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IKEA Restaurant Lakeside

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3.5 out of 5 stars3.5(48 reviews)

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Heron Way, Grays RM20 3JE, United Kingdom

About IKEA Restaurant Lakeside

IKEA Restaurant Lakeside is a canteen-style restaurant inside IKEA in Grays, on Heron Way, open daily. Meatballs anchor the menu, served with mashed potatoes, and a meat-free meatball option sits alongside them for vegetarian diners. Hot dogs come with a meat-free version too. Breakfast runs to a full English and a veggie fry-up, and an omelette and hash brown are offered only with a full breakfast. Drinks include tea, latte and a fountain drinks tap. Guests order at a counter and pay at the tills, and the queue grows longer at busy times such as weekends. Family card members get a free tea.

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Reviews

3.5/5
48 reviews

What reviewers say

Reviewers most often mention swedish meatballs, english breakfast, veggie breakfast and meat free hot dog.

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Customer Review Summary

Meatballs, including the meat free version, are what reviewers return to most, praised as cheap, with a decent portion and good mashed potatoes, and one reviewer calls them the way to reward themselves after the maze of the store. Breakfast comes close behind, with a regular English breakfast and a veggie fry up described as tasty or fine, and a free tea with a family card noted as a bonus. Hot dogs, an almond croissant, a latte and desserts also get kind words. The recurring complaint is the queue. One reviewer waited about 50 minutes on a Saturday afternoon, another about 30, and a third says the tills need more staff, though several add that staff were doing their best. Reviewers also report items running out, including loganberry sauce, jam, peas and cutlery, and a drinks fountain cola that tasted like soda water. One regular says an omelette and hash brown request was refused, and the full veggie breakfast that replaced it arrived without tomatoes and without an apology from the counter.

Featured reviews

  • L
    “Cheap and cheerful. You can’t really go wrong with Ikea breakfast! With family member card you get a free tea, so if you’re around, this is decent for the price and quite standard food.”
  • Chris Hopkinson
    “The food is what’s expected. The queues are terrible. Just hire more staff on the tills, it’s not that hard. Staff are doing their best, but this is just ridiculous.”
  • Charlie Williams
    “I went to the ikea restaurant lakeside with my mum and dad today There today we had a regular english breakfast with bacon and tomatoes and sausages and it was so tasty and delicious It was the best breakfast I have ever had in the whole wide world It was a second breakfast for me It filled me up To drink I had a latte which I really enjoyed It was so lovely and warm It was one of the best latte I have ever had in the whole wide world My mum and dad enjoyed their regular english breakfast too They do very lovely food here at the ikea restaurant lakeside The staff were very kind and friendly The service was very good I had a very lovely first experience there today at the ikea restaurant lakeside with my mum and dad This place gets it's very first 5 out of 5 star rating by me Enjoy reading your google review by me Have a lovely rest of your day 5 stars all around”
  • Katie S
    “Staff were doing their best in clearly difficult circumstances - we visited about 1pm on a Saturday, queues were insane - we waited about 50 minutes from joining to paying. Lots of different food options had run out but we were able to get some meatballs (no jam). Seemed to be a lot of confusion at the drinks stations, and they were out of cutlery for about 10 minutes until they got some washed. Overall it did the job, and would revisit again - but not on a weekend!”
  • shehla Ahmed
    “I have been coming to ikea breakfast for years but last couple of time and today have bad experience again. Due to my food restrictions I was having only omlate and hash brown, which’s been refused as omlate can only be served with a full breakfast, then I asked for a full veggie breakfast, it came without tomatoes! The lady (old one)behind the counter was not a bit of apologetic about it, this poor service has begun since this old looking lady (all due respects) started to serve, before that I always used to get my omlate and hash brown with tea.”

Hours

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Good to know

“Chain store restaurant serving Swedish-inspired food, including classic meatballs, veggie balls, salmon dishes and cinnamon buns.”

  • Accessibility
    Wheelchair-accessible car park · Wheelchair-accessible entrance · Wheelchair-accessible seating

Amenities

  • Wheelchair-accessible car park
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  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Wheelchair-accessible seating
  • Wheelchair-accessible toilet

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