Marks & Spencer

‘Food Hall’, where do I start? As an M&S newcomer I wanted to see what some of their ‘own brand’ (some of their plain packaging reminded me of Yellow pack /​Communist era packaging) products were like so I picked out their ‘Vietnamese Phở’ noodle cup and their ‘Taste Vietnam — Beef Noodle Phở’ ready meal — they were so bad I had to throw them in the garbage (I wouldn’t insult the dogs by giving it to them !!) The ‘Vietnamese Phở’ noodle cup tasted like goop, soy was the overwhelming taste and nothing else got thru — into the bin! The ‘Taste Vietnam — Beef Noodle Phở’ had been stacked on it’s side allowing the contents to mix but the overpowering taste from this ‘dish’ was coriander, so much of it that I thought it was going to start singing ‘O Sole Mio’. All in all I’d say maybe buy the ingredients and sauces and maybe the cookbook from M&S, but their efforts at ‘Ready meals’ — NO WAY ! The Vietnamese people should be insulted by M&S’s labeling of these products as ‘Vietnamese’ — the real Vietnamese food is light years ahead of these offerings and I’d hope nobody thinks this is real Vietnamese food !

I usually come here for the Food Hall (the clothes/​other items are a bit out of my student budget!). The layout is a bit confusing and it’s easy to get turned around if, like me, you’re a terrible navigator. Anyway, everyone I know is absolutely obsessed with their chocolate chip cookies, which you can buy in the Food Hall at three euro for five. Recently, I ate in the rooftop café, which was slightly more expensive (seeing as they serve actually hot food items and it’s meant to be more like a restaurant). I got a mozzarella and tomato sandwich and tea. It was nothing spectacular but good anyway. I’ll probably just stick to the cookies.

I really like the selection in here and buy practically all my underwear here. The clothes have improved a lot in recent years and are good quality.
I’ve docked 2 stars because I had to deal with the customer service counter on my last trip and the woman who served me was rude as hell. Surely they’d put the friendly happy people on the customer service desk. Has really put me off the place!

I only go there for food but it’s pretty big and lots of selections. I love coming here and do my shopping for dinner.

This Marks and Spencer has both the clothing and also a food/​supermarket store which is my ultimate fave when it comes to M&S… Typically from the clothing sections, I’m normally out for gifts for other people as opposed to buying for myself. They aren’t quite on trend for my age group although, buying for my mam, grandma, etc this is a great place to buy gifts and the kid’s clothes section is great for the new baby gifts. As I mentioned though, my love for M&S really is born out of their food; the stores are just loads with awesome, tasty, top quality ingredients. There are treats in abundant but yet, you can pick up basics as well as high end products and unlike other supermarkets they stock some more unusual stuff, e.g. the always have version steak in stock… This is not something you can pick up at any other supermarket. They have a fresh bakery on site which is so yummy, the smell lures you in and I just can’t resist whether it be their breads or cookie, yum! They have great value dinner meal deals, so often Dine for 2 costing just € 15 which is great value, 2 mains, 2 sides and 2 desserts. BARGAIN! Other times ye can find these meal offers for € 20 and include a bottle of wine.

I must say. I was never a fan of Marks & Spencer’s. It has grown on me, as it’s a people’s supermarket, and caters for all levels of class.
No more is M&S the most expensive supermarket, it has better produce nod cheaper than the other big supermarkets.
I think the layout in this store was great. Being from Scotland I was finding it hard to adjust to the Euro:) this is a store that is obviously being run by management that know what the public want. Thumbs up:)

I love the lingerie in M&S the best, the quality is so good. It’s my go-​to place for PJs, bras, socks, tights etc.
Their clothes are a bit to mature for me, but my mom loves them and always shops here. The clothes she gets here are really nice and always last long, especially the cotton.
I sometimes buy groceries in the basement floor, but very rarely as it’s much more expensive that other supermarkets like Tesco or Dunnes, especially the fruit and veg which is almost double the price. But they are so fresh!

One of my favorite places to shop. Food hall has so much to choose from. Everything is so fresh.
Love getting a bargain dress. Good for tights, nickers, & Jammie’s. good value.

The three star rating is for this Marks and Spencer alone. Now, I am a HUGE fan of this chain of stores. It kept me in peanut butter and barbeque crisps when I was living in the Czech Republic and I am addicted to their stockings. Why I gave this particular store only three stars is the due to some of their staff I dealt with today.
This one down on Grafton has a kick ass food markety place (I can’t remember what it is called right now for the life of me) and a really good selection of stocking and other unmentionables (as my grandmother would call lingerie), what they are lacking (or so I was told today) is a housewares section, which is fine. What is not fine, is the less than polite response I received from two female employees when I asked about it today. I do feel very bad about interrupting the very important conversation about some knacker who hit on one of said employees last night, which is a completely appropriate conversation to be having at work, btw, especially as they were behind a completely queless cash register, but I couldn’t just magically pull the answer out of nowhere and felt like asking before meandering all over the store looking for a badly placed directory. Anyway… next time I’ll be sure to not expect said employees to be working while at work, lest I get another eye rolled answer and a lackluster suggestion on where to go instead.
Other than bitchy young lady employees, this place really isn’t bad.

Hmmm, Marks und Spencer gab es ja auch mal bei uns. Aber daher hatte ich den Laden irgendwie anderes in Erinnerung. Eigenmarken hoch drei, direkter teilweise fast unfreundlicher Service. Der Zutritt für Männer die ihren Frauen andere Größen in den Umkeidenbereich bringen wollen oder ein Urteil abgeben sollen wird sofort durch das anwesende Personal verhindert. Komisch.
In Teilen unsauberer Laden. Optische Reinigung aber keine gründliche…

I wish we had a place like this back in the U.S. The closest comparison I can make is an upscale Target, which I dearly love.
You can shop for clothes, groceries, buy food… it’s a one-​stop shop for everything you might need or love.

You can get clothing and food here. I mean nice clothing not Walmart quality like back in the US. The prices are reasonable and the quality is good. I bought perfume for 8 euros, underwear, and had a meal. I know it is a chain but I like it.

Marks is great for tights, socks and other ladies ‘things’ ;) This one always had a huge selection of all of the above. And it usually my first of call for these things.
As for the rest of the fashion dept, well M&S has never impressed me enough to buy any of their clothes to be honest.
However the food dept is good. The ends of aisle can have great deals, so keep your eyes peeled 8)

Yay!
Marks & Spencer can do no wrong (for me). Stopped in to do a bit of quick grocery shopping (picked up 2 bottles of wine, chips, puppy treats to bring back to my puppy in the U.S., and croissants) and did some browsing as well. Prices are reasonable (from my limited exposure to European groceries) and actually, we did quite a bit of comparing bottles of wine to get the cheapest ones (with twist off tops, as we did not possess a wine opener in our hotel room).
I once bought a pair of shoes from M&S for £3 so that’s also a plus for them in my book.
We sat upstairs in the «café» area to enjoy our croissants. There were a few stools available but never two next to each other but a kind old man moved down one so my companion and I could sit together. It’s a nice place to people watch, as the stools face Grafton street. We watched bustling shoppers scurrying in the chilly weather. Didn’t sample any of the food available in the café, but the people around us seemed to be enjoying themselves.

It is very large split over a number of floors and you need a map to find the ladies underwear department. When you find it the staff are helpful.
As for their clothes some are good quality and last for ages and some look as though you have warn them every day for a month after first wearing.
Still a fan though.

NYC has it’s pizza slices and we have the British retail chain M&S. Why am I drawing that somewhat vague comparison?
Well if you are looking for decent fast food and are by yourself this is a good choice.
The menu is limited, three varieties of toasted sandwiches. I had the mushroom and emmental cheese which was good. They do pastries and coffee based drinks.
Stools face out on to Grafton street and Duke street which makes it a good place to people watch and also won’t make you conscious that you are dining alone.
Like a pizza joint your food comes on a paper plate… Classy.

This is the only grocery store on grafton street, can you believe that? and for this reason I am giving it a healthy four stars, who wants to go trekking to a dunnes or a tesco when you have ots of bags in tow, why not just go into this food hall and suffer the journey home with killing arms knowing that you have a tasty dinner from marks and spencers ahead of you!
another of my points was given because this particular marks and spencers has a place where you can sit in and eat lunch! and you dont just have to eat pre packed asndwiches which i hate, you can get freshly made baguettes from a counter down in the food hall! lovely!

I think this is the better of the two Marks and Spencers in downtown Dublin even though it is smaller. The layout really is very nice, open and airy and it’s easy to navigate, which can’t be said for some other huge department stores.
The clothes at Marks and Spencer are pretty great, as far as I’m concerned. They have a trendier line now called Savida, which is much pricier than their other ranges, but a lot cuter. I don’t think the quality is absolutely wonderful for the price though, so choose wisely. Their other stuff is a great value though. I got some ultra soft and comfy yoga pants here for a fiver!
Their shoe and accessory section is definitely my favorite though. The quality is great; shoes are sturdy, comfortable and affordable to boot! Their purses are also really great, and for around 30 euros you can find one that looks like it cost a lot more.

To continue in the thread of Laura C.‘s review, I notice that no-​one has spotted Marks and Sparks rather sinister and sneaky ploy: the pump the smell of cookies all around the shop, especially around the front door.
Then having lured you into the shop, the crafty powers that be a Marks and Spenser PLC decrees that the cookies are always placed at the back of the shop, so you have to walk the length of the shop, subliminally registering products the whole way, until you get to them.
So yeah, Marks and Sparks is the place to go for delicious cookies and posh ready-​meals. They also do good foodie presents, too: I got my Dad a cheese selection thing one Christmas, and we sat down and demolished after dinner, even though we were already stuffed to bits. Good times.
As to the clothes in M&S — they do good quality stuff, but most of the menswear is a bit boaty for my taste. They do some nice suits, though, and very reasonably priced. When my one and only suit finally gives up the ghost, I’ll definitely consider looking them up.
Oh, and one last thing re menswear. Marks is great for the humdrum stuff, like socks and boxers. And for those of you cursed, as I am, with gargantuan feet (size 13s), Marks do socks for the man with larger piéds. They don’t get worn out as quickly as the ones made for normal people with their regular-​sized, oh-​so-​dainty little footsies.
Bastards.

Marks & Spencers is famous among busy singletons and professional kitchen-​skivers for its selection of ready-​made gourmet-​esque meals, classy sambos and salads. Among others, it’s the place where live-​alone suburbanites and yummy mummies shop for their groceries.
Personally, I don’t buy much in Marks & Sparks apart from ‘Percy Pig’ sweets and sometimes I’ll go wild and get ‘Percy and Friends’. If this review was based on Percy Pigs alone, I’d give it five stars. I’ve also been known to purchase a luxury cookie or two — that warm sweet bakery smell is more than tempting and I reckon it should be banned for subliminal advertising.
Even yummy mummies are feeling the recession at this stage so M & S is offering meal deals for two people for around € 12, including a bottle of plonk. Not bad, says I and I may just pick one up next time I’m in getting Percy Pigs.

I just love Marks and Spencer! So much so that I asked my latest crush to take me on a date there (easily pleased, this one!!)
Everything is so beautifully packaged and the food is fresh and cheaper than SuperValu! Try the profiterole dessert in the grocery section — to die for — and often sold out, to my horror when trying to satisfy a craving…
Great place to buy a picnic to take to St Stephens Green… such a wonderful array of cheeses and parma ham and raspberries and little bottles of prosecco (they even sell ice for the underprepared!)
Everyone must try the lunch offer in the upstairs restaurant. Yes I know what you’re thinking — expensive, right? Wrong… 12.50 will get you a mail meal, dessert and glass of wine — unbelievable price, when a main is usually about 10 euro. Fantastic on a sunny day (don’t laugh, we’ve had a few recently). The chicken kiev is great. We couldn’t go past it, so I don’t know what anything else tastes like.
For dessert, you will probably be tempted by the chocolate pudding, but branch out and get the pancakes with berries… you will thank me ;-)
If you can handle the pretentious older clientele in this restaurant (or hey, just ignore them!) you’ll enjoy a lovely start to your afternoon in this place. From memory, this lunch offer is valid from 1pm onwards.