For what it is, 4 stars. The food is abundant, pretty good, fairly priced, and the service is…read moresomewhere between friendly, casual, and brusque, in trademark Quebecois style.
Trois-Rivieres is the midpoint, more or less, on the highway between Montreal and Quebec City, so you'll either be buying fuel or be hungry. This small downtown has a main drag, Rue des Forges, which has obviously gone through a small renaissance and has some trendier eateries as well as nicely finished renditions of McDonald's and Subway. However, Bravo, a few streets over, is more like a diner. Not only that, being toward a less redeveloped area, free parking is more readily found.
I've eaten here a couple of times. The portions are nicely sized! I had no problem finishing the entrees and the sides. There is a bar, but I went with hot tea, because the weather was turning cool.
Ever been in a small town you like, and don't know why you like it? Trois-Rivieres is such a town for me. It's on the Saint Lawrence River, has a port, a small downtown, old churches, a gritty industrial section, the topography slowly climbs upward as you go inland from the river, and one senses that there is a lot of history there. And this little "locals only" (not really) pizza place/diner fits right into the equation.
