Choice Rolls in Bedford

I’ve been coming to Poddington Garden Centre for over 25 years and remember it fondly as a family-run business with knowledgable staff and a massive range of high quality plants. It’s a bit of a drive to get there for me, but it used to be worth it, as Poddington stood out then, as the premier local garden centre. Sadly it has declined massively no longer deserves that title. The range and quality of the plants and other gardening items have reduced significantly. The inside section seems to have mostly been switched to selling budget items and loads of groceries. It was like a mini B & M homestore. The indoor plants section is a shadow of its former self, in terms of range of plants and quality. I guess it’s handy for the locals and does sell a lot of stuff, but I won’t be coming again.

Turning into a friendly regular weekend stop and they remember my base order.

Really friendly ladies and the food was also very nice!

A lovely and very well decorated restaurant with very poor customer service. All the standard duties of a restaurant just missed. Drinks were not offered through out our meal, no one around to ask for more drinks or to take our dishes when finished. Food was very average for the price. When we finally got someone’s attention and asked for dessert we thought we had been forgotten as the waiting time was far too long, they informed us that our ticket did not go through to the kitchen and gave us extra scoops of ice cream. Very unfortunate that a lack of customer service has let down a very beautiful setting.

We regularly use this pub/restaurant for our meet up with friends or just to get out of cooking a meal of an evening. I met up with a friends last night and we had a lovely meal. The staff were friendly and service was very good. As we have the Sizzling app we had 40% off our main course which is great - times are a bit hard at the moment so its great that they have these offers on. Will of course visit again but be sure to book a table in advance if you plan on eating here as it can get busy !