The Fernery Cafe - Forest of Dean

Great Christmas dinner. Friday and Saturday evenings in December and some of January. Five courses of delicious food. Easy pace with plenty of time to enjoy food and company. Welcoming and lovely staff. A great evening out.

Don't go here with children, they don't provide a children's menu!! People do venture out to garden centres with little ones, so do suggest that they keep up with the times! Very pretty trees especially Acers, so very colourful display. Service very slow ..lovely staff who are trying so hard! Feel sorry for them as they are so short staffed!l On the pricey side also! Lovely lay out of the tables, I would give them full marks for that! Felt really safe during these Covid times! So if you're visiting without children, and you can cope with a slow service, it might suit you.

Extensive arrangement of trees and shrubs of all sizes in a lovely setting. Excellent cafe serving a range of freshly cooked meals, sandwiches and cakes. All tables are in attractive locations around the garden. Well worth a visit

Nice afternoon, so called a sandwich. a real setback at the price for each sandwich. but did not want to pass on the judgment until it was tried. extremely disappointed. brot simply normal thick cut and not excessively fresh. minutes salat and tee spoon. of coleslaw. the small amount of cocks looked like the bits they get at the bottom of a pack. in any case would not return.

Obviously the environment is beautiful. the menu is quite good, but I fear the reality is not quite there. The cakes are only with a terrible amount of coal on the plate. I had a pflugmanns lunch. the brot was average, but the cheese was...absolut mingen. it should be just a nice piece of single or double gloucester, but it was grounded with processed cheese with a little vile in it. the leaves were limp. the coffee was excellent. there was also a kind of atmosphere with the workers who worked it through the restaurant, not very professional.