Fairways Garden Centre in Derbyshire Dales

A brilliant garden centre and restaurant

Mediocre garden centre has very good restaurant but inside garden centre never changes,they have to rearrange every so often to do better. Christmas decorations not up to scratch either. good large carpark.

Garden Centre for shopping & good cafe.

Popped in with friends for coffee .large restaurant +shopping area good selection of cards .staff very helpful.

Nice restaurant with affordable drinks and food. Staff friendly and professional.

Good garden centre to look around. It's quite expensive though.. The cafe though is very good and reasonably priced and they have a lovely area to sit outside and eat.

Great garden centre. Lovely gift and clothing. The outside seating area is dog friendly has a canopy but would be improved more by having an indoor dog friendly section.

Considering it was garden of the year 2023 I was expecting a lot more. On a par with some of the smaller Blue Diamond, Dobbies outlets but even then lacking in choice. Not cheap either. We actually went for Sunday lunch but as we had the dog with us we would have had to sit outside on the veranda. As it was cold and raining we declined their generous offer. Fortunately we found the very pleasant Hirns pub in Ashbourne that could accommodate us. In hindsight I suspect the Fairlawns did us a favour.

SO much to see. Spacious and uncluttered. Bought some lovely soap. Plants looked really good but we were a long way from home so didn't buy any.

Lovely food and lovely staff. Great scenery. Would advice coming again. 5 stars

We had a lovely visit. Sat outside on the balcony with our little Yorkie and enjoyed coffee and cakes. Friendly staff. The garden centre offers so much alongside plants/garden necessities; we thoroughly enjoyed our visit and got to stay for a little extra time due to the unexpected downpour.

Great food.. fresh and tasty. Lovely to sit and eat outside on the patio area in the sunshine.. equally comfortable and spacious if you choose to eat indoirs. We have been here quite a few times now.. we call whenever we are passing on one of our trips, going south and on the return trip home... All roads lead to Fairways!! 😉

Some of the things are very expensive, good place to buy gifts

Good range of plants pots excellent stars

Great place for plants, clothes,and food which was cooked great, very tasty 😋

Well stocked garden centre, with a fantastic cafe.

First visit to this Garden Centre and shop.

Always happy to visit ... good range of plants, garden accessories... gifts... food ...all sorts ... and then the cafe.. top notch Been today looking for garden furniture ...great selection of Bistro, casual dining, full dining sets, with umberellas or without. Went for a 4 seater with gas heater Thanks everyone. Good for BBQ too! Cafe visit today .. top marks.

Alright, but you should see Brigg Lincolnshire.

Nice garden centre but very overpriced canteen. Jacket potato luke warm with cheese and beans almost £10 😱. Also did not like customer service over ...maybe it's ciz of my accent 😁

Lovely garden centre, plenty of parking the only disappointment for me was the price and portion you were given on the Sunday Carvery, the carvery was almost £13.00 and only had a small portion of peas, carrots, parsnip, small roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and a ball of stuffing with two slices of beef or turkey with gravy which was put on the plate by the young girls. It won't stop me from visiting the garden centre again but won't be using the café.

My friend and i came to this garden centre for Sunday lunch but were extremely disappointed with the carvery, no choice of veg and sorry to say it was more like a ready meal and certainly not worth the money at all but the garden centre itself is very nice although expensive.

Lovely place to wander around looking at everything.

Wanted to buy Weber briquettes 8kg bag was £24.99 which I thought was expensive Purchased in a local Ashbourne shop for £32 for 2 bags - £16 per bag So that was £9 extra per bag Another example of ‘greedflation’!

Visited this morning for breakfast, absolutely delicious. Venue is spotless. Food piping hot and not greasy, best fried bread ever. Thank you Rita, Kayleigh and all the staff, nothing was too much trouble. Will definitely be visiting again soon.

So many departments to look at. So many lovely lovely things.Restuarant - a lovely menu. GREAT

Great quality plants, good offers. Lovely restaurant and cafe. Staff are very welcoming and knowledgeable.

Garden centre that sells everything for the garden. Also bird food, clothes, shoes, accessories, candles, homewares etc There's a cafe and restaurant upstairs.

What a lovely garden Centre, well laid out and with lots of attractive plants and shrubs. And of course, clothes, gifts, homeware and garden furniture. Refreshments in the onsite restaurant were enjoyable. We were also particularly impressed by the setting and the large tarmac car park with clearly marked out spaces. No wonder it has won a number of prestigious awards.

Fairway Garden Centre is fantastic n beautiful the cafe

Wide selection of quality plants and other leisure products

Great spacious environment. Lovely staff. Cafe was good. Lots of gift ideas, plants and foodstuffs. Garden furniture and home store. Has a pets spa too.

Staff were great... friendly and very helpful. Product range was excellent. Coffee was unfortunately almost undrinkable!

Very well-made shop. It has tons of various furniture and accessories ranging from garden to household items. Everything is very clean and tidy; separate areas are thematic, so props to the shop designer. I love it.

Really nice place to visit, nice friendly atmosphere well stocked, cafe was nice and clean..

Nice food at reasonable prices. Nicd size portion of steak pie, staff could do with monitering cutlery though had to wait ages to eat dinner.29/12/23, meals nice but not hot.not much reduction on xmas items. Thus not busy.

Great place for seasonal items and plants. Also, the food is great and locally sourced, highly recommended.

Lovely garden centre. Christmas displays are lovely and not to expensive.

Lovely food reasonably priced but service was just about ok. NHS canteen level service. Get a tray. get you own cutlery. Fetch your own drinks etc. but it was 😋 tasty !

Fab garden centre, came in on a Sunday and lovely staff behind cafe! All you ask for from a garden centre

Gorgeous, Restaurant is amazing spacious and very good choice of food. We have jacket potatoes and salad, they were enormous.the staff were very helpful and polite too. Christmas store was beautiful decorated. The normal store was very well stocked with lovely products, Spacious carpark. Wheelchair friendly.

Great for the odd Xmas present loads to pick from

Excellent garden centre. Love the hard work that’s gone into the displays especially the Christmas store. A fantastic restaurant and friendly helpful staff. Keep up the good work Fairways team.

The best Christmas shop in the area

Very poor service and not value for money .After eventually getting are meal then went to pay .There was no cutlery. So had to wait why they fetched some it tuck ages by the time we sat down the food was cold so disappointing.Should of gone withy gut feeling and just left it

Very poor service and food portion was more like a children's portion beef was full of fat and gristle had to wait at till and there was no forks nobody serving drinks by the time sat down the meal was cold

Good food and friendly faces BUT NOT DOG FRIENDLY YOU COULD MAKE SPACE FOR DOGS IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE WINTER SEASON BY THE WINDOW VERANDA.

Probably the best garden centre we've ever been in,so much choice at great prices across the board, the restaurant is quite amazing with lush food and the staff were very very pleasant. Thankyou 🙂

Beautiful place. Loads of choice. Helpful friendly staff.

I love the garden center - it’s my happy place - but always feel the cafe could do better. It’s loud and needs more soft furnishings to reduce the echo. There are outside tables and when we went it was a lovely day. Unfortunately there wasn’t a single clear table. Everyone had dirty pots left on them. When our food came out the server walked passed all the dirty tables without picking up and clearing a single table as she went back inside. I’ve run cafes before and always have a no empty hands policy. The soup wasn’t very hot and the baguette was very dry. I know it could be better. The tea and coffee was good.

Brilliant, we only come once a year on the way to dovedale. Still well stocked and professional 👌

Hi..we visited today 30/9/23 the Christmas shop was a pleasant surprise, made even better by the warm welcome by a young girl serving. She made a particular fuss of our elderly boxer, which she loved, a true credit to your work force. Many thanks

Beautiful and stunning, lovely gift ideas, garden furniture etc, loads of choice, but expensive, like most garden centres.

I visited with a relative who has a broken leg, I called beforehand to check wheelchairs were available (we do not have our own). On arrival there were 4 wheelchairs of various designs, all looked extremely old, dirty with rusty joins, definitely not suitable for a tall 6' 3" male. Please consider replacing them with new, modern, safe wheelchairs that are suitable for all. We travelled a long way and only stayed for 5-10 minutes as my relative felt uncomfortable and unsafe. We hoped to eat while there but changed our minds. Unfortunately we will not be visiting again.

We visit this garden centre about once a month, and incorporate either breakfast or lunch, as well as some shopping. Our food is always excellent, and it is obvious that they use quality ingredients. Staff are always friendly and helpful. Some fantastic gift ideas around the store, as well as great gardening products. Oh, and don't get me started on the clothes. Excellent!!!

The actual meats in the breakfast counter are very good quality but why oh why would you cook in bulk early in a morning and sit it for hours under counter heaters and ruin these good quality ingredients beans had congealed after being under there for so long the price is right for the quality of the ingredients but you’ve got the process totally wrong which is such a shame in such nice settings Very disappointing

Very fine food with fare choice pleasant place to wonder round at a relaxing pace. Well worth a visit

Very poor service, it took 10 minutes to get served even though there were 3 staff at the counter and we were 2nd in the queue.

Great place to grab a coffee, a bite to eat. Also caters for all your gardening needs under one roof.

Nice breakfast but a bit pricey

Stopped here on our way to Buxton. Lovely welcoming place for breakfast. Food was hot, fresh and good quality. Staff very friendly. Would not hesitate to recommend a meal here.

We would really appreciate a small dog friendly area near the terrace entrance. I have emailed Fairways twice but was ignored. The problem is when its cold or rainy we have to sit on the terrace. A very pleasant terrace but not if its a less than nice day. When the weather gets better everybody wants to sit on the terrace so we cant get a table and have to come away disappointed. There is so much space in the restaurant to give a designated dog area. Please give this some consideration.

Excellent afternoon with a friends group there was 17 of us special diets catered for. Diabetic vegetarian and lactose free. The staff were excellent and very efficient, nothing was too much trouble.

Afternoon tea was superb. The staff couldn't do enough for our Friends Group. The food was delicious and the group members individual needs were catered for - diabetic, vegetarian, gluton and lactose free. The garden centre and restaurant is well worth a repeat visit. Vouchers could be purchased to be used in either the garden centre or restaurant.

The garden centre is nice but the food is pretty poor. We had quiche and clearly they freeze it and it was not quite defrosted and was so cold and tasteless we left most of it.

Coffee cake without the coffee. Half the area closed off even though just before three. Lots of dirty tables.

Love the garden centre but have marked it down because whilst sitting on the cafe balcony noticed it was adorned with hanging glass jars which am assuming were full of a liquid to entice wasps. All of them had wasps in which were fighting to survive but were drowning in in what was a slow and disturbing death. Was upset and shocked by this as not only are wasps good for the garden but it was cruel and not what I would expect to see in a garden centre. It was bad enough for me to see but could be very upsetting to children. Very very disappointed by this cruelty.

So so nice when you go into a place and created in a pleasant manner Placed our order and went to pay, met by a very young lady on the Till, the best smile i have seen in ages,,, Thank you ABBIE Oh yes , the food was excellent staff throughout the centre ALL really friendly

Nice place, can get most of garden needs, home section is expensive and there are cheaper places selling the same close to

Wonderful home ware shop , large selection of plants, really spatious cafe plenty of room between tables. The, food is delicious too.

Very helpful and knowledgeable staff. Great food in the cafe.

I decided to get a coffee in the revamped cafeteria and was amazed at the hyped prices. . £2.75 for a tea or filter! Thought I was in London! The short queue was so slow being served that I gave up waiting to be overcharged and went away.

Super garden centre, huge range of products lovely café, and some very hard working Associates

Sutton garden cafe is always under staffed we waited over half an hour for two coffees and a tea cake. Every time we visit at least once a month its the same understaffed problem.

A nice well stocked garden centre with a cafe/restaurant for the hungry gardener.

Nice Place to go for a meal and garden Centre and tea and cakes

Due to the C word it's been a while since we visited Fairways, I was slightly concerned after reading the last few reviews but we were in the area so decided to drop by. There was a good selection of perennials, rockery, roses, trees and the like, bit early for colour except for the usual for this time of year. Good selection of compost, bark, slabs etc, there is still some building work going on, it's been a nightmare trying to get a job finished in the last eighteen months so allowances made, not that it interfered with our visit though. The indoor areas are nicely set out, clean and tidy, beautiful garden furniture, at a price, lighting etc. My pet hate is garden centre clothing, bath bomb brigade and the prepacked food items, I understand the need to diversify but feel this type of merchandise misses the mark. We were enticed upstairs to the café by the smell of the Sunday roast, the café is a lovely area, bright and airy with an outdoor area for better weather. We were welcomed by the lady serving hot food and had a chat as she served our lunch, we opted for a small bottle of Chardonnay and a Thatchers cider to accompany our meal. Portion size was acceptable for the price point and the roast beef was absolutely delicious, total cost £24 and abit, i would have liked the food to be hotter and the plates reminded me of school dinner but that's being picky, we enjoyed our lunch and staff were friendly and visable. I've always felt Fairways prices are a bit on the expensive side and my view on that hasn't changed. Overall I think it's been a very difficult eighteen months or so for this type of business and I imagine it's not easy to find a balance, that said I do hope Fairways will move forward and look to the future and entice people to return again, by the same token customers need to see the bigger picture, if you're not happy then tell them, politely, constructive criticism is healthy. Overall we enjoyed our visit, thankyou Fairways.

Very nice garden centre. Spacious with lot's of other things to see as well as the plants. Good large restaurant as well.

Just stopped for a coffee & we then had a look round the shop.We were very pleased to see them serving a Sunday Lunch as before Covid the hot meals they served were really excellent.Hope they get back to serving a variety of hot meals again soon.

Good little garden centre with a nice cafe. Always good for a Sunday afternoon out

This garden centre is continuing to evolve with new stock arriving and the building of extensions to the sales area.

Good breakfast in a nice garden centre.

It's always been a regular meeting place for me and my extended family and we went at the weekend for a coffee and a piece of cake for the first time since the first lockdown. The restaurant layout had been completely changed and frankly made no sense! There seemed to be 3 serveries, each with different offers and none of it clear. I had to fetch cakes and scones from 3 different areas to get 4 people what they wanted (which was only 2 x scones, a flapjack and some toast plus coffees) which meant I had to queue 3 times during a busy period. Then the cashier said it was cash only and when I said I had no cash she let me pay contact less as she said it was just that the management wanted to take cash (the contactless machine was right in front of me on the counter). Completely confusing and unnecessarily complicated. I hope you get your cafe offer sorted as we won't be visiting again and I'm sure others will stop coming too which would be such as a shame as we all want your garden centre to be a success.

Classy Garden Centre with a Santa Grotto at the moment. Everything extra special you need for the season and more than in general shops.

Found it a bit oddly laid out now. You have to go out of main shop and walk round outside to enter the Christmas shop. Would be better if you could access it from the main shop. Also the buyer has missed a trick - no red pots for the poinsettias 🙁

Surprised to see so many bad reviews on here, all I can say is they must have been in a rush and expecting low quality cheap food like Wetherspoons. If you want a nice place to chill out and enjoy some quality home made items...

Absolute travesty in every area. If you can’t staff it properly don’t open I’ve been in hospitality/ catering all My like and this place is a joke Do not expect inexperienced staff to try to handle customer services Management are just hiding in the background...

Good- Refurb garden centre quite pleasant surroundings. Large carpark. Very pleasant young staff. Bad- Really really expensive items & plants & especially the xmas decorations. Clothes old fashioned and expensive. Menu for the restaurant very limited and what is on the menu is very boring...

Fantastic garden centre, well worth a visit.

Bit of a disappointment that the Christmas theme wasn't on show. Nice hot food in the restaurant though😋. Been back today to exchange some goods and saw the sign ( about 8" × 5") in the foyer however the display would have been much more impressive in the foyer as previous years. We did visit the Christmas dept. but such a shame that you have to go out of the main building to see it. If the sign was there on Friday then we both missed it and when I drive into the carpark I'm not looking what's at the top of the yard. Having said that its a good display in the wrong area imo. and should have been advertised with a bigger sign in the foyer that no one can miss.

Nice garden centre, excellent cafe , nice surroundings

Every year we stop at this garden centre for lunch on our way south. We will avoid it in future. They only offered us the choice of a sandwich or baguette. No hot meals. The salad that came as an accompaniment was dismal. The coleslaw...

I have long been a visitor to fairways in macclesfield but sadly no more ! Following their dog friendly policy I was queuing up to pay when a loose dog (no collar or lead ) ran in and attacked by 12 yr old placid pet...

My partner and I visited yesterday for a lovely light lunch, then did some shopping ,including a beautiful scarf for a christmas present , very good value for money. When we went to pay the 3 ladies around the till area were so helpful ,including wrapping the scarf and putting it a lovely gift bag !! We then visited the Christmas Emporium and purchased an amazing pre lit giant bauble, again good value for money and signed up for a loyalty card by a very friendly and helpful lady . A thoroughly excellent afternoon, with fantastic customer service !!

Awful food. Staff moody and uninterested. Sent food back as it was awful. Only for the replacement meal to be the same. Embarrassing. Shame as it used to be a lovely place for lunch. Gone very much down hill.

An enjoyable experience, the shop and garden area are well stocked with good quality items that are attractively displayed. The cafe is well worth a visit too, with a good choice of meals.

Great selection of plants and other goods

Visited the cafe today, the pieces of cake are so small I had to get my microscope out to see it. Definitely not value for money! (Cake was nice in defence..) staff were nice and friendly

We have been to this garden centre quite a few times ,but today the lady in the cafe serving tea and coffee was very rude , when asked a simple question ,then abrupt staff at checkout

OK for coffee and cake, but poor quality food and service for lunchtime snack. Sausage roll pastry tough and inedible. Not the quality or range of lunch it once had. Slow service even with several counter staff, tending to fall over each other. More non-...