Rock River Grill & Tavern
700 Grand Ave, Des Moines
(515) 558-6730
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For the breakfast buffet, it is a contentnial breakfast. Albeit a good contentnial breakfast. Nice selection and quality. A bit miffed I had to pay $20 after tax for it. Hence the 4 stars. Good for a convenient and quick breakfast if needed.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing church in downtown Des
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Great for breakfast buffet.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
In a word... horrific. Marriott should be ashamed to offer this in their property. For breakfast, everything is pre-made, tasteless, and stale. Extremely limited "buffet" of only reheated potatoes, fake eggs, greasy & limp bacon, and factory sausages. No to-order meals. One "server" for the entire restaurant that seems only able to refill your water and bring your over-priced check.
Was a great spread of breakfast food! Best Biscuits n gravy I ever had
A fav spot for tasty american food. i will be back with my friends. feels like a place in charlotte that i enjoyed visiting.
Very good food
We opted for the all you can eat pasta and salad bar. It was nice to create your own pasta with red or white sauce, either penne or bowtie pasta, choice of meats, veggies, and a lot of other stuff. The chef at the cooking station will heat up everything together and plate it for you. I enjoyed the red sauce with Graziano sausage but it felt like a pasta that I could make at home. I had 2 plates for lunch and I was in a food coma afterwards, probably not the best place to go during a work day :)
Nice and efficient
This place is a hard zero. I got the American breakfast and my wife got The omelette breakfast. When we first got there there was nobody to seat us. The waitress tried pretty hard to convince us to get the buffet which is $18 a person. The coffee is low-quality which isn't too bad as that's easy to look past. We waited nearly 30 minutes to get our food despite the fact that nobody else was really there. my wife's hash browns were burnt and as hard as a brick and could be picked up like a piece of toast. My hash browns however we're very undercooked and mushy like mashed potatoes in the center. My wifes although it was just folded up scrambled eggs with a couple chunks of me with a handful of cold cheese on top.
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We usually come here every year for Thanksgiving, but was disappointed this year. I really enjoy the ambience of the restaurant and they moved their Thanksgiving buffet to a ballroom with the hotel. It was a very plain, cold atmosphere. I felt like I was eating in a soup kitchen. On top of that there was an $11 "service charge" for the buffet on top of the cost of buffet. We will not be returning next year.
Breakfast buffet was a bonus. Plentiful selection of fruits, cereals, pastries, breads, meats plus eggs cooked to order.
Excellent spinach arugula salad with candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and gorgonzola cheese!
I have been here a couple of times and both the times on a Wednesday. They have a Pasta buffet going on every Wednesday which is pretty good. Considering the ambience and the price they charge, I find it attractive.
We opted for the all you can eat pasta and salad bar. It was nice to create your own pasta with red or white sauce, either penne or bowtie pasta, choice of meats, veggies, and a lot of other stuff. The chef at the cooking station will heat up everything together and plate it for you. I enjoyed the red sauce with Graziano sausage but it felt like a pasta that I could make at home. I had 2 plates for lunch and I was in a food coma afterwards, probably not the best place to go during a work day :)
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