Sandstone Gardens - Joplin

My family and I love coming to this magical place. I first came with my mom during their Christmas showcase and it was absolutely beautiful! Recently I took my husband back as we were on the hunt for a new fountain for the front of our home. Their prices on medium sized fountains are unbeatable! (Compared to the Henri fountain we have in our backyard) The only downside is that many fountains have to be made to order and can take up to 3 weeks. We live 4 hours away. But that didn’t stop us!

Excellent stop when traveling. Very nice cafe with great menu of salads, soups, entrees, sandwiches specials. Sometimes run out of specials. Wonderful, unique, large decor items. Can find good priced items furniture, but lots of high-end pieces that cost a pretty penny as well. Need to take your time to browse carefully you will find something you can't live without or replicate for DIY home save . LOVE this place.

I felt compelled to write a review after reading all the bad ones. I visited Sandstone this past weekend with my boyfriend because I wanted him to try the food. He ordered the reuben sandwich and said it was the best sandwich he had ever had. I ordered the chicken salad as always and loved it. The portions are big and everything I 've ever tried there is really good, so the price you pay for it is worth it. I have never had any trouble with the employees there. I only visit once or twice a year and look forward to seeing all of their Christmas stuff each year. The people that wrote the reviews about employees 'following ' them must have given them a reason to do such. On our recent visit I noticed they had blocked off the section with the bedroom displays with a notice stating that an employee would have to accompany anyone wanting to browse that area because of customers using it as a changing area for babies, things being stolen, etc. I could not believe that. There are three bathrooms in that place that I know of for customers to use and these people chose a public area with merchandise to do that on? This really isn 't a place for kids anyway. I will continue to visit Sandstone to buy holiday decorations and especially to eat at the bistro. For the people who have complained about this place, maybe you should learn to act appropriately in public and at a retail establishment and you wouldn 't be treated in the 'horrible ' manner that you thought you were.

My wife and I travel the 80 miles from Springfield to Joplin so often to visit this place because we love the bistro. People are brilliant and the food is great! We like to look for the decor section and have bought some seasonal items over the years. However, staff in this area is very unfriendly and makes it difficult to buy things. We bought an article last week and when my wife opened it at home, 80 miles away, it was broken. She called the store and they showed no concern that it was uncomfortable and costly for us to travel there and said we had to return it to exchange. We drove the 80 miles today, and the ones they put back for us were also broken. The manager came by and was very controversial and rude and said to give us a gift card. I absolutely didn't say I wanted a refund. She said it was a stock policy, and I said I didn't care where she was getting rougher, and they rewritten my card. I was horrified about how rude and unbearable this manager was. Apparently they don't understand that they survive on their client's money. You don't get from me anymore!

Nice place, but the staff is extremely rude and humiliating for customers. They followed us around like we were criminals and led them into a private conversation. I brought a small concrete statue to the check-out and was told that they were only adverts (can the employee after us COULD have told us! but then went to ring and wrap the display statue. You need to be able to stay outside the city customers in business at a time because I can't believe that someone would bear this type of treatment more than once.