✔ Covid Secure
✔ Table Service
✔ Spacious Seating
✔ Lots of outdoor garden seating
✔ No booking required
Re-opening our Café
About The Bell Plantation Café
We are delighted to be re-opening our Café doors once again since lock down. We have been working hard whilst we have been closed to make necessary changes to keep you and our team safe. We have also completed the renovations to expand our Cafe area which means we have been able to give you lots of space in all the seating areas.
We are currently running an adapted menu. However we are still bringing you delicious, simple English food that is made as fresh as possible.
At breakfast, you can have anything from simple toast to a full English breakfast. Mid-morning, we serve delicious barista-made coffee and home-made cakes.
At lunch, you can have a simple home-made sandwich, a baguette, lasagne or choose from one of our specials on the board. In the afternoon you can relax with a cup of tea and a slice of cake or try a full-blown afternoon tea (Monday – Saturday from 3pm).
Please Note: The menu is subject to change regularly if we sell out of dishes. Please call us if you have a specific requirement.
Keeping you safe …
To ensure everyone’s safety in our Café we are :
To ensure everyone’s safety in our Café we are :
- Limiting the number of customers in our café at any time
- Introducing a separate entrance / exit for Café customers from the Courtyard
- Introducing table service – we will still take payment at point of order
- A host will greet you and seat you at a sanitised table
- Providing cutlery as the food is being served
- Extending our space including open air garden seating
- Reducing our menu
- Enhancing our cleaning procedures and ensuring we continually sanitise and wash our hands and touch points
- Cleaning and sanitising tables after each use
- Visible cleaning record of toilets and communal areas
- At this time we will not be allowing business meetings
- Due to demand we are restricting your time at a table to 1.5 hours – please ask a member of staff if you think you may need longer.
What we ask you to do:
- Please respect the 2m distance with both our team and other customers
- Look out for signs and floor markings
- Sanitise your hands before using toilets
- Ensure children are supervised at all times, and adhere to social distancing
- When possible, please use credit or debit cards and contactless payments
- Please stay at your table once seated where possible.
- Please help our team to keep you safe when they are serving your food & drinks
- We will be collecting names and a contact number as per the government guidance
Please note: We are unable to take bookings for tables. We will continue to monitor government guidelines and will review our procedures regularly.
For full details of everything we are doing you can view our Risk Assessment here
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can I socialise with at the Café?
We ask you to ensure you follow the current government guidelines when visiting our Café. You can find the latest information here
Do I need to book?
You don’t need to book at table currently unless you are looking to order Afternoon Tea. If so we ask you to make a booking 24 hours in advance.
4 Reasons to Visit the Bell Plantation Café
1. Homemade Food
We prepare all our food fresh to order, made with fresh ingredients by our team.
2. Friendly Service
Our friendly team has 1 aim, to make your visit to our Cafe as enjoyable as possible.
3. Fresh Coffee
There’s nothing better than a good cup of coffee, that’s why we only buy the tastiest beans on offer.
4. Relaxing Environment
Sit on our sofas by the roaring fire and enjoy the wooden floors and exposed brick interior.
Delicious homemade food at Bell Plantation Café
Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day so you’d best get it right. With this in mind, our breakfasts are designed to really fill you up. Using the best ingredients our breakfasts really are British.
So, if you are looking for quality plants in Northamptonshire then we think the Bell Plantation is the place to visit.
- Toasted Teacakes
- Tasty Sandwiches
- Big Breakfast Option
- Fresh Tea and Coffee
Lunch
We have a wide range of lunches on offer here at the bell plantation making us a great place for you to meet your friends and family.
Lunches are made fresh to order making sure that they are of the highest quality to meet your satisfaction. We only use the freshest ingredients from our local suppliers.
- Everything Homemade
- Fresh Sandwiches
- Fresh Soup
- Seasonal Menus
Coffee
We are really passionate about good coffee so we have teamed up with a local company called Beanworks who really are Coffee specialists.
- Served by Baristas
- Freshly Grounded
- From Local Supplier
- Perfect with Cake
Homemade Cakes
What a treat. There is nothing better for a mid-afternoon filler than a home-made piece of cake.
We make our cakes and scones fresh every single day so it’s as soft, light and delicious as it should be.
- Made Fresh Every day
- Wide Selection
- Homemade Biscuits
- Homemade Scones
Café Opening Hours
Our Café is open the following hours:
Mon to Sat: 9 am- 5 pm
Sun: 10:00 am-4 pm
Breakfast is served until 11.00am
Lunch and afternoon service is from 11.30pm to 3.30pm
*Please note we are unable to take bookings in the Cafe unless it is for Afternoon Tea.
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WHERE TO FIND US
Watling Street
Towcester
Northants
NN12 6GX
United Kingdom
HOW TO CALL US
01327 354 126
FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US
enquiries@bellplantation.co.uk
VISIT US
Garden Centre & Food Hall
Mon-Sat: 9am to 5:30pm
Sunday: 10:30am to 4:30pm
Café
Mon to Sat: 9 am- 5 pm
Sun: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Excellent lovely lunch great atmosphere staff very friendly.
Christine Allen
15:07 14 Sep 20
Great shop shame they have started putting Xmas bits and bobs out already slightly too early I think
mark jennings
14:04 14 Sep 20
Good food, everyone social distanced, most wearing facemasks. Polite staff. Enjoyed visiting Vitreus Art new gallery and workshops.
terry boardman
14:41 12 Sep 20
Garden Centre good restaurant slow. We waited 15 minutes for order to taken then 20 minutes for it to appear, only wanted 2 lattes! Not too busy when we got there but soon filled, some of them served b4 us who went in later.
Pat Whetstone
14:42 06 Sep 20
Very good, the cafe has been made bigger and everything is laid out for social distancing.
Barry Clarke
15:59 05 Sep 20
Great cream tea at a good price. Garden centre well laud out with lots to coos from at reasonable prices.
Paul Parsons
13:46 31 Aug 20
Wonderful place, to chillax the day away. Lovely garden centre and My Little Vintage is gorgeous! Well worth a visit!
monica blackwood
18:47 21 Aug 20
I go to get my haircut at the Barber Works, would definitely recommend Nick, highly professional.
Thom Stitt
16:14 21 Aug 20
Love everything about the cafe, the food, which was delicious, the staff, who are very customer focused, the relaxed atmosphere, and their Covid procedures make you feel confident and comfortable.
Alan Ashford
20:52 12 Aug 20
Lovely food served by pleasant staff.
Elizabeth Brankin
17:07 11 Aug 20
A nice big centre with a lovely cafe (indoor and out), the breakfasts were very nice and apparently they are part of the Monday to Wednesday half price scheme. The Covid distancing was very well organised and efficient. The staff were charming. The main shop is open and the outdoor garden centre.
Keith Myers
09:03 10 Aug 20
Spoke to a lovely assistant as I'm waiting for the silkies to be come available again..lovely place
Gillian Shorrock
15:23 08 Aug 20
Nice place to visit. Definitely worth a look. Will visit again.
Lee Johnson
11:40 05 Aug 20
My favourite place for garden and poultry
Rebekah Williams
18:13 01 Aug 20
Rebuilt section looks much better and, despite social distancing restrictions, it's a great place to visit for the garden centre and sheds or hard landscaping requirements.
Brian Blackwell
22:30 25 Jul 20
(Update: the new restaurant is now open.) Wow, what a transformation they've had since I last visited. It's three times the size! Due to Covid-19, new restaurant/café wasn't open when I visited, but again, wow, very impressed. Friendly staff as well. Animals (birds and goats) to look at and some for purchase. Other new, not yet open, buildings accessed through the car parking area. Will be back!!
E M
20:20 21 Jul 20
Very plesent environment, vets, reptile and fish store, a shop selling country wares plants and chickens, also a cafe for something to eat and drink.
David Cox-rogers
19:06 18 Jul 20
Need to go again, spend a little more time next visit. Some lovely stuff to look at, lots of chickens and ducks for sale.
Stefan Hayes
16:24 12 Jul 20
Nice place to visit, some products are overpriced... Farm style shop is quite well stocked. Some of the plants were a little unhealthy, but overall a good garden centre shopping village..
Adam F
14:29 12 Jul 20
