Magnolias Restaurant in Broadland

Nice restaurant bit pricey food was good, table service for hot food. I use a stick to walk but no help in taking food and drink to table

Food is good. Speedy, ample full English delivered for reasonable price. Only downside is that dogs are not allowed in the restaurant unlike most other garden centres which can’t be related to hygiene because they allow children.

Good garden with a very nice cafe. Quite often, go to the garden centre and stop in the cafe for lunch or a cream tea and have not yet been disappointed with the food. However, it is a bit on the pricey side, and when busy service can be a bit slow but that can be expected. The cafe is nicely laid out with a small outside seating area and has free WiFi. Today, our server was Cassandra, a very nice young lady, very friendly on arrival, as were the other staff and excellent service.

Popped in for a look around the garden centre and stopped in Magnolias restaurant for a Cream Tea. Excellent service provided by Cassandra and the rest of the staff.

Called yesterday, no complaints whatsoever. Friendly staff, efficient service, good food Would definitely go back.

I got very lucky with my timings as it was gloriously sunny as I stopped for an early lunch. Magnolias Restaurant was already getting busy so I headed outside to bask in the sun. The food was a good standard and the staff were very friendly

Popped in for a late lunch today, lovely staff very friendly! We both had coronation chicken panini with chips, one of the best I’ve had! Will definitely go back again soon! Was a bit pricey but then again everyone’s prices have gone up recently.

Coffee way overpriced, now £3.50 for a small latte, Costa £3.20 for the same! Also, witnessed staff eating food wearing her blue serving glove, who then rushed to help out ppl serving, by getting cake out, in the same glove! Also using her mobile phone, with same glove. Staff are lovely and friendly but prices and hygiene let it down now. Such a shame

Used to enjoying going there but it's gone downhill. The sandwiches used to be lovely with salad and some crisps. Now the price has gone up but the crisps disappeared. The staff take up the best seats (comfy/in the sun) at busy times and loudly swear and moan about work. And one member of staff demands your tray the moment you take your last sip

Rip-off Britain thriving here. Coffee £3.50 Bacon Rolls £6.00 Loyalty Scheme discontinued. Not top-quality either. Sorry, you’ve lost our custom with these prices!

This is the second time we have been here and it’s ok. Not good or bad.

Tomato and pepper soup in minuscule bowl with a grotty brown roll, not mixed properly streaks of white through it. Pappy and horrible, can taste the cold where it’s been frozen.. £6.00 !!!! Total rip off !! The bowl has a thick base making it look bigger. Soup had a strange twang to it. Walking away very hungry!! So much for my treat to myself. Never again. I hate being conned

Cafe was unclean. Service really poor, no atmosphere, no welcome. Simple black coffee was weak and at £3 a cup a complete rip off. This place has such potential but seems to be lost, unambitious and scruffy. Real shame, missed opportunity to be brilliant instead of (charitably) mediocre.

We have been going to TGC for years, and often stopped at Magnolias. Only out of convenience, not preference. It has seldom been an uplifting experiance. It appears to be run by a large number of mature ladies who are probably excellent cooks and nutritionists in their own homes, and think it works in a mass catering establishment. The layout, the system, the customer awareness, just about everything about this place is amateurish and chaotic. On our last visit a week ago, we sat waiting for 20 minutes for our main meal, which gave us plenty of time to notice a considerable number of 'finished' plates being collected, with uneaten food left on them. We also noticed that hot, uncovered meals were being carried to the tables by the longest possible route. I went to the counter to enquire about our meals, producing our receipt, and after a few minutes was told our order did not exist, it had got lost between the counter and the kitchen, at which point we gave up and asked for our money back, and left.

Great location in this expanding part of north Norwich. However I would suggest they poll visitors re opening time. This area is expanding and getting busier and an opening time of 9.30 is I feel not early enough. My breakfast was good, served quickly and was very reasonably priced at just over £7. Not too much either. Staff were all friendly and helpful. I would go again.

We personally like to thank Magnolias Restaurant today for looking after us after our service of Remembrance at Norwich Earlham Cemetery we highly recommend this Restaurant. Memoirs of a Desert Rat and Derek Allen

Great garden centre ... lovely cafe, I had a sausage sandwich, 4.50 little expensive for what I got, budget sausages shame, tasteless, Suggest nice baps rather than 2 slices of bread. Will go again though.

Cappuccino was bean to cup at £3.00 not good enough, half cm of floating like substance on the top. Staff should know their coffees if you are going to offer a range. Scone was too salty, and over cooked, again at £3.00 this didn’t offer value with plastic pot of jam (it was jelly) should also note the Ivy’s afternoon tea is only a pound more !!!! And a dog walked through the prep area…..which is one thing but all the staff fussing it is another.

Lovely afternoon tea , everything homemade which makes all the difference, plenty of it. Staff all so very pleasant & helpful as well. Will definately return & recommend to others.

Dropped in for coffee and lunch very nice good food and staff

Saturday 12th March. Opening hours said 9.30am start but waited until 9.40 to get in. Cooked breakfast was very poor with soggy hash brown, cold fatty bacon.we were there 1st customers of the day?.Tea cake wasn't toasted properly. Why advertise homemade scones when they are never ready to serve once open.

Usually amazing cafe but on this occasion the staff were rude to me and my pregnant partner which was disappointing…..

No problem with staff or cleaning of tables between customers. However, meal of beef and mushroom pie with vegetables was uneatable. Meat tough and veg way over cooked. Substitute lunch of sausage sandwich was also dire. Sausage over cooked, hard and chewy.

After a visit on Monday 20th December for coffee and a meal l was shocked to find nobody was cleaning the tables after customers have left .They collected the trays then went to serve customers at the counter not even washing their hands .

Food was delicious, well presented. Staff excellent and efficient. Sat in outside seating area as we had our little dachshund with us. She had a sausage which she loved. Would come again.

Good morning snack to get the day going

Lovely fish and chips and trifle helpful staff

Not over impressed.Coffee awful.asked for latte tasted like dish water.refused to drink it. Asked for a cup of tea .no comment.

We popped in for a late breakfast. We sat outside as we had our dog with us. Food was lovely. A full English and a sausage sandwich, on heinsite I should have had a breakfast as my sandwich was nearly as much a breakfast. Most of the staff were lovely. One made sure there was a full water bowl for our dog. Thank you for that. All in all it was a very pleasant experience.

Coffee was fine but sandwiches not so good bread was very dry but plenty of filling

Excellent food Excellent service

Poor service warm milkshake messed up order

Good coffee, filter can sometimes be tasteless. Staff a little young, witnessed a customer being ignored as 3 youngsters chatted. Admittedly they had just closed but nobody told the potential customer who was with a disabled person and stood at the counter with a tray. Need to be trained better in customer service.

Reasonable price but coffee a bit weak & not very hot.

Was good. But a bit slow at the tills

The food was ok but not brilliant.

Good cake and meals. Reasonable prices

Popped in for breakfast, good value and very tasty. Staff very friendly many thanks for a great start to the day.

Visited for lunch. Customer service was very good. Food was good wholesome and well presented

Afternoon tea was fantastic, the scone was fresh and very enjoyable, the service was excellent, thank you for such a relaxing time today

Absolutely appalling. What a huge disappointment compared with the garden centre itself. Soup and roll (£4.50) were the nastiest, poorest quality products money can buy. The cappuccino(£2.50) not nice at all and spilt when delivered to our table!! Staff were inefficient and plainly not customer focused. I'm not ignorant or unsympathetic, but one member of staff, a young woman, busy clearing tables, calling customer's order numbers out and refilling the wood burning stove might be better employed elsewhere, maybe in the kitchen. That or at the very least it must be suggested that she wear a longer t-shirt that tucks into her trousers. The sight of buttocks is frankly unappealing at the best of times but certainly a restaurant is no place for it at all. Never going back here!!!

Went here today for lunch. Grumpy waitress alert! Food was not worth £22 paid. Scone was very dry, we asked for no salad with one of our panini and ended up with it anyway. The other panini should have contained brie and cranberry however I'm pretty sure it was some sort of jam instead. Not very pushchair and child friendly either. Will not be going again.

This was one of the worst meals we have ever had I think the chips had been cooked for hours and left sitting in the tray and mushroom omelette dry and tasteless with no garnish or nothing and £15.50 worse off wish I had gone to McDonald's expected better then this from taverham garden centre such a let down for a lovely garden centre

This five star review is BEN ...who tried hard to give good customer service ......but was summarily dismissed buy a miserable staff member Food was reasonable ...needless to say ...Will not be back ...

Tea - good. Cakes - good. Price - extortionate £4 for a slice of cake. Ridiculous

Nursery itself is lovely. Drinks are good but food is awful, such a shame.