Breakfast and furniture shopping under one roof- Ikea!

mmm-yoso is not on vacation.  Cathy is back with documentation of meals she ate and Kirk is taking a breather.

Hi.  I seem to have been Missing In Action for a good part of this year, but now am back to blogging.

So, one morning I was in desperate need of ice cube trays, for a small project I was doing, and recalled that Ikea had a nice selection of interestingly shaped ones. Yeah, that's why we went to Ikea, hahaha!

For those of you who are not familiar with Ikea, it's a Swedish based company that makes knock down furniture and has a cafeteria that serves Swedish/Scandanavian style food in the middle of every store.

While walking from the parking lot to the main entrance, this sandwich board sign was...yelling out to me...

Well, it includes coffee; that makes it worth it right there.   Lets go try it out.

This Ikea store, in San Diego is a Franchised, not company owned, store, so some of the items on sale are different than the corporate sales and the Cafeteria can have its own way of doing things, but,I have been to both types of stores, and am on the email lists for both the local and the corporate stores, and pretty much the selection is similar, and the next closest store to us is in Carson, which is like, a 2 hour drive...which isn't good if you have miscalculated and have to drive home with an arm holding something on the roof of your car (oh, I could do an entire week of posts of photos showing people who miscalculated the size of their door or trunk opening versus what they were buying both at Ikea and Costco, especially around Christmas...so many cardboard boxes opened and strewn in the parking lot...).

So, anyhow, breakfast. I got the 'standard' $2.99 deal:

Scrambled eggs, 2 sausage, 2 bacon, 2 pancakes, lingonberry sauce and coffee.

The bacon is very thin, but has much smoky flavor.  The sausages have a nice flavor and light amount of pepper in them.  The pancakes are the traditional Scandinavian ones and are thin, crepe-like and the lingonberry sauce is a nice compliment.   This is well worth the $2.99 price tag.

The Mister asked what other options there were, and instead of the pancakes, you can get French Toast sticks or hash browned potatoes.  He got both.  The potatoes cost an extra $1 and were made of the previous day's red skinned potatoes  from dinner, were so nice, fresh and crispy and wonderful!

The "French Toast" was fried and I really liked those sticks.  Not like any kind of French Toast I have had, but oh so good.

We did go back and got a slice of the Apple Cake ($1.99) to go with our all-you-can-drink coffee that you self serve in those tiny cups.  I liked the coffee in particular, because you can also get all you can add real half and half for it.

The apple cake is pretty much all apples with some cinnamon (non-sticky, just the spice, no added sugar) joining the apples together in a graham cracker crust and topped with a vanilla cream sauce.  I like the non-sugary pastry choices here.

Ikea San Diego   2149 Fenton Parkway, San Diego 92108 ( in the mall with Costco and Lowe's, just off of Friars Road, about 1/2 mile west of Qualcomm Stadium) open for breakfast 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 7 days

Comments

[mizducky]

I love browsing through Ikea--I think of it the Disneyland of home furnishing stores. And I love their restaurant. I used to have a real thing for their Swedish meatball special--comfort food city.

[nhbilly]

Welcome back Cathy!
I use to had there .99 cent breakfast but it wasn't so filling haven't been back for anything else but I do love their meatballs with that taste lingonberry sauce. Yummy.

[Cathy]

Hi, MizD- It is just a fun place, with so may ideas come to life. the meatballs are just that -no filler- and are wonderful, as are the other main courses they serve. Haven't had anything I did not like.
Hey, Billy- Click onto the photo of the apple cake slice- I set it up with you in mind... ;)
The 99¢ breakfast that they occasionally have is pretty much this same one, they just serve many of them on certain days, to coincide with some kind of sale going on, so with the throngs of people, I think they give you less eggs. Going in and paying-oooh- full price- on a non-sale weekend, when it isn't as crowded, pretty much assures them giving you more becsue it will just go to waste anyhow. The Mister and I will order 3 or 4 if we are going to only have to pay 99¢-there are no rules!

[furniture stores]

omg... totally love ikea breakfasts!