Bongo Review

Whole site on level access, making it easy for those less mobile, ramped throughout, where we managed to see

Full vegan breakfast served all day here very delicious, milk alternatives available.
I Would of liked a vegan cake but no option for this.

Up-to-date well managed toilet facilities available, including disabled access.

Parking available including disabled spaces.

Very pleased with my visit here and definitely will be visiting in future.

Best coffee I’ve had in a long time & a lovely big breakfast . Well worth a visit .

The way it is laid out is genius, it feels like you're walking through a garden. The different heights of plants is totally balanced and makes the viewing very easy. We loved it and stayed far longer than we had intended. Top place.

Great service and helpful staff on hand.
Food great we had a little wait but well worth it.
Covid secure.
Great little gem just outside Norwich.

From North Wales and visiting friends, thought we'd go for breakfast and a walk around. Well, the plants were the best kept we'd ever seen in a garden centre! Reasonable prices too. I'd been looking for blackcurrants in 3 ltr pots and only seen them from £14 to £18, there they were the type I was looking for and £7, couldn't get bare roots for that and healthy to boot. The chap on the till told me they are an independent and grew 85% their own produce.
Only negative had a lovely breakfast with tomatoes that had no colouring whatsoever could have been microwaved for 30 secs as so hard.

We often have breakfast here and it is always superb. Lovely, friendly staff and very professional. The Cafe is clean and kept to a high standard The food is cooked for you and it is also to a very high standard The coffee is excellent and there is a good choice. In all a very enjoyable experience.

The best nursery we have found and well worth the trip from Norwich. Excellent choice of plants, many grown at the nursery, all other gardening requirements catered for. The coffee shop serves excellent food and hot drinks.
Staff are all knowledgeable and helpful, with a good sense of fun thrown in. Well done to the team at Foundry.

very well laid out covid aware plant centre . excellent all day breakfast and great coffee . only problem is stopping the wife spending too much

Loved our visit this morning. My daughter runs and bakes for a cafe in Suffolk and said you have the best cheese scones she’s ever tasted! That’s coming from someone who bakes them regularly!

Always ready to help - friendly and efficient and excellent quality plants.

Thank you

The Foundry are very helpful in these crazy times doing the best they can to keep their business running and help their customers. Well done you. Take care stay safe and well.

Thanks to everyone for their had work and the order delivered today.
Everything looks great - I look forward to planting them out over the
weekend

Thankyou so much for my delivery of assorted basket and bedding plants. Great mix Will be down as soon as open to public to pick up some shrubs. Very helpful and knowledgeable staff. Great cafe too ????

Was made most welcome, the banter was good. Got exactly what we needed.
Have a nice cup of coffee and a scone before we left.
Definitely will be going back.

Fantastic Garden Center, Fantastic Range of plants ?? and helpful staff always on hand to give assistance. Been using this Garden Center for decades now, way before it relocated to it present location. Like I said, absolutely brilliant and they will deliver (at cost) obviously ?? 5*****

Bought six filled baskets and left 10 empty ones to be filled, merely asked for them to be similar to those we bought, never asked a price, simply left it to them. Went back today to collect and could not have asked for anything more, superb in quality and quantity of plants per basket. Pleasant staff that make you feel more than a customer, the boss ain't too bad a bloke either! Nice little restaurant, good food, reasonably priced, give it a look, it is well worth a ride out to.

Great garden centre lots of choice lovely coffee shop with home made food a must visit

Very good garden centre excellent plant choice at reasonable prices. They grow a lot themselves and quality is great. Really good cafe too.

Such a gem of a place!
Gorgeous cafe, reasonably priced food, fabulous quality and good value for money. Seats inside and out. Plants again are top quality at affordable places. Add up that the customer service - why would you go anywhere else?

visited on 21 march had breakfast and coffee and bought an opal plum tree on condition it would go in my car martin did his best and it went in .

Everything here makes you want to keep coming back again and again.

Best Garden Centre ever.great cafe and staff

Very large nursery with very large variety of plants. I bought a few fruit trees from them. They all bore fruit in the same year I planted them. Really high quality.

Great food in nice surroundings. Good size portions and pleasant staff. Bought a lot of plants as well!

1st visit today and well worth it. Excellent quality plants at very good prices. Coffee shop also does a great sausage roll!

Great choice of good quality plants at good prices and helpful staff

Best place to purchase a Christmas tree locally. Not only cheapest on the A140 between Diss and Norwich but also the best quality. Even carried the tree to our car as part of the customer service. Highly recommend.

A little bit of everything for everybody here good value for money quality of plants that's very good as well lots and lots of pots at half price there's even a little cafe and toilet facilities. You in a wheelchair don't worry access is good for you as well.

A proper independant plantsmans centre excellent easy layout & plants, excellent choice of pots, sculptures & everything you need for the garden, had lunch there which was very good. On a A140 at Tasburgh a must if you love your garden

Great selection of excellent quality plants at reasonable prices. The staff are really friendly. By far, in my opinion, the best garden centre in the area. Will be back very soon.

I haven't stopped in for a while (couple of years) and had heard good things about the new coffee shop.
It's not a coffee shop, it's so much more. It's as good as the four star restaurant I visited recently.
Great staff, clean and bright, fresh produce prepared in sight, wonderful food, great flavours. Wow.
The gift area is extensive (we got rather distracted) and the plants continue to be the best quality.
I'll be back sooner next time (promise)

Excellent food and service. Plant Centre gets better each year. Well worth the visit

My elderly father had a fall last week here and everyone of the staff were concerned about him and helped all they could. He was thankfully not hurt and we have been there again today. I cannot express how good the staff are in both the garden department and the cafe nothing is too much for them. The garden staff know all you would want to know about the plants and how to deal with them.. The cafe staff go above and beyond help all done with happy smiling faces and they will adjust any meals they have to meet with your personal needs. Why cant we find more people in other places like this. I can only say well done to everyone. We will visit many more times. I say as many as possible

Everything about The Foundry is great - The Staff, Garden Centre and definitely the Cafe whose food is always delicious!

We are returning next Monday for the umpteenth time this year,can't keep away!

What a gem this place is very friendly and helpful staff a great garden centre and a great restaurant with great food well worth a visit I will certainly be going back

My wife and I popped into this garden centre to grab a bite of lunch on our way home from a visit to the dentist (for her, not me). The advertisement that caught our eye on the way out was simply for a 'Full English' but we figured they'd probably serve healthier options too. We were right. While my wife had a nice quiche that she said had been made with flaky pastry, I plumped for the full english as I was feeling more than a little peckish and I hadn't had one for a while. Both meals were well cooked with good quality ingredients. The staff are friendly and chatty and the prices are reasonable. The restaurant is very clean and bright with nice atmosphere. After our meal we talk a stroll around the garden centre and were very impressed by the way the plants and flowers are displayed; offering planting suggestions and ideas with some more unusual plants. Considering we only popped in for a snack we left with some nice perennials for our garden as well. We even met the owner and had a nice chat. A charming, friendly and pleasing centre. I recommend a visit.

excellant garden centre can't fault it brilliant helpful friendly staff lovely good sized plants and very reasonably priced

Loved it . Local to my daughters house so handy to pop in when visiting her. Plants are of very good quality. Garden ornaments and gift shop as well as a café. The food was excellent.
Staff in both the shop and café were very polite.

Spent a lovely morning wandering around the nursery with a friend. Staff were very friendly and the cup of tea from the coffee shop was just perfect. So pleased with all my purchases and at such a reasonable price. We Will be back to see you soon. ??

The food always make this a treat for us to visit whether for lunch or afternoon tea and cakes. If you can't see exactly on the menu what you would like, more often than not, Suzanne or Hannah will change some of what's on order to fit your request. Good honest prices, tasty homemade fresh food and excellent staff......a lot more cafes/restaurants could do well to take a leaf out of their book :-)

Lovely pot of tea, three slices of home made cake, delicious. So glad we stopped here on our way from home to Norwich.

This cafe is so bright and clean. The food is freshly made, well presented and appetizing. It is not a cheap place, but if you want quality and good service then this is the place.
You can also sit in the cafe and look out the window and select some plants to buy. I can also recommend the plants as they have been grown with care.

A bright and airy cafe within a first rate garden centre. A great selection of savoury and sweet dishes available all day. Staff always pleasant and accommodating and well worth looking at the plants and gifts.

Lovely selection of plants and helpful staff, I found all the plants I was looking for and a few extra. After buying plants I tried the coffee shop and had a fantastic lunch, will be back in soon.

Dropped in to have a look at their plants....most of which are very competitively priced. The cafe was warm and staff friendly and welcoming. We had good bacon butty, good cakes, nice pot of tea and and pleasant hot chocolate. Good place!

My first visit to the plant centre and thought I'd visit the cafe for a quick drink. The staff were so welcoming, I decided to have some lunch too and what a treat! A very tasty stilton and leek risotto served with a delicious side salad. The service was excellent. Will definitely be back.

A warm welcome, and a lovely tasty meal, I would recommended stopping for lunch or breakfast. Treats for the garden and a good selection of plant's.

Really nice food, reasonable prices and helpful staff. Toilets are available, but are outside, however they are clean and well maintained. Will definitely be returning.

New to the area and planting a new garden, this place was a great find. Prices are in some cases half of that in other garden centres. Looking forward to going back in spring for more plants. In summary good quality plants, reasonable prices and friendly staff.

Truly scrumptious food prepared by a friendly and professional team.
Wide menu all comprising extremely high quality ingredients.
A simple sausage sandwich sings when made on doughy white bread with gorgeous herby sausages and golden yoked fried egg.
A perfect and huge omelette cooked to perfection with yumptious taste and texture.
Already returned after our first visit a couple of weeks ago and repeat soon to follow.
And seating outside for the spring and summer...bring it on!
I wish them well as all their efforts really show.

Great plant centre with friendly staff. The coffee shop is a must, we stopped in for morning coffee and just had to return on our way back for a very good breakfast brunch. First rate.

A quick visit to buy some plants and have a cuppa turned into a very enjoyable afternoon. The owner of the Garden Centre is a very helpful and friendly man who we enjoyed a yarn with, revisiting old times and reminiscing a bit. The restaurant is excellent value , with friendly service and good food . I can recommend the breakfast , top value ,good portions and will mean you won't be hungry all day . Give this place a visit if you're passing,it's well worth it.

Visited November 2016

Great food, great service and all at a reasonable price. Overall this is an awesome garden centre I would recommend to any friends and family

Six of us met at the Foundry today and had a selection of delicious home cooked lunches.Afterwards we bought some very reasonably priced plants.We shall certainly go again.

For lunch today I had the homemade Stilton and broccoli soup - by far the best I've ever tasted (either homemade or from those 'quality' cartons), absolutely delicious. I followed this with a slice of stem ginger cake which regrettably I had agreed to share. Moist, light and mouth watering, won't be sharing again!

As soon as you open the doors to this great cafe the smell of homemade food hits your taste buds and then all you have to decide is what you will have from the extensive options.
Although this is not always easy as Suzanne is so amenable and will offer to adapt her menu to fit your appetite for the day.
Thinking that the Scrambled eggs on toast would suffice I was quickly drawn into upgrading these to have them with smoked salmon and mushrooms. Ruby wisely chose the vegetarian breakfast which had the choice of 2 flavours of veggie sausage!
Hannah's cakes looked very tempting and we just had to take home a piece of shortcake and a slice of the walnut and banana cake.
Superb freshly made food in a very clean environment in a friendly atmosphere...what more could anyone want from a cafe :-D