River Canteen

Went there for breakfast and had a great experience. Was nearly there for 4 hours, the time flew by, I had a Nintendo with me as well to help time pass while I let food settle before I went back for more. Great selection and variety of food available, was very impressed with the presentation and quality. $35 for full buffet, $30 if you don't want hot food but I recommend paying the extra. I also recommend going there withing the first 2 hours, I tried cereal and juice again after 9am and the milk and juice were room temperature by that stage. I really like how just about everything is gluten free or vegetarian, a very tasty and healthy breakfast. There is an omelette station where someone will make omelette's or eggs how you want them whether it's poached or another way with quite a few different food option to go into the omelette. I mentioned to the lady making them that I wish I could do that at home, they never turn of right for me. I really loved the eggs benedict, the soft boiled egg was perfect and runny yolk tasted fantastic. Toast station has wholemeal, white, fruit/raisen and muffin you can put into a machine to toast. They also had a lot of kellogg's cereal and good old weet bix plus lots of oats, nuts and fruits. Plenty of Dilmah tea options, quite a few juice options as well. I liked a lot of their fruit and also tried quite a few different cheeses they had, the salmon was nice, I have it every night at home for dinner. The staff were very friendly, I got to interact with quite a number of them. Very quite and enjoyable atmosphere as well, might have been 10-15 people max at a time, you can sit inside or enjoy the river view outside and grab extra coffee type drinks at a barista for a price. I highly recommend having breakfast here, so good and so healthy :)

This review is completely based on breakfast and what an awesome spread it is! My favourite is definitely the eggs benedict station with help yourself hollandaise sauce 😍 the staff are extremely helpful and happy. Sitting out on the patio is the best benefit with sweeping views of the Brisbane River and Story Bridge - all framed by the ruby red flame trees in the surrounding gardens. Even better, as a guest, you can prepay breakfast so that it's on $25 per head 🙏🏻 awesome