Dobbies Garden Center - Perth Kinross

Very sad place. Everything looks cheap and nasty. Except the food is not cheap... £9.50 for a prawn or chicken baguette, err no thanks. The £4 slice of cake tasted factory made, yuck. Cheap chair and tables. Won't be going back.

Dobbies must be in its death throes I was actually shocked about the state of the place we stopped off for a coffee nice bit of cake and look at some plants. Entering the store we see a vast swath has been cleared to accommodate the Christmas tat and it’s just generic crap. The cafe was just horrendous the sandwiches and rolls looked like a child had made them I’ve seen better offerings in the nursing home when I visit my gran. £3.25 for a pathetic dried up nibble of Bakewell slice or £4 for a slice of cake that’s been bought in from a wholesale supplier. The coffees are ok but half filled cups and ridiculous price you can just forget it. The seating area is just a bomb site strewn with food waste on tables and floor, we chose to sit in the dog friendly area and it’s just dawned on my why it was a cleaner area because the dogs are cleaning up. So went to look for plants the smell outside is wild a popped sewer? Someone die from eating in the cafe and body not found? And there’s hardly any plants to choose from, I felt sorry for the plants there all looking really uncared for. The play area has been tapped off for safety so really gives it that post apocalyptic feel. Back inside migrating towards the exit see that they now sell groceries, Waitrose ay the prices are wild! £9.99 for 4 neck oil IPAs it’s £7.50 in Tesco which is basically next door. However I am glad I went I can now warn people not to go there ever. I don’t know how things got this bad it used to be a great place with lovely cakes,coffees and plants. It’s a literal dump right now.

To break quite a long journey we pulled into this branch of Dobbies, we do visit other branches on a semi regulator as I'm a discount card member. Anyway the garden centre area was fine but they have serious issues in the cafe! Unbelievably poor and slow service and the cleanliness wasn't fantastic! The family getting served before us brought their food back to the counter with an issue, the chef came out and explained that the quality of the food supplied by Dobbies wasn't great and basically it's as good as it gets On talking to a lovely staff member we were told the problem is they can't get staff as it's not a nice place to work, sounds like an issue with the local management. In a nutshell lovely garden centre but terrible cafe.

Popped in to Dobbies Perth yesterday for a breakfast was very disappointed, cooked breakfast food on offer on view looked poor, the waitress serving was slow, after viewing what was on offer I opted for toast with beans on top , she didn’t butter the toast just plonked the beans on top, I then asked for a bacon roll you get 3 items but as I said nothing else looked appealing so opted for 2 portions of bacon a mushroom , the 2 portions of bacon were put on a dry roll , again no butter , I had to stop her say should it not be buttered? She then buttered it but the 2 tiny pieces of bacon were overbooked , fatty lukewarm hard , the mushroom was a quarter of a large mushroom again lukewarm , coffee was fine , when I went to sit down in the dog friendly area it was dirty the walls had paint flaking off, overall feel of the place is that it’s not getting the attention it should lacking management? Not a nice environment to spend over £15 on 2 light breakfast items I certainly wouldn’t recommend or go back again

Disgusting .. we were so shocked . I work in the food industry and I’m wondering why this place is still open . Staff looked exhausted and extremely unhappy . All surfaces were dirty . Lasagne was burnt and cold in middle .no cutlery .. coffee was cold , coffee cake tasted awful . Come on Dobbies .. you used to be the place to go for good food .. it’s not rocket science is it ! toilets are filthy , no decent gifts there to buy now and really run down .. disaster of a place ..