Breakfast at IKEA

Bret and I drove out to IKEA yesterday morning to pick up a new dresser for our new bedroom.  We got to the store pretty early and discovered that while the cafeteria is open at 9:30 AM, the store doesn't open until 10 AM!  Whoops!

We were both pretty hungry so we decided to grab some breakfast while we waited for the store to open.  I've never eaten at IKEA before but I guess there is a first time for everything!  IKEA was having some strange promotion where they would take off the amount of your food receipt from any purchase over $100 in the store.  Since we knew the dresser would meet that purchase amount, we got to eat our breakfast for free!

The IKEA restaurant is served cafeteria-style with cafeteria trays and all.  I ended up ordering their breakfast plate, which came with scrambled eggs, homefries, French toast sticks and sausage. 

The scrambled eggs had a weird texture so I didn't eat that.  But the rest of the food was actually pretty good.  I also have never had French toast sticks before and realize that I actually really like them even though I don't like French toast.  I think it is a texture thing for me and now I'm determined to make French toast sticks in our new kitchen.

I washed my breakfast down with a Swedish sparkling pear juice.

And maybe we went a little crazy on the free breakfast deal but we also split a dessert.  Yes, we had dessert with breakfast!  This raspberry cheesecake had a yummy ladyfinger crust and I definitely ate more than just my half of it!

I definitely wasn't expecting to have breakfast at IKEA but it actually was a great way to start the morning.  We shopped through the store in an hour and then headed to Bret's parents' house to swim off our breakfast at their pool.

IKEA is located at 1 IKEA Way, Stoughton, MA.