I'd been hearing lots of positive things about the Oven at Overton Farm. So when we were at a loose…read moreend with no desire to spend 30-45 minutes in the car with 2 hungry children we thought we'd give it a go. I'm so glad we were feeling lazy, this place is magnificent. It's a purpose built cafe/kitchen/place where waistlines come to die. It's big, light and airy and feels homey and farmhouse kitchen-y without any chintz or cockerel cliche crimes. The service was lovely; cooing over the kids, making sure we had drinks, checking everything was just the way we wanted it and generally making us feel that we were in fact sat in the farmhouse kitchen being spoiled rotten. The menu is straightforward and fuss free and the food is outstandingly good. I had the best cooked breakfast I have ever had, g was a little disappointed that his burger looked so basic but quickly got over it when he tasted it. Everything is made fresh, locally produced and in generous portions. There is a great area with toys for little people and plans afoot for an outside play area so its brilliant for kids. But even if you don't have rug rats, amazing home baking (yes it's made onsite by them I checked!), meat from Overton Farms own butchery, such warm service and beautiful views of the Clyde Valley it's well worth checking out and if anyone hates eating alone I'm happy to keep them company. I'm selfless like that!

I drop in here fairly often to pick up a few bits and pieces, usually when I'm going to the Farmers…read moreMarket which is held here on the first Saturday of the month. They stock a small range of regular grocery type items, some fruit, bread, workwear and an usually large selection of toy tractors. To me though the main attraction of the farm shop is the local produce: eggs, meat and fruit & veg. Please remember though that this is not a supermarket and you wont get some things out of season. The farm shop also takes orders for large quantities of meat and at this time of the year they take orders for turkeys and sell Christmas trees.

One of the worst big Tesco's I've shopped in. Inconsistent stock meaning you cant always get what…read moreyou want and they randomly stop selling things with no alternative, loads of stuff you're used to buying from herbs and spices to actual meat products aren't stocked here. The deli counter has been out of action with no sign of it coming back and now recently their packaged fish section in the isle has disappeared. Advice: drive the extra 10 minutes to wishaw and go to ASDA there!

It's yer local co-op! Biggar is a small place (despite the name) although it boasts a very small…read moreSainsburys the co-op seems to be the local big-ish shop of choice. To be fair, it's one of the better Co-ops in the area; not keen on the two that are near my home. This one is always clean, well stocked and has the offers on shelves rather than blank spaces. Plus, with a cash machine and the wee yellow machine that tops up the magical power key, it's pretty useful too. The staff in here are always helpful and cheery, and dammit, it's just nice. They do a mean range of crisps too, always an important part of any shupermarket.

Very sadly I felt compelled to submit a rather negative review as of late the following has been…read moregetting progressively worse as time goes on! I have used this store for 12 years since moving into the area at that time. More recently the standards have dropped considerably. Staff are cold and aloof and generally unhelpful. Often I feel like I am being rushed out the store as my transaction is hurriedly executed by a stony faced checkout person. There is not even any eye to eye contact! Housekeeping , especially at the auto checkouts is appalling, often there are baskets from previous customers scattered all around the vicinity which is a hazard in terms of health and safety. Receipts sticking out the machines and scattered all over the scan area! Really time to give your staff retraining as their conduct is sadly lacking toward their job and customers. Some training in customer relations would benefit the reputation of the store. I do not buy anything other than the odd thing or two as things by comparison are expensive so I think the convenience is the main reason being so close to home. Horrible when you come to spend your money to be met with such cold indifference by such complacent staff!

Getting to the shops can sometimes be a real pain in the proverbial in rural Scotland at times,…read morewhich is probably why we still have so many of these great wee convenience stores that carry the full range of products that anybody running a household might be looking for rather than the ones you get in urban towns and cities which seem to just give over a third of their store to alcohol?! Alas, I digress, Browlie's is a store I never miss going into when I'm in Biggar after some messages and I'm pretty well convinced that if you can't find it in here then you probably don't need it. Like so many of the shops in Biggar and other ancient towns the shops can be a peculiar shape with wee nooks and crannies. For example, I thought it odd that they didn't have any milk and dairy products until I discovered a wee corridor-esk part of the shop where they had hidden the milk and also a cash machine strange but true. Great shop, decent service, slightly cramped, but has got what you need.

Great shop. The staff are lovely, the prices are very good and the shop has tonnes of little nooks…read moreand crannies to explore! Compared with the cooperative in Biggar which is filled with grumpy (and sometimes down-right angry) staff, Brownlies has smaller queues, often cheaper prices, and a great originality. I love Brownlies.

It's your standard ENORMOMART style of supermarket, although being Lanark, it's not *that* big, but…read moreis always clean, well stocked and staffed by friendly people, unlike other branches of the same store that shall go nameless *cough*wishaw*cough* Not a big selection of fresh meats and veg compared to some Tesco stores, but there is a café and toilets which are always busy and clean. It is what it is. It's a chain supermarket, so there's usually some kind of level there that you can expect. The vicious circle of "I need this stuff, but I don't like shopping at chains" that small town life endlessly presents you with. The joys.

This is a fairly standard mid-sized branch of Tesco with nothing particularly exciting about it. It…read moreis located on the road that runs parallel to the north of the High Street, if driving I would usually approach by going up Oakbank Drive and then taking the first right, it's quite well hidden from the High Street so I think it's worth checking google maps first. If you are walking you can go through one of the closes that runs off of the High Street. It's quite a small branch of Tesco so you don't get the range that you get in the newer massive stores. The shop is mostly food, cleaning and bathroom bits and pieces with a small selection of electrical items, books and DVDs. When I do go here for a regular shop I would expect to find more or less everything I look for, although the selection of organic food, especially meat is quite poor and I would go elsewhere.