Hey Greeno, just realised you must be in Bristol, I have 2 items purchased there in 2020, a 3 tier steamer for on the cooker top, and the best potato peeler and they are still going strong 24 years later, I recommend their kitchen and bedding items, but give the furniture and food a miss!! Sorry if I ramble.
@@GreenoEats Well, it was 20 years ago lovely, only London and Bristol then! Not at all sshowing my age, as you can ssee I have sstuttering!! HA HA fingerings typing too fast, have a good evening. Oh and by the way, do me a favour, check up on Gary. Think maybe some problems, not sure, but says he under pressure and I know his Mum poorly.
On a friday the main meals are half price. Their salmon with roasted vegetable couscous is £3.60 which is great value. We find the fish and chips pretty grim
I would have gone on a Friday - not only would the meal have been half price, but we wouldn't have ended up wandering round the whole store and spending a load of money ha ha!
Another very entertaining review Greeno. You might have waited till Little un finished her fish and chips before you told everyone how bad it was though 😂😂. It didn't seem to put her off though. She obviously hasn't developed your refined palate yet 😂😂
A new subscriber to your channel after watching you with Gary. Looks like your subscriber total has shot up since that collaboration, and well deserved from what I've seen of your reviews so far. Well done
@@GreenoEats and I think they change it around too. One reason being subject or shops and what takes off and trend. I’m all over it (I just like learning) Rooting for you
I try and avoid IKEA restaurant as I find noise stressful. But I do buy the meatballs, gravy and jam and make it all at home and the whole family love it. Usually do fries rather than mash.
Thankfully never found myself in IKEA that many times but in fairness they're not pretending to be gourmet just offering something warm for the price of a sandwich...least that's how I looked at it. Brilliant honest review that we love mate , well done 👍
Hello from on the road 😊 little miss greeno is a cutie pie ❤ havent been to ikea for decades, the meatballs are always kind of nice with gravy and mash 😊
Hi, I subscribed after seeing you with Gary Eats. You both have something in common that you both detest mushrooms 😂 Just watched the IKEA vlog and nice to see your family involved. Not been to IKEA for years but used to love eating there and used to be very good quality. I used to have the fish and chips but ask for the meatball sauce to be put on it ! I don’t know if you still can but you could buy sachets of the meatball sauce mix in their food shop, but now I buy them from Amazon. I look forward to watching some of your past vlogs plus new ones when they drop 👍🏻
Yep, myself and Gary have bonded over our fungi phobia! Welcome to my channel!! We did buy some meatballs and the packet sauce mix to have at home, but I will make my own proper mash 😄
Greeno looks like you have some serious work to teach your daughter and develop her tastes onto par with her dads if she liked that "fish and chips" haha, makes the Harry Ramsden's you had w Gary look Michelin star in comparison.
I have flitted across from "Gary Eats" after seeing the two of you at Harry Ramsden's . That piece of fish your daughter had looked a funny colour to me ! The CousCous mixture sounded right up my street - with a squeeze of lemon on it , goats cheeses and a salad = wonderful. I must say that the dirty trays would put me off.....not that you eat off them but - oh yuk ! Thank you for the video.
Glad you enjoyed the collaboration, and welcome to my channel :-) The dirty trays give a bad first impression of the level of cleanliness don't they! The fish was just weird wasn't it, but little'un gobbled the whole thing up!
I'm quite new to your channel and I'm binge watching your videos! Found you through Gary eats. You two are my absolute favorite food reviewers. Awesome ❤
Interesting Greeno I have part Swedish on my mums side...I have never tried Salmon 🎉 We have IKEA here in Australia 🇦🇺 I love anything smoked too lol 😅 Mum used to make Swedish Meatballs all the time...they never lasted long either 😂😂😂
Baked salmon with tartar sauce is good. I agree with Greeno that baked salmon should still be pink in the center. When it’s fully cooked, it is a waste of a good piece of fish.
Hello Greeno hope you and your family are well 🙏 Little one is brilliant she is not fussy she try anything bless her🤗 Thanks for sharing and keep up the awesome work 👍🤗🍀
Yeah we are all good thanks - hope the same for you! Little'un is definitely not a fussy eater, she'll wolf down things most kinds would completely turn their noses up at !!
I have to be honest, Greeno, I am half British and half Norwegian, so I refuse to go to IKEA and Swedish meatballs, cant stack up against the Norwegian meatballs. But I have to admit that I tried it once when the wife forced me to go to IKEA and I have yo say, it wasn't good. But a great review and have yourself an absolutely wonderful rest of your day, Greeno.
As a half Norwegian it's your duty not to enjoy Swedish things isn't it 😂 I appreciate your kind words about my review, and I wish you a thoroughly pleasant evening too.
I was going to share you our family recipe of mushrooms in a cinnamon sauce 😂 Joking aside l love gravalax... had it last in Edinburgh at The End of the World Pub served with toasted thin triangles of a type of Rye Bread .. l think in Sweden its called black bread .
Oh my goodness! I agree with everything you say! We ex wife (we now get on!) and the kids went up to Edinburgh from Cambridge. We from Cambridge. Anyway up to see grandparents. Edinburgh IKEA, was desolate very none busy. Had the classic meat balls and everything that goes with it. Tastes well as you have said. It’s global multi billion pound nonsense!
Saw your collab with Gary and enjoyed the two of you and your banter. Thought I would check out your channel and enjoying your videos so I have subscribed. I see why you and Gary mesh so well, both of you are likable and honest with your reviews. Keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoyed the collaboration, we had a lot of fun doing it and are already planning a sequel in the future. Thanks for checking my channel out, I am pleased you're enjoying it !
I eat at my local IKEA a little while ago with a friend and after joining up on line had great value cheap meatballs and my friend enjoyed his salmon. Both meals (with 50% discount) on a friday only were "Good". But we are not rushing back.....a 7/10 meal experience.Agree Fish & Chips looked pretty poor so happy to avoid that choice.
Only been in Ikea once years ago, wasn't a fan seemed to have some weird one way system back then. May have changed now. That canteen looked utterly joyless, the fish looked like cardboard. I liked the look of the two salmon dishes although as you say, it's the meatballs sans mash and the Dime bar cake that seem to be the most popular.
It's far from my favourite place! They still have that one way system, but you can find some shortcuts :-) The whole canteen (struggling to call it a restaurant) had school dinner vibes - not great!
Ah… the 3 of you together luck such a beautiful family. Bless ❤️ I hope you have seen Gary’s latest video. £100 per person and NOTHING edable. At least your meal was. 👍
Mash potato IS made out of potato You mentioned that the food is basically ready meals heated up...as an ex Waitrose cafe employee we used to basically do the same...i wonder how the cost, value and taste would compare
@@GreenoEatsYou hit the nail on the head there. Swedish school dinners. Also came to find your vlogs via your collaboration with Gary. Daim cake and bars are great - and gluten free. Thanks for reminding me about the screaming children in IKEA.
Pretty much a good all round review of the food they serve at Ikea. Cheap no thrills food. It has got it's reputatio for it's price rather than the quality. Thought the fish looked a bit odd, not really appealing visually. Most people say that he hotdogs are worth a try as they are dirt cheap. Hate to think what they put in them. I've eaten there, meaning IKEA, once before and thought is was OK. I haven't rushed back! The queues for the food have put me off.
Hi George - this is now the fifth time you have asked for this - as I already advised, when I get to Iceland I will pick some up. I just haven't been there yet!
Hmmmm didn’t look the best Greeno…. I liked the look of the Dime Cake though! Often wanted to try the Meatballs from the IKEA in Wednesbury but never did. The channel is rocketing mate 🚀….Smithy
Yeah, reminded me of school dinners mate. I mean, better school dinners than we had in my school, but school dinners nonetheless! The Daim cake and the meatballs are a classic, but even they didn't save the overall experience (plus I had to spend an afternoon in Ikea to boot !
I’ve had to buy a lot of furniture in my life but at no point have I ever felt the need to go to IKEA. Maybe if I wanted to decorate my house like student accommodation it would be a consideration though. It looks like hell on earth to me
Agreed, not somewhere I enjoy visiting! We’ve picked up a few bits over the years, mostly for the kids rooms where whatever you get is gonna get wrecked in next to no time anyway!
I agree that tartare sauce is great, but it just doesn't work with salmon in my opinion! I have featured some vegetarian options on my channel - onion bhaji burgers and a b=vegetable curry that I made spring to mind, but I will try to cover some more of that on my travels too :-)
@@GreenoEats I don’t eat fish to be honest, the smell of fish makes my stomach turn but tartare goes with lots of things! Not just fish but everyone I know who has cod and chips swear by a side of it! I’m amazed your daughter didn’t like it, it’s not too dissimilar to mayo and gherkin on a Big Mac! If you ever swing by ikea again, would be interested to know how the meat free meatballs compare to the meat meatballs. Same goes with their meat and meat free hotdogs! Great channel, great content sir!
@@GreenoEats thanks for the heads up! I’m not veggie by choice, I don’t naturally make the enzymes needed to handle meat and I am allergic to synthetic enzymes. I know they do a veggie range of their meat range but really not found a decent and honest review! I know it’s not meat and it’s never going to be meat but a good vegetarian food is good in its own right and if you can get a vegetarian food wrong, give up and go home lol!
Never eaten in the place and based on this review. I never will. Costco’s food would be far better, not sure if you have one nearby? But Edinburgh they are next to each other. Would be a no brainer for the Costco hot dog. Apologies if you’re reviewed Costco.. I’ve no followed from the beginning so maybe have missed some.
@@GreenoEatsyou do unfortunately. That’s a pity as their hotdog is £1.50 and it’s 100% beef. And a few other menu items that are fairly decent for the price. Save a lot of money using their fuel as well. I don’t pay for the membership but I do get all the perks 😊
Hi Greeno, the mash potato may be powered mash, but powered mash is just 96% - 98% dehydrated potato, so yes it is real potato, you might want to do some fact checking when you are editing, otherwise you may find yourself in court.....just a point, and I agree the fish didn't look great.
Hi Jason, welcome to the channel. Gary slightly pips me in terms of videos released. I publish every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He is every other day. So essentially he’s doing 7 videos a fortnight to my 6.
@@jasonnhiggins615 Sometimes, the majority of what I do is fairly local to me, but I am off to Cornwall soon, and a couple of other UK trips planned. Also a trip to Vienna, Hungary and Slovakia next month too which should be fun!
Absolutely brilliant review ..... I was expecting nothing more than Death by Meatball. Right ..... thank God you didn't order the vegetarian balls - suitable only for firing from a musket at your enemies. Yep, it's basically as crap as I remember it ..... the starter looked reasonably good, the fish and chips looked like they'd had the colour and taste sucked out of them, the meatballs I reckon are actually tasty but I find the gravy is effectively like an oil slick and the jam is curiously appalling. Your wife's sweet looked boring whereas I felt a slight tinge (and I mean very slight tinge) of excitement with your sweet. Price was good .... but the meal was nothing to get titillated about.
I think the battered fish has been bought in frozen, ready pre cooked and then reheated in-store, looks like a Boxed farm foods battered fish... First impression is very unappetising and pale, insiped looking .... None of their food will be home-made, it will be all home-cooked ... 5/10 for me 😊
Absolutely hate Ikea. Walking around there is a nightmare, and at the end I've never bought ANYTHING. The idea of walking around there on a bank holiday makes me shudder. The only things I've known people to buy are those cube shelving units and those cheap coffee tables.
@@GreenoEats my wife LOVES it there. She raves about the meatballs and hotdogs (very average to me) I do like the dime cake though it's sickly. An afternoon walking around those fake room setups, looking at things with weird names that we'll never use, only to leave with IKEA branded sandwich bags, facecloths, a desk lamp or other little bits isn't fun to me. Then there's the fun of getting out of the car park. Now CEX, Cash Converters/Generator, Screwfix, Game, Curry's, or charity shops, now those are the shops I like. Walking through an aspirational maze in a warehouse, it's like a shit version of The Crystal Maze, you go through Living Room Zone, Garden Zone, Bedroom Zone, Office Zone, Bathroom Zone, Kids Zone, Lighting Zone, to end up in the Cafe/Restaurant (the shit Crystal Dome, plus the tills where money is exchanged for items with names that sound like 1970s Dr Who villains) where the ONLY prizes on offer are weight gain or diabetes, not even a keepsake Crystal with "I cracked walking around IKEA" or a T Shirt with "I survived IKEA and all I got was this lousy T Shirt",
I had the Swedish National Dish in IKEA of köttbullar( pork and beef meatballs) mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberries jam. Not as good as those I had in Sweden. The Daim Bar dessert is epic. I wouldn't touch their fish and chips.
Oh no not IKEA. Takes 4 hrs to get out. Never again..I had a nice chicken dinner there once in the Essex IKEA. After many years, have only just heard about meat balls which does not turn me on. We never use IKEA as it's not easy for the wife with her problems. Electric chair a waste of time as always so packed, it restricts movement. Your fish and chips sounds like the same we had from a fish and chip shop. Under fried. Fish was bland, no flavour. Chips were also under done. A bit hard. Where does one get good fish and chips 3 bad experiences in a row. Best was Trago mills take away by MerthyrTydfil, that was good.. So it's back to Trago Mills. Thanks for your review. Our nearest one is Cardiff, but it's banned by my wife. It's a Maze like Hampton Court.
I used to live in Caerphilly, so have experienced the horror of Cardiff IKEA too 😂 It's a most unpleasant shop in my opinion. One way rabbit warren of stuff that's a pain to build!!
Good grief! Sorry, Greeno, I am just not a fan of these places at all! They rely purely on a captive audience i.e. their shoppers needing something to eat whilst shopping; but £30 for that? WOW! No thank you. The only 2 palatable items there were the gravlax but even that was missing some well needed bread and the Daim Bar cake, but you can get that in the deep freeze of most supermarkets. I hate being so negative, but I just would not entertain these places, I would rather do my shopping and find a McDonald's drive-thru on the way home. The only "when in Rome" item there were the meatballs but I doubt they were truly authentic. Thumbs up to the video as always, but thumbs down for the food.
why not take them to where Your friend has just been your at one side and he is at the other side of the price scale. but you may have had a better meal than him how dare you eat the childs dime pudding heheheeh even on screen the fish looks weird. and dry.
Mrs Greeno doesn't like lobster or oysters - so even if it was good it would be wasted :-) I feel for Gary having spent all that money on a disappointing lunch though!
Haven't been to an IKEA for c.7years! Doubt your review will change my mind! Voulez Vous??? Have watched >6 of your reviews since subscribing following your colab. with Gary.
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Take a chance on me folks - well my video anyway ! (can I get away with any more Abba puns!)
Let me know your thoughts on this meal below !!
Chicken tikka tell me what's wrong.
@@robsmith6281 excellent punnage there!
@@GreenoEats The Quality is So Bad now Sir compared to over 30 years ago. I Know.
I was convinced it was an Alan partridge joke 😂😂
Thank you Greeno and family, I love IKEA meatballs, with my Salmon (pink) I like Horseradish! 🤗👍💫
Meatballs are the best thing they sell in the whole shop !
Great video greeno. Nice to meet the family.
Thanks James 🙂
Little un is adorable, reminds me of my granddaughter, she obviously isn't too fussy about her fish and chips, good girl x
She's a really good, unfussy eater, which is a real bonus. She'll try things my teenager won't even look at !
By the way, I found those buns to be dry, but the Swedish dip them in their coffee, helps!!
Ah, thanks for the tip!
IKEA Cinnamon buns are the best! I have a freezer filled with them.
I do agree their fish and chips are best avoided
I just can't do cinnamon - tastes like gone off medicine to me!
Hey Greeno, just realised you must be in Bristol, I have 2 items purchased there in 2020, a 3 tier steamer for on the cooker top, and the best potato peeler and they are still going strong 24 years later, I recommend their kitchen and bedding items, but give the furniture and food a miss!! Sorry if I ramble.
Actually this was IKEA in Southampton… although it doesn’t matter where it is, I hate them all the same 🤣🤣🤣
@@GreenoEats Well, it was 20 years ago lovely, only London and Bristol then! Not at all sshowing my age, as you can ssee I have sstuttering!! HA HA fingerings typing too fast, have a good evening. Oh and by the way, do me a favour, check up on Gary. Think maybe some problems, not sure, but says he under pressure and I know his Mum poorly.
On a friday the main meals are half price. Their salmon with roasted vegetable couscous is £3.60 which is great value. We find the fish and chips pretty grim
I would have gone on a Friday - not only would the meal have been half price, but we wouldn't have ended up wandering round the whole store and spending a load of money ha ha!
@@GreenoEatsbeing a husband and father you will never avoid spending money
Another very entertaining review Greeno. You might have waited till Little un finished her fish and chips before you told everyone how bad it was though 😂😂. It didn't seem to put her off though. She obviously hasn't developed your refined palate yet 😂😂
It’s all a matter of personal taste I guess (and in this case she clearly didn’t have any!)
Littleun holds the fork like a murderer.😀
I know, I have tried and tried to correct it, but she is having none of it!
A new subscriber to your channel after watching you with Gary.
Looks like your subscriber total has shot up since that collaboration, and well deserved from what I've seen of your reviews so far. Well done
Thanks for your kind words - glad you are also enjoying my content :-)
Welcome to the channel Neil
As the little Alians would say,"get Smash get mash".
I am old enough to remember those ads!
Swedish meatballs?
I love you
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
Another Brilliant Broadcast Again.
Most kind Nigel 🙂
you scared the neighbours away in under a minute, good job :-)
Ha ha :-)
*Outstanding Review- thoroughly enjoyable RECOMMEND WATCHING 💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻*
Thank you, very kind of you to say so 🙂
@@GreenoEats hopefully the buzzwords will help get your channel tickling the algorithms
@@uglenddalejones2 thanks, those pesky algorithms are an enigma to me 😂
@@GreenoEats and I think they change it around too. One reason being subject or shops and what takes off and trend. I’m all over it (I just like learning)
Rooting for you
Rumor has it that their meatballs are made out of the remains of shoppers who were unable to find the exit. 😉
🤣🤣🤣
Missing shoppers! I did wonder what they were made of - but I'm not going to even think of someone with a shiny nose who pulls a sleigh.
Over from Gary, great video. I can't resist that daim cake 😂
Glad you enjoyed the collab enough to come and check my channel - and thanks for your kind words. The Daim cake was one of very few highlights ha ha!
@@GreenoEats will be doing some catching up on previous videos. Onwards and upwards friend!
Dante’s Circles of Hell 🤣
It's the perfect example of what a day in Ikea is like !!
@@GreenoEats haha 😆
I try and avoid IKEA restaurant as I find noise stressful. But I do buy the meatballs, gravy and jam and make it all at home and the whole family love it. Usually do fries rather than mash.
Mash with meatballs just seems wrong
@@keithparker1346 Yes it is odd!
I would prefer chips myself, but as Little'un had chips I picked the mash 😊 The meatballs are good aren't they!
Never been able to bring mysrlf to eat in an ikea! Bravo to you!
Not sure I'd be in a hurry to do so again!
This review gets me thinking the Sainsbury's cafe at Somerford should get a Michelin star! 😆
Haha !
I suppose it gets a one yellow from the Greeno signal.
That’s about right!
Thankfully never found myself in IKEA that many times but in fairness they're not pretending to be gourmet just offering something warm for the price of a sandwich...least that's how I looked at it.
Brilliant honest review that we love mate , well done 👍
Yeah, it has school canteen vibes for me - but at least it's not expensive. Appreciate the kind words :-)
THIS
Has to be meatballs,mash,gravy and the berry jam. We typically have a stock of them all in the freezer.
The meatballs aren't bad are they, didn't like the mash at all though
I would never eat fish and chips in ikea or a curry in spoons just Swedish food. Good meat balls 😋 Loganberry jam 🎉
Just wanted to try a few different things that they had on offer. But the meatballs were the best item for certain
Really enjoy the all-family presentation. It's nice to have an array of tastes and views. Plus, your kid is a star in the making!
I do like it when I can get them to join in (although it’s very rare to see the Greenager make an appearance these days!)
@@GreenoEats Well, kids are busy people!
Hello from on the road 😊 little miss greeno is a cutie pie ❤ havent been to ikea for decades, the meatballs are always kind of nice with gravy and mash 😊
Yeah, I definitely lucked out by choosing the meatballs rather than the fish and chips or salmon ! How's the holiday so far?
@@GreenoEats We are still in Germany, the weather is so bad, cold and rainy. We need to travel more south 🌅🌅🌅
@@jessicanippes1730 at least you know there is light at the end of the tunnel 🙂
Wow your wife said copy and paste with your beautiful daughter didn’t she!!! Image of her mum!! Lovely channel😊
Little'un will do well if she gets her looks from her Mum that's for sure 😀 Thanks for the kind words
I met a lady over the weekend i said to her how's your mamma mia and she said abba-solutely brilliant!
Meeting ladies? Does your Mother know that you’re out?
@@GreenoEats Cheeky Titter ye not !! (Frankie Howerd)
@@GreenoEats I don't know how to summer night city that up!
Great family review 👍...Gravlax and done for me lol.
That was one of the highlights!!
Hi, I subscribed after seeing you with Gary Eats. You both have something in common that you both detest mushrooms 😂 Just watched the IKEA vlog and nice to see your family involved. Not been to IKEA for years but used to love eating there and used to be very good quality. I used to have the fish and chips but ask for the meatball sauce to be put on it ! I don’t know if you still can but you could buy sachets of the meatball sauce mix in their food shop, but now I buy them from Amazon. I look forward to watching some of your past vlogs plus new ones when they drop 👍🏻
Yep, myself and Gary have bonded over our fungi phobia! Welcome to my channel!! We did buy some meatballs and the packet sauce mix to have at home, but I will make my own proper mash 😄
@@GreenoEats of course, has to be proper mash ! Enjoy
Greeno looks like you have some serious work to teach your daughter and develop her tastes onto par with her dads if she liked that "fish and chips" haha, makes the Harry Ramsden's you had w Gary look Michelin star in comparison.
I comfort myself in the fact she's not a fussy eater 🙂
I have flitted across from "Gary Eats" after seeing the two of you at Harry Ramsden's . That piece of fish your daughter had looked a funny colour to me ! The CousCous mixture sounded right up my street - with a squeeze of lemon on it , goats cheeses and a salad = wonderful. I must say that the dirty trays would put me off.....not that you eat off them but - oh yuk ! Thank you for the video.
Glad you enjoyed the collaboration, and welcome to my channel :-) The dirty trays give a bad first impression of the level of cleanliness don't they! The fish was just weird wasn't it, but little'un gobbled the whole thing up!
@@GreenoEats I'll be back !
@@JVSwailesBoudicca thank you 🙂
I'm quite new to your channel and I'm binge watching your videos! Found you through Gary eats. You two are my absolute favorite food reviewers. Awesome ❤
@@a1joiner5 Ah that's very kind of you to say, I am glad you are enjoying the channel!
Interesting Greeno I have part Swedish on my mums side...I have never tried Salmon 🎉 We have IKEA here in Australia 🇦🇺 I love anything smoked too lol 😅 Mum used to make Swedish Meatballs all the time...they never lasted long either 😂😂😂
Hang on, you have never had salmon? You need to change that :-) It's such a delicious fish!!
@@GreenoEats I will now have too Greeno after seeing this video 😅🤣
Baked salmon with tartar sauce is good. I agree with Greeno that baked salmon should still be pink in the center. When it’s fully cooked, it is a waste of a good piece of fish.
It’s the difference between a succulent piece of salmon and a salmon flavoured piece of cardboard 😂
Gravlax is not smoked at all, just cured.
I know that now ha ha :-) Should have known before of course though !!
Hello Greeno hope you and your family are well 🙏
Little one is brilliant she is not fussy she try anything bless her🤗
Thanks for sharing and keep up the awesome work 👍🤗🍀
Yeah we are all good thanks - hope the same for you! Little'un is definitely not a fussy eater, she'll wolf down things most kinds would completely turn their noses up at !!
I have to be honest, Greeno, I am half British and half Norwegian, so I refuse to go to IKEA and Swedish meatballs, cant stack up against the Norwegian meatballs. But I have to admit that I tried it once when the wife forced me to go to IKEA and I have yo say, it wasn't good. But a great review and have yourself an absolutely wonderful rest of your day, Greeno.
As a half Norwegian it's your duty not to enjoy Swedish things isn't it 😂 I appreciate your kind words about my review, and I wish you a thoroughly pleasant evening too.
I was going to share you our family recipe of mushrooms in a cinnamon sauce 😂
Joking aside l love gravalax... had it last in Edinburgh at The End of the World Pub served with toasted thin triangles of a type of Rye Bread .. l think in Sweden its called black bread .
Mushrooms in a cinnamon sauce - what have I ever done to you ha ha ;-)
Gravlax is great, and with a dark rye bread, absolutely delicious!
Mrs wants me to create a Shoe Rack probably IKEA oh my word
That's one of the things we bought - a shoe rack that looks like a cupboard. Weird, and a pain to build ha ha!
Can't beat an ikea meatballs and mash in my opinion! Myself and the better half always make a point of getting some when we go!
It was decent apart from the mash. Seemed like Smash to me 😂
I am surprised that the meal trays were dirty. IKEA is usually quite fastidious about cleanliness. Perhaps a note to management is in order.
They were all like that, I went through about 20 trays and none of them were clean. Maybe we just caught someone having a lazy day !
I give it 2 weeks max til you hit the 5k and rising!! 🎉
Fingers crossed fella :-)
Looks nice that food
It was basic, but then in a canteen type setting I guess that's not unexpected!
@@GreenoEats ilove that shop ihavent been to I IKEA for ages love there very large blue bags I'd try the food
@@julianash4663 oh I hate IKEA, mainly because every time we go we end up buying things I then have to build!!
@@GreenoEats ok let you have that 😂😂 ilke the bedding and utensils etc I could spend to much in there 😂
Oh, Lordy, i wish we had iIkea here! Ive heard so much about the Swedish meatballs...😂❤🇿🇦
I am sure they'll get to you eventually - they're intent on global domination I think!
Oh my goodness! I agree with everything you say! We ex wife (we now get on!) and the kids went up to Edinburgh from Cambridge. We from Cambridge. Anyway up to see grandparents. Edinburgh IKEA, was desolate very none busy. Had the classic meat balls and everything that goes with it. Tastes well as you have said. It’s global multi billion pound nonsense!
Every time I see a headline about a big company going out of business I hope it's IKEA ha ha!
Saw your collab with Gary and enjoyed the two of you and your banter. Thought I would check out your channel and enjoying your videos so I have subscribed. I see why you and Gary mesh so well, both of you are likable and honest with your reviews. Keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoyed the collaboration, we had a lot of fun doing it and are already planning a sequel in the future. Thanks for checking my channel out, I am pleased you're enjoying it !
Graved laks is never smoked, Greeno
Indeed, just cured, silly me!!
I eat at my local IKEA a little while ago with a friend and after joining up on line had great value cheap meatballs and my friend enjoyed his salmon. Both meals (with 50% discount) on a friday only were "Good". But we are not rushing back.....a 7/10 meal experience.Agree Fish & Chips looked pretty poor so happy to avoid that choice.
I wish I had gone on a Friday, 50% discount is not to be sniffed at!
the fried fish looked more like plaice, a flat fish. for the gravlax it was probably butler sauce. the cinnamon roll looked a little dry.
I'd never heard of butler sauce, but just looked it up and I think you're right - definitely has mustard and dill.
@@GreenoEats it was the only translation from Swedish to English. here it's called Hovmästarsås.
Only been in Ikea once years ago, wasn't a fan seemed to have some weird one way system back then. May have changed now. That canteen looked utterly joyless, the fish looked like cardboard. I liked the look of the two salmon dishes although as you say, it's the meatballs sans mash and the Dime bar cake that seem to be the most popular.
It's far from my favourite place! They still have that one way system, but you can find some shortcuts :-) The whole canteen (struggling to call it a restaurant) had school dinner vibes - not great!
Ah… the 3 of you together luck such a beautiful family. Bless ❤️
I hope you have seen Gary’s latest video. £100 per person and NOTHING edable. At least your meal was. 👍
Poor Gary, spending all that money to be disappointed. I bet the cameraman didn't get any ha ha!
Pity they haven't finished the ceiling 😯🤣..
there's a pack down in the warehouse with the parts - you have to build it yourself ;-)
@@GreenoEats ha ha ha ha 👍😎
I showed my husband that fish and he said it looked like it was sand .. not a good look 😂
Yeah, very overcooked for my taste!
Mash potato IS made out of potato
You mentioned that the food is basically ready meals heated up...as an ex Waitrose cafe employee we used to basically do the same...i wonder how the cost, value and taste would compare
Ok, I mean actual peeled potatoes, not rehydrated potato flakes 🤣 I do plan to visit a Waitrose cafe at some point, will be interesting!
Wonderful, supporting your channel. IKEA takes me back 35 years ago when my baby boy was left with the balls LOL and I loved the 1 quid meat balls.
Thanks, I do appreciate the support :-)
It's DAIME Bar....c'mon Greeno! Lol. That fish looked scary but meatballs anyday! Is what it is!
Like a school canteen really!
A man after my own heart....hates cinnamon
Why do people want their dessert to taste of medicine? Just weird.
Fills a hole I suppose never been, now I don’t really want to, good content👍
Thanks for your kind comment! Yeah, that's exactly what it did, filled a hole. Real school dinner vibes all round!
@@GreenoEatsYou hit the nail on the head there. Swedish school
dinners. Also came to find your vlogs via your collaboration with Gary. Daim cake and bars are great - and gluten free. Thanks for reminding me about the screaming children in IKEA.
Nice review. Meatballs looked nice . Fortunately my wife leaves me at home when she goes to those places.( Phew lol) Looking forward to seeing more
Thanks for your kind words - and yeah, I think I got the best of the meals!
Gravlachs (cured salmon) shouldn't be smoked anyway.
Yep, so I now understand, just cured 😂
It never is
Pretty much a good all round review of the food they serve at Ikea. Cheap no thrills food. It has got it's reputatio for it's price rather than the quality. Thought the fish looked a bit odd, not really appealing visually. Most people say that he hotdogs are worth a try as they are dirt cheap. Hate to think what they put in them.
I've eaten there, meaning IKEA, once before and thought is was OK. I haven't rushed back! The queues for the food have put me off.
Definitely got school canteen vibes. Not tried the hotdogs, but they are even cheaper than the £1 burger, frightening!
The cinnamon bun might be salvageable with some butter on it.
Perhaps, although from my point of view it should never have been made in the first place 😂
Please review TGI fridays Nashville Style Chicken Wings 600g from Iceland
Hi George - this is now the fifth time you have asked for this - as I already advised, when I get to Iceland I will pick some up. I just haven't been there yet!
Haha, I told my ex that very branch was a "palace of hell". 🤣
And you were right!
When you asked for the fish and chips u should of said yes peas?!
I cod have done that yes 🙂
@@GreenoEats Hope you haven't haddock enough of my comedy?!
Greeno you love your food.😮What's your first name?👍
Don't have one, I'm like Prince or Bono haha!!
@@GreenoEats From now on greeno I'm going to call you papan.Because you don't have a christian name and you look like a viking.👹
Hmmmm didn’t look the best Greeno…. I liked the look of the Dime Cake though! Often wanted to try the Meatballs from the IKEA in Wednesbury but never did. The channel is rocketing mate 🚀….Smithy
Yeah, reminded me of school dinners mate. I mean, better school dinners than we had in my school, but school dinners nonetheless! The Daim cake and the meatballs are a classic, but even they didn't save the overall experience (plus I had to spend an afternoon in Ikea to boot !
I hate Ikea too. Had to endure it once. Never again...
It's shocking isn't it !
In Switzerland IKEA was/is a great place for getting good value food
I’ve had to buy a lot of furniture in my life but at no point have I ever felt the need to go to IKEA. Maybe if I wanted to decorate my house like student accommodation it would be a consideration though. It looks like hell on earth to me
Agreed, not somewhere I enjoy visiting! We’ve picked up a few bits over the years, mostly for the kids rooms where whatever you get is gonna get wrecked in next to no time anyway!
@@GreenoEats I tend to go to the big charity outlets for that tbh. Way better quality stuff than theirs for 1/4 of the price
@@PotatoPirate123 that’s a good point!
IKEA eh? Self assembling the menu.
Given the usual IKEA model, I am surprised they don't give you the ingredients and expect you to cook it yourself 😂
That’s the only time I go to Ikea is to buy the frozen meatballs and the sauce I can’t stand it in there
I reckon that if I ended up in an episode of "The Good Place" it might have had me stuck in an Ikea store!
@@GreenoEats 😂
Tartare sauce is lovely!
Hope you can do some vegetarian options at some point!
I agree that tartare sauce is great, but it just doesn't work with salmon in my opinion!
I have featured some vegetarian options on my channel - onion bhaji burgers and a b=vegetable curry that I made spring to mind, but I will try to cover some more of that on my travels too :-)
@@GreenoEats I don’t eat fish to be honest, the smell of fish makes my stomach turn but tartare goes with lots of things! Not just fish but everyone I know who has cod and chips swear by a side of it! I’m amazed your daughter didn’t like it, it’s not too dissimilar to mayo and gherkin on a Big Mac!
If you ever swing by ikea again, would be interested to know how the meat free meatballs compare to the meat meatballs. Same goes with their meat and meat free hotdogs!
Great channel, great content sir!
@@SamM-oh2cx I have heard that the Ikea veggie options don't stand up well to the non-veggie ones, so it sounds like they should be avoided ha ha!
@@GreenoEats thanks for the heads up! I’m not veggie by choice, I don’t naturally make the enzymes needed to handle meat and I am allergic to synthetic enzymes.
I know they do a veggie range of their meat range but really not found a decent and honest review! I know it’s not meat and it’s never going to be meat but a good vegetarian food is good in its own right and if you can get a vegetarian food wrong, give up and go home lol!
Gravlax is not smoked at all.
Yeah, just cured I realised afterwards !
Never eaten in the place and based on this review. I never will. Costco’s food would be far better, not sure if you have one nearby? But Edinburgh they are next to each other. Would be a no brainer for the Costco hot dog. Apologies if you’re reviewed Costco.. I’ve no followed from the beginning so maybe have missed some.
Never been to Costco, don’t you have to pay for a membership to go there? My nearest one is over an hour away in Southampton so not sure I’ll bother 🙂
@@GreenoEatsyou do unfortunately. That’s a pity as their hotdog is £1.50 and it’s 100% beef. And a few other menu items that are fairly decent for the price. Save a lot of money using their fuel as well. I don’t pay for the membership but I do get all the perks 😊
Tartar sauce with salmon is a Swedish thing, but you are in a Swedish restaurant 👍
Is it - well that explains it then ha ha! Still a weird flavour combination I think 🙃
People who eat fish and chips have good soles!
They end up in a good plaice then 🙂
@@GreenoEats U batter believe it!
Hi Greeno, the mash potato may be powered mash, but powered mash is just 96% - 98% dehydrated potato, so yes it is real potato, you might want to do some fact checking when you are editing, otherwise you may find yourself in court.....just a point, and I agree the fish didn't look great.
That's a fair point re the potato, although I reckon I could argue my point I doubt I could match Ikea's legal team :-)
About 7 of 10 overall and hope that all enjoyed.
Little'un enjoyed the fish and chips, and I liked the meatballs. Wasn't the greatest, but we did eat it all!
Stingy mash portion there, can't be that expensive for them to give you a bit more!
But I didn't even finish the portion they gave me, it was very poor !
@@GreenoEats shame, the meatballs and mash are normally good
@@Sc25515 The meatballs were absolutely fine - the mash was like an instant mash, not good at all
@@GreenoEats yeah. Smash is awful!
Hey Greeno I just heard about u through Gary Eats. Do you make as many videos as Gar?
Hi Jason, welcome to the channel. Gary slightly pips me in terms of videos released. I publish every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He is every other day. So essentially he’s doing 7 videos a fortnight to my 6.
@@GreenoEats do you travel all around the UK?
@@jasonnhiggins615 Sometimes, the majority of what I do is fairly local to me, but I am off to Cornwall soon, and a couple of other UK trips planned. Also a trip to Vienna, Hungary and Slovakia next month too which should be fun!
@@GreenoEats what part of England are you from?
@@jasonnhiggins615 Dorset
Absolutely brilliant review ..... I was expecting nothing more than Death by Meatball.
Right ..... thank God you didn't order the vegetarian balls - suitable only for firing from a musket at your enemies.
Yep, it's basically as crap as I remember it ..... the starter looked reasonably good, the fish and chips looked like they'd had the colour and taste sucked out of them, the meatballs I reckon are actually tasty but I find the gravy is effectively like an oil slick and the jam is curiously appalling. Your wife's sweet looked boring whereas I felt a slight tinge (and I mean very slight tinge) of excitement with your sweet.
Price was good .... but the meal was nothing to get titillated about.
Glorified school dinners really wasn't it. I think I ended up slightly better off with my choice, but Little'un said she enjoyed the fish and chips!
I think the battered fish has been bought in frozen, ready pre cooked and then reheated in-store, looks like a Boxed farm foods battered fish...
First impression is very unappetising and pale, insiped looking ....
None of their food will be home-made, it will be all home-cooked ...
5/10 for me 😊
I think that's a fair score!
@@GreenoEats a 5 for effort ☺️🙃
Onion rings at restos are usually a disappointment.
💯 agree
Think ikea fish is breaded rather than battered. Hope you got a hot dog on the way out. Do like the meatballs.
Couldn't get a hot dog, was too busy trying to navigate with the trolley full of stuff Mrs Greeno wanted... and that I then had to build the next day!
Absolutely hate Ikea. Walking around there is a nightmare, and at the end I've never bought ANYTHING. The idea of walking around there on a bank holiday makes me shudder. The only things I've known people to buy are those cube shelving units and those cheap coffee tables.
Agree, it's definitely some kind of purgatory!
@@GreenoEats my wife LOVES it there. She raves about the meatballs and hotdogs (very average to me) I do like the dime cake though it's sickly. An afternoon walking around those fake room setups, looking at things with weird names that we'll never use, only to leave with IKEA branded sandwich bags, facecloths, a desk lamp or other little bits isn't fun to me. Then there's the fun of getting out of the car park. Now CEX, Cash Converters/Generator, Screwfix, Game, Curry's, or charity shops, now those are the shops I like. Walking through an aspirational maze in a warehouse, it's like a shit version of The Crystal Maze, you go through Living Room Zone, Garden Zone, Bedroom Zone, Office Zone, Bathroom Zone, Kids Zone, Lighting Zone, to end up in the Cafe/Restaurant (the shit Crystal Dome, plus the tills where money is exchanged for items with names that sound like 1970s Dr Who villains) where the ONLY prizes on offer are weight gain or diabetes, not even a keepsake Crystal with "I cracked walking around IKEA" or a T Shirt with "I survived IKEA and all I got was this lousy T Shirt",
I had the Swedish National Dish in IKEA of köttbullar( pork and beef meatballs) mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberries jam. Not as good as those I had in Sweden. The Daim Bar dessert is epic. I wouldn't touch their fish and chips.
Oh no not IKEA. Takes 4 hrs to get out. Never again..I had a nice chicken dinner there once in the Essex IKEA. After many years, have only just heard about meat balls which does not turn me on. We never use IKEA as it's not easy for the wife with her problems. Electric chair a waste of time as always so packed, it restricts movement. Your fish and chips sounds like the same we had from a fish and chip shop. Under fried. Fish was bland, no flavour. Chips were also under done. A bit hard. Where does one get good fish and chips 3 bad experiences in a row. Best was Trago mills take away by MerthyrTydfil, that was good.. So it's back to Trago Mills. Thanks for your review. Our nearest one is Cardiff, but it's banned by my wife. It's a Maze like Hampton Court.
I used to live in Caerphilly, so have experienced the horror of Cardiff IKEA too 😂 It's a most unpleasant shop in my opinion. One way rabbit warren of stuff that's a pain to build!!
Little un needs to be taught how to use and knife and fork and eat properly.
dont be a div
I am sure her Swiss finishing school will take note!
You need a refund from that school
@@totalfc6456 exactly what I thought
@@avenuearmoury u are a genuine moron
Think its just cheap frozen stuff
Yep, seemed to me that nothing is cookedin the kitchen, just reheated. Disappointing
None of it looked very good to me , cheap enough though ....
Yeah, it was far from great. School dinner style really.
Good grief! Sorry, Greeno, I am just not a fan of these places at all! They rely purely on a captive audience i.e. their shoppers needing something to eat whilst shopping; but £30 for that? WOW! No thank you. The only 2 palatable items there were the gravlax but even that was missing some well needed bread and the Daim Bar cake, but you can get that in the deep freeze of most supermarkets. I hate being so negative, but I just would not entertain these places, I would rather do my shopping and find a McDonald's drive-thru on the way home.
The only "when in Rome" item there were the meatballs but I doubt they were truly authentic. Thumbs up to the video as always, but thumbs down for the food.
You know the strange thing... this IKEA is next to a shopping mall, and people were walking across from the mall just to have lunch in Ikea !!!
why not take them to where Your friend has just been your at one side and he is at the other side of the price scale.
but you may have had a better meal than him
how dare you eat the childs dime pudding heheheeh
even on screen the fish looks weird. and dry.
Mrs Greeno doesn't like lobster or oysters - so even if it was good it would be wasted :-) I feel for Gary having spent all that money on a disappointing lunch though!
Don’t show ur daughter up like that it’s not nice to do that on screen x
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, we were just having a little bit of a laugh!
@@GreenoEats she didn’t look happy to me they don’t like that kids makes them feel shownup
I thought she looked chilled and happy 😊x
Haven't been to an IKEA for c.7years! Doubt your review will change my mind! Voulez Vous??? Have watched >6 of your reviews since subscribing following your colab. with Gary.
Yeah, I am not expecting a rush of folk heading to Ikea for lunch off the back of this review 😂 Pleased you're enjoying the content!!
@@GreenoEats cheers
@@GreenoEats You could send an SOS to Fernando???