Ilkari Restaurant — Restaurant in Yulara

We are guests at the Sails in the Desert 🏜 Hotel.This restaurant was our "go-to" place while staying at the hotel. This wonderful restaurant is located inside the hotel premises. The restaurant is beautifully decorated with Aboriginal motifs around the restaurant whichelevate the atmosphere making it inviting and welcoming environment. This restaurant is packed with a variety of locally sourced tasty produce and native ingredients. It is a great place to tucked into the culture in the Territory and savour a diverse range of Indigenous inspired cuisine.  Standouts include the freshest oysters, mussels and the best cooked meals. Customer service at this restaurant is unmatched - with efficient and very attentive staff. Please allow me to specially mention "Shanae" who looked after us on our first visit to this restaurant. Thank you to the whole team for your commitment and making best ever dining experience.You can tell the staff and management here truly care about your dining experience. The bar here had been set high. Moreover, there is a wide range of international dishes that are also available on offer. This restaurant definitely showcased delicious tasty dishes with an emphasis on the freshest, flavour filled ingredients in all of their dishes. This restaurant is popular amongst the tourists and pretty lucky to get a booking . Definitely  not to be missed when visiting this wonderful place Uluru - even for walk-in customers. We had the dinner buffet .  Each dish is meticulously prepared, reflecting the chef's commitment to quality. Overall experience this restaurant is a must-visit for anyone seeking a memorable culinary adventure. 💯💯💯✨️✨️✨️Highly...

Went to Iikari restaurant after watching the sunset at Uluru. They have the worse customer service until there is no one else around or you complain. They advised there would be table service. Not once did we see someone to contact to get any drinks. We ended up going to the bar and ordering and making a comment there as they weren't going to serve us. Then we had to get our own water as once again no one came over. It is a buffet so we had plates piling up on the table. I thought the table next to us was gone as they were clearing it up so I put a few plates over. I was wrong and got told off, I told the lady well if someone had taken our plates we wouldn't have to leave them on an "empty table" to be cleared. Amazing when you complain you start getting better service. So many tables around that just had so much rubbish over it as no one wanted to clear tables when people were still there. Food was also left on the floor by children, whole lamb cutlets were not picked up and left on the floor even after clearing the table. The food is good but would recommend elsewhere if going to dinner after sunset as the food was not well stocked due to closing time and no...

Came here for the $48 buffet breakfast. It wasn’t too bad but I wouldn’t say it was the best. Probably rate it 3.5/5?

In terms of the staff, the guy at the front greeted us with a friendly smile and a lot of warmth, but I felt like some of the other staff were really hit or miss. The chefs were friendly and some of the wait staff were too, but others not so much.

The food itself had a decent range. Some international foods were available but they weren’t too good if I’m honest. There was a good range of dessert-like foods (like pastries, pudding and smoothies etc), a lot of fruits (whole fresh fruits, canned ones/ preserved ones and cut up ones). A good variety of bread and cereals too. At the time, there was also a chef making omelettes to order, but there wasn’t much choice in terms of what you could have in it - just cheese and/or ham. She was really lovely, but a bit more choice would be nice!

Definitely a nice place, well kept and has a luxury feel. However, for the price, I reckon the range and quality of the food was lacking. Not too sure if I’d...