Badshot Lea Cafe Bar

Lovely garden centre with a good selection and an animal area that kids seem to love looking around. Always a good selection of seasonal decorations. Big outdoor area too with many plants and trees. And great cafe as well. Easy place to spend a couple of hours browsing, picking up bits, and having a bite and a cup of tea!

Garden Centre was lovely, unfortunately the same can't be said of the cafe. Ordered 1 tea, 1 coffee, 1 scone and 1 toast. After half an hour the toast arrive, 10 mind later the scone. We waited a further 20 min for our drinks. Dreadful, don't know why they are only doing table service, it's not working.

It's part of a chain with branches in close proximity to others, which is either reassuring because you know what you're going to get, or is dull because you're going to get exactly the same at each branch. Fascination with non-garden related items but equally can be a one-stop shop to buy all those things that you never realised you needed. Smart, and good range of horticulturally relevant plants and products, as well as a range of irrelevant but surprising products you didn't expect to encounter. Good cafe too to discuss your bemusement at the range of stuff you've just bought.

Nice garden centre generally with a good selection of plants, gardening tools and chemicals as well as a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and various snacks. Outside the restaurant is also an area with various foods such as sweets and cakes, as well as a fridge with cold drinks. The garden centre can also cater for pets with a wide range of livestock, food and various other pet essentials. They sell indoor and outdoor plants which always seem to be well stocked at all times of year. My one criticism is that they don’t sell any electrical tools such as lawn mowers or hedge trimmers. Other than that, the garden centre can cater for many needs and is worth a visit.

Really good service today trying to find a particular offer - your employee (sorry I didn’t catch her name but she was a tall young soft-spoken black lady with her hair neatly done up; on duty Sunday 30/7) was so obliging and went to get a computer to check stock then searched all around. I got my jasmine and my honeysuckle and left very happy!

We were visiting my daughter and had a lovely breakfast here in the cafe. I can recommend the vegan sausage brioche bap with a fried egg. It was great! The vegan sausages were really tasty. My daughter had the pancakes with bacon and maple syrup and said they were lovely while my partner enjoyed his veggie breakfast. The staff were really friendly. The garden centre has something for everyone with great plants and a range of other goods to buy. We are not local but now wish we had a Squires near us!

We went here to browse the fish selection to pass time more than anything whilst our daughter was at a party. It's a very impressive setup with the fish housed in a ring of tanks around a central desk and a really good selection of freshwater fish including Cichlids. We dealt with Bailey who was extremely(!) helpful and knowledgable about areas where we were looking to buy and also with other fish we knew we couldn't have but were interested in knowing about. Very impressed with him and will be returning despite not being our nearest fish shop.