Cafe Revive

Considering the quality of Marks and Spencers brand and the top location set in front of Grafton Street, you would expect something more than just a low profile cafeteria. It would much better if they put coffee vending machine. What a disappointment.
Seating area was cold, no Internet Wi-​fi (I don’t bother of it but just for the purpose of the review). Sugar sachet was solidified into a mono block :-) Do they check the sugar?
The long table adiacent to the front window was not looked after by the staff resulting in some spots of coffee liquid and crumbles left by previous customers.
A woman from the staff behind the counter was shouting while talking with her colleague, then clearly aloud officially communicated to him «I am going to the toilet» and left the counter. After a while she came back and start chatting again aloud, this time with customers like they were old friends.
Window display for sandwich and wraps was really sad and no labels on what was about. just wrapped in transparent plastic and put on the display.
No sign of trash bin in the area. Probably you need just to leave it on the table.
Was a bad experience

Café Revive is on the ground floor of Marks and Spencers’ flagship Grafton Street branch. It serves Marks and Spencers’ own brand of food sold in the food hall but naturally heated up if required/​and or desired, or in the example of a baguette taken out of the wrapper you would otherwise have bought it in in the food hall and positioned on a plate. You pay a little more for the food than you would if you were buying them in the food hall and eating them elsewhere thanks to the café’s comfort providing a seemingly lavish place to eat and relax. I say ‘seemingly’ because it always makes me a bit uncertain about somewhere when it’s communicated in such a forthright as this way that I am, by a certain margin paying to eat on the premises before I have even sat down. Owing to the M&S food being very familiar and especially to somebody who goes there regularly, when you are faced with a price higher than that you know the same item is sold for within the store it results in a mishmash of initial resentment and then ensuing anticipation of what exactly the dining experience that has now garnered such clout will be like; will it live up to the hype that has been imparted upon it owing to the higher food prices (the supplementary expense unmistakably attributable to commission charged for sitting within the premises)?
I find M&S food very appetising and so it is very hard for me to reprimand this in anyway, but just so you know nothing sold within this café is exclusive to the café as everything can be bought within the Lower Ground food hall.
The seating area feels fresh and light, with white walls and urbane black leather chairs. What I believe to be the foremost selling point of the café is the seating position on high stools by the large front window where you can look out onto Grafton Street and spend hours on end people watching and just generally gazing the day away.
M&S are renowned for their high quality and so it is unsurprising that the quality of food is consistently enticing, and it does proffer you the opportunity to enjoy what is admittedly a striking view in Dublin’s most renowned street but as with most things in Dublin, nothing comes for free and don’t think enjoying the opportunity to gaze out at Grafton Street from inside the M&S window is an exemption to the rule.