I tried the new M&S café menu – and one item was utterly bizarre
Popping into my local Marks and Spencer supermarket café, the new spring menu for 2026 is here.
It can be fun to sit in a café and order a drink after a long day, but I did not know how peculiar some people’s coffee orders could be until I visited a Marks and Spencer café. My own coffee tastes are painfully simple – I just like something hot and plain that will warm me up, such as a flat white.
I have never been tempted by drinks loaded with cream or syrups, the kind more often associated with Starbucks or other big coffee chains. However, I have recently began shopping at M&S and decided to see what the café was like, but when I read the menu I was surprised to see they were offering a popcorn-themed coffee.
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This popcorn latte is one of the new drinks Marks and Spencer have recently released in their cafés as part of the new spring menu for 2026.
All their new drinks are iced or milkshakes to welcome the weather getting warmer, and one of the strangest ones is called the buttered popcorn latte.
I first saw this drink on the menu and immediately looked it up online where it has described of having “notes of toasted corn” which I thought sounded utterly bizarre for a coffee drink.
As someone that loves going to the cinema I love the taste of popcorn, but I could not imagine how it could be appealing as a coffee.
I decided to order it, and at £4.20 it felt a little expensive, but reasonable for a speciality drink and not something I buy regularly.
After taking a good long sip, the first thing I noticed is that it tasted of butterscotch, and I was actually surprised by how good it was.
I am someone who really likes caramel-flavoured chocolate, so I enjoyed how rich it tasted without being overly sweet.
The coffee was quite strong which I liked and did not come off as overpowering thanks to the milk and cream inside the drink.
I first bought this coffee as a joke thinking I would hate it, but I definitely judged too soon as I definitely would order it again.
However, my only small complaint is that it does not really taste of popcorn, though the buttery warmth does bring to mind the cosy feeling of settling down with a big tub of cinema popcorn just before watching a movie.
