We wanted to have a good "all around" beed/meat restaurant while spending some tim in Turku and this is what we found. Lets dive deeper into the world of Hiili:
The food is good. Depending naturally what you are after, but if it is good barbecue stuff & meat, this is the place. Nothing too fancy, but good tasty food.
The starters aren't really anything special. If you look at those, it would remind you of a average pub menu you can find in many pubs that offer fingerfood. We took crabcakes and shrimps, didn't taste anything special.
For main course, we had Surf & Turf and 300g sirloin steak. The meat was just perfect. The standard test for me is to order my steak medium rare (medium -) and for a large thick stake it is really easy to undercook it. Mine came just perfect. My date took it medium, and it also arrived as it should have. Sauces we ordered were good and the special house potatoes were excellent.
Some other reviews in eat.fi etc tell about slow service. I can say it was a bit slow, but one must remember it was a very busy Friday evening when most of the people came in at the same time in early evening. The kitchen had hard time to keep up. But the food didn't take that much time and we weren't in a hurry.
The selection of bbq meats and pulled pork really would require a second and maybe a third visit to the restaurant. Our stomachs were filled and we liked to place. This wouldn't be perhaps the fine dining where you can take the lady out for the first time, but for a simple good dinner - spot on.
The starters and a bit slow service would make the rating ****- but lets go with 4 stars for now :) read more