Lebanese Restaurant NYC

Had a private party this evening... perfection... everything was just right... delicious food... beverages of your choice with excellent variety... service was excellent... everyone at the party was blown away by the experience... thank you to everyone at Ilili for making the 74th Birthday perfect! Cheers!

Ilili is one of the best NYC restaurants! I have been coming here for years and everytime is just fantastic!!

I keep trying to find an opportunity to come back here and keep getting thwarted. The food was excellent - I made a meal of different mezze, while one person in the group kept raving about the juicy lamb burger. Tried a couple of different middle eastern beers I’d never seen before. The design main room itself is beautiful, and even the typography of the restaurant’s name is elegant. While we were in the spacious main dining room, the back room looked a bit dark and cramped with tables close to each other.

After flying into EWR and taking the train to Penn Station, we made our way to this wonderful restaurant. They gladly checked our two bags and we were seated promptly. The wait staff were both attentive and helpful. We chose the duck shawarma, which was delicious, the flatiron shrimp - which were deliciously seasoned with both jalapeño and cilantro, the cauliflower and cheese rolls. It was all quite tasty, very reasonably priced, and all in our party of four we’re wonderfully gratified by this Lebanese cuisine.

Fantastic atmosphere, - cozy and warm woodworking in a concrete jungle. Great staff and service - knowledgeable. Delicious, unique and brilliantly selected wine offerings. Scrumptious Lebo food. I'm no expert on Lebanese cuisine but overall very I'm satisfied with my dining experience. Five Stars.

Excellent Lebanese restaurant, fantastic food and service with an extensive wine list.

Amazing food, great atmosphere. And cubed falafels! The warm eggplant is to die for! Highly, highly recommend!

Fantastic food. Excellent service. The lamb with rice as main course is an excellent choice and always prepared well. The brussel sprouts are a great small course. One of our favorite places for Mediterranean food in New York city

The food was tasty and service was proper. The best thing about Ilili is its ambience. The place is where to be seen.

Took almost an hour to get seated for our res, then another 45 to get our food (drinks were comped but still). Waiters were attentive at the start but once the food arrived we felt like we were being avoided. The food quality almost made up for this except the prices were a little much. One thing to consider would be maybe adding more vegan/vegetarian dishes to the mains. Currently you don’t have any choice but to order multiple overpriced appetizers to be full.Ambience was amazing and the design of the restaurant is beautiful.

Do you like ambient places with deemed light and ethnic food? Do you like passion fruit drink that is sparkly or maybe some other exotic flavors? Well, you should then visit this place. We regularly come back there.

The mezza was excellent in flavor and presentation. The wait staff pronounced each order in perfect Lebanese even though they obviously weren't Lebanese. Even though it is priced higher than any other Lebanese restaurant I have been a patron of...I definitely recommend ILILI...the wines are from Lebanon as well.

We’ve been coming here for dinner for over 5 years. Always a great time, great vibe and great service. We dropped in recently for dinner with good friends. The food was good, maybe I didn’t order the right dish, but I thought food could be a little better. Prices are sky high, but so is every restaurant in this area. I will keep coming back, I do enjoy it here.

Food is awesome and so is the staff. We ate at the bar and they were amazing even with having to deal with the Christmas holiday crowd

This Lebanese restaurant serves delicious and very fresh dishes. Every dish was a succulent discovery. The service was super friendly , pro-active and very thoughtful. They really helped us well with the request for gluten and egg free dishes. Besides that is is wonderfully located in the heart of Manhattan , close to Times Square , the Empire State and the theatre district and the interior is very stylish and interesting.