Yarnton Home Garden - Cherwell

This garden centre has a varied selection of plants, indoors and outdoors, teamed up with stunning beautiful home ornaments, garden furniture, BBQs and more. The staff is helpful and knowledgeable. I felt safe as everyone was following the COVID guidelines. It was not busy. I will return to try the food once the pandemic is over.

Good centre with a wide range of stock. There are lots of other shops linked to the centre so well worth a bust.

We waited to be seated at our table, but ended up having to go to the counter to place our order. When a nearby table became available, it was not properly sanitized before being given to us, with crumbs left over from the previous customer. We mentioned this to the staff when our drinks and snacks arrived, but they only casually wiped down the table that had been vacated, not ours. The hot chocolate was made with water and not tasty, so I didn't finish it. My friend's scone was hard from being microwaved. The staff wore masks, but some did not cover their noses and used gloves for handling food as well as other tasks. Overall, we were disappointed with the experience and do not plan on returning.

We visited Yarnton Garden Centre and thought we would have a nice lunch. WRONG.. Upon arrival, a very stoney faced woman asked us to Covid scan, which we did. Right, she said, you can not order food until 12 noon, we have no baguettes and one of you can go up to order. As it was 11.45, we went and sat at our assigned table and waited until 12 noon. I then went up to order. By this this time there was 12 people in the queue and the queue was growing fast. I got the front of the line to be told chef isn't ready yet and to step aside and wait with another 7 people who were also waiting for food. Finally , 15 minutes later, she took my order.. I just wanted a jacket potato with prawns marie rose sauce only to be told, we can not put prawns on a jacket potato. At this point, I lost it and said forget it and we left. The service was shocking and the atmosphere very poor. Will not be going back

The tea and coffee were satisfactory, but the two scones priced at £4.50 were quite disappointing. They crumbled easily and felt heavy in our mouths. The service, however, was acceptable.