Hillcrest Coffee Shop in St Edmundsbury

Decided to walk to the nursery from Stanton, and what a lovely day was made out of it! We stopped at the cafe to have lunch, and the food was lovely. Nothing fancy, but was warming and fueling after our walk. The staff were lovely, and the atmosphere was relaxed and welcoming. We were able to do some crocheting, and ended up staying until close! Would definitely like to come back again!

Great nursery, always good quality plants. Farm shop with fresh fruit and vegetables, a butchers which is not for me as a vegetarian but meat eaters amongst you will find a good array of meat products.

Lovely bacon sandwich and the fruit scone was fresh and delicious. Cafe was full, that says everything !

Convenient, everything i need for my garden and more. A good coffee shop and eatery. And farm shop. Always nice staff on hand to help.

I definitely recommend the breakfast Very tasty and not too expensive

We went for breakfast, very nice

Great woods to wander around. We saw a deer walking through the trees. Lots of paths and some benches for a picnic.

Lovely cafe/restaurant on site also garden centre and fruit/veg shop, a gift shop a gardening section a pet section, also a Great Butchers (excellent meat choice), jam marmalade and biscuits on offer, well worth a weekly visit, may not be the cheapest but its near and handy.

Very disappointed I normally have a half breakfast due to dietary requirements I cant eat a few of the item, I use to get an extra egg bacon rasher or sausage. My plate had the smallest of a rasher of bacon to eggs and 2 rounds of toast. £8.99. Small breakfast is a sausage rasher of bacon mushrooms tomato and beans with a round of toast. Can you imagine my disappointment. Lack of alternatives for dairy free customers.

Lovely little garden centre and shop. We had a gorgeous breakfast in the cafe before having a wander round. Bought some great sausages and bacon from the butchers.

Visited with two friends last weekend a lovely variety of plants and very friendly gents at the butchers However, the atmosphere lacked in the coffee shop and our meal was poorly presented and not very warm. We witnessed a staff member very unnecessarily speak to another in a very patronising ill toned manner which we found quite uncomfortable whilst having our lunches. We hope it was just a bad day

Great place. Lovely food in the coffee shop and very friendly service.

Good strong plants. Shame they don't allow well behaved dogs

Lovely place, great farmshop, excellent butchers, really good cafe and amazing selection of plants.

Great garden centre a variety of outdoor necessity’s and the cafe is amazing, very friendly staff and really good food. Live across the road and come here for lunch every now and again

Friendly and welcoming cafe,lovely fruit and veg and all sorts of lovely foods.Also shrubs and plants. Worth a visit.

Had a lovely breakfast, good quality ingredients and a pleasant atmosphere

Truly a real find and a total gem of a place! Very friendly, smiley staff and a kitchen that clearly is run by a very talented team. Two big breakfasts was the order. You could have the eggs cooked to your choosing and the meal came with a lovely pot of strong and a choice of toasted breads. It is all cooked to order and the execution was faultless. It came to the table piping hot and without a trace of excess grease. The local sausages and bacon were the stars - very very tasty indeed. All-in-all a wonderful experience in very comfortable and clean surrounds, and after eating a nice stroll around the garden centre and farm shop just add to the enjoyment. VERY highly recommended!

Great meat from helpful butchers, fresh fruit and veg along with lots of items you may not expect. Friendly staff both in shop and cafe makes for a great experience. Just visited today for meat and veg. Just as good as always, first class produce at a reasonable cost. 4th Sept ... just been and got a shoulder of minted lamb that was prepared in front of me. All the staff are pleasant and friendly and genuinely seen to be happy with their jobs giving a great atmosphere.

Love this place. Lovely place to eat. Great range of fruit and veg. Great butchers. Home style biscuits, cakes, bread and so much more. Also a super garden center.

Awesome! Highly recommend having a look

Roast dinner was OK but Brussels & Carrots were only just warm & roast potatoes were soft on the inside &very tough on outside . Staff were very nice & helpful.

Great value and quality all-day breakfast at £9.75 including coffee/tea and toast. Highly recommended.

Great nursery, farm shop and now cafe, something new just around the corner.

Nice farm shop, they are still putting out their Christmas goodies but it looks like they will have a good selection. Unfortunately, the coffee shop closes at 3 pm, as we arrived, which was the reason we had driven there, so a bit disappointed that this information wasn't on Google.

Nice place for good food . But expensive just as all farm shops are food from cafe smells good . Nice selection of meats nice staff.

Very nice breakfast. Very happy and friendly staff. Thankyou.

You could spend most of a day here! Wide selection of quality plants at reasonable prices, lovely coffee shop, a good butcher's and deli shop, wonderful selection of fruit and veg, again all good quality and when we visited on a Friday, an excellent fish van was in the car park. O.k for wheelchairs I believe. Staff very cheerful, friendly and helpful.

Well signposted from the A143, it's about a mile down a fairly narrow road, but there's ample parking and the catering area is easy to get into. Lovely coffee at (I suspect) the best price in the district. Most of the food had been sold by the time I got there-less than half an hour before closing time, so no problem there. The staff were very friendly and it's very well worth a visit.

A lovely place and the cafe is absolutely lovely we had tea and a meal was excellent then had a walk round the shop very friendly will go again

Lovely food. Really good quality and great staff. Food was great and I would very much recommend it. Sausages in particular were tasty

I have visited here many time. Great because it’s local, been with friends and family. Great food. Full plates and tasty food.

Nice home made soup and scones, staff friendly. Bought some lovely plants, very enjoyable couple of hours.

Great place to meet up with friends for coffee and cake. Fresh bread and pastries, veg and much more at this pleasant nursery, deli and shop.

I knew what I needed, so was in & out in no time. 🤓

Nice plants good price. The tea room is a must great menu great prices.

Good quality food and although crowded didn't have to wait long.

Very pleasant atmosphere clean and spacious with a warm welcome food excellent service and great.

Looking for a coffee break I spotted a sign on the A143 for this nursery with coffee shop. We found it to be a warm smart building with spotless tables where we enjoyed a coffee and some excellent lemon drizzle cake. Worth a visit.

Brilliant farm shop and garden centre. Have used this shop for years to buy a variety of products. Fair pricing, kind staff and good selection. No where else locally comes close.

My wife and I have just had an all day Breakfast in the Hillcrest café... Superb!! Couldn't fault the quality and flavour of anything on our plates. Had a good look around the garden centre followed by One around the produce in the shop. Hillcrest is a very chilled and relaxing place to visit. One gets a feeling of being close to nature in the garden centre due to proximity of the surrounding countryside with birds singing and the wind in the trees, and the little gifts and food in the store all are of a very high standard too Well worth a visit to this very well run and friendly establishment. Well done to you all at Hillcrest nurseries.

Came here for lunch, 3 different meals for us and everybody said they were very good. My brother’s bacon quiche was declared excellent.

Great time with our grand daughter, choosing cakes,bread and lunch

Great garden centre and shop , large range of fresh produce and excellent butchery department , well worth a visit .

My wife and I have been visiting the coffee shop since we moved to this area in 2018. We have not been for a few weeks, but today when we asked for our normal decaff americanos, we were charged an additional 95p per cup !!!!! Is decaff coffee really that much more expensive ? I don't think so ! We have never paid more for decaff coffee anywhere. Someone is out to make money. Its the last time we shall visit.

Variety of different plants and trees and shrubs and shop and cafe on site

Friendly staff. Great range of products. Nice coffee shop too. Will go there again.

Nice garden centre and farm shop, cafe is 1st class serving lovely coffee ☕ 👍

Good gardening centre and good cafe lovely food

Nice little shop that does the best Coleslaw ever! They always have lots of quality produce. Their frozen selection is brilliant and the little tea room is lovely too. Outside is a huge selection of plants and flowers. There’s a butchers too. Staff are friendly.

Always a good experience lovely fresh produce 😎

First visit back after 18 months due to covid restrictions. Previously good food and service. Asked for panini with bacon and cheese and a panini tuna melt off the menu. Advised that no panini’s but could do it on toasted bread. When it arrived the bread was very dry and the fillings very meager . My wife was unable to eat hers as it was so dry Also purchased two cheese scones to take away. Found these also extremely.y dry when we tries to eat them a little later. All in all very disappointed.

Great range of interesting quality produce and plants

It was a very good experience and lots of nice plants

Always a fabulous place to visit with healthy looking plants. Excellent team of staff who are always happy to help. Highly recommended.

Ive visited the farm shop 3 times over the last 6 months. On every occasion the staff have been like military sergeants regarding their one way system and what isle you may enter. Very unfriendly and off putting. On my last visit i put my head round exit door, (not entering physically) to ask a question from a distance, and the woman barked sharply at me and told me to go to other entrance without even considering i might have had an emergency or something. As this garden centre is near to my home i might have frequented it but because of their appalling customer service attitude, i will be purposely avoiding from now on.

Excellent choice, quality, value and service as always.

Lovely fresh produce. Looking forward to the coffee shop reopening.

Excellent service and welcome from staff. Great quality fruit and veg. One way system, screens and sanitizing gives a safe feeling. Will definitely be going back again.

Friendly helpful staff. I have visited many times over the years.I have always felt safe and comfortable visiting during the Covid situation. Butcher a bonus, also very helpful and good quality meat. I think we are lucky to have this facility on our doorstep. One VERY minor thing. When I visited last Thursday it was a bit flippin cold in the shop!

Have visited this cafe many times and always had a great experience. The food is excellent and tasty, staff are friendly and welcoming

Has really gone downhill since covid staff have become extremely rude and not very friendly 😕 the quality of "fresh" produce is not as fresh as you would expect and extremely over priced. Car park seems to be having some improvements maybe they should keep some of the money aside to train the staff with some decent customer service training. Will be going the extra miles to another garden center from now on.

Great place for meat and veg just watch out for the one way system ;-)

Inexperienced staff with a poor attitude. Tables reserved in a tea room? I don’t think so! Told have to wait 45 minutes when there was empty tables. No thanks.

Very good nice breakfast and a good farm shop

Wonderful scones! Pressed wrong star to rate it! It's a good place to visit & a visit to the cafe is a must!

We have never been to this place before, it was a great find. After buying plants & food items we popped into the café. We were a little too early for lunch (☹️) so we chose to have cheese scones & coffee. Really tasty scones & great quality coffee. Staff were incredibly accommodating as we hadn't booked, they were able to fit us in. We really enjoyed our visit & will be back for either breakfast or lunch as we loved the choices available (phone number is already installed in the mobile!) COVID-19 precautions are well & truly covered here.

Friendly staff and delicious and light scones plus wide variety of plants at reasonable prices.

Absolutely brilliant place ....very safe during the lockdown ...and very safe still. The choice of food , salad, veg etc is amazing and always fresh. The bread is from local baker. The butcher's shop part is second to none. The flowers and shrubs are always superb. The staff are so very kind and helpful.

First visit back since lockdown as I was shielding. Felt totally safe, staff on hand to explain safety measures and lots of happy faces wearing masks.😁

Really enjoyed lunch in the cafe. Social distancing measures gave us confidence. Excellent service and hearty, well-cooked food. Doorstop sandwiches were excellent as was veg lasagne and quiche. Plants looked well cared for and farm shop had nice local produce.

This is a little gem. Butcher with local produce is fantastic. Great choice. Slightly more expensive then super market but totally worth it. Fresh produce is beautifully presented, clearly labelled, of high quality and well stocked. Local produce is in abundance. Great selection of plants, pet foods/ accessories and gifts. The staff are all really friendly and helpful and genuinely care about their customers. A lovely independent farm shop and garden center with cute café (in normal times) & fab fish cart on a friday. They have also been the best I have seen with dealing with the Covid-19 precautions. It was the only place I went to to get supplies during first 6 weeks of lockdown. Well organised, well done and well worth a visit.

Very nice food and staff are lovely its clean and tidy and very well kept

It's first time to the shop since lock,down got a few things,we decided that we go have breakfast/coffee very we organised,and great food as always,keep good work up will be back.

A great shopping experience on many levels.

Lovely produce and plants, social distancing made easy too. Thank you

Very pleasant very helpful, especially as all very strange in shops.....wish them well from 24/7....

Staff very pleasant, knowledgeable and helpful. All plants in excellent condition and very well looked after, huge selection to choose from and very reasonably priced. Would recommend over any garden centre in Bury St Edmunds!

Lovely farm shop, really helpful staff and lots of local products.

I think a little more expensive than other nurseries

Great selection of plants and really well organised for covid measures. Not too busy Sunday morning. Will visit again.

Good selection of plants available

Love this place, Cathy does a great job with our hanging baskets, year in year out.... Thank You 🙏🏻

Thank you for letting me in the shop to get my mum's birthday present. Staff are friendly and kind.

I got everything I needed. Everyone was very friendly and so helpful. They loaded up my car with large bags of compost. My second time out in 10 weeks, even though I shouldn't, I really enjoyed my outing. Thank you.

First time I’ve been there never again so expensive I will revert to my old farm shop even with travelling costs for me is still cheaper £6 for bag of flour wow

Was in the shop today and saw an incident where a woman picked up 2 loafs of bread, she was approached by a large blonde curly haired lady who worked at the shop and was spoken down to for picking up 2 loaves, personally but I could be wrong I didn't see any signs stating 1 per customer, the worker was extremely confrontational, rude and intimidating, now I understand these are stressful times for all and I respect that working in a retail aspect is tough but even through these tough times you are still doing a job and shouldn't be speaking down to or intimidating your customers like that.

"Rustic" cafe building - but warm as toast. Tables well spaced. Good, freshly cooked, english breakfast from helpful and friendly staff. Exceptional coffee.

What lovely staff, there were no tables free when we arrived so the lady sent us off for a wander around the gift shop etc. and came to find us when there were. The breakfast was really tasty and cooked to order and great value. All the staff were really friendly and I was really impressed to see the young man working there take special care to chat to an elderly gentleman with great care and thoughtfulness, despite the gentleman being a little repetitive. Do pop in if you are in the area you won't be disappointed.

Superb breakfast, friendly staff - a thoroughly enjoyable visit. Shop extremely well stocked the beef purchased was of the highest quality and very reasonably priced.

Friendly knowledgeable staff great selection surprisingly groceries and fresh meat also available from local suppliers with in house butcher. Highly recommended

Came a few weeks ago with my nephew who was visiting.Could not believe the quality of your plants,everything looked beautiful and so well looked after.We brought quite a few plants,more than was intended and lots from the farm shop.The shrubs are amazing 2 weeks on,and personally think the prices were very good. All the,fresh fruits and veggies were amazing,was one of the hottest days when we came it was lovely sitting in the garden looking at your newly planted shrubs,eating your lively fresh salad,finished with your beautiful berries and cream.

Excellent food, one of the best sandwiches i have had, friendly staff and good selection of plants all reasonable priced.

We were en route from Cambridge to Bungay. Having stopped in Ixworth for a coffee only to find that no such establishment exists any more, we were directed by a local along the A143 to Hillcrest Nursery at Stanton. Easy to find and easy to park, we received a friendly welcome. We ordered at the counter and our food and drinks were brought to our table. My friend asked for soya milk which wasn’t available but a variety of fruit teas were on offer. The fruit scone I had looked very earnest but was light and delicious.As a footnote, the loos, although outside, were a definite 10/10.

Visited as part of a trip to the garden center. Good breakfast with nice local products. Wholesome grannery Toast great for Full English but too think for bacon sandwich. Clearly popular with locals.

Our first visit 2day lovely cafe friendly staff , top quality food , great shop & garden centre

We go here regularly, sometimes with our 2 children and sometimes without. Never had a bad experience. The staff are very friendly. The food is freshly prepared, and very yummy with quality sauces available to complement a quality breakfast (I would fully recommend the cooked breakfast - but the cakes and scones etc are equally scrumptious!) They have colouring / sticker books and pencils to keep the kids entertained whilst we enjoy a lovely cup of coffee! The only downfall is sometimes there are no spare tables, but usually after a quick wander around the garden center, one becomes available! A true gem in the village!

First visit but we were very impressed. Had coffee and ginger cake which were both excellent, very friendly and helpfully staff. Good farm shop attached with cheese counter, meat counter and plenty of fruit and veg. A wet fish van visits on Fridays.

The first time I've been here, excellent food we will definitely be back. Very friendly staff and very clean.

We've just had a lovely veggie breakfast and posh hot chocolate. Friendly staff and quick service. We'll be back 😉