Ikea Mumbai Mega-gallery: From Furniture To Food & Parking To Prices, Virtual Tour Here

A view of the Restaurant area at IKEA which has not skimped on bringing its limited but well known fare to these shores, albeit slightly Indianised

A mix of self-service and an assembly-line system ensures efficiency at the IKEA Restaurant 

Roughly Half The Menu:
Chicken Meatballs With Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Salad & Lingonberry sauce, Green Salad, Chicken Meatballs in Makhani Gravy with Rice, Potato Wedges, Mango Cake, Cheesecake

A bunk-bed/home-office setup for small apartments

A blue-themed living room - everything is a walk-in, everything has a price-tag, and surprisingly, it all comes across as rather affordable

Weary shoppers rest up on a comfy sofa in one of the living-room setups

A map of the showroom: Below are the market hall with home essentials, Cafe and Billing, while upstairs is the main showroom area and Restaurant

Shoppers plan their strategy - it's a very big premises, though it's planned in such a manner that there's a planned flow of traffic. Retail students take note

Sofas racked up, sit wherever you feel like it

A sense of the Restaurant's size. More than likely to be full at any given time, but don't fret - the lines move quickly

What's not on the table but on the menu:

A veg 'meatballs' option, the famous IKEA Swedish Salmon, Chicken nuggets, One more Cake option, Cookies

Trust IKEA to standardise food carts as well - pick up what you want, the cashier bills by simply looking at what's on the trays. This spread cost just Rs 1050.

The meatball assembly line - a lot like your standard college mess hall though the cuisine is a bit niche 

Swedish language signs dot the place, with translations wherever applicable

The dessert counter, which also serves a delectable looking salad

Standardised options mean you may not covet what thy neighbour is having as much as you would otherwise

The fried foods service area - there's potato wedges and chicken nuggets, and also buttered bread

The salmon is by far the most expensive thing on the menu, All the rest is affordable by any standards.

The Restaurant area again - cleaned up at regular intervals

That the food is good shouldn't come as a surprise - IKEA's meatballs are so well known the company shared a recipe earlier this year so people could make them at home during lockdown

Elevators at IKEA are very large - SUV size. 

A child's bedroom done in a rising sun motif. The remarkable thing is everything on show is on sale

Baskets are generally full to bursting with just about anything you'd need in a house

The market hall area for kitchen items. As can be seen, from crockery to saucepans, they've not spared much

Plastics-ware on display, pick one out at your peril

Grains and pulses storage done right - it's only pictures in the jars though!

The crockery and jars section is rather large, as can be seen.

The prices come as a big surprise. Very affordable on a per-item basis.

Escalators to go up, wide staircases to go down

It's not easy to fit the entire setup into one frame. It's very large, and the ongoing measure of its size is in football grounds. It's the size of 10-20 football pitches, depending on who you believe

Upon closer inspection, the theme is actually hot-air-balloons. 

Cabinets and shelves - endless rows of them

Some options to light up your child's room

There's quite a bit in there for children, and given kids are likely to get a little fed up of all the furniture eventually, the placement of the toys seems very strategic for maximum pick-ups

Despite the size of the kids section, an inordinate number of plush toys on show

This particular IKEA had social-distancing placeholders at all queue-points. Again, at the restaurant

Prospective visitors take note: You must register online to book your visit, though the crew on hand does accommodate walk-ins so long as they're prepared to wait. There are two levels of car parking

Again, a look at the prices, and the two Indianised options.

The entire location has the feel of an airport/railway station - announcements, queues, security checks, the size of the place

Customers checking out a kitchen display. 

The storage bins on sale are built to fit in to the cabinets and shelves IKEA sells. A lot of the market hall goods are accessories for the furniture you'd buy upstairs

A wide variety of couches on show

Two bedroom setups, one built with a crib presumably for young parents

A closer look: Bedding, pillow cases and such things are available in all colours

Yes, all the paintings and framed photos are on sale

A hanging garden of lights for your bedroom

An all-in-one setup: Bed and study table, with a couch at the other end, seemed prime for college grads

A peek into another room arrangement - this for small children, maybe a pair

Bunk-beds clearly haven't gone out of style

Definitely one of the eye-opening sections: The warehouse area of the lower floor is one of the largest rooms you'll ever enter, and it's piled high with goods

'Wall decoration and mirrors', and also a lot of clocks

The depth of the scene isn't quite captured by the camera. There's a lot of things in this photo, and the shelves are at least three floors high

Shoppers ambling through, largely in awe of the scale of things before them

A closer view of the shelves in the warehouse area, which are large enough to accommodate cars

In the distance are the billing counters, which could be more efficient. But what has caught this author's eye is the frozen yogurt for Rs 10 poster, which he had missed during his visit

Trucks can drive into these, they're so big.

More stacks of heavy furniture - these specifically are sofa/beds

A kitchen-dining room setup. Big tables are passe, this author realised

The home decor area. These are for framed paintings and posters. The Taj Mahal at the center seemed to be the largest one on show. You can definitely find frames for all occasions here

Bed Textiles in all forms and sizes.

Elks and a poster of a solar system that caught this author's eye 

The plants section - there are fake ones as well as real ones, and it's best not to confuse the two.

These are real, if memory serves

Most of the foliage here is clearly fake, but can be used to really spruce a place up

Another view of the monstrous warehouse area

A lot of cushions of all shapes and sizes, to pile on your new sofa till it's impossible to sit on

More crockery, and as can be seen, the unit price is quite low

Another view of the cushion area - there are cushions for all needs, from making your dining table chairs more comfy to ones you could fit in your car

Hearts, butterflies and foxes (?) to light up your child's room

A lot of lamps in the lights and bulbs section, though this author was unable to find a smart-lighting solution.

Coming to solutions, IKEA also offers custom interior decoration services. At Rs 2000 per room, they'll need your dimensions, and then render a plan for you

The crew uniforms are fairly eye-catching. 'Hej!' is Swedish for 'Hey!'

IKEA has clearly understood the value of fairy lights

Chandeliers are clearly passe - there wasn't a single on on show, though there were plenty of centerpiece lights of different shapes and sizes

Floor mats, including in Marathi in case you-know-who comes calling