Unfortunately had a very disappointing experience in Lilly's while visiting portlaoise. The place itself looks fab and is very girly which is why we booked it. We booked for 8.15pm... read more but when we arrived we were told that the kitchen had closed earlier that evening so we would be seated a bit later. We didn't have too long a wait to be seated but after that it went completely downhill. Service was extremely slow and when they came to take our order we were told we weren't allowed to order food yet. So we ordered a cocktail tree to keep us going. These arrived down about 9.15pm and the waitress came back to take our food order again at this point as she had forgotten it. So we ordered another round of drinks as we saw the delay with the first round. We didn't get our food until 10.15pm. We were so hungry at this point we couldn't even drink the cocktails. When we finished eating we asked the waitress what time they would close. She said they start 'kicking people out' at 11pm. Having only finished eating a short while before that we felt it was very unfair. Didn't even have an option to get dessert or finish the drinks we spent so much money on. We requested the manager when paying and complained. He begrudgingly knocked off €25 from the €300 we had spent over the brief time we were there. Have to say the food was fab, just very disappointed in the huge delays. There obviously were too many bookings taken for the kitchen to handle.

  My friend and I went to Lilly's last weekend and although not a big cocktail drinker, we decided to try a few after seeing almost every table around us drinking... read more them. I have to say they were great! The staff even made us a few off-menu cocktails too!

We had food (chicken piri and burger) hich was served quickly and really nice. The piri skewer is definitely photo worthy!

Not sure why people review here as slow, maybe they are just miserable!....we were well looked after and felt that service was just as it should have been.

Would have liked to have some live music or a DJ when we were there, but I saw on their FB page that they do have DJs now...I guess we will have to go back ;)

  Service here in Lily’s was appalling! I arrived at 7 pm and my order was not taken until quarter past 8! We were absolutely disgusted with this. We didn’t leave... read more till 10 o clock. We wanted to order a dessert but we decided not to because the place would have been nearly closed by the time it arrived. Very disappointing especially for what we were paying.