Yeo Valley, Garden Cafe

If you are looking to host a conference or meeting and these guys can fit you in you won't be disappointed!

Only been once so experiences may vary. It's not easy to locate but it sits on the side of the Mendip hills with incredible views into the valley below. There is large areas of parking and the entrance is easy to locate. Inside is a receptionist and it's initial feel is like a motel. I'm sure these are the offices of the company and you eat in what appears to be the staff canteen. It's better than it sounds more a motel style restaurant which staff can use. I may be wrong but don't think so. You wait to be seated and one meal is on offer. Each day is a different offering. You go to a counter to get your meal like a carvery. Our meal was roast pork roast potatoes, veg, gravy and apple sauce. For the money it wasn't bad but sat somewhere between good school lunch, as I recall them, and pub grub. The meat had the texture of having been allowed to cool and then re heated. Meat tightens up as it cools and can keep much of that texture on reheating. If it's chilled it retains all that tightness in the texture when re heated. This was re warmed I think. Veg was cabbage which was green but slightly under cooked and roast potatoes more suggestive of deep fried or maybe air fried, rather than roasted. For convenience I have deep fried potatoes, part boiled and left whole and they seemed exactly the same. They aren't like chips, by the way, they taste quite different. But not like oven roasted. But in any case taste was quite good quantity and service fair but value was average. But the view offered a fair compensation.