I was there for lunch as well dinner. (I visited 4 times in total)
I think the Food, Location, Ambience and Service all together makes this restaurant very special!
The food is very good and the presentation is artistic too!
Lunch time is very nice floating feel on the water and the sunset view reflecting in the water is also great in the sunset hour as it is facing the west! (Recommend to start early dinner right before sunset hour)
The service is great. The waitresses wore the same colorful dress which for me the image relates to the beautiful tropical fish grouping in the water. Kristine the waitress remembers me and every time I visit she is always very polite and caring!
When I was there in the night for business, musicians were playing music too!

Our server on all of our visits was Kristine. She was very attentive, friendly, helpful and advised us on things such as a frequent diner program. She answered all of our questions. We got a special desert for our anniversary diner in February.
Looking forward to our next visit before we go off-island.

We discovered this amazing place on our second to last night in Palau, and loved it SO much we went back again the next night. The atmosphere is beautiful and very Zen- on the water, elegant and torch lit. You are greeted with and ice cold refreshing hand towel as you are seated. The service is fantastic and our waitress Kristine was the friendliest and most attentive ever! She absolutely went out of her way to care for us. The food is superb, with amazing fresh seafood, delicious pasta, and the coconut soup was so flavorful (a must try!) This is certainly the Best restaurant in Palau, I only wish we had discovered it earlier on our trip!

I was in Palau with a small group of people who had not met each other before arriving in Palau for a kayaking and snorkeling trip. Our guide took us to Elilai for our “get acquainted” dinner. It was sensational! The location on the water is beautiful and relaxing, and the meal was exceptional. Over the course of our trip, while we had limited opportunities to get to restaurants, we managed to return to Elilai two more times, including our final dinner before our flight home. We were so impressed with the consistently great food, ambiance, and service that we asked to speak to the chef in order to heap praise on him.

We had an excellent dining experience, the ambiance, service and food were all wonderful. Loved the backlit menu. Great live music. I had the seared tuna, others had shrimp linguini, chicken fried rice and the rib eye. Everyone enjoyed their meal.