River Café
25 Prince's Island Park, SW, Calgary
(403) 261-7670
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We went here for our anniversary. The tasting menu was amazing. They were accommodating for my pregnant wife. Would highly recommend
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Watercress Soup, Benchmark Beer Tartare, House Made Sour Dough
I did the November tasting menu and really enjoyed it. The dishes provided the right amount of food such that you didn't leave feeling uncomfortably full.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
An atmospheric place in the middle of a beautiful park with incredibly tasty coffee
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My family and I came to eat here last night and had an amazing experience. As someone who works in the restaurant industry I enjoyed every moment of our visit here from the food, to the service it was all just amazing. Our server Michael was excellent, had very great knowledge of the menu and was super funny too, it was definitely a highlight of the evening. And the food was just amazing, we all tried eachothers meals because we just couldn’t resist because of how nicely it was put together on the plate.
Overall everything was 10/10 and will definitely be coming here again.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: House Made Sour Dough, Hummous, Farming Worx Duck Confit
Prince's Island Park is a beautiful place with lots of trees and a nice little river cafe. That is, until the park gets swarmed by cars because the cafe allows patrons to call for a taxi from their location. This place wants its cake and eats it too -- idyllic location relatively far from noise, but if you can't be bothered to walk 100m to the nearest road, the cafe has no problem allowing a fleet of cabs to trample all over the island. I just passed 3 in the 5 minutes that I walked by there. Shame.
I have been to this place 3 times... every single time they are closed. Staff party, private event, etc. My recommendation - call in advance before going because even the online information is incorrect.
Best restaurant in Calgary!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is still as atmospheric as before, but the menu has become much less interesting and more meager, there is practically nothing to choose from, I couldn’t choose a normal salad. The beet salad that they brought me was not particularly good, the taste was boring, they didn’t even have any fresh leaves or greens for it, those few sprigs of sunflower prophecies are clearly not enough for this dish to become a salad, rather it’s not a very good cold one snack. Of the main dishes, the duck was not so bad, but again I didn’t like the executioner and the overall presentation of the dish, the combination of flavors was not quite right, it looks like they changed the chef and management, and these changes were not at all for the better.
Parking: They have no parking at all. You have to walk to the restaurant
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Cute little date night spot.
Had the chef-tasting menu with a wine pairing and it was amazing.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
really nice atmosphere. Top quality food. friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Food is not good.
Came from out of town, and spent the day in Calgary. We planned to have dinner here, paid for parking, the bridge was closed due to construction so we had to walk the long way to get to this place only to have it closed for a private event. This wasn’t posted anywhere on their website or socials. We could have called in advance but since there was no notice of this, we figured it would’ve been fine. Too bad, was looking forward to their tasting menu. Probably won’t come back.
Still in my top 5 in Calgary! Location on Princes Island is beautiful and our our server was fun and our meals were amazing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: House Made Sour Dough, Hog Wild Boar Belly, Lambtastic Farm Lamb Sirloin
Must visit place.....!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food? AMAZING! Small portions but SOO WORTH IT! We went for a special occasion and the food definitely special!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Red Lentil Hummus
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