Pil Pil — Restaurant in New York

On 11/11/23, we had our wedding reception here. We had about 60 people. My experience with Pil Pil from beginning to end was simply perfect. Pamela, the general manager, helped me plan our entire wedding through email and phone, and so flawlessly. She was so detail oriented in all of her suggestions!

They welcomed us a few months before the wedding to come try a complimentary selection of their food- and from then on I was blown away by the hospitality and service. We felt like special guests and the chef Pedja who is just SO nice- actually came out and served us all of our food and explained each dish to us! The ambience in the restaurant was just adorable and so much more beautiful than I expected. We are both nature people- so we adored the tree branch ceilings, the beautiful art, and the bar lighting using glass bottles was such a creative touch!

The food ended up being just amazing! We actually ended up having a brunch wedding so they served us breakfast for dinner when we went to try everything and we LOVED it. My favorite were the ham croquettes, the spanish french toast, steak and fries and the coconut dates- mmmm but there was so much more than that!

And Pam actually assisted me with every detail of the wedding planning, florals, scenery, the most delicious bride and groom drinks, sangrias- it was all so amazing. She put together really adorable signs with our drink and menu choices, a Mr and Mrs sign, and even had a faux cake designed (in the photos) with the MOST adorable surprise cake topper designed after our engagement photos!!! This was so unexpected and I have the cake topper framed in my living room still today! We had the most amazing tres leches cake as our “real” cake, and they put a piece into our faux cake so that we had a piece to cut. Pam even set up a memorial seat for my recently deceased father and allowed me to put up a photo and displayed my sign reserving a seat for him. It was just so thoughtful and beautiful.

We ended up having a last minute rehearsal dinner, scheduled only a few weeks prior- and they were SOMEHOW able to accommodate us in the next door party room, and it was so beautiful!! We had our own personalized champagne glasses (which I regretfully forgot at the restaurant after the wedding) and a nice long table set up for all our family with a bride and groom table for us. Service was impeccable and everyone had a great night.

Now- the wedding itself! A day to remember! Pam and her staff truly went above and beyond to make our guests feel welcome and comfortable while everyone waited for us to arrive (we were running a bit late after wedding photos!) but Pam made sure everything ran so smoothly! We had our own playlist connected to the speakers, champagne served at the door, food was held until we arrived, and everything was just so delicious!!! Our guests were blown away with how we were able to fit 60 people comfortably in the restaurant and still had room to dance! Our family loved the big table at the back of the restaurant and absolutely everyone came out to dance and have fun with us. Our guests thought this was such a cool and fun experience and a great place to have a small wedding. Everyone loved the food, service and atmosphere, and some begged to stay longer haha! Hopefully we weren’t a crazy bunch to host, but Pil Pil was definitely the perfect spot to have our party.

We are coming back for our anniversary dinner in November- and will likely return for years to come. Thank you for making our special day so memorable 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 We will remember this day for the rest of our lives! Our guests are still talking about how awesome it was!! We love you Pil Pil!!! And THANK YOU PAM...

Hello i know its a little bit late to place this review but i didnt want to let go the bad experience i have had at this place during my visit to new york, first of all i went there because a friend of mine recomended it and told me that the food is good and service is exceptional but i think that she was talking about service like from more than 6 months ago when she went there from florida for vacations, the thing is that the food was ok nothing out of this world but the worst thing ive could experience was the management well at least thats what i think what this guy in suit was, because he was coming in and out from service area so i believe he worked there, he was not taking orders but he was there giving instructions to other workers. So this is the situation, it was around 12, 12:30 i was seated in the bar with my husband and out of a sudden we started to hear this guy yelling and screaming from a table on the corner of the restaurant talking in spanish, english and another language i didnt understand but he was saying that he has been there for more than 13 hours that day, that he was tired and asking at what time does this tables pretend to leave? (Just to let you know pil pil guys you are not the only restaurant in the neighborhood, people around i know they have plenty of options) We were so surprised with this behavior coming from a “supervisor” I want to know what kind of people you hired or what are the skills that you want your employees to have, this guy was drunk, 100% unprofessional besides that he look like a little kid even that he has a mustage doesnt gives him the maturity he needs to run a place like this he had no respect of the other customers that were there during that situation, no experience at all as i figured, i could feel that servers were unconfortable with that behave cause they just pretend that he wasnt there, the service that i had from the bar tender was excellent but this guy just killed the whole good experience i was having until that time, please another thing, you should talk with your employees about personal hygiene it doesnt look good you have someone that dedicates to customer service looks like has not took a shower for days but i understand if its true that you have your people working more than 13 hours a day as the “supervisor” Said. I wish you just not read and forget about this review, best of luck. Believe me if i could give a quarter of a...

Came by on a Sunday night with 2 other people and it was pretty busy but we were seated immediately. The space is VERY dark, but cozy and once your eyes adjust, the decor is actually really cool! This is a great spot for a date or a group of no more than 6. However, there was a back room that looked like it had a very different set up so maybe a bigger group could fit in there!

It was hard to tell what menu items were smaller/meant to share, but the waiter recommended we get 6 for the 3 of us and it was the perfect amount of food. We got the patatas bravas which weren't anything special, but you can't not get them at a tapas place! The meatballs (they had two kinds, but we got the "de la abuela" ones) were fantastic! Tons of sauce and it came with some bread, which they brought us extra of to tip.

We also got the Pollo Picante, which were crispy chicken rolls, which were probably our least favorite dish. The consistency was off and they barely tasted like anything, even with the sauce.

We then got the empanadillas de berenjena, which were empanadas with manchego, eggplant and asparagus, which were AMAZING! The combination of flavors was great and so was the sauce. The zuchinni frito was great, but would have liked it to be thinner slices. It didn't taste badly or anything, I think we were just expecting something more like strips!

The last thing we got was a special of mac and cheese chorizo croquettes, which were UNREAL. I am so glad we got them instead of opting for something on the regular menu because I would hae never known what we were missing out on. They were huge croquettes and the sauce on them was amazing. We ended up using the bread and patatas to eat what was left of the sauce!

Overall, there was nothing that I didn't like that we ordered. I don't think I'd get the chicken or zuchinni again, but everything else was fantastic and there are so many things left to try. Fingers crossed they will add the mac and cheese to the...