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| - We recently tried this place while visiting Calgary, for the ScotiaBank marathon. ...I'll start on a positive note - the setting in Prince Island Park was beautiful!
The menu/food and service....not so much. I left the place starving, as there were limited options for a vegetarian palate. I was hoping for a large, green salad (without meat, cheese or anything sugary). The 'only' green salad option they offered was the Heritage Greens - which was a tiny bowl of ingredients that were 'fluffed' to almost nothing - for $14! Since this item fell under the appetizer heading I had originally requested the restaurant to make this an entree-sized salad (of course charging me accordingly) to which the waiter replied 'no can do'. ...After slowly chewing my way through this strange tasting bowl of fluff I was glad that I did receive an entree sized portion. Maybe it was the bee pollen that offered the bitter and gritty flavor, but I would not order it again.
I sat for a very long time with an empty water glass, until finally my husband decided to share his with me, hoping the waiter would be back soon to refresh our glasses (which did not happen for another long while) - until he came back to offer dessert options, which we declined.
So it was really too late to be finally refreshing our water (especially mine) - as our check came soon-after.
This presented another surprise - the other couple had ordered an appetizer, some raw bison thing - which obviously I did not eat, being vegetarian. Well, without asking us, our waiter split the appetizer cost - adding half to our bill! ...We were with friends, but we have not known them for long so this created a VERY awkward situation to say the least. I think my husband may have had 1 small bite of this raw, meat-eaters appetizer, but was in no way planning to pay for half of the $18 appetizer, for that 1 taste. ...It did get very awkward, but I asked aloud why we were being charged for half of the app, however the waiter dropped our checks off quickly, heading off to another table and didn't ask if the bills looked okay to us.
Well our friend's wife awkwardly offered to give my husband cash. ...Why couldn't the waiter ask first how we wanted the bill split up? It would have saved a very awkward moment for us with our friends.
Once we left, we ended up dropping the other couple off at our B&B and headed out to run some errands. I told my husband, I know this probably sounds weird, but I really am hungry and would like to try and find a to-go salad while we are out. He graciously understood, but I think it's terrible that we paid $14 for a tiny bowl of 'fluff' (and I do mean fluff) and I am still hungry.
I did pick something up to eat & brought it back to our B&B and kind of again 'awkwardly' explained that I was still hungry. I was surprised to hear from the other couple that they too were also hungry, even after having bread, an appetizer and full entrees! ...Wow! This shocked me and I said, if you guys are still hungry imagine how hungry I am.
Sad to report that even with the beautiful setting at the River Cafe, I would NOT recommend this pricy place with little to no options for vegetarians, hit and miss service that caused us awkward times with our friends and every one of us leaving hungry.
Try another restaurant! ....You can always check out, walk & enjoy Prince Island Park for free, without handing over your hard-earned $$$ for this type of experience.
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