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    River Rat Restaurant

    3.8 (134 reviews)
    Open 3:00 pm - 11:00 PM
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    If you like creamy coleslaw, this is right up your alley.
    Rob P.

    River Rat Has been an institution in Harrison Township for decades, with good reason. Do you know what you're going to get when you come here. The drinks are large, reasonably priced, and strong. The food portions are substantial, and there are a number of solid offerings. The coleslaw is good if you like the creamy type. But, after my wife said she wanted fries with her meal, the waitress assumed I wanted the same thing. It's a $6 up charge for coleslaw and fries. It would've been nice if she would've asked, and told us how much it cost. Having said that, the fries are crispy and tasty. And, there are plenty of them to share. If you have two people getting sandwiches, you really only need one up charge. We decide to get a lemon rice soup, which was good. May 24 ounce beer was only $8, and it was a high quality beer (from Bell's). The Moscow Mule was good, too. The chicken sandwich was nicely grilled, but it was on just a plain bun. One stand out was the River Rat Dipper, a perfectly executed French dip. There's a massive amount of meat. The French roll with a hard crust is just right for taste and sturdiness: it stands up to all warm, the salty jus you want to dunk it in. Soak it up! Not surprisingly, prices are a bit higher than they were 2 years ago. The food I described cost us $80 before tip. It's a solid dining experience, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, at that price, I have to think about going to eat here again.

    Fettuccine Alfredo
    Rachel E.

    The name of the restaurant is very deceiving and uninviting to me, however, this is such an amazing restaurant and is ALWAYS busy. It's also very clean and the staff is exceptional anytime I've ever been here. This past visit I got the fettuccine Alfredo and we split the appetizer calamari. The fettuccine Alfredo was seriously so creamy and the portion was huge - I had left overs for days. The calamari *chefs kiss* is literally amazing, it's in this cream sauce that is literally to die for. Other people in our group got: crab cakes, pizza, ribeye and ribs and everyone was so satisfied and impressed with the food! Way to go, River Rat!

    Chicken parm
    Stephen I.

    Overall the presentation was good. I felt that the chicken parm should've had panko bread crumbs. The spaghetti needs work. The sauce over all tasty it needs a tad bit of spice not for flavor maybe some heat to make people wanna have a better over all experience instead of the same old version of chicken parm. Overall if an alphabetical grade I'd give it a b-.

    Pub Meatloaf with mushroom gravy and crispy onions. So good!!
    Mark H.

    What's not to like about the River Rat? Great location, outdoor seating, large bar, nice atmosphere and great food! Seafood is a mainstay here but they also have a large selection of other options. The portions are large for the cost and the quality is on point. Staff is friendly and helpful and very welcoming. We enjoyed the French onion soup (which is one of the best in the area), Fish and Chips, and the Pub Meatloaf.l and everything was awesome. Can't wait to return!

    Burger
    Ashley S.

    Food was excellent. First time visiting this restaurant, been living near here over 4 years . My boyfriend got the fish n chips and I got the burger. Reason I gave it a 4 is, service we waited a awhile to take our order . I wound definitely return. Place was packed when we went .

    Fish and Chips. Look at the size of the fish!

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    11 months ago

    Food is good and the service was good most of the time. Part of the restaurant has a bar and the other part is a dinning area.

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    Went with a group of people. Great food and even better atmosphere! Service was also too notch.

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    Wonderful family business, always excellent service and the food is great too! Highly recommended!

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    3 years ago

    Food and service is always great! Definitely somewhere we love going. Prime Rib was wonderful huge and very tasty.

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    The food isn't all that great but if there's nothing opened I guess it will do. Pizza is pretty good.

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    Food was outstanding! Delivered quickly, fresh, and hot. Service was very attentive!

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    Food and service were excellent. They were able to accommodate our large group with no issues

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    This is my second time here, and clearly I didn't learn from the first -- but it also looks like…read moreownership hasn't either. Your service is terrible, your food is mediocre at best, and the entire place feels poorly run. We came in with a party of 12... and you just lost all 12 of us as customers. The waitress was completely ineffective. Orders were missed, timing was all over the place, and communication was nonexistent. Some of our group finished eating before one person even got their food -- that's unacceptable. Let's talk about the food and presentation: * Fry baskets? Just awkward and unnecessary. * Pretzel with beer cheese -- the pretzel was literally sitting in the cheese, which had a skin on it... so it was either microwaved or sitting way too long. * Beer wasn't cold -- just "kind of" cold. Big difference. * Beer selection is weak and oddly repetitive (how many reds do you need?). * If I had to guess, your beer lines haven't been cleaned in a long time. The burger tasted like a frozen patty -- nothing special at all. The "hot honey fish"? It tasted like straight-up bottled sauce -- like Asian Zing from Buffalo Wild Wings. Not good, not creative. We were told a manager would come by -- never happened. If someone did and that was your manager, you've got a bigger problem. Operationally, this place is a mess: * 3 hostesses for a restaurant this size? Why not have food runners instead? * We didn't receive a significant portion of what we ordered * The dining area is dirty * The parking lot is in rough shape At some point, you've got to be honest with yourselves. Read your reviews. This isn't working

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    We came here for my son's birthday and I had never heard of it before. It's away from the main drag…read moreso you really have to know where you are going. It's really a beautiful location along the river. I tried to make reservations which they said they don't take reservations, then when we got there, they wouldn't let us sit in a specific area because they said they were expecting a group of people so we asked about the reservation situation and they said they must be friends of the owner. Anyways, the food options are very good. They even have pizza. So I have no problem with the food or the location, it was more just bad service and a big mixup on one of my friends meal and so he had to watch while we all ate. He didn't get an apology from anyone which surprised me. I got the power bowl which was very good but I was confused when they brought it because it didn't look like a bowl full of ingredients, it was like a plate of ingredients more like fajita ingredients. But like I said, I did enjoy it very much. One of the people in our party got a salad with salmon on it, and she said it was very heavy with spices which she didn't think she saw listed in the menu. One of my sons got a pizza and he absolutely loved it and then two people got hamburgers which they loved also along with the great french fries. Although I only gave it three stars, I would come back here again hoping that maybe it was just one bad waitress. She rarely checked on us. In fact I don't think she checked on us at all because I had to flag her down to get carry out boxes and she didn't bring a lot of the Side ingredients we had asked for like someone asked for ranch dressing, mine was supposed to come with sour cream and salsa, and another person didn't get their side of cheese.

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    First 5stars:Gluten free cauliflower pasta Which is the best…read moreGF pasta noodles we have ever had. Pizza with yummy cups of pepperoni. Lasagna 4stars It had been many years since I had dined here. It is kind of in a corner of my area we just don't get to for some reason. One night we couldn't decide where we wanted to dine and we all said hey let's go to Luigi's. Our first visit was amazing when it came to the fettuccine Alfredo with cauliflower noodles. The Alfredo sauce was absolutely delicious and tasty. The bread basket was amazing with little homemade bread rolls. The spaghetti with meat sauce and meatball was just disappointing and uneventful . More and more we are finding many of the Italian restaurants we go to have spaghetti and meat sauce that is just not what it used to be. It didn't have any garlic flavor, was very heavy tomato based VERY acidic and the meatball was again just OK. Lasagna was delicious. I asked to add Alfredo sauce on top ,one of my favorite things to do when it comes to lasagna. We returned for a birthday dinner probably just four or five weeks later. Basically we all ordered the same items except for the lasagna. I went for the pizza which was very very very good. The Alfredo with gluten-free noodles were not very good this time. There was so much parsley in it. All you could taste was a dry green flavor, it did not have a great Parmesan flavor, and there was no garlic that we could taste. The chicken was OK. The spaghetti with meat sauce and meatballs I can only explain as being subpar. This time it did taste like tomato paste diluted with tomato sauce, and it was actually the same thickness and flavor of the minestrone soup with very Little meat . The meatball again was just OK. We could pour the liquid sauce off of the plate. Noodles appeared to be drained, it just seemed like the sauce was extremely thin with minimal meat and just minimal flavor. Really not sure if we would return. Inside is a little dated, however well maintained and clean. Our first time dining here we had great service. This second visit, again our server was subpar. When they serve pizza, they put a piece on your plate and serve that to you and then bring the whole pizza to the table. The waitress asked if we wanted Romano cheese on on the food and I said sure. She failed to put Romano cheese on the piece of pizza she herself served to me on a plate. I did not say anything ,and it could have been Me but the two people at the table felt the same way I did, our server just didn't seem invested in our dining experience. We did let our server know about our disappointment with the spaghetti and Alfredo dish. A manager never came to speak with us, they never offered to take anything off of the bill considering my son didn't even eat his spaghetti with meat sauce(where was the meat actually there was not much that could be located). And , the waitress could see how much parsley was in the fettuccine Alfredo. She did ask if they could remake our meals, but we are not very comfortable with sending our meals back to be remade. Removing the spaghetti with meat sauce would've truly been an appropriate move. We did not expect that two whole meals would be removed from the bill being my partner was so hungry he went ahead and ate his birthday dinner ,fettuccine Alfredo.

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