One of the best garden centres in the area. Staff are really friendly, knowledgeable & keen to help. Huge car park to the front of the garden centre with several disabled spaces. When we have bought plants from Riverside, they've been really healthy. Prices are comparable with their competitors. I would definitely recommend this place for anything to do with your garden 👍🙂
Quick Update;
This garden centre has now been extended, even better than before 1👍
Excellent service, the staff were really helpful especially with food intolerances. The lunches were lovely but the cakes were something else. I had the peach cheesecake and it was absolutely delicious. I’m not normally a desert person either.
We are from. Yorkshire and come to visit friends in Hockley. Our visit wouldn't be complete without at least one visit to Riverside.
I cannot rate it highly enough....staff are so friendly and helpful, good is top notch , the whole place is so clean and well maintained.
Our friend took ill there yesterday and Lisa and the staff couldn't have . They are a credit to the place.
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Friendly, helpful staff in the beautiful garden centre. Healthy plants and wide variety to choose from. The restaurant was a nice place to stop for lunch and refreshment. The food and service up to high standards.
It made for an enjoyable Sunday outing.
Really enjoyed our visit here for lunch. We had pie, ham egg and chips and also a cooked all day breakfast. Lovely and hot, fresh and tasty. Nice seating area - also dog friendly, great for a cake, quick bite or larger meal.
Thanks!
I visited today. I am on crutches and my walking is terrible. I was greeted through the exit so I didn't have to walk a long way. I booked into the restaurant and got a buzzer. I staggered around doing some shopping and had something to eat and then went to pay. I was given a chair to sit on, it took them ages to get my 10% discount off. Then my car was blocked in and Lisa offered to run my car back a few feet so i could get the door open wide as I need the space. Excellent customer service. Well done!!!!!
We had the most fantastic breakfast here. The service was amazing by the lady waitresses and we couldn't fault a thing. Would absolutely recommend this place and we spent lots of money going round the garden centre after so was a very pleasant morning. As dog lovers it was fantastic to see they allow dogs in the cafe so was nice to see so many well behaved pooches enjoying their sausages 😊
It was my first time there, and the shop was extensive, with a huge range of gifts/plants/food to buy, and we had a fantastic ploughman's lunch. Great fresh food, lovely staff, and at a reasonable price. It is a lovely place to spend an afternoon.
Great garden centre, home goods (B&M) and cafe, dog friendly andwith excellent parking. But until they they get ventilation sorted on the indoor area of shop be prepared for an extremely hot shop. They are obviously aware of the issue so let's hope they can sort it soon.
We visited this garden centre for the first time 4/02/23, it's more than garden centre it sell car maintenance stuff oil, paint cleaning polish etc.
Household products, food stuff, clothing, toys, kitchen ware plus all garden products. They also had a very nice restaurant with a lovely selection of meals sandwiches cakes. It was very popular and they gave us a buzzer so when our table was ready this gave us extra time to check out all the areas pay for our good then have our lunch. Lunch was very nice plenty of attentive staff.
Second visit 30/0723 with different plants being on sale from the first with accessories plus lots of garden furniture.
We bought two perennials which looked in lovely condition delphinium breezin & a phlox white eye.
We had another lunch in the the very nice restaurant, good service, the pork roast dinner was plentiful and tasty.
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