Trowell Garden Centre Cafe in Broxtowe

Came for breakfast with the family this morning. It was really lovely. Most had the light breakfast which was 1 sausage (really nice quality), bacon, half a tomato, mushrooms, scrambled egg, Hash brown and a slice of toast for just over £6 highly recommended.

This category includes a variety of indoor and outdoor gardening supplies, with a wide variety of outdoor flowers, plants, and trees, including garden houses and wood sheds to choose from. There is a restaurant, outdoor and outdoor, where you can enjoy your meal leisurely. It’s a great place to shop for gardening and take a walk around. It is being reset and a covered garden is being built. Spring flowers are on sale.

Good selection of plants and fantastic staff

Got what we needed the cafe was very busy parking was a struggle and uneven

Lovely cafe and beautiful garden centre

Had a problem with my ordering and the customer service sorted it out in a flash. The lady was lovely and very efficient.

Find a table, order from the counter with table number. Wait for drinks then sit and wait/chat for breakfast. Breakfast was good. 3 sizes. Light, full English, bigger.

Excellent price, service, delivery and communication. Couldn't have been better, Many thanks. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Good garden centre a little hard to find. Great cafe would personally like a small area in the cafe that you can take your dog with you.

Always spolit for choice. Some great items for sale. They offer a great line of concrete garden ornaments as well.

Grandchildren loved the Christmas displayed and the aquatics centre

Love this place for everything needed for the home & garden!

Went in, bought a bay tree, went home!

Although it is work in progress was impressed with what we saw including refreshments. Will return when work is finished

Excellent garden centre. We haven't visited in a while but they've clearly extended it and there's loads of choice. Not just plants but lights tools etc. We'll worth a visit. We're lucky to have it so close.

Smallish restuarant very expensive

lovely friendly place to be, easy to spend half a day here !!

Really nice place to go and spend a few hours, they have all the Christmas decs and the model village out at christmas, so be prepare to spend some money! And they have garden furniture out in the summer. the Digg cafe is nice to sit down, have some lunch in or a cup of tea and cake, friendly staff and good assortment of toys, food and other gift ideas for the festive season. They have a large car park, with disabled spaces, no steps. Toilets near the cafe and a large outdoor section for plants and fruit trees, they are extending this now, so you might have abit of construction noise. (Feb 2024)

Great gammon, chips and peas were not too good. Sauce packets were good. Drinks good. Had a bother parking as our van was too tall to get through barrier, but we managed to park just the other side of the barrier. Would go again but wouldn't have a meal. Maybe try a sandwich next time.

Brilliant place. You leave with more than you went for as the selection of items is incredible.

Food not too bad, it has increased in price recently. The one thing I object to is being charged 20p extra for either decaf coffee or decaf tea.

Normally a lovely place but not yesterday. Not allowed outside, and most of the inside was cordoned off to change displays. A message on the website would have been very useful!

Food is just what you would expect. Good size portions. Scones delicious

Brilliant food. Good customer service. 👍

Good upcoming garden centre. Has a great Christmas selection. Does keep up to seasonal trend well. Shame that outside was closed. However would go again. Cafe was great also, affordable and quality food.

Visited recently for a part for a garden hose. Found that week's after Christmas they are still trying to sell all the Christmas stock, outside is closed for some reason and overall the shop just looked unloved. Lots of staff around appearing to do very little while boxes are piled up in walkways. Never did find the part I wanted for the hose, or any garden tools at all? I thought certain a garden centre would be the place to go.

Fantastic place with good food, good plants and (at Christmas time) an excellent selection of Christmas products. The Lemax display was incredible!!! Will return

Nice breakfast just a shame my scrambled eggs were just warm

Friendly, clean, wheelchair accessible

Quick friendly service but the beef burger was absolutely awful. No flavour whatsoever. Chicken burger was under flavoured too. And they weren't cheap. The chips were absolutely lovely though.

Good food and good quick service.

A lovely experience and a great festive day out. The little village was so fun, we could’ve stayed for hours looking round! Cafe was cute but we missed having an indoor space to eat lunch when having a dog with us.

A good place to get some food and drinks at the Digging. The garden centre had a good range of plants and goods etc for sale. Would recommend a visit.

Added tomatoes to my vegetable breakfast, just a shame they had only been warmed not cooked spoilt what was otherwise a excellent breakfast.

It. Was. Really. Busy. The. Cafe. Was. So. Busy. The. Food. Was. Nice. I. Was. Browsing. Looking. At. The. Christmas. Things. Looking. At. The. Lights. And. Baubles

Lovely few hours browsing this garden centre. Fabulous bargains and a lovely turkey and stuffing cob in the spacious Cafe.

Amazing Christmas display, very nice restaurant, good service , toilets immaculate . Well, worth a visit .

A lovely garden centre, with a great selection - the cafe is an absolute jewel, fantastic cakes, and gluten free options across the menu!

Bought Christmas tree and hyacinths. Out of stock of Aquadulce broad bean seeds.

Lovely garden centre and Still independently owned, it is not part of the British garden centre chain. Beautiful displays all year round to celebrate the changing seasons, excellent display of sheds and garden huts. Lots of differnt fish and all things fishy to buy. Only let down is the quality of food in the cafe. Been twice in a week and first I got Luke warm hot chocolate which wasn't to great and second time I got a latte that wasn't even hot enough to melt the sugar. Miss heard my order so got given a plate of luke warm toast instead of poached egg on toast with 3 eggs on brown please. So I'm confused as to how she translated that into 2 slices of white toast!!? The floor staff which are mainly teenagers were all very kind and polite and every table they cleaned and left spotless they all deserve huge praise for their role in the cafe as it looked fresh and clean to sit down.

Very good lots of Christmas decorations and lovely food

It was a very nice place and the cafe food was lovely.

Great variety of products, lovely food in cafe

Always a lovely garden centre to visit😊

Bought an expensive oil burner last Monday, got home no wick in it, took it back ..given wick, came home set it up to find the snuff out cap missing..have sent email and no reply...POOR customer service. And my daughter has just sent me a pic of the xmas scene figures they insisted on delivering and its all broken ????

Lovely day out, lots to look at, plenty of parking and a gorgeous hot chocolate in the cafe

Excellent food and choice from the restaurant.

Really enjoyed it lots of nice Christmas items. Food in the cafe was lovely. Really enjoyed our visit.

Very nice independent garden centre, well worth a visit especially around Christmas. Nice café, knowledgeable staff, lots of parking.

Visited today. Marvellous Christmas Display. However was astounded that there was no tissue paper or other to wrap a glass article .So did not buy it

Fab Christmas dinner.. great service quick delivery.. what more could you ask for

Great garden centre, lots of variety, feeding the fish is fun for children and the cafe is great!

I went, especially to see the Christmas displays which are outstanding..and even better that you can purchase the lil individual displays too...but they are not cheap n cheerful ..as you would expect..you get what you pay for.

Lovely lovely Christmas Exhibition. Observed both Children and Adults enjoying this area. Excellent layout of so many items to suit so many tastes. Very large Christmas / festive department. Not just plants, garden items etc, there’s clothes, accessories, jewellery, so many gifts and miscellaneous items. Big Carpark. Large eating area with good choices… Looking forward to returning.

Lovely garden centre especially with all the Christmas range in a lovely café with great cake a pleasant experience 😁

Really great display for Xmas and dig cafe worth making a visit .

Brilliant Christmas displays and well laid out. Great place to shop as always 👌

Good choice of outdoor plants and good Christmas displays when we visited today. What lets it down is always the cafe, over 20 mins in queue just to place the order and 50 mins wait for food (2 people). I think it might have gone on longer if I hadn't asked someone to check with the kitchen. One meal was only quiche and salad! They could definately look at ways to improve their system. If you don't have loads of spare time to spend waiting then suggest you skip the cafe altogether.

Very good xmaß selection ,tea room excellent

Love this garden centre. Has everything you could want or need. Amazing selection of house plants and gifts!

Really great selection of plants and Christmas items, we went for some lemax village ornaments and to have a look around. Dog friendly inside and staff was helpful.

Great garden centre with really tasty, well-priced cafe food.

My friend and I had lunch at the centre yesterday lunch time. The salad was well past its best, with black, soggy leaves. Tge quiche was small and dried up. Very disappointing. When we spoke to one of the staff she took our plates and said 'I'll mention it'. We waited around expecting a more senior member of staff to discuss this with us and at least offer an apology. Noone spoke to us. We then went to Strelley Hall for some excellent food. Trowell Garden Centre has lost two customers.

Great atmosphere...loads of choice . friendly staff..plenty to choose from...

Supper Christmas decorations and beautiful Christmas displays 🎉. Cafe very nice, supper atmosphere. Recomed a visit with children!

Always enjoy a visit and nice atmosphere.

Thinking of somewhere to eat can be quite difficult, but after some consideration Diggs Cafe, at Trowell Garden Centre, was on the cards; upon arriving at the Garden Centre, you are immediately funnelled into a one way system - that leads you around the garden centre, accompanied by incredibly loud music (bring earplugs as you will need them), until you reach the rather "odd" entrance to get into the Cafe; but then to my surprise - a barrier with a sign next to it saying "table service" and a wait time of some 30 minutes. Confusing or what, especially seeing as that restrictions have now eased. We were called to a table, sat down and a member of staff came over, handed us three rather tatty menu's and we ordered, I had the Vegetarian Burger which was probably the most "edible" part of the meal, as the bun it was served in was dry as old boots, the fries were incredibly average and tepid, plus the onion rings, well they had water surrounding them, all very strange, no way of looking at the food counter as Diggs, are still operating a very strange restricted service - despite covid now being "Endemic." Another person had a Toasted Teacake that looked nice, yet again this was dry as old boots and in the end was wasted, and the other person had a flat white coffee which was nice and a Bakewell slice, that left a lot to be desired to say the least. The strange thing is that a lot of other garden centres you can now get counter service, without a pathetic one way system and table service which is a lot more civilised, and then the view from our table, looked into the under cover section of the garden centre, with a nice view of a filthy lamp with cobwebs and flies galore. Off putting to say the least as well. But years ago this place used to be nice, now it leaves a lot to be desired, if you are wanting a friendly garden centre, with nice food and drink, then avoid Trowell Garden Centre and instead try somewhere like Reuben Shaws or Bardills, which is just off the A52 near Stapleford.

We arrived at the restaurant eager to try the Chips we had seen on a previous visit where we were seated about 2 minutes too late and could only order cakes and cold snacks. This time we arrived with plenty of time and the restaurant was busy. It took about 5 minutes to get seated and there was no queue to enter. We were seated next to a small hedge on a table for two, near the Tills and route to the exit. We were given menus, then within about 2 minutes we were asked what we wanted to order, which seemed a little rushed. As we already knew roughly what we wanted we ordered drinks and Some of the rustic chips we had gone there for, and I had a Spinach, cheese and Pesto toastie. We chatted for a bit, watching others come and go, and noticed other people were arriving, and getting served their drinks and their food before us. We had been seated for about 20 minutes before our drinks came, with no apology for the wait, about 10 minutes later the food arrived. The chips were excellent but my Toastie was extremely thin. The staff member asked us if we needed condiments about a minute later.We noticed other people who had arrived after us had eaten their meals and began to queue up as we were starting ours. The queue was located immediately next to our table on the other side of a small artificial hedge. I could see the lady at the tills was busy, there were two tills but only one in use.The queue got quite large and it took about 30-40 minutes for it to fully die down.During which period we had people less than 2 feet from our table, standing, coughing, sneezing, on us and making eye contact with my friend who was facing the queue. Had we known this prior to being seated we would have asked for another table. At one point we even had a person sitting on the hedge with his backside practically on our table. We couldn't talk because it felt like people were listening. We also had dogs watching us eat as their owner queued.When the queue had dissipated somewhat we tried to attract the attention of a staff member to make a complaint. It took ages, eventually I had to stand and shout over to a person called Nick, we identified him as the only person who had been friendly or upbeat during the whole of the service.We told him that we weren't happy that no one had been attentive, once we were seated, being left for 20-30 minutes without a drink is not acceptable, at this point we could have walked out, and we have seen people do it before, at the very least a drink means we have to wait for our food.We told him we had witnessed a lady served fish and chips and then not given a fork, and when she tried to attract attention she was ignored, even when making eye contact with the lady at the till, she ended up having to queue to get cutlery whilst her food got cold.We also told him about the queueing situation. He basically advised us that there was no process to deal with the complaint that day, and we would have to submit feedback via their website.We told him we were not trying to get a refund, discount or a voucher just for someone to acknowledge that our visit had not been satisfactory, so that our feedback could be used constructively.In the end we could see we were not going to achieve anything. What rounded our visit off was the completely neutral handling of our payment, no pleasantries, just an instruction to check and insert my card.On this basis I would not recommend the restaurant.I appreciate we probably sound stuck up, but we are quite young and after so long not being able to go out, this experience was not what we were looking forward to.

Went to the cafe here and ordered coffee and walnut cake, which was just OK, and fruit scone, which was extremely dry and awful. Not good overall.

My wife spent a fair bit of time waiting to get served with our 2year old today. She was totally ignored and was left standing around. She even made the effort to signal a member of staff but was still blanked. This is such a disappointing thing to happen.

We quite often pop in to Diggs to eat. The staff are great and are always on the go. But something is obviously wrong at the moment. There is a written apology on a blackboard before you even step in!! In my mind the logical thing to do would be to temporarily cut the service area down to at least give the serving staff a fighting chance. We ordered and we accepted that the wait would be longer than normal.Well, after 15 minutes my ordered toastie arrived looking a sorry, not good for value snack with no tea. My partner had ordered a simple scone which unlike my toastie required very little if any prep'. However, her scone didn't arrive till another 15 minutes had passed. Our pot of tea arrived with her scone. This tea was stewed a!being with only 1 teabag and was luke warm to boot.I truly feel sorry for the hard working staff but the management need to look at their own planned strategy to overcome their difficulties before more customers think with their feet.

Breakfast to share with my Mam is just enough, the staff here are very pleasant and the service is quick and efficient, what more do you want.

Been many times but todays visit 31st Dec 2021 will be the last. No wait for a table and given menu but after looking at the menu which has a lot of variety then realised how pricey it is. £ 4.59 for toast, £2.49 for a cuppa tea. Chap on next table was moaning about lack of food on his breakfast plate. This is a lot dearer than the Costas etc for drinks and toast, Visit Number 58 in Long Eaton which does a very large breakfast for similar prices in a lovely Bistro type bar.

We had visited this cafe after a recommendation from friends and this was our 3rd visit after 2 previously nice meals. There were only 3 tables occupied by a total of 5 people including us, so we ordered breakfast and after first choice granola was unavailable, my partner went for pancakes but please no syrup. The pancakes came with syrup spread all over them. The Scrambled egg looked inedible and was taken away , not a replacement for either so my partner just had toast to eat now. My fried breakfast and coffee was ok but had to go and ask for butter for the dry toast as none was offered. So £23 and my partner only had toast and a drink. In all honesty this is not the cheapest place and better service is expected.

Always had really good service and nice food here in the past. I don't know if they were short-staffed, but it took ages for someone to take our order then the food took a long time to come by which time we had finished our drinks. When the food arrived, the quiche was room temperature, the gourmet burgers we had ordered were dry as were the brioche buns they were in. The fries were barely warm and the beans ordered with the child meal came as peas. These were changed for beans which were congealed with a dry crust. It all looked as if it had been prepared and then forgotten by those serving at table. It was all very unappetising.Really disappointed.

After walking around the garden centre we wanted to sit and eat in the digg cafe, firstly we had to find the entrance as it's not very well signposted. After waiting for a member of staff to come to us we requested a table inside as we had a baby with us and it's not very warm, the rude elderly lady who stood on the door told us we had to go to the tent area to eat, I asked if she could check availability inside she said its full. We decided to leave and eat elsewhere,we left via the cafe,where their were more than 6 empty tables, yes some needed cleaning but we would have waited. She was very rude.

We ve visited the cafe a few times since reopening due to restrictions. We have always sat outside and had a very pleasant time . Today , however we chose to sit inside as it was a little cool and rain possibly on it's way . We were greeted as usual by a very polite member of staff and shown to a table . We sat down , immediately realising that the music was blasting out of a nearby speaker. This made it impossible to hold a conversation without shouting to my husband , thus adding to the noise. My husband usually wears hearing aids ... he had not got them in and he said it was loud ! I'm sorry we didn't wait to order anything .

Although billed as a garden centre cafe, Digg has been reinvented as a waiter service restaurant with a very pleasant range of seating indoors and outdoors. Spotlessly clean and well organised for a large restaurant. Good range or snacks and full meals. The vegetarian Thai curry and the scampi were great. Friendly service. Worth visiting just for the food, even if not buying from the garden centre.

Visited the garden centre for the first time today and went into the cafe for lunch. We were reassured by the excellent Covid safeguards - table service, spaced out tables, one way system, masks, etc. The food itself was very good, plentiful and reasonably priced.

Welcome return for Mam and me, she does enjoy her breakfast/coffee here. Quick and efficient service from the staff, tables well spaced out and cleaned after every customer.

We ordered 2 large cappuccinos (2.95 each) & a fruit scone. Coffee was almost warm & were in a regular sized cup. Definitely not large. The scone arrived without a plate or a knife. Bill £8.19 :-(.

Visited here today Monday 10th May 2021 with wife and grandson aged 4. It was busy and after a short wait we were seated inside the large marquee. The waitress was very patient as our grandson was trying to decide what to eat. The food and drinks were of good quality and price wise ok

Really good meal, all following covid rules. All food very well presented and did not have to wait very long. Been a few times now and always very good plentiful food.

Great food as usual and one way system good, (When people follow them)When in the cafe all tables are 2mtr distanced and you can see all table and chairs being cleaned after people have left.My only gripe was that when you pay at the till the door is EXIT only, but people who had been to the toilets were also using this door as a way to get back to their table in the cafe. We need to follow these rules that are put in place for everyone`s safety.

The garden centre cafe is now transformed into a covid-safe waiter served cafe-restaurant which works efficiently even when busy. Good coffee and cakes and large portion sizes for hot bacon rolls. Better than when it was a canteen-style self service cafe. Customer service is much improved.

Well impressed with COVID safety arrangements, staff lovely, well organised and friendly. Food lovely, highly recommend goats cheese and tomato quiche. Can’t wait to go again. Well done Trowell Garden Centre.

This is how a restaurant should be run in these troubling times. One way system to the cafe, track and trace completed then shown to a table which are socially distanced located then table service by the staff. My Mam and me felt completely safe throughout our visit and we thoroughly enjoyed our breakfast here.

Brought my elderly friend here for lunch. She had never been before. We found a table easily, I sat her down but no menu on the table so I went back and to a photo of it. We chose what we wanted to eat and so I went top order the food, then spotted the menus near the trays. Both had gammon, egg, peas and chips. We ordered a coffee and tea too. Coffee VERY expensive at nearly £3, tea nearly £2 for a tea bag and water. The good came very quickly. Loads of lovely chips, far too many for me but my 90 year old friend ate there plate clean. It did me good to see her eat so much. I thought the gammon was dry so brought most home for my dogs and I think beans would have been nicer than peas. However, good service, nice place to spend an afternoon reminiscing

This nice cafe is always busy but is lovely and open so it doesn’t feel claustrophobic - good food choices and lots of high chairs and space.

My review is for the Garden Centre, I did not visit the Cafe. But going to 3 other Garden Centre's Trowell Garden Centre was the only that had exactly what I needed plus a few extra goodies, I can highly recommend a visit.

Came here to see Christmas decorations and gifts etc. Planned to have lunch with friends had a really nice time lots to see and excellent menu in the cafe. Would like to visit again.

We often pop over to the garden centre. It's a easy bus ride from Long Eaton and plants are hood quality. We usually stop for a coffee break.It was busy today, Santa has arrived for a visit apparently and we also had a choir singing Christmas songs.Anyway, a good as sit down and drink in the cafe for us.

The Digg cafe is very good parking is free, facilities are clean and well appointed. The shopping mall has many Christmas gift ideas, indeed it is easy to forget the exce6garden centre

Well worth a visit. Plenty of plants, fancy goods and a great restaurant, staff very helpful. I've been on a few occasions and visit form time to time, excellent Christmas selection.

There’s plenty of garden inspiration here and it’s great for little ones, you can feed the fish (£1For a little tub) and view them with a floating magnifying glass, taken a few kids here they love it and visiting Barry the fish. Lots of fish to view plus in the summer they had a sand area with buckets a spades provided absolutely brilliant. The food and drinks are lovely (expensive but ok for a treat) and don’t take forever. Lots of interesting and unique gifts here too. In the winter they have a fantastic Christmas themed area with a little train driver cab kids can get in.

I suppose when you don't get to visit a cafe every day you get a bit picky. The chocolate flan thing was good, although the size on the plate when I received it was a bit disappointing. Latte was more like coffee flavoured milk - I do like, to taste the coffee when I have one.I don't know just lacked a bit of sparkle,.

Only came for tea and cake, but was so tempted by all the food on offer. The cobs looked and smelled incredibly fresh. Large variety of cake, and caters for gluten free and vegan. Good service and great products,

Having stumbled across the new cafe last weekend with my husband, I thought I would bring my two teenage boys here for a last lunch of the school holidays. It was very busy but that did not affect the service or the quality of the food. The staff were lovely, the food was fantastic and the air conditioning a welcome treat! All the food is reasonably priced and the portion sizes are good. Children’s menu too!! I would recommend a visit to anyone! Well done Trowell!

Digg Cafe, not the greatest experience.

Luke warm tea, miserable and slow service. A party of 4 of us ate here, 2 had fish and chips, another had scampi and chips. All found multiple blonde hairs in their food. The communal sauces were compromised (old chip in the bottle) and my Lasagne looked like it was made 3 years ago and set on fire, accompanied by a portion of garlic bread (1 slice of baguette only toasted on the top) Taking the Urine tbfh.