The Mrs ordered a medium well steak and it came out medium rare. However, the staff were 10/10 and accommodated us very nicely . The rest of the food was 10/10!!! Highly recommend this place and will be coming back soon!!! Thankyou everyone at the river cafe!
Thank you to the very attentive young lady who looked after us all night, an absolute delight.
The food was amaZing, the best view and a relaxed atmosphere.
Never disappoints and we visit as a group of 6 friends each year for that very reason đđ
Great steaks deserts views and good service
This is one of my favourite restaurants, the ambience is wonderful, the food is so delicious every dish I have tried is presented beautifully . I would recommend anyone trying this restaurant you wonât be disappointed.. staff are very professional and helpful, canât wait to go back again!!
How did your winter go so far? My one started off great but after catching virus and being sick, I was inundated with all things occurred in the past several weeks. Never mind, things will get better. To overcome the winter âfeverâ, Tina and I headed down to one of the iconic cafe in town, River Cafe, to try the Festival of Food 2018 Menu.
I'd been meaning to go to The River Cafe for a long while. I should say, I've wanted to review River Cafe for a long time. Every time we go I'm too engrossed in the food to take pictures therefore am not able to write anything up.
Trolling (not the bad sort of Troll) through Dimmi, looking at the specials they have if you book online. Just who would be in the listings? My old friend, River Cafe, 50% off food bill. Get that booked pronto!Â
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Excellent service with tasty food, best view for a fancy restaurant on the river. Dessert is much more than expected. The only downside is the portion of the entree at such high price, while main is much reasonable. When booking via Dimmi with 50% off on food, nothing should stop us to visit again.
What is this? Food for ants?
Good service but the food was not worth the loan I had to take out to eat here.
Portions were tiny and to make it worse the steak was cold. Canât say Iâll be coming back any time soon.
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Used a discount voucher which made the evening very affordable as it is a quality venue with quality food and bills are higher than the average restaurant. The only fault (which we have found tonight and on our last two visits) is the service is patchy. E.G. ordered sparkling water delivered still, ordered beers and while pouring one managed to part empty the other on my partners foot, ordered another round and was told they didnât stock that only to find the waitress had asked the bar for something which we did not order and wasnât in the menu.
However the location is excellent, the presentation excellent, menu choices are extensive and the quality is very good. As above, you do pay more but the value is certainly there.
If you want to impress someone you couldnât go wrong with visiting this place.
Wine & beer lists are quite extensive.
Starters - we shared Arancini Balls & Zucchini Flowers both were generous serves, well presented and tasted great. For my main I tried the tagine of goat which was excellent and again a very reasonable portion. We finished with a shares cheese plate - 3 decent sized cheese selections with terrific accompaniments, again very well presented and enjoyable.
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PICTURESQUE VIEW
We arrived early for a Saturday night dinner booking made by a friend & there was a sign on the door that said, "Closed for a private function", which was disconcerting - should we find somewhere else to eat? Apparently the sign applied to the day's lunch trade only.
You can get a parking permit on arrival to prevent getting a ticket in the nearby 2 hour spaces.
The service was good. The waitress warned us that a large group was coming & that we might want to get our orders in before they showed up. I appreciated this advice.Â
We ordered bread with olive oil & balsamic to start which was delicious but the oil mixture ran out very quickly. The waitress happily brought us some more.
The main course serving sizes were on the small side. My girlfriend's tortellini dish looked like an entree.
I had the beef fillet which was cooked perfectly to my taste. Everyone had a taste of it & commented on how good it was. The accompanying truffled mash was ok. Everyone else enjoyed their meals, being papardelle, linguine granchio and a seafood broth.
My sister & I decided to order the chocolate pudding which had a 20 minute wait. However, my sister had to wait for 10 more minutes after my & my girlfriend's dessert (panna cotta) was delivered - why?
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I love Festival of Food time, where I revisit all the restaurants I went to last year, because FOF have made it so affordable! River Café is one of our favourite restaurants in Adelaide and has never disappointed.
The view is spectacular as always.
Service a little slow on this occasion, through no fault of the restaurant, as I believe some sickies were in play, making this difficult for the remaining staff, I so get that! They did a fabulous job for the amount of waiters they did have!
We are always excited with the FOF menus and ordered promptly. Our entrees arrived fairly quickly and were quite nice, small critique on the crostini, it was too hard and just fell to pieces when you tried to eat it, the rest was nice.
When our mains arrived, my eyes roved the table and all the dishes looked promising. The lamb dish was enjoyed, the gnocci not so much, as this really needed some sauce to tie it all together and the gnocci was a little stodgy. I had the pumpkin tortellini which was undercooked, where the pasta was pressed together, was still hard. The pumpkin filling was sweet and the goat curd a bit lost, married with the amaretti butter crumb really made this a super sweet dish which I did not enjoy and couldnât finish, I believe this dish would be much better without the amaretti and maybe a more savoury crumb instead. The rest of the dishes were just okay. We ordered some desserts and they were lovely.
We came here last year with a large group on the FOF and uber foodie mates and myself were totally blown away with their meals. Sad faces all around this year, it wasnât up to the same standard, such a shame.
Thanks team, we will return and give the FOF another go!!
Food was AMAZING. Service was pretty good too. Didn't have to wait long for food. Wasn't too noisy. Now one of our favourite places to eat. Highly reccommend.
Saturday night at the River Cafe. Very exciting. But this time it really seemed to be lacking something. Music? Not sure. But it wasn't the same. The service was extremely poor. You usually get, highly skilled waiting staff. I guess they were at home having a long weekend rest.
So it's a 2/10 for service. You are usually made to feel special, not to be .
Ok..... so onto the food. Excellent food thankfully. At least the chef was awake. The tapas idea I wasn't sure on, but it was very nice and well priced at $12 per person. Main course excellent. Dessert not many options and really to be honest., not fantastic. Would I go again??. Maybe not in a hurry. They really need to pick up their game. Otherwise it's another fabulous restaurant finished.
Also where are the table clothes???. Not on every table and should be. Poor presentation!!
Management needs to do some work. I guess that's it.
Limited menu but superb position built out over the river. The food is excellent quality and beautifully presented although the plates were not heated on the evening we dined there. Service is satisfactory but not particularly outstanding. Definitely worth a visit with free and easy parking on-site.
It was lovely. The chef could cater for vegan and lowfodmap but very, very limited as it's an Italian restaurant.
Very expensive but service is outstanding. And of course the view :)
It is very easy to give this restaurant a 5 star review. We asked for a quiet table and they happily obliged.
The food was excellent, some innovative ideas which enhanced the experience.
The food was very well presented, made the visual experience a pleasure.
The quality was excellent in fact pefect, the quantities generous. A truly nice pleasant experience.
Everyone on the table was impressed.
The waiting staff were attentive, professional and very pleasant. They made the night.
It was nice to meet the manager who was always making sure people were enjoying themselves and being attended to.
Thank you for an excellent night.
Awesome service. Would recommend trying this restaurant
We had arincini balls. They were 10/10
Highly recommend trying them aswell as we steak was nice
Excellent cuisine. We have the prawn pasta and the marinara pasta followed by two delightful desserts. Staff were friendly and helpful. Would highly recommend.
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