IKEA is a place that makes people addicted. Even if there is nothing they want to buy, they still like to go shopping for a while, eat a cone on the first floor, or go directly to the restaurant on the third floor for a meal. .
Some people say that IKEA is a magical place. A restaurant is opened in a furniture store, and it seems that the restaurant is more popular than the furniture store. As for how popular the IKEA restaurant is, you can check it out during meal time.
One weekend afternoon, when I had nothing to do, I suddenly wanted to eat Swedish meatballs, so I invited my family to go to an IKEA restaurant. It was around 6:30 pm when we got there and the restaurant was packed with diners. After searching for a long time, a table of people was about to finish eating, so I waited next to them and finally got a seat.
Swedish meatballs are a must-order every time you go to an IKEA restaurant. Although there are frozen meatballs sold in the supermarket on the first floor, you can take them home and cook them yourself, but I always feel that it is a bit boring. You have to eat them in a restaurant to feel the best. Maybe the food also has emotions and warmth.
The meatballs will be served with blueberry jam and a salty sauce, as well as a pile of glutinous mashed potatoes with a small Swedish flag on top. I like to add some tomato sauce myself, and the meatballs are dipped in three kinds of sauces. They are covered in sauce, and you will feel full of happiness when you take a bite.
Every time I go to the self-service water bar and squeeze some ketchup and dip the meatballs with blueberry sauce.
The rice bowls at the IKEA restaurant are also amazing, and the varieties change frequently. The day we went there was mushroom rice, a variety of mushrooms, including shiitake mushrooms, slide mushrooms, mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and carrots. The sauce was smooth and suitable for people with light tastes.
The golden ones are shrimp cakes. The golden color is very pleasing, and many people buy them.
Another popular dish in the IKEA restaurant is Orleans grilled chicken legs. A big chicken leg costs 6 yuan, which is a few blocks away.
Because of its high cost performance, the chicken legs are often sold out. Today is also the case. Those who want to buy chicken legs need to wait nearby, but it is still worth the few minutes. The freshly cooked chicken legs have a strong aroma of sauce and the color is bright.
Usually when I go to an IKEA restaurant, I order a drink with free refills for six yuan, but this time I took my baby there and ordered him a glass of freshly squeezed juice, which is their new product.
What needs to be mentioned is that the quality of the drinks that cost six yuan for free refills is not as good as before. The raspberry juice that used to be the best is now as watery as water, and other drinks are even less drinkable. In the future, I probably won’t order this drink again.
The picture below shows smoked salmon, which is known as the best value for money in IKEA restaurants. Thick slices of salmon cost only 19 yuan.
However, I don’t like the taste of the sauce, but the quality of the salmon is still very good. If you like salmon, you can try it.
Another close-up of Swedish meatballs:
Close-up of mushroom rice:
Golden fried shrimp steak:
Go to IKEA, but also There is one item that cannot be missed, and that is the one-layer ice cream.
Ice cream cost one yuan before, but this time it cost three yuan for a sundae with strawberry jam on top. But I still prefer the days when one dollar is a cone.
IKEA is very big, and I often spend an afternoon shopping there. There are also many people at IKEA, especially on weekends. But I still like to go shopping often. In fact, what attracts me most is not the IKEA products, but the IKEA restaurant, a magical place.