We walked into this place being wowed from the start. Beautiful ambience. I’m not a seafood eater, so my menu choices were very limited. I ordered the filet mignon, cooked to Medium. It was a little overdone and charred on the outside and very salty. I asked the waitress about it and asked her to check with someone on it, and she nodded her head and said OK, but nobody ever came to fix it. We had other minor issues with her - she was sweet as ever, but she was new and didn’t speak great English. I don’t think she understood me. Others at my table had the salmon - large size serving and very tasty they said.
We found the ambience to be unique and beautiful. Great “plate breaking party” which was fun to watch, and although all the workers were wearing masks, no other guests were wearing masks as they were in line to throw their plates and later dance around the restaurant. During the Covid pandemic, if you have any concerns about catching the virus, you would have been guarded about this. There was a LOT of people watching available. This is definitely more than a restaurant - it is also a nightlife, party, meeting-up place for what appears to be locals. It added to the fun and didn’t at all distract from our enjoyment for dinner. In fact, it added to the fun.
This place had been open for only 16 days, and you could tell they were working out the bugs. Interestingly, we found Ilios to be very unique - with the “Greek goddess” white dresses the hostesses wore, to the “show” they did and the sparklers they handed out. Until the next night when we went to Taboo just up Kukulcan Blvd. Taboo has been open over a year, and it felt interestingly familiar... Hostesses in Greek goddess white dresses, a show (which IMO was better than Ilios), sparklers. Looks like Ilios copied almost everything about Taboo. If you liked Ilios, you’ll also appreciate Taboo.