Shops and Food/drink
Many large retail chains are represented in the centre. It is anchored by 3 main department stores:
- Marks and Spencer (their first out of town store)
- Debenhams
- House of Fraser
Major fashion retailers include British Home Stores, Next, Primark, Topshop/Topman, H&M, New Look, River Island, Zara, USC, Lacoste, All Saints, Tucci, Laura Ashley, Karen Millen, French Connection, Guess, G-Star RAW and JD Sports. In late 2011, the fourth Forever 21 store is due to open in the UK at Metrocentre.
Other major retailers include Argos, Hotel Chocolat, HMV, W H Smith, Jessops, Boots, Carphone Warehouse, Modelzone and Lush. In Autumn 2010 the first TK Maxx/Homesense opened on the site of the old Odeon cinema in the Blue Mall.
On 25 September 2010 the region's second Apple Store was opened at Metrocentre.
The majority of restaurants are located in the MetroCentre Qube, a recently redeveloped area in the Yellow Mall containing bars and restaurants. These include Zizzi, Frankie and Benny's, Nandos, Pizza Express, Big Lukes, Yo! Sushi and in 2011, Wagamama. Other restaurants located in the centre include McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and Wetherspoons.
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Famous quotes containing the words shops and, shops, food and/or drink:
“I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,—sitting there now at three o’clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o’clock in the morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.”
—Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)
“At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Do you drink champagne yourself?
Mr. Oscar Wilde: Yes; iced champagne is a favourite drink of mine—strongly against my doctor’s orders.
Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Never mind your doctor’s orders, sir!
Mr. Oscar Wilde: I never do.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)