Downtown Fashion Testimonials

I love your store and often drive friends from Leeds for a shopping experience and lunch of course. Well worth the journey

Right from our very first visit I knew Downtown was going to be something special. It was coming up to Christmas, and naturally the prospect of being able to get so many things under one (well ok two rooves) was utterly appealing to my disorganised and shopaphobic nature. Firstly let's start with the Garden Centre. Straight away you can see the disabled access has been thought about. Outside there are ramps for every set of stairs, inside there's acres of aisle space. The ground floor has a wide array of pet accessories, leading on to the garden equipment and accessories. Translation to daddy and toddler - look there's one of those sitdown lawn mowers, who wants to pretend to be a tractor driver! Next up there's the garden play accessories, admittedly not that easy to sneak in a slide or trampoline, but there's a basket ball and mini hoop to test out those ball skills. But back to that first visit, and after a hardy half hours quality play shopping, it was high time for refreshments in my book. So in my view, here's another huge selling point for Downtown - The Gardeners Rest Café. Loads of seating space, great big half moon semi circular windows, white washed rectangular tables and whicker chairs giving it all a light and airy feel. It's self-service, the highlights include plenty of pre-prepared salads, sandwiches and mouthwatering cakes to choose from, plus very decent sized jacket potatoes and a wide selection of fillings. Typically costs us around £4-6 a head, which certainly when you compare against the frequently extortionate pricing of your standard service station left-to-stand-forever slop, does compare very favourably. Plus there's the added bonus of those little animal ice-cream filled characters for the excitable little ones -from memory the black penguin is vanilla and the green chicken offers up some chocolate. We've spent many a happy Saturday lunchtime after his ducklings swimming class watching him tuck in to "cheese and beans and jacket potato"