I love going to Ikea, aside from just browsing furniture, the food in their cafeteria is really good for its price. The Ikea around where I live doesn't have as many options but I usually stick to the Swedish meatballs when I visit there anyway. Also I love their coffee hahaha
@@juanitajones7169Swedish meatballs with creamy gravy. The platter comes with boiled potatoes and lingonberries. I haven't had it in years but I remember it being really good.
I just watched a video with a Japanese woman in Sweden and she was shopping at IKEA in Sweden. It's interesting to see how similiar yet different IKEA is in different countries. The showroom in Sweden was very colorful, lots of neutrals with bright pops of color. A little different than the Japanese IKEA. I think it's interesting.
What I love about Ikea: I'm sitting and watching your Video here on the other side of the world - from germany. But I feel connected and know so much of the things and furniture you show/comment on! Like "oh, the GNADELIG plates, yes they are beautiful! I have them in an other colour..." :D Oh and: our flat is like 75% IKEA furniture - just so simple, clean, easy and affordable for a young couple!
I like it, that at the IKEA here in Switzerland, they now also have vegetarian dishes (like "meatballs" with potato mash and lingonberrie sauce). My favorite is probably the cold salmon with dill and sweet mustard sauce. And Kannelbullar (I am normally not really into sweet things, but Kannelbullar can be so tasty).
I love eating Köttbullar, the Swedish meatballs with potatoes and creamy gravy. The Japanese IKEA seem to have more "European" food, Borschtsch from East Europe, Pretzel (that word hurts everytime I need to write it because it's Breze) from south Germany/Austria..... Love that (here in Europe it's mainly Swedish because we got Borschtsch in Poland or the eastern part of Germany and other eastern states, we got Panini in Italy, Pretzel (😅) in Bavaria.....)
I can see the appeal of a store like Ikea to a person in Japan. They share a similar aesthetic. Minimal, natural colors, clean lines, modern. My daughter loves them too just as she loves Japanese culture
One of my quirks when traveling is to visit Ikea, if there's one in the city I'm visiting. So far, I've been to the ones in Tokyo (Chiba, Shinjuku and Shibuya), Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Bali and Malmo. Just like McDonald's the experience is pretty standard whichever store you're in 😊.
I love going to IKEA! It was super fun to see how the one in Japan is so alike and yet so different from the ones I've been to in Houston, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, but it was a little sad that neither of you got the meatballs, which are my favorite. And I'm jealous of the bakery section, none of the ones I've been to had that!
I live in Pittsburgh and we were among them first to get an Ikea store. The food is good but the furniture is crap. The store is so attractive that you forget about what you're buying.
The nearest IKEA is an hour away. It's located literally in the same area as Costco! IKEA has great quality furniture. I have purchased 2 desks and an end table. Our favorite food are the Swedish Meatballs and Chicken Tenders. I have never seen Fish & Chips there.
The fish and chips looked delicious. I live in South Florida, and have never been to an IKEA store. We have a Target store that sells similar contemporary furniture and home decor. No cafeteria,but some have a Starbucks or sandwich shops.
for ikea canada, the smoke salmon comes with the salad. we don't even have these desserts; although we have daim cake. also our coffee cups are plain old white cups not these glass ones.
Went to Ikea just before christmas and the sale in january. Mostly i go 4 or 5 times a year. It's 30/40 min busride from my home. I like the coffeebeans!!!
Ah the İkea in my city is a showroom, they sell a limited number of items, and for the furniture you need to order and pick it up from there when it arrives. It's better than nothing but quite frustrating at the same time.
Never been in a ikea store, although we had one about 25 miles from our house in california. Since we have been in Okinawa, we do most of our furniture shopping at Notori and OK today (think that's their name) On a different note, my wife said Costco is coming to Okinawa soon.
I live in northwestern Indiana and the closest IKEA stores near me are in Illinois outside of Chicago. One in Schaumburg and the other in Bolingbrook. I have never been to one and I’ve always wanted to go. I’ve seen one in Italy when I visited my cousins. It was somewhere in Tuscany outside of Pisa.
I've heard of Ikea but I've never been in one. I think the closest one to me is in Atlanta which is a couple hours away. I thought the carts to carry your trays was kind of nifty. I love cafeterias but all the ones I've gone to didn't have carts, that must be a Japanese thing. They think of everything there.😊
I've only had the luxury of going to Ikea twice, and I wasn't able to eat at the store either time because of how busy it was XD Embarrassingly, the first time I went to Ikea, I was on a trip abroad in Hong Kong with my coworkers... then I got lost in the Ikea maze, separated from everyone else. It was a good thing I could speak some Chinese, and I managed to get help paging my companions because I was just so dizzy that I couldn't even tell where I came from anymore (and I also had no reception so I couldn't call them on my phone, lol). Ikea only recently opened a store in my country, a few years ago- and until now it's still the only Ikea in the whole country. So it's still a bit of a novelty and it's always full of people making a trip of just going there and eat at the cafe. The line to the cafe was literally longer than the lines at the register. Maybe when more Ikea stores open I'll be able to eat there someday...
We have an ikea store here in New Haven, Connecticut. We shop and eat there regularly. I don't believe that we have fish and chips on our menu. Have you tried their Swedish meatballs? Delicious.
Unfortunately one of my first visits to Ikea in my area back at 2019 was rather "hangry". Went there during lunch hours and spent over 30+mins waiting in line just to get food from the cafe while my stomach rumbles in pain... At least I enjoyed the decor exhibitions.
The meatballs in my Ikea reataurant is kinda dry as it's purely beef due to catering to Muslim customers. I'm not a fish person but I do prefer the salmon here over the meatballs. Anyhow, it's so super crowded on weekends that you can't see the food counter over the queue 😅
the IKEA here in Lone Tree Colorado is a mess. displays in disarray, so the whole ''Display Floor'' is difficult to navigate, the market place often has empty shelves and no tags on products that are on the shelves. I've been to NICE IKEAs , around the world, but the One Local here in Colorado, it's like a dump store, low end of the store grading system.
I've never understood localization in chains like these. 🤔 Ikea is Swedish, so one would expect Nordic food, right? But I know they serve curries etc. Same with Muji; in Finland, they have a selection of Finnish produce. Why would I buy those, I can get them anywhere..? 😅 Thanks for trying out the salmon, bread etc., that IS something we Nordics eat a lot! Ps. If you liked the salmon with dill, please check out the recipe for Finnish salmon soup. It's been very popular with the Japanese, and also voted as one of the best soups in the world. 😊
I live in New Westminster BC Canada and I drive to Coquitlam. The food is almost the same with a few differences. I go once every three months. I always start at the restaurant and then stop at this micro cafe they have on the second floor there is a bigger cafe after the check out. I always enjoy the food !
we have in norway in almost each city. the food in japan is much better quality and better taste than here. we dont have that bread selection you had in the video.
The food at IKEA in South Florida USA are really bad. Menu has not been change for over 8 years. And most of the food is dry and expensive. Besides Meat ball and Smoke Salmon fish there are no other choice is good. Very little selection on menu. Sad...
We have an Ikea the next county over. It is probably about a two and half hour drive away. I have never been to it but have seen it on my three hour drive to and from Universal. But the stuff they sell in our Ikea here is not worth the price. It is all made out of Particle board and will fall apart easy. I wouldn't purchase any of it.
I’m just from IKEA Brooklyn, NY, and I have to say it doesn’t look that good. The menu is smaller, and food didn’t look appetizing, so I ended up having a coffee with a cinnamon roll
One of my quirks when traveling is to visit Ikea, if there's one in the city I'm visiting. So far, I've been to the ones in Tokyo (Chiba, Shinjuku and Shibuya), Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Bali and Malmo. Just like McDonald's the experience is pretty standard whichever store you're in 😊.
