The Treehouse At The Alnwick Garden

We were in the area so decided to make the most of it one Sunday and booked here for lunch. We 've been a couple of times (years ago) and had fond memories. How disappointed we were. So typical sunday lunch menu nothing out of the ordinary. The starters came (I had the scallops with black pudding). This was excellent actually and really nicely presented. The mains however. Sunday roast the meat was ok. Not amazing, but absolutely fine. The roasties were under done. The 'greens ' was effectively a bowl of cabbage with some sugar snaps. The cauliflower cheese was completely tasteless I don 't know how?!? So an average but disappointing fare for main. My main gripe is the service however. It wasn 't that busy where we were sitting most the table were empty and there were at least 4 different members of staff that served us. However service was SLOW! We have two young kids and lunch took 3 hours!!!! No joke. Also we had to go and find the staff to order some more drinks. Really poor. I wouldn 't recommend this place at all now.

Excellent settings and great food, and I would have happily given a five star review but for the fact that two of our main course choices off the menu were not available, namely the duck and pork dishes. This made for a somewhat limited choice of main courses as there were no other alternatives to replace these. Saying that, what we did have was extremely good and well presented and very good value

Made this account just for this review as I'm not one for writing a review but wow the food we all had was amazing I don't know how they don't have any food and service awards (that I'm aware of) looks amazing inside, food was something special, service was good,atmosphere great, props to the chef and server's The only issue was that there was only a kids burger on the menu (did not affect the evening at all)

Amazing venue, VERY disappointing food. It’s such a lovely atmosphere, the staff were all very attentive and friendly. We had the soup to start, that came with a piece of toasted sourdough, the soup was very good, but we ordered an extra side of sourdough bread to could share, but the extra sourdough came un-toasted and was very dry, so we asked for it to be toasted, but when the lady brought it back it had no extra colour, it was just warmed. It was like she was embarrassed to give it to me having not really changed. It went downhill from there, I had the chicken dish which was supposed to be with a ‘red wine jus’ which had the texture of instant gravy and no flavour at all, along with the rest of the dish. My partner has the duck with ‘ginger gel’ which literally tasted like tomato purée, the mains were so basic. It’s very disappointing when you go out and spend that kind of money to eat something that is less satisfying than what you eat throughout the week.

Came here to bring a friend who was visiting for the weekend, it’s such an experience location and absolutely stunning it’s worth the trip. Unfortunately for us the food really lacked this time. I had the risotto to start, that was tasty but the main course was the beetroot gnocchi which was flavourless and a really disappointment. My friend had the scallops to start which she said were incredible but the main course, duck, was inconsistent across the two pieces and one a little chewy. We were table checked, and did not give the restaurant the opportunity to rectify it which I am sure they would have. The young man who did ask us if everything was ok was walking away before he’d really heard the answer. Overall, a bit of a disappointing visit