The Granary — Restaurant in Tunbridge Wells

We are here with our baby recently. We didn’t have a meal (just scones and tea) so difficult to review the food. We enjoyed it until I needed to change my son’s nappy and realised that they only put changing facilities in the women’s toilets. They said I could try the disabled toilets (outside) but they also had no changing facilities. This is 2024 - did you realise that dads also need to change their children’s nappies? I considered this to be pretty sexist and given it’s obviously been done up fairly recently. That said, as a new dad I’m not sure how long men have been changing nappies - perhaps it’s a new thing? Anyway - very disappointing and no apology from the staff when I brought it up. Next time if I come I’ll maybe change his nappy on your countertop and see whether that changes your perceptions? Come on guys - not hard to put a cheap folding nappy unit on...

Lovely location, but despite buying coffees and beers at the cafe, we were told we weren't allowed to sit there due to bringing our own sandwiches, despite there being no signage to suggest we couldn't use the benches to eat our packed lunch. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to carry our tray of drinks all the way to the picnic area at the far end of the vegetable plot? This didn't seem realistic, and the picnic area was too far from the toilets for the person in our party with mobility issues. Appropriate signage outside the cafe and a picnic area closer to the garden entrance would...

The hot food and salads here are lovely, but on this occasion we bought sandwiches to eat on a walk round the estate. Nothing good to say about the sandwiches, they were very un-NT, probably worse than a sandwich had recently from WH Smith’s at a motorway services, at least I knew what to expect on that occasion. They were tasteless on low-quality long-life bread. My egg mayonnaise sandwich was dry and tasted of nothing. My partner’s tuna mayonnaise sandwich was bland and watery with no taste of tuna. We took a look at the ingredients list - very very long including 10...