The Watering Can Cafe Bistro in Wyre Forest

Food cold. Management really do need to sort out the way of ordering food /drinks. Takes so long and disorganised. Menu OK but food very poor, sounds appetising but expensive for what is served. Would not recommend.

We arrived at 2.50pm for lunch and stood in a short queue of about 3 people. The gentleman in front of us ordered for 7 people (5 variations of hot food plus drinks). He took a long time to order, then the order was checked & read back to him (£86+ worth of order..). Whilst doing that a young girl prepared our drinks, which were going cold for almost 10 minutes until it was our turn to order the food. I asked for 2 steak & onion ciabattas and was told a quite abrupt “no”. I assumed they’d run out, but was told it was because it was past the (non advertised) 3pm deadline for hot food. We were told we could have sausage roll or pasty, neither of which we wanted as our planned dinner included pastry. Neither did we want cakes. The fact that we were in the queue before 3pm, that we had waited by then for 20 minutes to be served, that if the man in front hadn’t taken so long and the server doubling that time, we could have been ordering before 3pm was apparently irrelevant. My friend said if she’d known that, she wouldn’t have ordered a hot drink (bearing in mind that it was by now probably only lukewarm). At this point we were rather rudely asked “do you want to leave it then?” We did indeed choose to leave it and instead drove back to Mary Stevens park and by 3.30 we’d been served with a smile to both hot drinks and hot food! I have visited Cherry Lane many times, for plants, shopping and food, but have never been treated so rudely. Two out of the three of us are registered disabled and having struggled to stand for that wasted 20 minutes, feel we no longer wish to spend our cash there!

The food was lovely but the server was rude and made me uncomfortable because we got to the front of the queue two minutes before lunch

A cafe in a garden centre, so is convenient to use when shopping. A nice cafe, and dog friendly like the rest of the garden centre. The shop sells more than just garden related things, with food, gifts, books, and (at the time) Christmas decorations.

Been before and have enjoyed, whatever we have ordered. Been this morning (Monday). Asked for cheese scones, told they couldn't sell as undercooked, ( even though a plate full on display). So decided to have fruit scones. They were very dry/ stale..very disappointed, tea was like dish water, even after stirring and leaving to brew. Sorry, won't be visiting there for a long time

Nice garden centre cafe. We had apple shortcake and a cappuccino each. The cake was really nice and coffee good. Prices average. Service very good. Staff nice and friendly. Very clean premises. Dog friendly. Dog treats and fresh water on tap a nice touch.

You have to queue up with a tray for ages. Service is slow. Then you wait for ages for food to come out. It’s not cheap for standard fayre.

This Bistro is within the Cherry lane garden centre. As shopping there had a quick lunch. Queues to order/pay but food came quite quickly. Food was good and staff friendly.

Is within Barnett Hill Garden Centre. Had a sandwich and coffee both of which were good. Service was efficient. Has dog friendly tables and most of the centre is also dog friendly.

Located inside the garden centre shop. A good size restaurant with tables well spaced. This was my first visit and also during covid, so I imagine it is very difficult for everyone at the moment with so many rules and restrictions. There is a long counter but all orders are taken at the table at the moment. We all had a full breakfast and hot drinks. The food as presented well , hot and tasty and generous portions. Staff were friendly and helpful. Maybe some pipe music would help a bit. Looking forward to seeing you again when the weather’s nicer and life is easier for us all. Good luck all of you !