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, food and/or drink:
“In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church.... We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“Bourbon’s the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.”
—John Michael Hayes (b.1919)