The Restaurant

How wonderful to sit up here in the occasional sunshine and have a lovely lunch.
The welcome was warm, the seating comfortable, and the food on offer looked wonderful.
Everybody around us appeared to be enjoying their meal. The menu has great choices.
Service was attentive, the food was great, and the price was a bargain. Lucky Dublin to have this.
Enjoy!

I wish they had a Marks and Sparks here in Australia. This place is so much better than DJ food hall (Melbourne) because the quality is better and cheaper! We had our dinner in the pretty and modern looking food hall where the menu items can be bought in the store. It’s great to know that if you’re happy with your meals that you can pick it up off the shelves later.

So if the queue in Avoca, Dublin City Centre is too long and you can’t face Burger King, this place is just up the street! If you have kids or not — it’s the biz for brunch and lunch. Way more space than Avoca. Very child friendly. We’re are pathetically becoming regulars without trying. the location is so handy for people meeting on Grafton Street. Food is really good and caters adequately for veggies and smallies. Big open space, medicinal in a way and we keep going back?!! Aghhh!

I love this place. It is where I will meet people when I next visit Dublin for business. High value tasty food prepared in a first class environment. I wish we still had marks and sparks in San Francisco.

The only café in Dublin that seems to do scones perfectly. Warm scone, nice jam and clotted cream. Is clotted cream really British or something, why do cafes and restaurants in Dublin not do clotted cream with their scones. You just can’t beat the taste and the texture! Yum!

The newly opened ‘Restaurant’ on the top floor of Marks and Spencer’s flagship store on Grafton Street boasts a vast skylight and roomy vibe. The interior however is so strikingly white that you feel more like you’re aboard the Star Trek voyager and not within an establishment looking to grab some lunch. This futuristic and clinical-​looking interior unsurprisingly lacks in any authentic ambiance.
The sun rarely shines in Dublin leaving the rooftop a wasted initiative before you get to even so much as step out there. I never even made it close, staying back to take my seat on what I can only explain as a bar stool that has been designed to suit the milieu of a flying saucer. Uncomfortable and with legs on it so skeletal you remain in a state of apprehension the whole time you are sitting on it that it may not even be able to maintain stability. During the lunchtime rush it is a case of sitting wherever’s available and so I was forced to sit on this awkward, poor excuse for a chair.
The menu comprised mostly of ready-​meals. I eventually settled for Italian vine ripened tomato soup that was served tepid in a bowl that was scorching hot, which rang alarm bells that this was a microwave job. It seemed almost ironic that the cuisine dispensed within this ‘alien craft’ (if the interior is anything to go by) was akin to NASA style food — heated up through the most counterfeit means possible. If hunger does indeed wallop you in the face when you’re shopping then it’s hard to overlook this eatery, especially if you think the pleasant rooftop translates into anything viable, but it doesn’t so I beg you to take your business to somewhere else, somewhere well thought-​of.

The Restaurant is a genius idea. Marks & Spencer’s food is great, so why not serve it in a restaurant! It just makes sense.
It’s very good food. It’s reasonably priced and it’s in a convenient spot (centre of Grafton Street). The only reason I’d take away a star is because it’s so bright and cold. It’s a little like an empty canteen. It could be nice because it’s got a huge sky-​light and it’s airy, but there’s just no atmosphere.
Anyway, back to the food. They do a good brunch (€ 9 — competitive) and little taster plates too. And they do kids meals. I went there for dessert, I just adore M&S desserts, so it’s fabulous when the serve you a piping hot melting middle chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-​cream. Even better than making it at home. Another bonus, they also do afternoon tea — super!