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    Riverview Cafe Restaurant

    4.0 (104 reviews)

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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Dogs allowed

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    Greek Salad with gyro meat.
    Joe G.

    Friendly establishment with a large menu. I can personally recommend the Greek salad with gyro meat. It was really good. The cranberry juice was better than most. Found it odd that the veggie wrap was grilled which was not mentioned on the menu. Service was above average.

    Chelsea C.

    Lovely mom & pop cafe with amazing breakfast! It's a great feeling to find a place like this that makes you feel at home after traveling. Their "Great Breakfast" was the best bang for my buck. $4.99 before 11am for eggs, bacon, English muffins, and MORE! Be prepared for street parking but no wait time when you walk in. Amazing prices and polite staff. Very very pleased

    Kids Mickey Mouse Pancakes with Bacon
    Dona L.

    Food wasn't the worst but it definitely did not look appealing or was that appetizing. I went with a group of my girlfriends and we were all pretty upset with our meal and service from our waiter.

    Greek omelet with gyro meat and homemade hash browns
    Kim K.

    Want a great breakfast! This is my new favorite restart in the Dexter area. I have gone to this location for more than 25 years, during which time it had changed management and ownership many times. While I miss the days when locally sourced trout was an option as a breakfast menu, I do not miss the unwelcoming but short time period where they staff were forced to wear xenophobic T-shirts and I wished the management would read the pocket copies on the US constitution they had placed at every table. Sensing a change, I returned and was delighted! The place is now not only immigrant friendly, but seems to be welcoming to all people! But, even better, the food is amazing and fairly priced (for 2022). The Greek omelet with gyro meat was spectacular! The hash browns appear to be truly homemade, not preshredded frozen potatoes. The toast was cooked exactly the way I like, and they even made an ice coffee for me. Waitstaff is friendly and happy to work there. Modern furnishings and clean bathrooms. A bit dark inside, but they have plenty of outdoor seating. This would be a great destination for a long weekend bike ride....

    Every table filled on Sunday morning.
    Al M.

    The Riverview is still a fiver with owner and chef Jimmy serving up a wide variety of delicious omelettes on Main St. of this small town just west of the Arbor-town. Today's breakfast consisted of a Hawaiian Omelette, a Philly Steak Omelette and an order of Chocolate Chip Cakes. Awesome tasting 'lettes cooked soft along with small-town friendly service. Great spot...clearly a fiver.

    Mickey Mouse pancake with scrambled eggs

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    Great breakfast place. Friendly staff, great service, and resonably priced. I am glad to see a breakfast place downtown again.

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    9 years ago

    Two eggs over easy, home made hash browns, crispy bacon and great coffee make this the perfect country breakfast.

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    8 years ago

    Delicious breakfast and great customer services. Don't forget to finish the meal with their homemade rice pudding. Oh my gosh, to die for!

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    11 years ago

    We love the new owners, warm welcome every time. So far everything we have eaten has been great. Love the rice pudding!!

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    8 years ago

    My "chicken and waffles" was literally Tyson chicken strips on a waffle. If your going to offer such a luxury please make it from scratch.

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    4.3(98 reviews)
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    As I drove up to the incredibly brutalist, all white and gray style buildings, listening to the…read morecustomers discuss coffee notes with strong coffee in hand, I could smell the millennials before I walked in. With that being said, my hot take has always been that millennials make some of the best coffee. I tried the miso caramel hot latte with oat milk, the honey matcha, and a mango lemonade, all of which turned out delicious! The miso caramel had a deep rich miso flavor which complimented the caramel so well. Though I probably wouldn't order it again because it wasn't quite my preferred sweetness for that flavor combo, I still admired the ingenious of the flavor combo and really enjoyed it once I added a little extra sugar. The honey matcha was very good and I like the subtle sweetness that the honey gave the matcha. I could tell that their grade of matcha wasn't the best but they made up for it in technique and flavoring. The mango lemonade was a sweet pick me up and I really enjoyed the fresh mango taste. For food, I tried their lox bagel and I will admit, it wasn't my favorite lox bagel I've had. I could tell everything was fresh and I did enjoy it to a degree, but it tasted very heavily pickley and wished it leaned more into the classic lox and caper bagel I prefer. I also didn't prefer paying 16 + tax for it and definitely won't be doing that again. Despite that, I don't think it deserves a removal of a star because it was still made well, it just wasn't for me. Though I'm a gen-Z and the brutalist style lacks the whimsy I so desperately (and totally not performatively) crave, I still appreciate that it cleans and there is so much space to study if necessary. I also appreciate the community mindset with the fresh roasting across the street, pizza bar Nextdoor, and ceramics studio down the road (I love a coffee + ceramics combo as a ceramicist myself). This place is definitely a hidden treasure and I can't wait to try more of it and bring friends along with me.

    lots of potential but the staff is incredibly rude which ruined the whole experience…read more tldr: coffee: 2.5/5 food 4/5 service 1.5/5 happened to stumble into DOZER after working out with out of town friends. since it was my first time here i asked the cashier what sizes were available and what they looked like. i was met with a flat "12 or 16 oz" .... okay eventually she showed me what the cups actually looked like. and okay we all have bad days so i kinda just wrote that off. i ordered a 16 oz ube latte and my friends got a 12oz ube latte and a 12oz fruit loop latte. i was actually really impressed and excited about all of the options that were available! additionally we all preferred food (2 burritos and a monte cristo). our coffee came out first and i was already kinda thrown off because even though 2 of us got the same drink in diff sizes, they looked DRASTICALLY different in color. this drink was brown in color and not purple. i wish i kept the drink to take a comparison pic. ok maybe a fluke. tried mine (16oz) and it tasted enough like ube. but when i tried my friends drink.... straight up tasted like the discarded water from espresso mixed w some oat milk. i'm not kidding, it was so gross. my friend was just gonna drink it but im thinking "surely this is mistake and we can get it fixed!" i was sadly mistaken lmao i take the drink up to the barista and tell him what's going on. i don't think was being rude or too demanding by saying "hey my friend ordered this and it doesn't really taste right. can it be remade?" he responded in the most condescending, rude way!! he told me that "because of the different size, the ratio (of milk/ube/espresso) is different because of the size..." and that "if i don't like it i should order something different." .... i was so shocked by this extremely rude response. and i kindly asked for it just to be remade. there were other people standing around so i really didn't want to make a scene, but i really did not appreciate being talked down to in such a way. a mistake is one thing, but to blame it on preference and then to insult my intelligence with some bs excuse like a ratio issue (which doesn't make sense because if you're making the same drink in a diff size.... then wouldn't you scale it up/down to retain the same flavor???). just such a bad customer service experience. he begrudgingly made another one, which i will add, looked and tasted DRASTICALLY different from my 16 oz drink and the original nasty drink!! it was wayyy better which makes me think there is some inconsistencies with how the drinks are made. regardless, at this price point i really think customer service could be way better all around. sad because i work nearby and was exited to have a new coffee place to go into before work, but i will not be returning. the staff who brought out food out was lovely, and i wish there was a more open and inviting vibe here

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    4.6(22 reviews)
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    I frequent this plaza a lot for Plum Market, Ricewood and my colorist. Ahead of an appointment, I…read moredecided I needed a quick caffeine fix. I'm familiar with Qahwah House thanks to Yelp! We had a Yelp event at their Dearborn location. I really wanted the iced Adeni chai that a few reviews have talked about, but they were unfortunately out. So, I got the hot Adeni chai with no sweetener. It does take a little longer as they brew it fresh. You can watch them heat and steep from the induction stove right there which is pretty cool. I was surprised by how spacious it was. There were ample tables (that I appreciated they were wiping down on a regular basis) as well as WiFi. If I need to change up scenery, I'll have to stop by here. Also they had a whole refrigerated case of goodies. I'll have to come back and get something - that Pistachio dream cheesecake was calling to me!

    Honestly, I had an average experience. The barista was nice and helped recommend a great refresher…read morebut nothing special. We went when there was a student discount (buy one get one free) so that was great, but to be honest, I probably wouldn't go if one of my drinks weren't free- the prices are crazy! But, I guess I can't complain given my normal Starbucks order is around the same cost. Drinks were tasty but the refresher was kind of bland. Again, if we're comparing to Starbucks, I probably would still choose my regular refresher there over this one. Environment was quiet, clean, and easy to study, however it was SO hot! I'm wondering if the heat was on. Not sure why that would be the case since it was the middle of September. Overall, I was a little disappointed with my experience. It did not stand out to me and was overwhelming because of the heat.

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