IKEA Restaurant Nottingham
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About IKEA Restaurant Nottingham
At Giltbrook Retail Park, IKEA Restaurant Nottingham serves Swedish-inspired dishes on a self-service format, with trays carried through a counter line rather than table service. Meatballs anchor the menu and are also sold in the food shop for takeaway at home, alongside soups and rolls. Soft drinks come with free refills, and meals bought with a family card receive a discount. IKEA Family Members get free tea or coffee on weekdays. Vouchers for the main shop area are handed out with meals. Service runs on a walk-in basis with no reservations. During off-peak hours the restaurant often runs at reduced capacity, closing part of the service, which can lead to a queue at the counter.
Good to know
- ReservationsWalk-in only
- ParkingFree parking lot · Free street parking · Paid parking lot
- AccessibilityWheelchair: entrance, parking lot, restroom, seating
- Good for kidsGood for kids · High chairs · Kids' menu
- DietaryVegan options · Vegetarian options
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention meatballs, family discount card, 95p hotdog and free soft drink refills.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention meatballs, family discount card, 95p hotdog and free soft drink refills.
Customer Review Summary
The meatballs are the clear favorite here, repeatedly praised as tasty and called a "must" alongside good value and generous portion sizes, with free soft drink refills and family card discounts noted as extra perks. Close behind, reviewers mention the soups and rolls, cakes, and free tea or coffee for IKEA Family members on weekdays. Several also single out staff patience and helpfulness at the tills. But recurring complaints weigh heavily against this: multiple diners describe lukewarm food, a disappointing 95p hotdog with a sausage they felt was undercooked, and dirty trays with hair found on a sausage during breakfast. Cleanliness comes up repeatedly too, with one reviewer describing dirty tables and floors left uncleaned until closing and half the restaurant shut down during service hours, while another notes the restaurant ran out of desserts entirely on their visit. One diner also mentions receiving a partial discount from a staff member after such issues.
Customer Review Summary
The meatballs are the clear favorite here, repeatedly praised as tasty and called a "must" alongside good value and generous portion sizes, with free soft drink refills and family card discounts noted as extra perks. Close behind, reviewers mention the soups and rolls, cakes, and free tea or coffee for IKEA Family members on weekdays. Several also single out staff patience and helpfulness at the tills. But recurring complaints weigh heavily against this: multiple diners describe lukewarm food, a disappointing 95p hotdog with a sausage they felt was undercooked, and dirty trays with hair found on a sausage during breakfast. Cleanliness comes up repeatedly too, with one reviewer describing dirty tables and floors left uncleaned until closing and half the restaurant shut down during service hours, while another notes the restaurant ran out of desserts entirely on their visit. One diner also mentions receiving a partial discount from a staff member after such issues.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Probably the best value food you can get at the Giltbrook retail park. Good portion sizes for the price, free refills on soft drinks. My favourite place for meatballs.”
- Google user
“Food is good. Meatballs look and smell nice, they even taste bit very good food. Restraint worker let us off of about £5 pounds or £6 pounds or £7 pound or maybe less but I will refuse to say who it was because I am not a snitch and she is niece. You also get vouchers for the main place which is good and very very very very good 👍🏻. Someones nan in her wheelchair thought it would be a good (very good) idea to create her own 10 pin bowling match and propell herself at the fire doors about 20mph or 17mph or maybe or it was even more mph it was very funny. Then a man stood up to shut the fire door and was blamed. He is an idiot. 4 starts well done IKEA”
- Google user
“The shop was nice but the food after the checkout was disappointing 95p for a hotdog I thought it would be nice so I go it, the sausage was pink and I don’t think it was cooked. NEVER AGIAN”
- Google user
“Kitchen shopping, so we popped into the restaurant for the loo and a cuppa. We wanted a quick snack and ended up getting chips, salad and meatballs for 3. The chips were hot and good portion size, everything else was luke warm. Disappointing IKEA.. and no Christmas music either. 🫤”
- Google user
“Always great value for money to feed the family, especially when you use the family card discount. Roberta on the tills had great patience when we were mistakingly trying to use a Tesco discount code! Never that busy mid week evenings, but they often shut half the service down, so can be a queue. On this occasion they had ran out of all deserts, which was odd.”
Highlights
“Chain store restaurant featuring Swedish-inspired food, including classic meatball & salmon dishes.”
- Great coffee
- Great dessert
- Popular for breakfast
- Popular for lunch
- Popular for dinner
- Popular for solo dining
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
- Dine-in
- Good for kids
- Vegan options
- Casual
- Onsite services
Show more amenities
- Coffee
- Quick bite
- Dessert
- Solo dining
- Restroom
- Free parking lot
- Dining options· 5
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Counter service
- Seating
- Accessibility· 3
- Wheelchair accessible parking lot
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
- Wheelchair accessible seating
- Family-friendly· 2
- High chairs
- Kids' menu
- Offerings· 1
- Vegetarian options
- Crowd· 1
- Groups
- Parking· 3
- Free street parking
- Paid parking lot
- Usually plenty of parking
Location
Restaurants near IKEA Restaurant Nottingham
- Nando's Nottingham - Giltbrook4.21,4050.1 mi
peri chips and garlic bread, loaded fries, perfectly cooked chicken
- Island Fish Bar4.21891.1 mi
fish & chips, kebab feast pizza, kebabs
- Brinsley Lodge4.11,5722.3 mi
mixed grill, steak night rib-eye, large portions
| Place | Rating | Distance | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| IKEA Restaurant NottinghamVegan options · Vegetarian options · Wheelchair accessible | 4.22,022 | — | meatballs, family discount card, 95p hotdog |
| Nando's Nottingham - Giltbrook | 4.21,405 | 0.1 mi | peri chips and garlic bread, loaded fries, perfectly cooked chicken |
| Island Fish Bar | 4.2189 | 1.1 mi | fish & chips, kebab feast pizza, kebabs |
| Brinsley Lodge | 4.11,572 | 2.3 mi | mixed grill, steak night rib-eye, large portions |
The 3 nearest restaurants by distance. Ratings, hours and review terms come from public business profiles.
