Do you remember when? The next in the very popular series on About Waterlooville to reminisce over old buildings/shops/places of interest. This time we’re concentrating on The Peach Garden.
This restaurant, now an Indian called The Cinnamon, was a Chinese restaurant called The Peach Garden. My husband and I used to frequent this restaurant on a regular basis, I worked in Focus Sounds which was a couple of doors up. The Peach Garden was a great place to socialise and meet after work. The draw for us was the somewhat quirky décor, a real blast-from-the-past 60’s retro, orange soft furnishings and partitioned booths and of course, the food was amazing. Ah, and the CD of Chinese music that played over and over on repeat.
The picture above shows a huge white area that was once a mosaic feature of, I think, a Chinese dragon? I expect it’s still underneath that boarded area!
After having children and moving on from Focus Sounds, we stopped going to the Peach Garden. It has since changed into an Indian restaurant and believe that the retro interior has since been updated into a contemporary, modern and clean restaurant. We have yet to try Cinnamon (if you are the owner … do get in Contact).
Did you go The Peach Garden? Did you love the quirky interior? Does anybody know why it eventually closed down? Do you go to Cinnamon now? What’s it like and do you recommend it?
The Peach Garden food was lush. Remember it well.
My family and I used to visit The Peach gardens regularly in the 80’s. Always remember the orange & purple booths, and the chinese ambient music! Infact, my love of chinese food stems from this restaurant !
As Daniel says, the Cinnamon shut a few months ago. They, the partners, had been trying to sell it for a couple of years because the partners couldn’t agree on anything
where is this?
In London road, waterlooville just down passed Dorothy Perkins towards (all) the estate agents and dominos
The cinnamon is closed at the moment! Has been for a few months. Not sure why! =(
I guess now you cant drive down there not many people went?
I remember the impressive dragon mosaic on the wall of the Peach Garden. I think we got taken there once as kids in the early 80s.
Loved it in there. Was one of my fave restaurants
I love the food when it was the peach garden. Seems like a lifetime ago .
Peach garden was great. The cinnamon is/ was owned by the family that ran the Indian takeaway by the Woodman and the Ghandi restaurant in North End.
Peach Garden was the best Chinese I have ever eaten in, used to frequent regularly especially for lunch time specials – always full of people in the early to mid 70’s.
Was a great restaurant .. Only ate there twice but good food…. Did they take over the mei Chung in purbrook? That was renamed peach garden.
Cinnamon was one of the better Indians in waterlooville such a shame
Dan it was the same family, they also had the Chinese takeaway in Denmead for while back in the early 80’s.
Those were the good old days. My younger sister had her wedding reception at the Peach Gardens a lovely warm atmosphere and will always remember the wonderful memories it invokes
I remember…I worked there when I was 16 .. I loved it.. had to wear a chinese dress. :)
I believe the Cinnamon has also closed tried to go there twice now on different nights but all closed up no sign though!
I had my very first ever dinner date in the Peach Garden!
Three reports of Cinnamon being closed – thank you folks. How very sad … we’ll investigate a bit further and report back with any news. Indeed Peach Garden was brilliant – I do have a photograph of the interior – and will ask our then dining partners if they’d agree to it being shared.
Loved cinnamon indian .was our regular dine in and take away ,would like to know why it closed ,josh and staff were always friendly and welcoming
My sister Sandy Cherry and I used to go here in the late 60’s/early 70’s with our parents. They taught us to use chopsticks by encouraging us to pick up coins that we could keep! I then did the same with my kids in Australia – a tradition started in The Peach Garden…!!
I used to work there with Chi and Christine who as far as my knowledge they are now in the takeaway in Purbrook I was there from approx 1988/1991 we had some amazing regular customers can still remember first serving Fred dineage and his family the main couple I had many chats with was Mr and Mrs Shipp lovely couple
My wife and I used the Peach Garden quite a lot when we lived at Lovedean. The food was excellent and the red napkins were very substantial, very good for wiping the windscreen on a rainy night. I remember when my wife had a baby girl at St. Marys Hospitall on December 1st 1972 that a lady of the Peach Garden also had a child on the very same day. So of course they are both 43 years old now. Seems a long time ago, I wonder where they all are now.