New M&S café at Cabot Circus was sadly 'pretty underwhelming' for the hefty price tag View 2 Images

Even in the context of the opening day bedlam at Marks and Spencer’s new flagship shop in Cabot Circus , the in-store café was particularly busy. A huge scrum of shoppers flooded the café, at the back of the shop’s enormous food hall , to try it out.

I understood the excitement around the opening of the new M&S, but I was slightly more baffled by how keen everyone was to be among the first to sample the delights of an in-house café.

I went back on a thankfully much calmer second day of the shop's opening to try it out for myself.

Thankfully, you go up to a till and speak to a human being who takes your order – it’ll never catch on – unlike at the touch screen-heavy café in M&S’s Cr

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