The Dutch Marketplace

Good 'farm shop' style shop with good butcher and delicatessen sections. A little let down by a mediocre café 🤷🏻‍♂️

UPDATE:
I really enjoyed my last visit here (two days ago). The 'farm shop' is fabulous with a great product range of fresh fruit and vegetables as well as a wide range of luxury pantry products. And then there are the delicatessen counters. The butcher's counter offers a terrific selection of fresh meat and sausages as well as some delicious freshly made pies and pasties.

Moving on to the café, the improvement from my last visit was dramatic. Really friendly, helpful staff serving delicious cakes and coffee. As a result I am uplifting my rating to four stars. Well done folks!

Firstly the good bits. Food is good and staff are friendly. But the processes in the cafe need work. There were not enough table numbers for the number of tables so the guy clearing the tables kept having to ask if people had received all their food. Surely there must be a printer in the building to make some more table numbers.
The prices of the fruit and veg are massively overpriced. We always like to support this kind of business but this kind of price cant be justified in a cost of living crisis.

Great produce in the shop and also great food in the cafe. All round excellence

Saturday lunchtime... Not too busy. Sat outside and had delicious prawn sandwich, cakes and coffees. Service was very good and didn't wait long for food. Great selection of plants and Christmas bits. If you arrive at a busy time expect it to be busy!

Plenty of parking available in a well laid out car park. This business is well stocked with a wide selection of products (plants, seeds bulbs, containers, soil improvers etc) for the garden. This is supplemented by a small selection of garden furniture. Staff are knowledgeable and very helpful.
Fresh and frozen products in the food hall are excellent and the restaurant serves good value food and drinks.

Great garden centre, lovely gift shops, nice cafe staff but cold food at the cafe and often have staff shortage in kitchen/ cafe and a very reduced menu. Had to wait 15 mins for a heated up meal after I returned it. Son was given incorrect sandwich, they had charged extra for the additional cheese which was not added.Unfortunatley the standard of the food and high prices for poor food let the whole garden centre down. However, nice friendly people in the cafe serving is very appreciated. But will go else where as its the 3rd time ive been there, and twice, food was expensive but stone cold.

Always a good place to go to for lunch, fresh food, gifts and plants. We really can't fault it.

Great garden centre with a large selection of good quality plants. They also do some lovely pots at good prices. Indoors there is a selection of garden furniture and other items. There is a restaurant for refreshments after shopping . . . if you have any money left.