices, and all plants are healthy at great prices 👍🏻 I will definitely be returning soon ☺️ We also had food and drinks, beautiful and tasty. A large selection of food 😋

Nice food, soup was a hit with my mum and I enjoyed the salad. Be wary of portions there big!

Great food, ambience, accessibility, washroom available, quick service.

A brilliant place to go, it has the grounds, play area for kids, very good quality food to eat in the restaurant and has other eating areas around,it's got dog restaurant, and cafe in the garden area

Firstly the parking machine eat my £1, so the gentleman behind the counter gave me a free ticket and £1 of purchase. Then we had some cake left so we wrapped it in a napkin and the waitress brought us a box to carry it home in.Finally our granddaughter choice a little bedding for a gift and the lady at the checkout wrapped it in tissue. Excellent customer service.

Great, but need more smaller animals

Was given a gift card to get plants for the garden in our first home. Covid and 2 kids later we eventually got around to starting it; when we realised the card was due to expire the next day! 🤦‍♀️ It was the old style card and didn’t like being swiped at check out. Jill who served us called the number on the back to try and resolve our issue. After a good 10minutes she managed to sort us out. So pleased we got some plants for our new home 😊 it halved our bill too! Thanks Jill!

Good selection of food with vegetarian and vegan options Nice outside seating areas Friendly staff Lovely gifts and plant section Great cakes (big portions)

Nice restaurant, good service entrance through garden centre on one level.

Plenty of variety at this garden centre, reasonable prices! There’s a nice cafe to grab a coffee and a piece of cake too, you can’t complain!

Food is not bad but nothing special. The acoustics are terrible, therefore very noisy when full.

Great place to visit, friendly staff, great food ,and shop.

Wife and a disabled friend were made extremely welcome

It was excellent, we didn't buy plants but we went into the Thyme cafe.

I'm writing as I've visited there before but wanted to share My 'opinion' and that is all these comments, on reviews, are?! YOUR opinions. I think customers need to be mindful that slating staff, can have a detrimental affect to those they refer to. In my opinion, NOT ALL customers are 'pleasant' either... so maybe consider staff who you may treat as a 'servant' sometimes who have to 'grin and Bear' those rude customers too?! We are all human and hospitality is hard work, underpaid and challenging at times!! I find some of the points, in previous mentioned reviews such as 'Fish21' and 'Lesley Shaw's quite rude. Try put yourself in others shoes and be constructive with your reviews, not demeaning!!

Absolutely love it here, the fod is amazing and whoever buys for the garden centre is great at it, lovely gifts, books & furnishings as well as all the beautiful plants. Can't wait to go again!

Called here bank holiday Monday, ate in the Lucky pup cafe for lunch. The food was lovely. I had some beetroot on my salad which was lovely and I tried to buy some. They don't sell it so i guess I will make my own. But thank you chef for the idea. We will be back.

Amazing garden center plenty of beautiful items to buy, dog friendly in most of the garden centre too!! Lovely little restaurant, great food!

Had a afternoon tea bought as a gift for mum and myself Very disappointed don't know how old the sausage rolls because they are hard and dry the same applies to the scones old and dry. We have been before but the standard and freshness has gone down considerably. Tea is poor quality as is the coffee.

Lovely garden centre with excellent food. I had a pulled chicken salad which was amazing, so good I had to recreate it at home! Excellent vegetarian options too!

We used to love the food at Thyme Bistro so called today for breakfast. The menu I looked at yesterday showed breakfast at £6.95 when we got there it was over £12 think menus online need updating. Instead we had bacon and sausage sandwich, it was terrible the bacon was tough and must have been cooked for ages and the sausage was so small, weren’t even chipolata size. I left half of mine as not fit to eat. When we were leaving I complained that we wouldn’t be back and the girl said you should have sent it back!! What to get the same thing again don’t think so!, very dissatisfied.

A little expensive but worth it. Good food.

Lovely plants but quite expensive.... The salvage yard is great to browse but very expensive.... Cafe great value, interesting menu.

Worth the stop. The coffee was delicious, and the raisin scone was beyond wonderful. Delicious, moist, just the right amount of sweetness. Being from America, we enjoyed clotted cream for the first time as well. Not only are the gardens beautiful, but there is a great greenhouse with many potted plants to take home. Inside they have clothing and other household goods. Definitely recommend Thyme Bistro.

I've been visiting Cannon Hall Garden Centre for well over 20 years, I have never been disappointed with the plants I have bought, superb quality.

We've eaten here a fair bit now. The food is always excellent, the scones are superb and you get a proper pot of Yorkshire Tea. The staff are always friendly and it's nice to see the same faces

Fab shop and greT food in the cafe

Really great garden centre - very well stocked with wide selection of plants. Cafe was the highlight for us though. We visited on a busy Wednesday lunchtime but plenty of space so easily got a table. Service was very efficient and the food was delicious. We all had the ‘Veggie Club’ flatbread - highly recommend (very generous with the halloumi)👌

We went for a coffee and a catch-up, nothing wrong, plenty of space, staff was friendly

We have been to this place many times. It is seriously one of the best places to eat around. We have eaten in some of the best restaurants in the world, so I say this on good experience. Honestly, if you are considering, just go. It is outstanding.

Great garden centre with a very impressive cafe.

We came here because the menu at our usual stop over and it was excellent. A great menu and easy to find. We were served very quickly and our food was delicious, even my coeliac husband's GF option.

The lady on the till in the garden centre , after hoovering around me , was so off hand and unfriendly I felt I was a complete nuisance She was clearly ready to leave even though it was 45 minutes to closing I won’t bother visiting again

A fantastic place for lunch and breakfast Great food and helpful and friendly team

Friendly staff and tasty, quality food. We were a table of 10 and they had no problems serving us all.

On my visit today, my daughter bought a pair of Katie Loxton sunglasses. I must say, the lady on the till was very antisocial and rude. Walking off before finishing serving us properly. No thank you, no good bye.

We have been several times and always been impressed with the food, but today was a shadow of what we have experienced in the past. The staff were, on the whole, very short with us (pulling faces at my grandmother who is admittedly a bit doddery) and the quality of the food was poor. I had the meat and potato pie that had literally two small chunks of potato in it, and the pastry was so undercooked that I could have used it as wallpaper paste.

Excellent farm, with all aspects, great family day out

Everytime I've been here the food has been lovely. Friendly staff and quick service. Will definitely be back again.

Great staff, good gifts/ plants. Food expensive but large portions and delicious. Thank you

We come here a lot and I have to say the food is always very good, coffee is decent however, the staff really infuriate me. Every-time we come they act like they are above people, they look down on people and don’t seem to understand we are paying their wages. Before you ask why we come often considering this it’s simply for convenience, we love cannon hall and all it has to offer so it’s convenient to pop in for food or sometimes just a coffee and cake. We have spent a lot of money here over the years on the garden centre and clothes shop but it is starting to get very frustrating. They also need to find a better system for waiting customers who are out on a waiting list and asked to just wait in the garden centre to be called however if you wait too close to the entrance you are scolded like school children and asked to move away, it seems like a rue to get you to spend whilst waiting. Why can’t you just call to book like normal restaurants? Please treat your staff to some customer service training and get them to show the customer some love 🥰

Very good garden centre and lots of plants and trees to choose from.

Good day out with family really nice pork pie

Food and service are great. However cakes look lovely but are made with cheapo ingredients (industrial tasteless veggie oil, no butter). They do serve Marshfields ice cream though which is lovely.

Pleasantly surprised at the good value. We thought the prices would be much higher with cannon Hall being full of tourists. We got roses for a fiver, a ten quid Japanese maple and a few other plants for our community garden. The ice cream hut outside is very very expensive for tiny portions but that aside we thought it was great.

Love this place. The shop is lovely and they've extended it more as of late. Thyme bistro is also excellent for lunch and offers a wide range of food. Great for gift shopping, garden shopping or lunch with a nice view.

I lack confidence at putting outfits together.!!!!!!! Well, the wonderful lady in the clothing dept. has amazing abilities, and instinctively knows what elements of an outfit go together perfectly. She is really talented, and nothing is too much trouble. I am beyond thrilled with the outfits, that she put together for me. I had a lovely shopping experience, and left feeling very happy.

Always brilliant! Great food, excellent staff, lovely choice of indoor and outdoor. Love every visit here. It’s child friendly and dog friendly- excellent!

Always nice food although the sausages at breakfast time are now very thin, used to big fat sausages. Can be a bit of a wait at busy times, but that just makes time to look around the gift shop/garden centre.

Good garden centre with a cafe.note to use the toilets you require a code which is available on the receipt from the cafe

Quick and easy and the food was really good.

Good place to visit. Queue for the cafe but they took our names and called us when a table came available. Disappointed with the chai latte as it was only just warm when brought to the table.

Lovely place e to walk round especially for dog walks

Nice little garden centre just across the road from main car park at Canon Hall. Nice range of indoor and outdoor plants. Small clothing dept selling Joules and Barbour. Nice restaurant.

Beautiful plants, food and hot chocolate

Beautiful place contributing to keeping it maintained and available for everyone to enjoy.

Garden Centre has good range of more mature plants but quite expensive. Very popular. Parking area packed and having to pay a pain.

Really productive visit to the garden centre. Fantastic array of plants both inside and out. But most importantly fantastic service and a wealth of knowledge from a member of staff called Stuart. A credit to the business.

We had a lovely day out at Cannon Hall finishing the day at the lovely garden centre a perfect finish 😁

Very good selection of high quality plants and an interesting shop with connecting cafe Plant prices expensive, but quality high

Top quality produce and good prices.

Can't wait to go again next time I'll use my pound off parking voucher.

Good food, also lovely gift shop

Great garden centre lovely cafe and food