IKEA Restaurant and Cafe

Although with small portion, it’s a great deal. Fair price with decent food/​snacks. Offer something different other restaurants without. A good resting place to eat after shopping.

If I am strictly speaking about the restaurant/​café here, its a 3 stars in my book. I guess I just don’t understand the craze about nordic meatballs. They are not bad but I don’t find them special. Same as how I feel about the rest of the menu. Nothing to write home about. In fact, I find their salmon lasagna quite revolting. However, I do like to grab a hotdog/​soft serve after shopping here mainly because it is cheap — McDonalds’ cheap. Shopping here, on the other hand, is very satisfying and worthy of 5 stars. But then again, this review is strictly on the dine-​in food.

Its a strange review this one: we are talking about Ikea yet we aren’t talking about Ikea itself.
Plonked in the middle of Kowloon Bay is a huge red building called Megabox– this is a shopping mall that was intended to house a number of DIY shops such as B&Q and so on though this theme doesn’t seem to have caught on and shops are now more generalized. What hasn’t changed though, is the huge Ikea shop which has been here since day 1. Unlike their other shops in HK, their restaurant section is actually separate to the main shop itself and this goes to show you that a lot of people are coming here specifically for the food and not the unpronounceable furniture.
The first thing you note that this place is family orientated: there is a hut sitting in the middle of the dining hall and kids could eat whilst running about. You will see multi colourd cups that you could use to cater for your little darlings. The food offered is also on a much bigger scale than before– it used to be a meatballs and salmon then that’s about that. Now you have multiple choices for lunch and dinner set meals and further offerings in the salad section. Operation wise its the same DYI theme as you get at other places and I would applaud most people for cleaning up after themselves. You always get a few bad’uns but its not too bad.
Would I recommend it? Yes, its not something you would fly to HK to try but I think this really offers a no-​frills good value dining experience that we should get more of in HK. I don’t need all the fancy stuff sometimes, just give me somewhere nice and comfy to eat then I will be happy. I will even put my own tray away.