Leeds Garden Centre on York Road launches new carvery at the Gardener's Retreat restaurant

Leeds Garden Centre on York Road, previously Langlands Whinmoor, has joined the British Garden Centres family with visitors now seeing some exciting changes in The Gardener’s Retreat restaurant.

The new carvery is designed to offer customers a delicious and hearty dining experience when shopping in-store and features a wide variety of roasted meats, including succulent beef, tasty chicken, juicy gammon and crispy pork. 

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Guests can choose from a selection of traditional sides, such as Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots, and peas. 

The carvery will also offer a vegetarian option, ensuring that everyone can enjoy a satisfying meal.

In addition to the carvery, the restaurant will serve a variety of other dishes, including family favourites, sandwiches, salads, and desserts.

Ricky Towers, group restaurant director at British Garden Centres, said: “We are thrilled to be opening our new carvery restaurant at Leeds Garden Centre. 

“We believe that this is a great addition to our garden centre and will provide our customers with a wonderful dining experience.”

The carvery will be open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 11.30am to 2.30pm and costs £11.99 for a medium carvery and £12.99 for a large carvery.

Leeds Garden Centre is a popular destination for gardening enthusiasts and families alike. The store offers a wide variety of plants, flowers, and gardening tools and supplies. 

In addition to the new carvery restaurant, the garden centre also features its Christmas store, and concessions such as Maidenhead Aquatics and Klass, making it a one-stop shop for everything you need for your garden and home.

British Garden Centres (BGC) is the UK’s largest family-owned garden centre group with 65 centres around the country. The group is owned and led by The Stubbs family, who also own and operate Woodthorpe Leisure Park in Lincolnshire.

BGC was launched in 1987 with the opening of Woodthorpe Garden Centre by brothers Charles and Robert Stubbs. Since 2018 it has expanded rapidly with the acquisition of 50 garden centres allowing it to grow from its heartland to the business it is now with 65 garden centres spread from Carmarthen to Ramsgate, Wimborne to East Durham.

The group has a team of 2,700 colleagues working across the garden centres, restaurants, growing nurseries, distribution centres, Woodthorpe Leisure Park, and Woody’s Restaurant & Bar.