Ikea restaurant

icywind1980 · 04-02-2011 01:14AM

I've never had a bad experience in their restaurant. The ones in Europe are significantly nicer than the ones in the US, but I guess that goes without saying. And it's the only place this side of Copenhagen to get a decent piece of Smørrebrød.

dubtom · 04-02-2011 01:29AM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

This idea that the cheapest food we can get our hands on is the best option is a good chunk of the reason why we are a nation of fat layabouts.
We should be spending more on food not taking part in a race to buy the cheapest crap we can get our hands on.

You miss the point,us fat layabouts pay over the odds for food 24/7. Finally when someone offers value for money,it's cheap crap!? Is paying top dollar so ingrained in us now that if someone offers value it's suspect?

Aisling(",) · 04-02-2011 01:35AM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

The meatballs are excellent. Avoid the cherry soda, it tastes like calpol.

its lingonberry and pear thats why it dosent taste like cherry...

who the fug wrote: »

The one near Brent cross in London is always full of coppers at 10.00 am having their brekkie.

The gaurds just head into the co-worker canteen in the dublin one they get the food even cheaper.

Ricardo G · 04-02-2011 01:41AM

What we need in this country is a "FEBO" !!!
A meal from a whole in wall just like they have scattered all over Amsterdam, aaahhh the biz after a few smokes

TeddyTedson · 04-02-2011 01:43AM

Do the staff go around on roller skates?

flahavaj · 04-02-2011 01:47AM

JustinOval wrote: »

Yeah, food isn't bad at all.

Last time I was there I sat next to a family of 5, kids filling up on €1 pasta, I got the impression they didn't even realise the was a furniture shop below...

Fair play, I'd have my lunch there too if it was local.

You could feed a family of 5 for a week with 5 euro's worth of pasta if you cooked it yourself....

D1stant · 04-02-2011 01:54AM

I lived in Dijon about 6 years ago when their IKEA opened. Now you'd imagine the French have standards about food and such. Nope. Like flies to sh1te. And imagine the Euro per arse-on-seat ratio - must have been woeful.

Still at one meatball per hour, furniture has got to come up in conversation right?

IKEA are not Santa Inc. It's for a reason

bc dub · 04-02-2011 02:48AM

yeah i heard its lovely if your pallet is accustomed to meat that's suitable for dog food.

but get them genetically modified veggies into ya whatever ya do.

TaraFoxglove · 04-02-2011 05:33AM

dubtom wrote: »

You miss the point,us fat layabouts pay over the odds for food 24/7. Finally when someone offers value for money,it's cheap crap!? Is paying top dollar so ingrained in us now that if someone offers value it's suspect?

If the food is of low quality - which I have found Ikea food to be - it doesn't represent good value, at least not to me. Ikea food IS cheap crap.

I refuse to pay over the odds for food, but if the food is of a good standard, I don't mind paying a few pounds extra. When I lived in Dublin (moved away in February 2010), I knew many very good places to eat, that didn't break the bank. Did the lunches cost 2 Euro? No. Were they cooked nicely with decent ingredients? Yes! THAT to me is value for money.

Also, I don't understand the hype of Ikea meatballs. I had them and they were bland and entirely unremarkable.

Metallergy · 04-02-2011 05:38AM

TaraFoxglove wrote: »

if the food is of a good standard, I don't mind paying a few pounds extra

me too. quality, not quantity ;-

is ikea food economical and efficient, like its furniture?

is it like lidl

TaraFoxglove · 04-02-2011 05:40AM

Metallergy wrote: »

me too. quality, not quantity ;-

is ikea food economical and efficient, like its furniture?

is it like lidl

Actually, Lidl has some genuinely good products. They also have substandard products. You have to pick and choose when you shop there.

Metallergy · 04-02-2011 05:49AM

i liked their premium pizzas but they got found out - too salty. i liked their chocolate cheesecake as well but it got boring; quicker than most competitors

Kold · 04-02-2011 05:58AM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

The meatballs are excellent. Avoid the cherry soda, it tastes like calpol.

I think the under 5 Calpol may well have been my favourite flavour of anything ever.

Jesus Wept · 04-02-2011 06:27AM

Didn't find the food great in Ikea, the hotdog and chips were better than the meatballs.

I like what they do though.

Ricardo G wrote: »

What we need in this country is a "FEBO" !!!
A meal from a whole in wall just like they have scattered all over Amsterdam, aaahhh the biz after a few smokes

Jebus.

Abelloid · 04-02-2011 08:37AM

flahavaj wrote: »

You could feed a family of 5 for a week with 5 euro's worth of pasta if you cooked it yourself....

You should go up there with your Jamie Oliver t shirt on and tell them that, I don't care what they do.

Abelloid · 04-02-2011 09:37AM

Sorry, that was meant to have a :P at the end...

TaraFoxglove · 04-02-2011 05:44PM

Metallergy wrote: »

i liked their premium pizzas but they got found out - too salty. i liked their chocolate cheesecake as well but it got boring; quicker than most competitors

I never actually eaten either of those Lidl products - I try to avoid cheesecake at all times because it's evil!!!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 04-02-2011 05:49PM

tba wrote: »

It's horrible.

+1.

Absolutely disgusting muck, your right. It IS horrible.

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