Birchwood | Taywell Farm

Really enjoyable lunch experience! Great menu, decent drinks selection, fabulous belly pork skewers and steak and, I'm told, the cod was perfectly cooked! They cook according to availability of seasonal produce so a changing menu means that we'll be back following our first visit. We found Birchwood because a YouTuber called "Greeno Eats" visited and he rated it highly. Check his video out for more details, suffice to say his experience was enough for us to make a reservation and, our experience echoed his; we too thoroughly enjoyed our lunch there and as I say, we will definitely be back and hopefully very soon! The adjacent Farm Shop has lots of lovely produce, too, and is worth a visit as they have some lovely artisanal products for sale including some of the beers that are served in Birchwood, too. I can recommend the Lakedown Brewery beers! A great team, great food and great service. It can only be 5* from us!

Fantastic experience at Birchwood. The food was sublime; three different Sunday roasts and everything was amazing. The quality of meat is undeniable, the gravy was rich and decadent, and the accompanying vegetables were cooked near perfection. Only the cabbage could have been a bit more tender! Even the Yorkshire pudding was light and crispy!

Loved this restaurant, we visited for Sunday roast and it was delicious, staff is very friendly and food is super yummy. Lemonades are great. For me, best roast I ve had in a while. We are fans of the Small holding too so thought this was great !!

Very disappointed with this mornings breakfast at Birchwood. We were not greeted very well, we said “Good morning” and were responded to with a grumpy “Do you have a booking?”. We said no and there was a glower followed swiftly with a sigh. The restaurant continued to be half empty for the entire time we were there. We both have gluten intolerance, but we are open about it and we do expect this to limit our options somewhat. However, we had to mention this on ordering and were not asked. To be safe we opted for the English breakfast, our server had to go and check what we could and could not have from it, and we agreed some substitutions. Drinks came and they were the highlight of our meal, the wellness shot was nicely balanced and the coffee reasonable. We waited 40 minutes for the food. Given that the restaurant was half empty this was not a good indication. For ease we had agreed that for anything we couldn’t eat (black pudding, sausages etc) we would substitute with bacon, usually can’t go wrong with bacon… We each had two rashers of cold tasteless back bacon, the fat had not been rendered on either of our plates. Three pieces of very poor streaky bacon with matching fat issues and a similar lack of flavour. Two dry, luke warm overcooked mushrooms. A cold, solitary, teaspoon sized hash brown that might have been the most disappointing element on the plate (closely contested by the bacon). Giving a balanced review - the single fried egg was cooked… And an awful piece of gluten free toast which I only ate because I was still very hungry after the £15 plate of disappointment we had just suffered through. We were not asked how the meal was, we witnessed an argument between two staff whilst paying and all for the low price of £47.96. This was a good example of style over substance, the place looks super but apparently they cannot get the basics right.

Delicious food, wine and atmosphere. Lovely waitress (young, blonde) whose name I didn’t catch even arranged for a little birthday cake for my husband

They served amazing food! Course meal for lunch was good. There’s indoor and outdoor seating based on your liking.

Great little gem of a restaurant! Fantastic for alfresco dining with a pretty view over a meadow. Food is delicious and service is welcoming and attentive. We’ll definitely be back soon!