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The Arches Restaurant & Coffee Shop

Restaurant Breakfast restaurant

👍👍 This maybe a Garden Centre restaurant but the food and service is outstanding. My wife usually has the Sea Bass and I always have the large fish and chips. The food is excellent. The chef Simon, offers a great range of snacks and lunches. I am a fish and chips lover. Just ask for vinegar as and a sm... People often mention staff, menu, friendly, nice, coffee, lovely, good, lunch, service, great,


Address

Liverpool Rd., Much Hoole, Preston PR4 4RL, United Kingdom

Website

www.embleysnurseries.co.uk

Contact

+44 1772 396081

Rating on Google Maps

4.70 (81 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Wednesday: 9 am to 4:30 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 4:30 pm
  • Friday: 9 am to 4:30 pm
  • Saturday: 9 am to 4:30 pm
  • Sunday: (Christmas Eve), 10 am to 3 pm, Hours might differ
  • Monday: (Christmas Day), 9 am to 4:30 pm, Hours might differ
  • Tuesday: (Boxing Day), 9 am to 4:30 pm, Hours might differ

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: staff (15) menu (10) friendly (9) nice (9) coffee (8) lovely (8) good (8) lunch (8) service (7) great (7)
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  • 5/5 Arthur W. 6 months ago on Google
    This maybe a Garden Centre restaurant but the food and service is outstanding. My wife usually has the Sea Bass and I always have the large fish and chips. The food is excellent. The chef Simon, offers a great range of snacks and lunches. I am a fish and chips lover. Just ask for vinegar as and a small pot of tomato sauce. There is a lot more to choose from from the menu. Enjoy.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 David G. 11 months ago on Google
    Lovely clean and neat restaurant. I had coffee and the tomato and mozzarella salad which was lovely. Plenty of staff - all friendly and helpful. Good menu at reasonable prices. The food I saw being served at other tables all looked good. There is a bit of a lack of soft furnishings in the dining room so it can be a bit noisy for me- but other than that it’s great
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Rebecca H. 9 months ago on Google
    Lovely little cafe, very clean & gorgeous interior inside & out. Food was all excellent, we have now been a few times & enjoyed every time I’ve been. Greated with a smile by the lovely hazel & shown to our table straight away. Good work the archers 🥰. We will be back!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Susan H. 1 year ago on Google
    One if my First"go to" cafes/restaurants.Situated inside Embleys Garden Center.Very comfortable cafe with good variety on the menu(lunch open till about 5). Mainly homemade main courses,pies quiches/lasagne,nice sandwiches/ afternoon tea..Home made cakes a must,what's not to like?! Dogs aloud in an outside area,I think.

  • 4/5 Janet H. 5 months ago on Google
    Perfect fish and chips. Roulade delicious. Coffee too small and too strong. I wasn't given a choice.

  • 5/5 Peter H. 4 months ago on Google
    Brilliant Xmas Lunch 2 Courses Prawn Cocktail Sea Bass in a Prawn & Muscle Sauce Fresh Vegtables Glass of White Wine Excallent Food & Service 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Will be going back again before Xmas 👍👍👍👍👍

  • 5/5 Jacqueline 6 months ago on Google
    Great food with an excellent choice. Friendly staff. Very popular.

  • 5/5 sue t. 7 months ago on Google
    Lovely place, lovely staff and alway good food! Visited lots of times, and nice garden center too !

  • 5/5 Peter A. 10 months ago on Google
    Was very busy at lunch time. Suggest you pre book to ensure you get a table.

  • 5/5 Caron E. 1 year ago on Google
    Love this Garden centre cafe we go as a lil treat on the weekend ,can get busy but always great . Can't beat a pot of tea and big filling piece of homemade cake 😋 . Beautiful inside and staff are lovely . And grab a plant/ garden ornament while there win-win 🙂

  • 5/5 ALAN “AL” D. 1 year ago on Google
    A really nice restaurant in the garden centre. Plenty of choice food wise and was delicious. Great service too and friendly staff. Will definitely return.

  • 3/5 Daniela R. 1 year ago on Google
    Garden Center is fabulous as well as garden Center staff!!! Therefore 5+ stars! However, restaurant was disappointing. Customer service was similar to generic diner, not focused on customer experience. That would be totally normal if food was great. I have ordered soup of the day and chicken wings in sweet chilli sauce from aperizer menu, the arches burger from the main menu. Soup was ok, bit into chicken wing and realised it was not cooked fresh, it smelled. Had heartburn when come home (only reason for my heartburn - if soup was from the can or spiced with cheap store bought premixed spices). My son ate the burger, it was not thoroughly cooked, on a drive home he felt nauseated. So I’d give 2 stars for the food and that’s because bread roll that came with my soup was excellent! Sandwiches were very popular during tea time, I wish I had ordered a sandwich, it would be the best choice. I’d come back for coffee or a sandwich, If you’d like to get something from the main menu, it’s a gamble - don’t do it!

  • 5/5 Anna O. 1 year ago on Google
    I tried the burger and it was scrumptious 😋 my other half tried the steak sandwich while it was roast beef and not steak it too was scrumptious 😋. The home made apple crumble and custard and sticky toffee pudding tasted yummy 😋

  • 5/5 Mark M. 1 year ago on Google
    Lovely place and food. Go check it out 👍

  • 5/5 Patricia W. 1 year ago on Google
    V friendly, medium priced menu I always have my favourite. Good place to meet up with friends.

  • 5/5 Zel 2 years ago on Google
    We go here quite often and it's just a lovely restaurant whether it's just a coffee,lunch or a snack...plenty of choice and nice food. Clean and very good rest room

  • 4/5 Ann B. 1 year ago on Google
    Had lunch with friends having checked the menu online as cost is an issue for some of them. The prices had gone up quite substantially and whilst we totally understand why, we felt that the menu prices should have been updated to give a true picture of what to expect. Having said that the food we had was lovely so no complaints on that and we had a happy lunch.

  • 5/5 Morgan C. 1 year ago on Google
    Good food, nice atmosphere and friendly staff. We did get asked twice for our drinks order by two of the waitresses but I think that’s more a communication issue with the team. Didn’t really bother us too much :) was a nice breakfast out and we even stopped to buy some things from the garden centre. Had a really nice time and my little one enjoyed sharing my breakfast.

  • 5/5 Veronica D. 1 year ago on Google
    Lovely food, atmosphere,and waitresses.

  • 5/5 David F. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent restaurant which always delivers good food. Comfortable decor and always friendly staff.

  • 5/5 Tracy K. 1 year ago on Google
    Had lunch with friends. Very good menu with lots of choice. Will definitely go again.

  • 4/5 Sylvia K. 1 year ago on Google
    We just popped in for a coffee and ended up have breakfast which was great ! It was very quick service well presented if i had one tiny niggle the staff could be customer more friendly, i found the lady that waited on us had a quite abrupt manner a smile would not go amiss ! She may hhave been having an off day but if your customer facing its your job to be pleasant . We had just spent over a £100 on plants for our garden not just stopping off for a brew .

  • 5/5 Margaret K. 5 years ago on Google
    Can't believe been coming so often and not reviewed it. I always enjoy what I choose and the staff are really friendly and helpful. My only complaint is that sometimes you do have to wait rather a long time, even for coffee. Maybe if more staff were "allowed" to take food orders it would speed things along. This is my Sunday choice for lunch and I look forward to it all week.

  • 5/5 John A. 2 years ago on Google
    Lovely food, great service nice atmosphere xxxx

  • 5/5 Deb R. 2 years ago on Google
    Fab food! Great staff

  • 5/5 Graham T. 2 years ago on Google
    Have always been a regular here and yet again today was outstanding food with service of the same quality.

  • 5/5 Kim M. 2 years ago on Google
    Had lunch today fir the first time sat outside in the beautiful weather the food was fabulous from salmon salad to gammon and the desserts were well worth saving room for plum crumble and custard to die for never tasted it as good anywhere as here The staff were excellent lovely and friendly helpful too. The service second to none we will definitely be back and highly recommend a visit The garden centre is amazing too and so well looked after the staff there are really lovely and helpful too

  • 3/5 Google U. 6 years ago on Google
    This review is for coffee only. The good: easy parking, pleasant environment and friendly staff. The decaffinated lattes taste nice and are enjoyable. The bad: unfortunately a 'standard' sized latte is really very small and once the froth has gone there's not much more than a large mouthful left to drink. For £2.50 there are many other local places that offer much better value and coffee of equal or better quality. Considering that the actual cost of the coffee represents such a small portion of the establishments costs there is no reason to be so miserly with portion sizes. If the sizes were more in line with local competition the rating would be higher.

  • 5/5 Catherine A. 2 years ago on Google
    Lovely venue and great food. It is recommended that you book around dinner time as it got very busy.


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Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
  • Parking
    • ✓️ Free parking lot
    • ✓️ Plenty of parking
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Healthy options
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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