IKEA Restaurant (Alexandra)

About $16, limited time only item, quite affordable given they give an entire lamb shank. The meat was fall off the bone tender, sauce complimented the meat well as well. The sides were decent, didn't increase or decrease my impression of the dish as a whole. Despite it being from a buffet line (IKEA) style it was plated pretty nicely and was aesthetically pleasing too

^^^ Like wow... So flavourful! It’s totally from a box but it has a ton of MSG, giving it loads of umami flavour. The peas were crisp and juicy, and the cranberry sauce really balanced out the savoury tastes. Though it was a touch too sour for my taste, I thought the plate of meatballs were very well balanced with the crisp peas, juicy meatballs and creamy mash. The meatballs especially were like little nuggets of juicy, slightly sweet meat! The mushroom soup was quite delicious. It was creamy and the mushroom taste was pleasant and not overwhelming. There were also plenty of little chunks of mushroom that was very yummy.

The rest, however, was a little underwhelming, especially for their price tag. The garlic bread was subpar; it was soft and not very crisp, with little flavour. The fried chicken was also underwhelming, not a lot of flavour and slightly overcooked.

The blueberry cheesecake had a delicious crust. It was not as creamy as I’d have liked and the blueberries tasted slightly artificial.

Overall: 6.5/10 🍽🇸🇪

If you detox with vegetarian food, here is what you can get @IkeaSingapore

👉 12 Veg balls with couscous $6.50 each
👉 Ginger thins $2.50
👉 Add-on garlic bread $1.00
👉 Free of charge family tea & coffee
👉 Swedish Apple cake $3.50 (lucky treat as it’s always sold out fast)

As Festive season is approaching, we can’t help but hope to see more new dishes here. We didn’t see any new dish this time round except the salted egg chicken wings. The ikea restaurant is the highlight every time we visit IKEA (so more new!! inspiring dishes please!!! )

So @ikeasingapore has decided to take their original fried chicken wings to another level by creating a salted egg flavour. Though we had them taken away, I was still bought over by the scrumptiousness. If you are dining in, probably even more impressive.

Embellished by a luscious coating of creamy salted egg sauce, some might feel that its richness overshadowed the original marinate of the wings, but I wouldn’t mind for the indulgence. Watch the staff toss those wings in a bowl of potentially addictive yellow goodness, sprinkled with curry leaves and sliced chili padi. Not overly creamy or custardy, it actually makes a legit picnic snack.

As you may notice that we are continuing our vegetarian mode this week and hence, we order 12 vege ball With couscous and sour cream. However, later we realize that this set is not included in the “World Food Day campaign” (From 14th-20th Oct) by @ikeasingapore & @foodfromtheheartsg.
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For every combo meat ball set you purchase $9.90 (from usual price of $12.90), $4 will be used to fund food distribution programme which provides food to the less fortunate families and elderlies. If you visit IKEA this week & wanna support this campaign 👉 Do go for the combo meatball set! We are not sponsored in anyway but always love this kind of social cause and wanna share with y’all. 😁❤️

When we see this new item on board at IKEA Alexandra, we wanna try so bad that we ask the lady to tweak the dish (P.S. we are still on vegetarian mode). Here we go, curry noodle without drumstick! 😜 The curry soup is so good that we easily crown this dish one of our IKEA favorites. We have only 3 ingredients in the bowl: not so oily fried tau pok, bean sprouts, and yellow noodle. Simply the best one can ask for! (One thing we regret is that the curry soup is not 💯 vegetarian as it was boiled with chicken but we did our best to stick to our regime! 😅)