$2 Breakfast

By: Nadia Saccardo
Date: 19th Sep 07
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off

What:
$2 breakfast*

Where:
IKEA Richmond, Cnr Victoria and Burnley streets, Richmond

When:
Every day 9.30am till 10.30am

How much:
guess

OK, so the breakfast only goes from 9.30am till 10.30am. This is weird because IKEA opens at 10am, but the restaurant opens at 9.30am. So when you go in they actually say "you can't go in yet". But if you say "I'm going to the restaurant" you can go in.

For $2 you get bacon, sausage and eggs, only scrambled eggs. It looks weird. You also get two hash browns and half a tomato. Fried. Cut in half. The bacon almost looked like it was steamed. It was sloppy bacon. It tasted steamed. There's no toast, no bread. If you want anything extra you have to buy it. I think break was maybe like a dollar.

Basically you just get the eggs, the tomato, one slice of bacon, one sausage, I'm pretty sure pork, medium size maybe like 4 - 5 inches. I thought at first maybe it's all Swedish product, but I can't imagine that it is. The two hash brows are triangle shaped, very well proportioned, exactly the same, good Swedish design. There's a big sign on the table that tells you to take your tray back.

At 10.30am on the dot it ends. Ninety percent of people eating there weren't even shopping there. The people were all fat. Honestly, the only skinny people were me, my girlfriend and the staff. I guess they don't eat there. I think I might have put on weight since then. Then at 10.30am the other stuff comes in. Swedish meatballs, salmon fillets, steaks. I was in IKEA for six and a half hours and I ate there at 10am and I ate there again at 2.30pm. The meatballs are the best. My girlfriend didn't mind the salmon fillets. It's not somewhere you want to take someone on a date. Oh, and while we were there we actually saw a real Swedish couple. They weren't eating at the restaurant.

* As told to Nadia Saccardo, source requested to remain anonymous