IKEA Restaurant

"Yummy sweedish meatballs & mashed potatoes with gravy & peas for under $9. Yes, Please! Toffee cake is so good, too. YUM"

"I used to rave about IKEA's cafeteria, and I used to plan on eating here every time I came, but the quality has definitely gone down over the years. First of all, the prices have shot up. Now, I realize everything has gone up in price, but $10 for a plate of cafeteria food is a bit much, especially now that none of it has any flavor!! It's all absolutely bland; thank goodness they offer salt and pepper. Honestly, this reminds me of hospital food now. Even the garlic bread was subpar. How you mess up garlic bread, I have no idea. The desserts are still good, at least but that's really only their saving grace. It will be a long time before I ever try them again. Please, PLEASE IKEA, I beg you to season something!!"

"Our first time in an IKEA store. The point of the visit was to try the highly recommended Swedish meatballs in their restaurant. Didn't realize IKEA is set up to be a one-way driven maze-store requiring you to walk almost the entire warehouse in order to get to the Cafe area. Of course, they offer you directions here and there for a few 'short cuts' to the Cafe. But it is still a good walking work out. So don't plan on bringing granny unless her walker has the built in seating for her to have multiple rest stops. It is an immense and amazing warehouse. Upon entering the cafeteria style Cafe, you are afforded the option of a 'tray cart'. Which is awesome when one person cannot hold their tray. Or one person is purchasing multiple food items. There were three in our party. So we opted to use the 'tray cart'. It was very handy. One order was 8 meatballs with gravy, Mac and cheese with garlic toast, and a diet coke. Second order was meatballs with gravy, peas, mashed potatoes, garlic toast, strawberry shortcake and a delicious flavored water. Third order was Swedish meatballs with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, chocolate mousse like pie and a water. Walking through the sitting area multiple dirty tables were noticed. Someone needs to wipe down and clean up these tables as there was a long line of people that entered to eat behind us. But no one showed up to clean the entire time we sat there eating our meals. So they get only 4 stars for service not keeping the tables clean and ready for incoming diners. There was a young lady playing the guitar. She was very entertaining but loud in such a condensed area. This was a nice unexpected touch to the atmosphere. Getting serenaded while your eat. So 5 stars for atmosphere. However due to very long walking distance forcing you to walk almost the entire warehouse to get here, I dropped it to a 4 for atmosphere. The food was hot. They gave you plenty of each requested item. The Swedish meatballs were delicious. We would all three order them again. The mashed potatoes were nicely consistent in texture but bland, no salt, no chicken broth flavor, no seasoning. We were in agreement on that lack of taste. Next time I will bring my own salt and maybe some ranch seasoning because it did have good texture. Just had no flavoring. The peas, as well, were no salt, no butter, no pepper, no seasoning, just natural. So the mashed potatoes and peas are perfect if you are on a heart healthy no salt, no butter diet. The garlic toast was perfect and enjoyable. The chocolate dessert was very, very rich. One bite was enough for me. It was good. The strawberry shortcake was firm, light and delicious as well. We would recommend the desserts. I gave the food 4 stars. Because the only real impressive item was their Swedish meatballs. As in a cafeteria, you are asked to dump your own plates, glasses, etc, food items, and stack your trays in the designated clean up areas before leaving the Cafe. Then it was another walk back out of the Cafe area. You can now burn those calories you just ate walking through their maze of products to find your way out of the store. So we definitely got our steps in. There is a mini grocery area to the left of the cash registers/ check out area. There we picked up a bag of frozen Swedish meatballs and various Swedish chocolates to try. Yum."

"As this was my first time at an IKEA store, I had no idea of the food options available there. It was a pleasant experience as the Savory smell mesmerized me when I got near the eatery. As a result, I couldn't resist myself from getting something to eat. I ordered the following and they all taste good and are worth the price: Swedish Meat Balls with Mashed Potato and Boiled Veggies - $7 Apple cake - $1.99 The only thing I would like to add is there could have been more options on the menu."

"It was hard to find it. It's in the middle of the store. You have to walk through a couple of showrooms to get to the restaurant. There's no kids area, just 2 toys. And when we went to get meatballs, they didn't have gravy. Vegetables on the side were weird. Sparkling lingonberry juice was very diluted. Frisco location is much better."