Eat and drink · Burford
Burford Garden Co. Café
The glasshouse café at Burford Garden Co. on Shilton Road, Burford, serving breakfast, lunch and homemade cakes seven days a week, with no bookings and no dogs.
Family-friendly
A good lunch stop on the edge of Burford, cooked from scratch, with a terrace in summer. It takes no bookings and no dogs, and Saturday lunchtime can mean a wait.
- Good: Cooked from scratch, seven days a week
- Good: Child-sized portions of the main lunches
- Good: Gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan dishes
- Good: Accessible toilets and baby changing in the store
- Worth knowing: No dogs, except assistance dogs
- Worth knowing: No bookings, and no cash taken
About
The café at Burford Garden Co. sits in a glasshouse at the heart of the store, next to its food halls, on Shilton Road at the southern edge of Burford. The store is a large family-owned garden centre and home shop, founded in the 1970s by Nigel and Louise Johnson, and the café is part of most visits to it.
The kitchen cooks from scratch every day, with menus that change with the season and with what comes from the store's herb gardens. Breakfast runs until 11.30am on weekdays and 11am on Saturdays, main lunches from 11.30am to 3pm, lighter meals until 4pm and homemade cakes from 11am to closing, with pastries, tea and coffee all day. Children are welcome and can have the main lunches in smaller portions, and there are gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan dishes. On warm days there is a terrace under large parasols.
The café takes no bookings, so at peak times there may be a short wait for a table. It opens from 9am to 5.30pm from Monday to Saturday and from 10.30am to 5pm on Sunday. Dogs are not allowed anywhere in the store except assistance dogs, and the store takes cards only, not cash. The Cotswold Wildlife Park is about 2 miles (3km) south of the town, so the café makes a lunch stop on a family day there.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 09:00
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Food served | Shop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 17:30 | 09:00 to 11:00 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Sunday | 10:30 to 17:00 | 10:30 to 11:00 | 11:30 to 15:00 | 11:00 to 17:00 |
Breakfast: No cooked breakfast on Sundays
Food served: Main lunches; lighter meals to 4pm
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Easter Sunday. Cakes from 11am; pastries, tea and coffee all day.
The details
- Food
- Café food · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch · Afternoon tea
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
- Features
- Café · Shop · Garden or terrace
- History
- Burford Garden Co. founded in the 1970s
Photos
The glasshouse 
Lunch 
A salad plate 
Butternut squash kedgeree
Location
Accessibility
- Accessible toilet
- Assistance dogs welcome
Disabled toilets and baby changing are through the archway past the Food Hall. Wheelchairs can be borrowed from the Customer Service Desk without booking.
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