Orangery Café — Restaurant in London

It should warrant four stars for its garden tables looking over the expanding restoration of the walled vegetable garden that has taken place in recent years but I can't bring myself to give it more than three stars because every time there's a crowd (ie holiday weekends or sunny days) they resort to paper cups. So you pay the pot of tea price for the much lesser experience of a paper cup. Unsustainable and not at all the experience or philosophy that the National Trust stands for....

You have to pay £14 for a ticket to even enter the cafe, which is outrageous.

I just wanted to go to the cafe and had borrowed my Dad's National Trust membership (as he never uses it) which would have gotten me in for free, but because I am not a man and the membership says "Mr xx" on it, I was called out and not allowed in. Ticketing system is stupid because my Brother, or any other male, could have used my Dad's membership and wouldn't have been...

Ordered a mocha and hot chocolate. The drinks were warm, not hot. I mentioned to them that they had not prepared the milk correctly and basically told me I did not know what I was talking about. Milk screeches when steamed. They could not even be bothered to stir the drinks, especially the hot chocolate, so warm milk sitting on a base of the choc mix.

Nice setting in the vegatable Garden and nice walk...