Ikea - Thurrock

I suspect the food is a loss leader, i.e. they sell a cheap breakfast to get shoppers into the store who then stay on and buy household goods. The food is good and follow the Ikea pattern, if you buy a bacon roll you get a roll with bacon on the side and you have to assemble it. Not somewhere to visit for a feed but if you plan to shop there arrive early and eating is probably easier and cheaper than eating at home.

How simple is it to make sure you have sweetner available…..no sweetner, no sugar sachets just a pot of sugar with a spoon shoved in it……very poor.

Looking forward to having something to eat here but sadly, that was short-lived. Barely anything in the fridge displays but the menu board looked promising. I liked the idea of plant-based balls but as there were only about a dozen sitting in the tray, I asked if I could have some fresh ones. The emphatic answer was No! You have to have these ones So I decided instead to go for the veggie balls. At least the tray was full, so it looked as if they were freshly delivered. As I tucked in, I realised they were tepid, not very warm or even hot. I ate 3 or 4 but gave up. I couldn 't be bothered to do anything about it especially with the same counter staff who was rude to an elderly man who was hard of hearing. Sadly, I ended up with a Dehli Belly! Another one crossed off the list.

Not many people in the for food so that was good as we had a long way to travel . The food was nice and hot and a good choice of seats .

We went today and we were really excited (it's the closest thing I can get to the Nordics what with Covid), we arrived and it was abit confusing to book in, they said there were no tables only at 10.38am but I can book a table for 10.30am (which we did), the woman and man were lovely..we queued up, not much social distancing but everyone in masks, we noticed alot of food was missing which maybe due to Covid, we ordered the food and I asked for a veggie with no beans or mushrooms, the woman slaps on the beans and the mushrooms which I had to tell the other woman I can not eat it, I am allgeric to chilly which is in alot of baked beans, she was very sorry, there was no replacements though and I paid full price, there was no toast either so I literally had veggie sausage, one tomato, two hash browns, omelette but ok, that's fine. We sat down to eat, I liked how they had the plastic between tables, I prefer that, makes it more private. The food, well, my son barely ate anything, he disliked it very much, my husband was so so and for me, the sausages were very burnt, omelette was cold and my hash brown were uncooked in the middle! Unfortunately it seems the sausage may have some sort of chilly in possibly because I have had a reaction to something in the food but can not find the ingredients online. At the end of shopping we went to the little takeaway bit at the end, the man was lovely, woman, not so much, food was terrible and noone wanted the lemonade, noone liked it. I guess you can not moan as its cheap but omg I wouldn't recommend or ever eat there again. Abit disappointing when you drive 45 minutes to get breakfast there to and its just utterly terrible lol!!