FlightShadow From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 862 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2178 times:
Well...whenever my grandparents take me to the IKEA in Seattle, I spend almost the whole time in the restraunt
If that counts...
Also, in upstate New York, there was a Harley-Davidson dealer w/ a BBQ restraunt upstairs (never went there to buy a Harley, unfortunately ). They had chunky gals on unicycles as waitresses...
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2177 times:
Unicycles! Man, that must be something.
There's a Galpin dealership somewhere in L.A. that has a Galpin Restaurant which offers good old-fashioned diner fare. That's pretty quaint, I think. Galpin is a huge car dealership.
I might just have to "buy a car" as an excuse to go eat at their cafe.
Zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4743 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2164 times:
I remember going to IKEA a few years ago and they had some kick ass Sweadish cookies with names I can't remember and probably can't pronounce.
Asuflyer05 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2369 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2157 times:
I got to IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ to catch the view of EWR.
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 5, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2150 times:
Are they really that good? I guess I should grab a bag of them like I keep saying I'm going to do every time I go there. I like the Ligonberry coke in the restuarant.
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Senorcarnival From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2146 times:
I don't go solely for the meatball the few times I go since the nearest one is 200 miles in Houston, but I look forward to buying a couple of bars of Marabou. They'll be opening a store in Austin in a few months so I can get my fix more frequently.
Max999 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 912 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2143 times:
Quoting Asuflyer05 (Reply 4): I got to IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ to catch the view of EWR.
I take the free IKEA bus in from NYC to the one in Elizabeth, NJ. I always stop off to get something to eat from the cafe and watch the flights at EWR.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 10, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2134 times:
Quoting TuffGong (Reply 9): nothing beats having a filling lunch by going from sample stand to sample stand at Costco filling up on freebies
I call them Appetizers.
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LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12366 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2127 times:
There are 2 IKEA stores near me in New Jersey; Elizabeth, mainly to see some flights at EWR when the cops aren't nosy and Paramus, a newer store. Every time I go there I get something besides food. Often though, I go to them during lunch time. The meatball platters are a good value, like many of their goods. Both of my local units also have snack bars that offer hot dogs for only $.50! I also like the cinnimon buns for $1. A few months ago, I took my mom to the Paramus store, and we only had lunch (yes, we both had the meatball platter). I do have a number of items from IKEA, like the computer table I use (as does my mom's), glasses, a coat rack, knives, cooking tools and pans, a couple of bookcases, some lamps, my coffee table and a number of other other items.
J_Hallgren From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1507 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2118 times:
On my twice a year trips to/from MA/FL, I stop at one or more IKEA's to buy food and/or eat....they have some cookies (IKEA brand) that I can't get anywhere else...the vanilla dreams and the oatmeal thins...both closely resemble the ones my late Mom used to make...and the prices on some other brands of cookies are cheaper than same brand in Sweden!
Getting to the Newark store was a PITA, so now I go to the New Haven CT one...very easy to get to from I-95 (IF you take the correct exit!)...
Airwave From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1117 posts, RR: 3 Reply 13, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2069 times:
IKEA Swedish meatballs and lingon berries rocks...but then, so do the cinnamon buns!
Airwave
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Trekster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2064 times:
They are great. Spent about £200 there once with my mum, sortin the house out, and had a filling meal of meatballs to finish the day off. They are yummy
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2046 times:
For me, a trip to IKEA is like a one-hour trip to Sweden -- without having to board a plane.
Quote: Are they really that good? I guess I should grab a bag of them like I keep saying I'm going to do every time I go there. I like the Ligonberry coke in the restuarant.
Yup, they're delish, at least in my opinion. I sometimes order them to go, too.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12595 posts, RR: 64 Reply 16, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 2034 times:
Very clever, those Swedes - if you don't come back just because the cheap-ass furniture breaks after six months, you'll at least come back for the food.
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Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3716 posts, RR: 14 Reply 18, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 2015 times:
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 16): Very clever, those Swedes - if you don't come back just because the cheap-ass furniture breaks after six months, you'll at least come back for the food.
Well, if the stuff breaks, you obviously aren't very handy at assembling them to begin with. IKEA RULES!
Sure, we're concerned for our lives. Just not as concerned as saving 9 bucks on a roundtrip to Ft. Myers.
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16896 posts, RR: 51 Reply 19, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1985 times:
Quoting AerospaceFan (Reply 2):
There's a Galpin dealership somewhere in L.A. that has a Galpin Restaurant which offers good old-fashioned diner fare. That's pretty quaint, I think. Galpin is a huge car dealership.
The Ford dealership down the street from me has a similar type thing as well.
Even though the IKEA here in Atlanta has been open for almost a year, I've yet to trek down there mainly because the one time I was in the area, the traffic was backed up because of folks going to IKEA.
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 21, posted (7 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 1941 times:
Quoting Srbmod (Reply 19): Even though the IKEA here in Atlanta has been open for almost a year, I've yet to trek down there mainly because the one time I was in the area, the traffic was backed up because of folks going to IKEA.
Our standard lack of traffic planning. I can hear the planning meeting now..."Let's slap a huge store here with limited parking and small two lanes road. Yeah, that'll be a good idea."
Quoting AerospaceFan (Reply 15): Yup, they're delish, at least in my opinion. I sometimes order them to go, too.
I may have to make a run down there today to get some for the Final Four games tonight.
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J_Hallgren From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1507 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1862 times:
When they opened the store in MA last year, they screwed up the traffic for 5 miles around that area, as I understood it, for the first two weeks at least...
Planespotting From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3440 posts, RR: 5 Reply 24, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1844 times:
Quoting Doona (Reply 18): Well, if the stuff breaks, you obviously aren't very handy at assembling them to begin with. IKEA RULES!
I always start off all man like and assume I can do it without reading the directions, and then shortly after that I realize that I should probably follow directions. This process usually works fine until the end, when inevitably one of directions I didn't follow comes back to haunt me when I go to attach the whole piece.
As I make this post, I am typing on a computer which is sitting on a desk with two drawers that unfortunately have no bottoms because I didn't put them in correctly in the beginning...damn dirty swedes
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25 Daleaholic: OK, only see one UK reply. Haven't been to IKEA for ages, do they have pretty much everything the Americans have?
26 Lamedianaranja: I used to go to IKEA so the kids could get rid of their excessive energy in the playroom, and shop in the meantime. They have great, cheap kids furnit
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