IKEA Restaurant
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- None
3 reviews for IKEA Restaurant
Once a week we got to ikea whether we feel like spending a load of cash on their functional and frugal goods or not. Why? For the 1.99 all you can eat pasta night on Mondays!
Not much more to say. Everything I've ever had from the eatery was incredibly delicious, I'm addicted to the zucchini marinara, which it turned out you could buy by the jar downstairs, and also the strawberry cake (which you could also buy but I have yet to do so).
What you are getting is really a smart design totally built around the concepts of efficiency, sustainability, function, and of course common courtesy, just like the rest of ikea. The selection is flexible, allowing you to get pretty much any combination of the items they offer, and the whole experience is no-nonsense. The staff there treat us very nicely, even before they started recognizing us as regulars.
Despite the unfailingly excessive amounts of unsupervised and untethered children running around (and their clueless parents equally as often getting in your way whilst wandering about the place), it keeps bringing us back every week.
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I've now eaten at the IKEA restaurant 3 times and have been disappointed each time. At first I thought it was just the management getting the bugs worked out of the system that accounted for the lack of food quality, poor facilities management and sloppy presentation of the food. Now, after 3 visits in 3 weeks on different days and times I'm not so sure it isn't simply poor attention from the management. I say this because I've eaten at IKEA restaurants in Seattle, Vancouver, 3 locations in southern California and one in northern California. All these other restaurants were a very pleasant and the food was wonderful.
Both times I had dinner (of meatballs and vegetables) the meatballs were cold and the vegetables were served without the liquid being drained from the full non-slotted spoon, creating a watery mess on the plate. The staff behind the counter seemed as if they were zombified or drugged. The cashiers were pleasantly smiling and capable of cashiering, which was the one bright spot in the experience. On both occasions eating after noon the soda dispensers were out of carbonation and all the soft drinks were served flat. No warning from the staff in advance of dispensing a dreadfully flat soda. ON opening day they were out of fruit punch, the only drink not dependent on the carbonation. Upon alerting a staff member of the situation on my second visit the response was, "oh yeah, it's been that way for a while." My thought was, "yeah, for over a WEEK!"
Breakfast on a Saturday morning was particularly disappointing. When shopping for kitchen cabinets in California a few years ago it was the easiest thing to do to stop into the restaurant 30 minutes before the store opened and grab a bite. The breakfast there was fresh, hot and delicious. Not so in the Draper IKEA restaurant last weekend. The eggs had the consistency of chopped tofu and were tasteless. I have no idea what kind of liquefied egg-type product they were using but it didn't resemble scrambled eggs like I've eaten in ANY restaurant ANYwhere. The potatoes were dry, cold and somewhat rubbery. As if they had been re-heated from last week's overages. They were simply unpalatable. The bacon strips did, in fact taste like bacon, but they were wadded up and, though overcooked, were not crispy. On the sunny side of breakfast the coffee was good. However, I think in the future I'll skip the breakfast before shopping and have my IKEA coffee at home.
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I came to Ikea on a Sunday morning due to my desperate need for bedding at my new place. When we stepped into the store, I immediately smelled cinnamon rolls which, to my empty stomach, was too enticing to pass up. We walked upstairs and I decided I wanted to try the breakfast, even though my friend told me that the eggs were disgusting. And then we saw the posting on the wall - FREE BREAKFAST ON SUNDAY MORNINGS. Yeah! But then I saw that the original price for their breakfast with bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns was only $.99...not presenting much confidence in the quality of the food, there, Ikea. But surprisingly, the food wasn't absolutely terrible. Honestly, you can't have high expectations for food that's so cheap, but for what you pay for, it's really not bad. The cinnamon rolls were decent, and they were only about $1.29. So if you're in the store shopping anyway and get hungry, you might as well hit up the restaurant.
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