Ok, so I went to River Café in November... sorry i've got a lot of catching up to do.
The only reason I am not giving 5 stars is because they force you to pay for water. If thats the case they should donate the funds from the water to a chairty organization, kind-of like Cibo does.
Anyway.... we took my mom there for a sunday brunch birthday celebration. Our waiter Chad was phenomenal. He was very attentive and wasn't overbearing or pushy. He was patient with my mom and her millions of questions and when we ordered was kind enough to make sure we knew exactly what we were in for.
My mom and I both had the Quiche. This was a traditional quiche which isn't supposed to be served hot like most other places do. It was creamy and had the right amount of flavour components, nothing overbearing. The side salad was fennel with gigantic slices of tomatoes. Im not the biggest fan of fennel but i happily ate the tomatoes.
My father had the Hog wild peameal bacon and 64° egg. (for those of you that don't know-- a 64° egg is an egg slow cooked in the shell in a water bath (sous-vide most of the time) of 64 degrees Celsius and has a custard-like white and somewhat solid yolk). He loved it. No complaints or anything. He was really taken by the plate though, which was long and narrow, like it was meant to serve a fish on, and it was clear, Im pretty sure he spent more time talking about the plate then any part of his meal.
Boyfriend had the Elk Bacon eggs benny with brown butter hollandaise. It must have been awesome because he barely spoke the entire time we were there.
My mom later saw a student she once taught and went over to talk to them, I took this opportunity to go talk to chad about a surprise birthday dessert. He said i would have to pay for it which was no surprise and listed off the different desserts they had. I decided to go with the Maple crème brûlée withPecan Sugar Cookie and Candied Orange. Heaven! It was gone in less then 7 minutes.
I'd love to go back to River Café during the summer when the park is green and pretty and the weather is warm.