Riverview International Buffet

Two years later, and I can without a doubt say that this was the worst dining experience I ever had. Everything from the cleanliness, quality of the food, taste, lack of service, and price was just so awful, it was almost funny. It was worse than an elementary school cafeteria, airplane food, fast food – basically, every other food imaginable.
It is just so not worth the price. definitely a tourist trap.

There’s nothing international about this awful buffet. First impressions are everything, and my first observation after paying and getting the kids settled was that this place was filthy. My husband didn’t want to go searching so we stayed. I ate lots of salad and soft serve ice cream, as nothing else was worth chewing. Skip this sad buffet.

Well we all know ho buffets are specially in tourist areas where they really do not care for repeat customers. They can serve anyhting and get away with it… I would not say that its the worst place I have eaten but pretty darn close,
The Soup was not bad they had cream of mushroom & chick noodle. They salad seem stale, they had a noodle bar that had various stuff that you can load onto your noodel bown but now way to either sautee it, like throwing raw vegetable into broth. how the hell do you eat un cooked vegatables… the broth /​gravy was only luke warm.
Some boilded and sir fried vegetables with some other greay options, a kids section with mach and cheese and some junk, I don;t think any kid would want to palate that… the deserts were the biggest JOKE, they tasted so bad that I should have asked them to give me money to eat that crap !
We were tried from walking up and down the falls and were not in a mood for a long walk to find lunch, also it would cost us another 20 $ to take our car from the car park and put it back to went here as a last option… It was an absolute wase of 75 $ for 4 of us… what a dump!

This was the buffet we had to go to for lunch on our Niagara Falls tour. It was… Not the best thing in the world. The roast beef was all right, a little salty (the gravy was WAY too salty). In fact, most of the food was a little salty. The fruit they had at the dessert station didn’t look appetizing at all. The soup was all right, as well as the salad (I had cranberry vinaigrette dressing that was pretty good). There’s a very limited selection of food, though, which is disappointing.
The service seemed all right (except for the fact that you had to get your own drinks, which is something I hadn’t really experienced at a buffet before). A server came by to pick up our plates when they were emptied, which I guess is all you really need if the drinks are self-​service at a restaurant.

This place was so bad I don’t even want to waste my time reviewing it.
First, I will say that I traditionally hate buffets anyway, but my friends wanted to go and I was outnumbered… ya know, go along to get along kinda thing. I come to expect mediocre food at buffets. It is my experience that people usually go to them to eat in large quantities and regret it later.
Anyhoo, we found out at the register that you have to pay extra for drinks. Even iced tea? How cheap is that! The buffet itself cost, gulp, $ 16.95. Really? I have to pay for ice tea? Well, OK. Upon further observation, I see that they have employed someone to man the drink area. Also, after inquiry, I realize fountain sodas are $ 3.15 a piece! What?! I WAS offered a cup of water served in a paper cup (what a frickin’ waste) from guarded pitchers positioned by the drink station. To get more water, you get another paper cup. Why not get rid of the drink guard and just include drinks in cost of the meal. That way, people aren’t angry as they enter the door.
Food was traditionally blah. My friend liked the soup.
Not a busy place, but the restrooms were nasty. I found the other review of this place funny because I also wondered if people pretend to use the restroom and just stay. Its a massive place where you can just get swallowed into the room.
Unfortunately, this place will probably stay open and thrive only because there are not a lot of food options at Niagara and when its raining, you just look for the closest place to go inside and hang out. I just hope I save someone from wasting their time and money there with this review.

The only thing redeeming about this overpriced high school /​military buffet arrangement is the trusting front desk person who admits people purporting to only use the washrooms. It’s very possible that these folks shimmy up to the buffet line and chow down the institution-​like food.
When the drink station was left unmanned, some patrons casually took beverage cups that were supposed to pay for.
Two stars (not one) because the food wasn’t all that bad; just a very limited selection. Not much veggies.

Words fail me when describing my dining experience here… probably the WORST restaurant I have had the displeasure of experiencing.
DO NOT DARKEN THIS DOORPLACE. RUN SWIFTLY FROM THIS PLACE…
Service… none and I mean none. No waiters, no bus boys, no nothing. Water? You have to go to the counter to pour it yourself.
«What do you mean the buffet price does not include soft drinks?»
Food… really bad, meat overcooked and overly salted and a very poor selection.
I do not like to leave a mistaken impression that they didn’t do something right… the «Jello» was good.
Unfortunately they decided to serve food that included fruit that was spoiled.
The restaurant is dirty, floors are a mess. It is really a shame since the location across from Niagara Falls is promising. They should just gut the interior, fire the cooks and start from scratch.
By the way, the «chef» when I went back to check looked like he was 18.