River Grill Reviews Summary

Reservation and Seating

Pros:

• "Got turned down at two other restaurants because we didn’t have a reservation. River Grill took us in without any wait."
• "I visited on a Tuesday at 16:40. I was hesitant based on some reviews and ratings, but I wanted an easy in and out place by the river."
• "I am SO glad I did not listen to the one-star reviews. The food was flavourful and huge portions, came out hot and quick, and were lovely."
• "We had been turned away at 3 places for lack of reservations, so came here."

Cons:

• "Even When you are out of options and have no bookings and been turned away by other restaurants on a rainy night, like we were. Do Not come here."
• "We had dinner at this place because all our options were fully booked."
• "We rolled-in late to Inverness and found most of the city closed. We decided on River Grill, because the next option was Tesco."
• "Checked into our hotel quite late and had really hard time finding a place that wasn't fully booked. Came across River Grill, it was quite busy."

Service Quality

Pros:

• "The wait staff was helpful and the prices were fair."
• "I ordered a lamb chop with chips. The food was delivered at 16:49, so the service was fast."
• "The waiters were kind and very helpful, and we were seated immediately."
• "The portion was generous, staff polite, the food quite good and we got the riverside window seat so overall a great evening spent."

Cons:

• "Also the waiters seems to be very bored and didnt even ask if anything is okay or sth like that."
• "Never been to a more vile place in whole of UK. The waiters were absolutely disgusting. They behaved rudely with people."
• "Bar tender was very rude. Food was disgusting."
• "Waiter had audocity to change our orders and bring what he though would be best in his opinion, without consulting on our personal opionions."
• "We ordered a starter & a main, our starter came out and was ok ( ish) the waiter came and cleared our plates and we sat there waiting for our main …. 1hr after we asked how long our meal will be , he said you’ve not ordered a Main?? We said we have so half hour later he gave us our main!"
• "Staff was verging on unpleasant. He practically rolled his eyes and behaved like he wanted to be anywhere else but here."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "I had chicken pasta and it was good. My wife had spaghetti and she said it was delicious."
• "We ordered a portion of Borek and a Mixed Grill Platter. The portion was generous, staff polite, the food quite good and we got the riverside window seat so overall a great evening spent."
• "The pizza wasn't great. It was mostly cheese with a very thin layer of tomato sauce so you can hardly taste it."
• "The chicken salad was fresh and tasty, the haddock in the haddock and chips was nice and juicy and cooked just right."

Cons:

• "The lamb chops had a good flavor but were mainly fat. There was very little meat. The chips were average."
• "We ordered burger and spanish meatballs, both were really bad for the price of 14.95 burger and 7.95 meatballs."
• "Food was decent, staff was awful. Head waiter… owner? Just walked away as we were ordering our drinks."
• "It was the worst pizza of my life. The dough, filling and even cheese are inedible."
• "Ordered lasagne and pizza. Cheese on lasagne was very difficult to break up, like an everlasting chew, but tasted ok."

Cleanliness and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Great location, nicely decorated. It would be a great place to open a restaurant."

Cons:

• "From the inside it is not very clean. The tables and chairs were dirty and doesn't looked very nice."
• "Shoes stuck to the floors, and hands to the tablecloth, which had stains of ketchup and something else."
• "The toilet is just absolutely disgusting filthy."
• "Sat down on a chair which had crumbs on it but thought little of it. Saw the ornament on the window sill on my right with cobwebs on it and then thought I better check reviews of this place."