The Barn Garden Centre & Cafe Stanway

Nice location, good service, and reasonable selection of gluten free cakes.

We've reviewed and recommended barn plants many times over the years We've visited. However we absolutely have fallen out of love with the cafe. Lovely surroundings, just feel the value gas disappeared. This week, we received 2 dirty knives and 2 dirty forks. They pleasant waitress changed them and apologised as they actually still had food on them. Then ordered 2 sandwiches, 1 which was OK, but nothing like what a £10.50 sandwich should be. My wife had a gluten free sandwich ( which always in fairness is made of smaller bread), but the filling was ridiculous. 4x 2p piece sized pieces of chicken, because we actually counted them. Again £10.50. No salad, just literally a couple of leaves for colour, not even a slice of cucumber or half a cherry tomato. Just really really disappointed. We're looking elsewhere now as we're don't with the lack of value, and in fact, greedy priced sandwiches. Such a shame.