Marks Spencer - Cherwell

Visited with friends for lunch. Food and drinks were nice and hot. Very busy though and slightly slow service. I would return though!

Lovely service and products, plus a table with a view! Delicious prawn sandwich and flat white, lovely service staff, from start to finish, would definitely recommend.

Normally my friend and I love our visits to the M&S cafe. However, today we went in the hopes of having a toastie with gravy with some gingerbread frappes. However, there was no gravy or toasties. We had already ordered our toasties and the order went through and we started waiting, only for them to tell us they had ran out. The station was also severely understaffed, and the staff there seemed clueless. They struggled to do a refund leading to us being given cash instead. We waited for the gingerbread frappes anyway and they were simply horrible. Very artificial. Just an overall waste of time and money.

Ordered the breakfast and a pot of tea. When the breakfast arrived the bacon was extremely salty and over cooked, the sausages were dry and over cooked, toast was barely warm as we're the baked beans. I was extremely disappointed at a cost of £11.45 in total, what a waste of money. Will never have breakfast again.

I ordered the big breakfast, which is a tenner plus when including a pot of tea. The breakfast was well presented with two poached eggs, bacon, two sausages, potato rosti, baked beans and sourdough toast. Unfortunately it was, at best, almost cold. I asked the server if it could be popped in the microwave for a minute or two , though expecting in reality, to get a freshly prepared meal. My meal was returned and indeed the eggs had obviously been removed from the plate while it was reheated. The cold eggs were then returned to the plate and delivered back to me. So cold eggs and still barely tepid food. To be fair the sausages were excellent and I ate these, though most of the other ingredients were left on my plate. My almost full plate was removed by the server with no comment. A very poor show, although my partner did enjoy her seafood selection sandwich. So while she finished her brunch I popped across to Greggs and had a lovely, hot sausage roll. I should certainly have gone there first! So in summary a star each for the very good sausages must try harder M&S.