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The Barn Garden Centre Cafe

British • Colchester

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3.9/5

(01206) 211312 Turkey Cock Lane, Stanway, Colchester, Essex, CO3 8ND (01206)2…Show

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Light and airy garden centre café with inside and al fresco dining at Stanway, near Colchester.

About The Barn Garden Centre Cafe

The Barn Garden Centre Café at Stanway, west of Colchester, is open every day for breakfast and lunch serving a café/bistro-style menu. It’s a light and airy space and there’s also al fresco dining on the terrace, which is partially covered. The menus are regularly updated and sit alongside daily seasonal specials. Traditional breakfasts and luxuries including Smoked Salmon and Eggs Benedict. On-trend lunches and lighter bites include Buddha Bowls, House Salads and favourites such as Fish & Chips. All food is locally sourced and cooked fresh to order. Bakery lines and cakes are made in-house daily and desserts vary from homemade Lemon Meringue Pie to warm Bakewell Tart. The Barn Garden Centre Café is fully licensed too and offers a range of beers, wines and spirits.

Sugarvine

3.9

Food 4.3/5

Service 4.0/5

Atmosphere 3.5/5

Value for Money 3.8/5

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Opening Times

Mon	09:00 - 14:30	—
Tue	09:00 - 14:30	—
Wed	09:00 - 14:30	—
Thu	09:00 - 14:30	—
Fri	09:00 - 14:30	—
Sat	09:00 - 14:30	—
Sun	09:30 - 14:30	—

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Helen Taylor

I enjoyed the meal I had but I found the menu restrictive and was not the same as the one I looked at online when I booked

Karen

The barn is a lovely relaxing place to go staff are superb no matter whether it's breakfast or lunch

4.5

Jayne

Love this place and the food, never had a complaint. Took a friend and the fish & chips 11/7 wasn’t the best we’ve had.

Natalie Grainger

As always this The Barn delivered. We have many times had Sunday breakfast, but as we had a friend over from Australia decided to have lunch & we were not disappointed, everything was perfect from start to finish. The food was top notch with a variety of choices being made including 2 vegetarians. Main courses all devoured!!! but ensuring there was a little space for the gorgeous desserts. Food 10/10 Service 10/10 & friendly helpful staff.

3.0

Keith banks

I had lunch yesterday with a friend and we both had the BLT Open sandwich. Very disappointing. A limp base of some sort of pitta bread, a squirt of tomato sauce around the edge, two small overcooked rashers of bacon, a couple of cherry tomatoes, a covering of mayo and a few sprigs of rocket. £12.95! I would estimate the ingredients cost around 50p. I know times are difficult in the hospitality business, but if you want to get customers in your cafe you need to give them a semblance of value for money. We had breakfast a couple of weeks ago which was good, but you need another bread supplier, it's too doughy and heavy. Will come back for breakfast but won't rush back for lunch

Julie

Nice place ( eg nicely decorated etc) but noisy - the music does not help but even without that, the noise of people talking just echos. Just bear in mind if your party has people with hearing aids etc as my dad really struggled to hear with all the background noise. Food was good - would have liked to have seen regular sandwiches and maybe a simple jacket potato on the menu. The open sandwiches were nice but overpriced imho. The “larger” meals seemed better value for money .

3.5

Claire O’Sullivan

Always nice food and ambience - staff were upagainst it on a busy sunday perhaps need more staff

4.5

Rach

Excellent service. The menu offer a good choice. I am gluten free and there are clearly noted options . The staff have good understanding of the impact. The environment is upbeat, maybe a little loud at times.

Alison Murphy

My friend and I enjoyed a great lunch. We both had the Buddha bowl with added salmon. It was very varied and tasty. A nice atmosphere and lovely cake too. Sadly you don’t seem to do any diet lemonade type drinks so I just had tap water.

Irene

Food was excellent, as usual. Service not good, as usual. Very noisy.

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