Great location by the side of the Trafford Centre with its own parking. It's also a drive thru and…read moreNOT a franchise store. You can use your Starbucks rewards and cards without issue. The downside to it in my opinion is a recent refurb in Sept/Oct (2016) left it feeling cold and like a supermarket cafe. Mostly wooden chairs and bland environment. Only 6... yes 6 easy chairs made of pleather (plastic looking leather!!!!). The new display looks inviting and staff still friendly... but for the customer... yes for you and me it's now not the front room style it once was, this is corporately of course as this store is one of many in the refurb schedule and now Starbucks think more of themselves than the customer... That said, don't forget of you don't ever like your drink for whatever reason, just go back and ask for it to be remade... it's their promise!

A very pleasant branch of Starbucks in a very convenient location just of the M60 and next to the…read moreTrafford Centre, Asda Petrol Station and Krispy Kreme. Ample parking just outside of the door, clean toilet facilities, comfortable seating, free wifi and the usual Starbucks product line up. You can also earn and redeem drinks with the Starbucks card/app here. Theres a small amount of outdoor seating for when the weather permits. Great place to have a business meeting if you're en-route to or from Manchester Airport, or anywhere on the western side of Manchester.

We had excellent oat milk latte here while they were brewing a Brazilian blend. This store is clean…read moreand tidy, quiet too with lots of power outlets for charging your personal electronic devices. It's good to support a Mancunian brand. Highly recommended!

Beautiful coffee shop in the quieter part of MediaCity. Definitely recommend trying this place…read more Very classic design, good environment to work and small dog friendly. Try the cold brew coffee.

A great little Trafford Centre shop…read more We only discovered it by accident really; it's on the first floor, quite near the escalators and lifts opposite Selfridge's. Our two kids (aged 4 and 5) enjoy the escalators and lifts, so I suppose it was inevitable we would come across Whittards sooner or later! They've been helping us out with birthday presents and Christmas gifts ever since we found them. The range of teas and coffees they sell is huge, but it's their various chocolate beverages we like best They also sell a few mugs and so on, which doesn't really seem to be necessary -- I'd rather they devoted the shelf-space to more yummy coffees, chocolates and teas. The staff are friendly and helpful and despite its small size we'd say it's definitely worth a visit.

I called in EAT on a recent trip to the Trafford Centre, to get (you've guessed it!) something to…read moreEAT. I was impressed with the range, considering it be rather late in the evening, with a good variety of soup and sandwiches still remaining, and with the soup ready in the containers, when they are normally kept in a pan (As I found out at the Liverpool One store) I ordered a vegetable and chicken soup (although they had some better name for it!) with it being gluten free, the server seemed quite nice, and she didn't mind giving me 10 percent off a small portion, for a bigger portion, thanks to my haggling with the main reason being the time of night. My soup was quite nice, and I did enjoy the sauce it was in, and it did have a fresh taste to it, despite the time, although it did have some disappointing aspects. The ratio of vegetable to sauce was very poor, and they was so much of it, which made it taste cheap and low quality, I didn't like how they cut the chicken, which made it taste stringy and horrible, and the peas were not very nice too, it would have been nice with a smaller number, but they was so many, it was like I ordered a bowl of peas in a soup like sauce. My soup was nice, but aspects of too much stringy chicken and peas ruined it, when they could have added more potato and celery, which were some of the parts I liked about the soup the most. This store is actually quite nice and a good addition to the trafford centre, they label allergens very well, and easy to see on electronic screens, so I do feel it deserves 3 stars.

decent healthy fast food store, chillread more

I reviewed Pret in principle here:…read morehttp://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/pret-a-manger-manchester#hrid:Zkh03mon3QLGaS2SommRZA This Pret is good because it had pretty much the full range of sandwiches despite being tiny, it is in a good spot for a coffee, you can watch all the various mutants shopping in Selfridges scuttle by and then make a quick exit via Muji to the car park. I am marking it down a star because there is no where to put your silver tray when you are done :'(

I needed two tasty lunches. Being genetically pre disposed to being lazy, I was ambling around M&S…read morein Trafford centre and spotted two likely candidates but I didn't want to walk around the centre carrying them so I didn't bite right away. I needed to go into Selfridges but I hadn't thought of Pret. Coincidentally I accidentally happened to be the very first customer when Pret opened its first store at Victoria, London half a lifetime ago in July 1986. I was genetically pre disposed to seeking out a tasty lazy lunch that day near 31 years ago too. As I entered Selfridges I was immediately struck by the brightly lit well stocked Pret. As I froze, a friendly voice from behind the counter said 'coffee, sir.?' I declined and immediately targeted the lunches and there it was - a crayfish salad with a half a peeled avocado. My sort of lazy lunch. I got my wife a duck and hoi sin sauce wrap. I went to pay to be greeted by another friendly face. Food bagged up and I used a card that you just touch on a screen so the transaction took seconds - the food was around £8. The verdict great tasty lazy lunches just as good 31 years apart.

It was a fantastic business when it was Hobnobs .....very well run and high standardsread more

In spite of having a name that would perhaps be more suited to a 'gentlemans club', Encounters is…read moreindeed a coffee shop. In a somewhat unconventional location on a dead end road, opposite a fishmongers, Encounters is somewhere between a locals tearoom and the style of coffee shop run by Ian Beal in Eastenders or Roy Cropper in Corrie. As such, whilst the coffee isn't likely to be brewed from a fair-trade bean personally selected by the owner of the shop, the food and drink on offer is good, honest stuff. In a premises that looks more like someones converted front room than a purpose built venue, and with a little outdoor seating area Encounters offers a location where you can watch (a very limited section of) life going by as you enjoy your drinks and cakes, or a jacket spud if you happen to venture in at lunchtime. With prices always competitive and a nice range of cakes and snack foods on offer as well as a limited 'sit down' menu, Encounters is probably something of a 'middle of the road' offering in Sale's hierarchy of coffee shops (if an overall score were to be given taking into account ambience, quality and price), somewhat behind Enjoy coffee and Nero, and someway above Carls Cuisine! Worth a try