Gardener's Retreat & Coffee Haven — Restaurant in West Lindsey

Love this garden centre, so big and fun for all. However, was really let down by the cafe experience. We waited a long time for our order which consisted of 3 coffees, a bottled ice tea and 3 cakes. 2 of the coffees were acceptable but not the best. The 3rd (which was meant to be a caramel latte with soya milk) was just hot flavoured milk. This was founded out 10 minutes after it was made as it was too hot to drink straight away. We went back and told the barista there was no coffee in it at all. Instead of making a new one (like any cafe/restaurant would) they just added coffee to it. At this point We didn’t want to stay much longer so took the drink. Very upsetting as apart from that, have had a lovely day at the...

We popped in this afternoon for my birthday lunch. We were looking forward to trying the vegetarian carvery. The meat alternative was nut roast. Unfortunately it tasted awful and seemed to be full of small fruit of some sort, no taste or signs of nuts. The Yorkshire pud was heavy and very dry, the roast potatoes were dry and bland and the only part of the whole dinner I found nice was the mashed potatoes, I had to leave the rest. So, a birthday meal of mash potatoes for £11. I'm afraid I won't be having a carvery here again. Photo of...

A very busy and clean venue with decent service. There was a good selection on the carvery, and a lot of other dishes looked impressive too when going out. Less than £13 for a regular carvery. There were a number of standouts on the carvery that included the cauliflower cheese, herbed potatoes, and the turkey. Other items, such as the turnip, mashed + roast potatoes, were not as good with a lack of flavour. On the whole I would...