Marwood Hill Garden Tea Room

I ve been visiting Marwood tea rooms fir a few years now when buying my beautiful bumble bee plants at their gardens . The Marwood gardens are nothing but a living splendour of vibrancy and bloom creativity . After several hours of enjoying the fragrances of local and exotic flowers with a new emerging colours you pleasantly tyred sit down in their , under the new management , tea room served with freshly prepared light lunch or a wonderfully baked ginger Devonshire cream tea . I ve also seen some home baked cakes , amongst those is a coconut

We visited the tearoom on 14th July. After visiting 4 times previously on holiday and being very impressed we took family there to have this lovely experience. However on this occasion it was so disappointing, the menus are the same as before and states you receive a pot of tea however this time for £5.99 it was a plastic cup of super strong tea. Nothing was served in China but all in plastic plates and boxes. The clotted cream was in a packet that you could buy from Tesco and the jam was also in a packet. For the money I spent it was a complete rip off and the staff were rude and abrupt. I appreciate that with covid lots of things are different but everywhere else we went still served our food on a Plate that was not plastic. If your going to change things the prices should also be changed and you should not be false advertising. Unfortunately we will not be returning again.

First visit since lockdown. One cream tea £7 served in a box that you would have fish and chips in. Two small scones, a titchy tub of jam and a small tub Rodda clotted cream. A wooden knife to assemble. The jam was inadequate and the cream not sufficient to cover the scones. Served with tea in a large disposable mug. I realise that things are different during the easing of lockdown but the price didn’t reflect the contents.

We have visited many times before and had lovely food here but our last visit was disappointing. They now have a very limited menu consisting mainly of toast and scones with wooden cutlery. I assume this type of cutlery is for hygiene reasons but it makes no sense when you have to touch a communal sugar pot with a lid if you wish to put sugar in your tea! My husband had a cream tea but didn’t eat it all as the scone was under cooked. Anyway, the garden is as beautiful as ever and well worth a visit just don’t expect too much from the tea room.

Very friendly and helpful staff. A lovely choice of scones but can especially recommend the ginger scones. A little haven on a wet day.