Ikea - Restaurant

This review is based on three recent visits to the Ikea restaurant. The first two visits (on weekdays) were fine. It's hard to beat this place for a quick inexpensive meal. Their salmon dishes and Swedish meatballs are great. They also have very good soups, salads and deserts. The coffee is at best, mediocre. My third visit, on a Saturday afternoon was extremely disappointing. It seems that at least on this day, the restaurant was severely understaffed. The self serve salad and desert cases were nearly empty, they ran out of clean drinking glasses, there were no forks, the coffee machines were completely empty, and the entire dining area was filthy. Every unoccupied table was an absolute mess. Two stars for the restaurant, one extra star for the amazing view of the SS United States. 4/2023 - Our last two visits were much more pleasant. Previous issues seemed to have been resolved.

I would give it five stars except for the fact that they start turning breakfast into lunch before 11 even though breakfast is until 11. If you get there early enough you can enjoy breakfast but otherwise you have to have lunch. The food is very good and extremely cheap. The fast food line after the checkout counter also has great options including many vegetarian options like a really good veggie dog that only costs $0.75.