« back to food shops search resultsMarks & Spencer Edinburgh Morningside Simply Food
212-216 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 4DDA small, station branch of this national food outlet. Quality is the name of the game here, and great effort goes into producing consistent products. Good salad leaves, pre-packed vegetables, fresh fruit and trimmed meat.
They are now very much geared to offering pre-packaged traiteur dishes, which simply need re-heating or a few minutes of basic cooking. Their varieties span the world, those from the Far-East, while good, are designed to be inoffensive so tend to hold the middle-ground in the flavour stakes.
However, the British and European-style dishes are of a standard not easily achieved in the average British household; and this makes many of them ideal for entertaining (or, if you can afford to, for everyday eating). Their excellent party nibbles, mean that you can have a party or barbecue at a moments notice and the range has to be commended.
They still produce the best chicken Kievs available; but, be careful not to buy the cheaper reformed meat version.
Perhaps their next efforts should be put into incorporating more free-range/organic/local products into their existing range.
Key Features
- Open: Mon-Thurs 8.30-21.00; Fri & Sat 8.30-20.00; Sun 9.00-19.00
- Closed: some Bank Holidays
Products
Show All ProductsShow Less ProductsAioli Albondigas (Spanish Meat Balls) & other meat balls Almonds Amaretti Anchovies brown fillets - preserved in oil Apples Asparagus fresh in season Bacon Bagels Beef - grass fed Biscotti Biscuits - for cheese Biscuits - sweet Black Pudding Blini - ready made Blueberries - in season Brandy Butter (often only near Christmas) Bread Bread - French Bread - Italian Breakfast cereal Brioche Burgers - beef (of top quality) Christmas Cake Cakes - home-made style Cakes - special occasion Capers in brine Charcuterie Cheese Straws Cheese - British Isles Cheese - French Cheese - general Cheese - Scottish Cheese - soft Cheesecake Cheese - water buffalo Chicken Kiev - top class Chicken - reputable Free Range Chutney pickles & relishes Coffee Condiment Sauces & Jellies Couscous Cream - Clotted Crème fraiche Crisps; top quality Croissant fresh Cucumbers; pickled Curry Paste: Delicatessen; general Desserts; of high quality Dips Easter Eggs; good Eggs - Hens free range Fish cakes Flour - good selection Food as Gifts Fruit Cordials - natural Fruit Coulis Fruit juices Fruit Pies Fruit - dried Fruit - fresh Ginger - crystallised Gingerbread Gravadlax Groceries Haggis Ham & Gammon Ham - Parma Herbs - fresh these will be seasonal Herrings - marinated Honey Hot Cross Buns - sometimes only before Easter Houmus Ice cream - top quality Italian groceries Jam & preserves Kippers - undyed Lamb (seasonal) Maple syrup Marmalade Meat - prepared for barbecues Meat pies Meringues Mince pies high quality Muesli Muffins Muffins American - style Mushrooms - Shitake Mustard Nuts - pre packed Oatcakes Oils Olive Oil Olives Pancetta Panettone - sometimes just at Christmas Party Nibbles Pasta - dried Pasta - fresh Pasties Pastrami Patisserie - fresh Pears Pizza Polenta Pork pies Pork - free range Porridge Oats - coarse natural Potatoes - top class/unusual Prawns - frozen Christmas Pudding Pulses Quiche Rice; specialist Salad Dressing - top quality Salad leaves - of high quality Salami Salmon - farmed of top quality Sauces - chili / chillis Sauces - prepared pasta Sausages - Pork Sausages - Beef Chorizo Smoked Mackerel Smoked salmon Smoked venison Soup - top quality Squashs - Vegetable Stilton Taramasalata Tea - specialist Tisanes / Herbal Infusions Toffee Tomato Ketchup - top quality Tomatoes - in season Tomatoes - sun dried Tortillas Traiteur/ Take Away/ Ready Meals - vegetarian Traiteur/ Take Away/Ready Meals Trout - Rainbow Tuna - fresh Vegetables - Exotic Vegetables - good selection of fresh Vegetables - preserved char-grilled Vinegar - wine Vinegar - balsamic Vinegar - flavoured Watercress Yoghurt - cows' milk Yoghurt - organic