River Barge Restaurant

River Barge Restaurant serves dinner buffet from 6pm-10.30pm while a la cart menu is also available at the same time for outdoor seating along the river. Our disappointment staring from reception service. There are 3 staff who are 2 servers and 1 manager by the door at the time we arrived but they still talking about their personal businesses rather than greeting us. We booked for four people to celebrate birthday party but they set a corner table next to a pole. We had to ask them for a better position along the river view. Food is variety but is so so for the quality and taste. Especially, Sechuan soup is horrible since the taste is different from it should be. Grilled skin crispy pork is too dry and hard to chew. They serves only water, coffee and tea in the buffet. Even most servers and chefs are nice and attentive but the service is still slow and there is a stop period before the food is refilled. When we asked the restaurant manager to prepare a small piece of cake for our birthday girl with a candle the manager told us to buy a cake from their bakery shop. We told her this is unimpressive service. Later, while we are picking some cake from the buffet to decorate on a plate for our birthday girl the same manager approaching us with a fake smile. She said she would ask a chef to write birthday sentence on the plate. When we asked for bill we have to wait for 15-20 minutes. Then I followed up with a servers but that lady passed the bill book to me as is she wants me to take it to my table myself. I have to look at her face for a minute to let her realized what her duty is. Around 20.30 we saw a firework demonstration and before leaving around 21.30 we saw the second firework show as the attached clips.

a year ago