Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre

This review is solely based on the Sophie Street food event hosted today, 03/09/2023.+ Nice venue.+ Good tasting food.+ On site medic offering people sun cream, should have been worried about lack of water/soft drink areas.- Not enough parking.- Far too busy, venue too small for so many people.- Queues were horrendously long, I queued 50 minutes for tacos.- Lots of food vendors, but not enough good variety, not everyone is interested in having Malaysian, Indian and Nepalese when they're all similar to each other.- Why have 2 vendors selling cakes/sweets almost next to each other.- Only one vendor selling cold soft drinks, on such a hot day is borderline criminal with how hot and busy it was.- The one soft drink vendor was serviced by 1 staff member and had a perpetual huge queue.- Food vendors didn't even sell water.- Items expensive as you'd imagine.Wouldn't return.

Be careful when booking as a wedding venue. They are not very accommodating for wedding planning. Considering they advertise themselves as a wedding venue, we found them very unhelpful. Lost our £200 after booking another venue as we had no confidence in this one. And have heard others have had the same experience with them.

STAY AWAY- shocking venue, owner is completely rude and unprofessional

The Cruck Barn is a great wedding reception venue if you want to diy it & bring in your own catering etc. The bar staff were very helpful.The gardens are nice to explore & walk around and there is the sensory garden now which is nice to have a sit down and look at the flowers.Shame about all of the dog poo left around on the grass around the old abbey by irresponsible dog owners. This is why I haven't given more stars.

Booked an away day here. Terrible instant coffee that was cleared away halfway through the day. WiFi stopped working mid-morning and staff treated us an inconvenience. Dull sandwich lunch. Will look elsewhere in the future.

Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre provides lectures, tours, workshops and experience days on the history of Milton Keynes and the planning and development of the new town.They have a lot of school groups visit them for history days (stone-age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Tudor etc.) Where history is really brought to life in a fun and interactive way for the children.They also receive a lot of foreign visitors who want to learn about the planning principles behind Milton Keynes.As well as education they are also based in the beautiful grounds of Bradwell Abbey, a former Benedictine priory that was converted into a farmstead around the time of the dissolution. Most of the priory is now gone except for a pilgrims chapel and a few of the working buildings. One of which is called the Cruck Barn. This space is hired out as a venue and is very popular for weddings and parties.

Had my wedding here 28/10/23 and could not be happier with how the day went. The barn for the legal ceremony was absolutely stunning, the reception barn (Cruck barn) was clean and perfect for our day.We wanted a reasonably priced DIY wedding and had ample time the day before to set the venue up and dress it how we wanted it. Richard was there there the day before and all day for our wedding and was always available to help. Be it from our evening caterers not bringing the right power hookups or us last minute (literally during the reception) deciding we wanted to do some ticketed free drinks behind the bar, Richard sorted it with no fuss or dramas.If you want a reasonable (and beautiful venue) in MK with staff that go above and beyond, you really can’t do better than Bradwell Abbey! We’ve had amazing feedback from all of our friends/family that it was one of the best weddings they’ve been to and the venue was a massive part of that!