Reviews The Buffet At River Rock

Went here last night for my wife’s work Christmas Celebration and everything was very impressive. Despite being busy the staff worked efficiently as a team to clean tables, replenish the buffet with wonderful food which at a cost of $35.00 after tax was worth the price. There was a vast variety of choices at various food stations with Seafood, Sushi, Roast Beef, Turkey, Egg Rolls, Pasta, and even French Fries and Chicken Strips. Everything was cooked and presented beautifully and their desert station even offered some really great sugar free options and a mint cake that was smooth and refreshing like an after 8 dinner mint. I would absolutely return, maybe even see a show while I’m there.

溫哥華雖然不及美國拉斯維加斯是個賭城，但這裡的合法賭埸也相當活躍，幾乎每個市鎮都有一間賭場設立。賭場為求吸引更多顧客，經常會推出各種飲食和自助餐優惠。鄰近溫哥華又設有自助餐廳的賭場有四間，包括位於本拿比市的The Buffet@Grand Villa、位於二埠的The Buffet@Starlight、位於高貴林市的The Buffet @Hard Rock Casino 和我今天光顧位於列治文市的The Buffet@River Rock。以我個人體驗所得，這幾家賭場自助餐廳之中以River Rock最為優勝，包括餐房環境、員工服務以至餐點品質和款式都比其餘三家好很多，雖然價錢稍高但CP值亦相對提升，物有所值。

這家位於溫哥華列治文市River Rock Casino河石賭場內的“The Buffet”自助餐廳七天營業，每天提供早午晚自助餐及週六/日的「Brunch Buffet」。自助餐廳位於娛樂度假酒店三樓，可容納260人，兩間貴賓房可供私人宴會或活動使用。餐房寬敞舒適，接近落地窗的座位更可欣賞菲沙河景

I went to all 3 buffet at the River Rock, breakfast, lunch and dinner. I did not go for a Sunday brunch yet. In all 3 buffet, I found that the River Rock buffet is a fantastic one.

For the Mephis BBQ dinner, I did not have a chance to take picture. Nevertheless, the food selection were fantastic. There were plenty of choices, You can choose between Chinese, Shushi, BBQ section or Salad, also, the desserts and breads are in house made, high quality, bite size and very tasty.

There were too many choices, and I ate a small pieces from everything. Just one piece, nevertheless, I could only completed 4 plates. After the fourth, I was onto my 5th plate and I was so full. I missed the Shushi. In fact I threw up after the diner because of over eating :D. It is a buffet after all and it is best to try a bit of everything.

From the food, for the BBQ section, the Currry Chicken taste was magnificient. They have 3 type of sausages and the sausages were high in quality and their tastes were perfectly blend with each other. The mash potato and gravy were perfect. All the condiments were high in quality type

When I moved to the salad bar, there were 6 types of dressing and a massive amount of fresh vegetables to choose from, including a premade potato salad. For this dinner one, they did not have seafood for the salad bar but they have seafood for the lunch salad bar. Nevertheless, for my taste, I rather have boiled egg then seafood. Nevertheless, the salad bar was perfect as there are also cheese and bacon bit that can spice up your flavor. Can not forgot to mention the tasty Roast Beef and Ham slices. Oh yeah, that cheese slice at the salad bar can also be put in the hot soups that they serve, which was the potato chowder and something that tasted like a Chicken Noodle Soup. Have you tried topping your hot soup with Cheddar and Parmesan? Try it if you have not, you will not be dissapointed..

Not much can be say for the Chinese section beside great food goodness. The items there tasted exactly how they would taste if you were to buy them from a chinese restaurant. Maybe, perhap better in some instances.

I could not eat my Shushi roll plate. I was too full. I felt bloated and dead. Food can kill, maybe, who know. Nevertheless, there is no secret in Shushi. Fresh ginger, good Wasabi, good Soy sauce and perfect Shushi rice will give you some great tasting Shushi. I could not taste the Shushi rice because I was so bloated, nevertheless, I tried the Wasabi and ginger dip in Soy sauce and OMG. The freshness and the just right spiciness from that bite may even be better than some Shushi stores I used to go to. The Wasabi just went up my nose and that was a perfect Wasabi that was accompanied by the right type of soy sauce and the fresh ginger.

The funny part about me? I ate dessert before dinner. There were like 10 choices of dessert or more, nevertheless, I only chose two. The result? Fresh, tasty and what that word again? perfect perhap?

I was going to write a review for breakfast. Nevertheless, this got too long and I wrote this with my phone. So I will try to shorten this. Maybe I will write a blog post about my experience at the River Rock buffet.

You should try the breakfast at the River Rock Buffet. I think the breakfast here is very valuable. For breakfast they have the salad bar with yogurt, some hot food with a pork dumpling that taste better than a dim sum place, plain or seafood congee that plain in taste where you can customize the taste with the close-by condiments. The condiment they chose for the congee? One word, perfect.

Did I mention, egg benedict, sausages, 2 type of bacons, oat meal, soup, and an omlette/pancake station where the station attendent will cook your pancake fresh or make your omlette the way you like. You can pick what go on your omlette from what choice is available at the station. I picked everything for my omlette. Besides all that, they have fresh food, bottomless pop and juices, also, freshly baked bread. My rule of thump though. I do not eat bread at a buffet, but I am sure they are tasty as they look yummy. And did I mentioned, it only cost 16 for breakfast, with tax and tip, that work out to be 20 dollar per person. I got the encore discount. I ate all the breakfast item, I could not found an imperfection on any item. Just bread and fruit are those that I did not eat.

Will come back here for their Thai dinner theme. Hopefully it will be the same great experience. All the picture below are from breakfast. I can only post 25 of them :d. And yes, I did not throw up because of over eating for breakfast.

My husband brought me to this buffet. My lord there are so many food like sushi, dessert,king crab,mussel,sashimi, salad,pasta,fried rice, roasted meat, veggie, ice cream etc.. it taste not bad. Each person is 30 plus tax.

Ben and I went to the Richmond Costco to get the tires replaced. There is no appointment booking for the tire service. We were advised to go earlier, before the center opens at 8:00AM. We went out before 7:30AM that morning and we were greeted with a great sunrise. There were already a few people in line. After we dropped off our key for the service, we went to look for a place for breakfast on foot. Ben suggested Kongee King or Buffet at the River Rock Casino.

Here for the seafood buffet. Around $40 per adult. Lobster is ok but not the best. Maybe I prefer hot served lobster more. The clams are good and mussels are too salty. The prime rib is a bit over cooked.

There are not too much food options. The desserts are all very sweet. The Popsicles are a nice surprise. As usually buffets have ice cream but not Popsicles too.

As they don't take reservations on Friday and Saturday, it's better to arrive before 5pm when the dinner buffet started.

Price raises, food selection decreases.
Desserts are still good. Saturday seafood dinner is the only thing good. Lobster and prime rib roars beef are great.

Amazing New Year's Eve Buffet. We were there for New Years Eve and the Buffet was Amazing! The service was excellent as well! The variety of food was abundant, and tasted very good! The desert bar was also amazing! We loved every bit of it! We would definitely recommend trying the new year's eve buffet! Although, we've been to the River Rock buffet many times throughout the year, the New Year's Eve is by far the best!

Sunday brunch! :). I used to HATE the Buffet at the Rock, but now we go every other Sunday!
The Sunday brunch is MUCH IMPROVED, it used to suck pretty bad with bad food and poor value for the price you pay. Now they have crab legs, which taste great! The quality of food has also improved. The price for adult is $25 which is comparable to the Sunday brunch buffet in downtown hotels. Other Sunday brunch places charge close to $20 and you don't get the crab legs, smoked salmon, & roast beef. They also have fresh waffles, and a good salad bar. I'm very pleased with the value of what I pay for and would recommend giving it a try! They've changed my mind, and now I really enjoy going with my family. We literally go every other Sunday since July this year!

Just okay. Even with a cheap kids price for $11 until you're 12 for my kids, the food was nothing compared to those places you have to pay more. I suppose you get what you pay for. The beef was tough, the bread was very cold and hard, the sprouts were like eating grass, the Asian section was oily and the crispy pig had no flavour. Also having that cripsy pig as a whole on the counter did not look attractive. Poor pig! The only good thing was probably the beef bourginioun (sorry don't know how to spell that correctly) and the ice cream.

King crab was the buffet hightlight although there was no clarified butter with it. The hot items were decent at best. I liked the roast with yorkshire puddings as well.

Every year for as long as I can remember we have been going to River Rock for our annual Christmas dinner. By the 3rd year I was getting tired of the lack of variety they offer there. However, being that I missed it last year, I had this new sense of wonder about what would be offered despite the fact that I could probably tell you exactly what’s there every year.

This was actually our second visit at The Buffet @ River Rock, and it is the Sunday Brunch ($24.95). According to the food variety The Buffet might be a bit expensive; however, if you compare with those hotel-buffet resturants in Vancouver Downtown, it is pretty much affordable and has decent quality. For the price at $24.95 you could have seafood and crableg, roasted Beef etc. in your sunday brunch, it is nice.