Tilo’s Cuisine & Bakery

We found this place after church on a Sunday afternoon and was quite impressed with their Sunday buffet. Had a wonderful selection of fresh vegetables and five to six different types of meat to chose from. Salad bar and dessert bar is included with your buffet price also. We really enjoyed it!

Came with my mom & Grampa. We all ordered different things: Grampa had the 10-​ounce sirloin steak (medium? But he said it was «just perfect».), Mom had the buffet (nice variety of Tex-​Mex food), & I had the vegetable quesadillas (vegetarian-​friendly, included broccoli, carrots, & mushrooms with sour cream, guacamole, rice, & refried beans [but not too «pasty”]). We all had water, which was great since the salsa made me thirsty. But it wasn’t too extremely spicy. I kinda liked the thick chips that went with their salsa, they didn’t break as easily as (or held more salsa than) chips at other restaurants. Service was great, prices were decent, & it wasn’t too terribly busy or loud. The restrooms are one-​seaters, but clean & well-​maintained. I would love to go back & eat here again sometime!

Great news, in order to provide a delicious, reasonably priced meal to the customers of the now closed Old West Steakhouse (known for their buffet) and to the people of Athens and beyond, Tilos will be offering a dinner buffet on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturday evenings. I had their lunch buffet today which included fried chicken, meatloaf, bbq’d polish sausage, grilled liver and onions, and baked catfish, along with soup of the day, fresh baked rolls, salad bar, an assortment of vegetables, AND dessert. Selection changes daily and all are good. The lunch buffet is $ 9.95 and the dinner will probably a dollar or so more, even though I don’t really know since I forgot to ask. I challenge anyone to find a better deal than this for the price. Anyone who knows Tilo knows he puts his heart and soul into the food he prepares, and as a result, produces a great tasting, great looking product. See attached photos.

Eating here was a quite the unpleasant surprise, based off these reviews.
The buffett is incredibly tiny. There was basically just chicken fried steak, potatoes and a couple vegetable options-​everything straight from the can or box. There was this glazed meat with onion that looked promising not sure what it was, but it was tough and so bland it would not be fair to call it chicken. (It was «chicken».) The chicken fried steak needed salt and breading was soggy. It was very sub par. The potatoes tasted like they had so much MSG in them my brain’s toxin alarm was tripping balls on the first bite from all the excitotoxicity action going on.
The salad bar had some lettuce and two fresh vegetables to choose from: tomatoes and onion. (hope you don’t like salads.) It also had like 45,000 different kinds of pasta salads and enough hidden valley dressing to fill up the Marina Trench… yet nothing to go with all the dressing.interesting. The only thing i found even slightly appetizing was the pea salad.
And finally, you would think with this being a bakery their buffett baked goods would be yummy right? Wanting to kind of advertise to have returning customers??? Right??? Bread pudding was disgusting, bland, some of the worst food I’ve ever had in my life. Honestly I didn’t understand how this place was in business, until I looked around and noticed it’s all literally just old men who clearly don’t care what it tastes like as long as they don’t have to cook. There was another «dessert» too, but I could just tell by looking at it they didn’t even cook any of it and it all just came out of a box or a package!
Bottom line, if you like food that tastes good, don’t come here.

Tilo’s is one of my go to places for lunch! You can have the buffet, which is pretty typical but the food is good «home cooking» and includes one or two of Tilo’s wonderful desserts. Or you can order from the menu for a variety of delicious options. My favorite thing to order is the Quiche… especially the Spinach Quiche. You can get this with the chicken pecan green salad which has spring greens, crispy chunks of chicken; toasted pecans, fresh strawberries; etc. This comes with a delicious homemade dressing and a miniature muffin and some small crispy bread slices. Very tasty! The bread pudding on the buffet is really excellent too. The service is great and if you want to keep your waistline, do not look in the cooler in the reception area… wow! What an array of delicious looking cakes and pies. Tilo’s is also open for dinner and breakfast… will have to try those soon! The prices are reasonable and the atmosphere is very pleasant. Try it!

Decent food, decent prices. GREAT pies! Décor is a bit strange. It’s mostly Mexican food, which was not what we were expecting, but good enough!
Salsa is good.
the fried pies are to-​die for, which is mainly what gets it 4 stars!