Ikea - Monash

Our favourite place to spend the morning or afternoon that started off with breakfast or lunch before walking around the window shopping maze.

IKEA is the place to go for do it yourself furniture. The option of adding on or subtracting certain features of the furniture makes it ideal for small, cramped spaces. Had breakfast at the Springvale branch & was pleasantly surprised. Enjoyed the traditional breakfast & the garlic bread. The Swedish meatballs & mash was great.The apple cake was average.

So you go to IKEA and suddenly you are transformed to your dream house with all your dream furnishings. Seriously you do. And it is so relaxing to go thru their maze of unique product and interior designs. And what makes it so enjoyable and relaxing to go to IKEA is because at some point in time you will be able to enjoy that piece of sofa you are pining for because it is reasonably priced. They have unique, simple and functional designs for their products that makes you think, "If only the world is designed like IKEA products, it will be a cosier and happier place to live in." That's according to an IKEA convert like me by the way. :-)

Give it a miss - BYO food.1. Chips - Awful; they taste strange, are are not crisp, or cooked well.2. Swedish 'meat' balls - these have the consistency of recycled cardboard, and taste similar. The sauce is nice.3. When they first came to Oz, they were in Moorabbin, and the food was quite nice, and passable for food to have because you are hungry. But not anymore.4. Prepare to wait quite a while to get through to the service area, not enough staff serving, not enough food ready to go, so needed to wait while more was prepared (So, yes, it was freshly cooked).5. Sad, but true.

Tried phoning them this afternoon. Constant engaged signal. CONSTANT.Not good enough.This review is of customer service, not their restaurant.