Ikea opens first ever standalone Swedish restaurant on UK high street

Anyone who has been to Ikea knows nary travel is implicit without a sheet of meatballs or a loaded blistery dog successful the cafe.

Fancy 1 of the Swedish chain’s signature dishes but don’t request immoderate furnishings oregon homeware? You’ll soon beryllium capable to get your hands connected some (and more) without the request to sojourn 1 of Ikea’s stores.

This week, the retailer announced the opening of its precise archetypal standalone restaurant in the UK, located connected King Street successful Hammersmith, London, adjacent the brand’s revamped Hammersmith City Store.

As good arsenic offering each your favourite treats, including meatballs – which are disposable successful some nutrient and vegan options – mash, and peas, determination are besides plentifulness of different dishes.

Ikea favourites similar penne pasta, food and chips, and salmon with cous cous, arsenic good arsenic a children’s menu, are among the disposable dishes.

So, portion the edifice whitethorn deficiency its accustomed furnishings buying add-on, you tin inactive expect the aforesaid large meals you cognize and emotion — with the added convenience of being connected the precocious street.

With prices starting from conscionable 60p, the edifice besides offers a meal menu, alongside a scope of different treats each of which are capable to beryllium ordered implicit the antagonistic oregon connected self-service screens.

In a statement, Matthew Gould, marketplace manager astatine Ikea London City said: ‘We cognize however overmuch our customers emotion the Ikea restaurant, and we’re excited to observe the opening of our precise archetypal precocious thoroughfare restaurant.

‘Fans of our delicious dishes tin recharge during their buying travel with our celebrated Swedish meatballs, popular successful for a accepted Swedish “fika” interruption for java and a saccharine treat, oregon find an affordable repast for the kids close connected the precocious street.’

Opening its doors to consumers today, the edifice (which was formerly a Wasabi) is moving an other peculiar woody for those wanting to popular successful for a wound to eat.

If you’re an Ikea Family member, you’ll person £5 disconnected your in-store acquisition erstwhile you walk much than £5 astatine the edifice connected the aforesaid day.

Valid until November 30, it’s the cleanable accidental to yet bargain that table you’ve been meaning to get oregon the apparel rack that’s needed replacing for acold excessively long.

Over the past fewer days, Ikea’s UK Instagram account has besides been teasing a meatball-related motorboat aft addressing ‘rumours’ that their transportation boxes odor similar the much-loved dish.

‘There are rumours going circular the net that authorities immoderate of the logos connected our transportation boxes odor of meatballs,’ the marque said successful a post.
 
‘As implausible arsenic this sounds, we’ve added a enactment to our transportation boxes conscionable to beryllium safe. If for immoderate wholly unfounded crushed your container happens to odor similar meatballs (hypothetically, of course) you tin fto america cognize via societal media.’

Another featured a idiosyncratic usher connected what to bash if your transportation container smelt of meatballs, resulting successful galore frustrated customers to instrumentality to the remark section.

‘Just motorboat the damn candle oregon immoderate this selling is for already,’ Somebeartyoncetoldme wrote, portion kwassazahra commented: ‘Guys halt playing with me… if you’re delivering meatballs I’m gonna commencement crying.’

It’s unclear whether the run is related to the caller store’s motorboat oregon if different breathtaking announcement is coming. Who knows, possibly there’s conscionable been a question of meatball-scented postage?

The institution has revealed a fig of large changes successful caller months, including 1 designed to marque its buying acquisition much accessible for UK customers.

This saw Ikea squad up with Tesco to connection implicit 100 mobile pick-up points successful supermarkets crossed the country, with a further 100 pick-up points planned to open.

In addition, the marque is readying to unfastened 2 caller inner-city stores successful London’s Oxford Street and Brighton, making it easier than ever to get your Hemnes, Malm oregon Billy bookcase fix.

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