Restaurant Irodion - Ilmenau

The day before Mother's Day; Time to visit the wife's family. In the cable, your own mother for reasons. After we don't have so much experience in Ilmenau, the in-laws eat on their tours, we have to rely on the tips of the internet. At the top right of another search engine (there was nothing left: The Irodion. Greek goes clear, I like, like the woman, the mother likes on the back bank and also like the in-law logically after a Greece holiday. So it was clear what was booked: this restaurant, praised over the green clover. Call one of the last places. What's going on? Then the food must taste. Saturday comes, after a nice day on the terrace with coffee and cakes, the stomachs come, depending on the booking time at 18:00. The in-laws know the way, even I can remember driving around here several times and asking me that there is HERE a place. The parking lot is behind the house, the restaurant shares it with a gym on the ground floor, a hotel on the side and the residents. Fortunately, the penny was closed months ago, otherwise he would look dark despite the large number of parking spaces. Tip if you want to book according to this report: arrive early, otherwise the footpath becomes cumbersome. Why is a gym on the ground floor, the hotel is an absolutely jewelleryless side entrance with many steps (case high? Thanks...! and the place itself is on the second floor OHNE elevator(!), that remains a secret to me. The stairs with the many, many, many steps, so the old and fragile are sorted out. Upstairs then through smoke swaths, because despite signs in the entrance is smoked. Well, he's completely filled with nicotine for free. Also a kind of service. The restaurant itself enters the guest through a glass door with stickers, the restaurant itself is bright, clean and simply decorated. No glamour and glamour, which is not expected in the Greeks anyway, but otherwise everything is quite objective. What is no disadvantage. We'll get a table for five guests. There are even six people here. If you can, it will be cuddly. Drinks are ordered, water in all variants (0.25 litres to 1.90 Euro and 0.75 litres to 5,20 Euro, a special for me (0.4 litres to 3,50!!! Euro and a cyclist crazy (0.25 litres to 2.10 euros). Whether this was purely acoustic or a knowledge gap, I cannot say, but Radler was at least unknown. However, the drinks came quite fleeting, were pleasantly cooled. Plus point on this rather warm day. The choice of food is somewhat different than usual, some dishes are not found on the map, and there are those who are not ordered for other Greeks. Extends the Greek horizon, is not a disadvantage. We decide for two times Souvlaki (Kotopoulo Skaras, each 12,80 Euro, once liver (Sikoti Vodino at 8,90 Euro, twice Gyros large (each 10,40 Euro). And here the misery begins... The salad comes to the table in portions. On corn. I never had a Greek salad, no matter what region I had eaten in Germany. Then a cream dressing. Seriously? Yes, unfortunately. The so beloved herbal salad was spilled. And before that, it's done with a lot of vinegar. Nice mix, I'd say. Or otherwise: Unbarable. Single opinion at the table: Nothing for us. After a few snacks they go back to the kitchen. Including the approximately 4 6 mm thick disc raw tube. There are no olives or peperoni up there. I'm sick. Shortly afterwards, the most important foods come in a truly remarkable short time. Maximum the time that has gone to cook a liver on the grill outside and leave it pink in is around when the dishes are in front of us. Optimum fit. Only the bright croquettes (in the Greeks???) to the souvlaki of the father-in-law seem pale. And when I look at my plate, I also see a pale rice. And buddy Gyros. The first fork of Gyros leaves me. Lauwarm. Okay, can happen when meat hits a cold plate. Then the rice. And completely neutral in taste. Served with a mixture of peas and small tubes. The Zaziki is edible, neatly prepared with garlic and cucumber strips. Next fork **** from the middle of the plate. Also only lukewarm, even without being crispy. My guess, when the second part of Gyros at the table is reported to me pretty lukewarm is that this Gyros is already prepared and previously kept warm in larger quantities to be able to process the storm that starts after us with guests. It is regrettable that a maximum of quality comes from a snack bar. Especially since this is the best Greek place. Alter Schwede, what do customers expect at the other location? Do I even want to know? Also the remaining foods are already... for souvlaki and with good, but nix especially for the liver. The positive of the evening: No one was poisoned, the diet took place, but a pleasure was not. It is a shame, because here the joy of speed is sacrificed. How long does it take to get the croquets crispy? Or to salt the pommes? And will I die if I have to wait for the Gyros 15 instead of 10 minutes? No, this visit was absolutely nothing, because we, including the in-law, will in future make a great arc around this place. And I guess I won't understand why the restaurant is thrown into the sky.

From the order to pick it up. The dishes taste very well with really big portions. Thank you.

A very nice restaurant with Greek music and decoration. all waiters were friendly and prompt. the main dish took a little longer, but coffee went to the house afterwards. the food was delicious and had a good temperature, the portions were definitiw sufficient. rest are also packed.

The service was nice, polite and carefree. The order was quickly processed.The food was served hot and tasted very well.

First class! We've eaten badly. The boss is so warm that you feel now. We like to come back and recommend the restaurant! (Reservation is especially advisable at weekends, the restaurant works -only- very popular)