This is a great place to have a birthday party, let the kids run around and just have fun. Plenty…read moreof parking available and the structures are pretty clean. They have some great party packages for birthdays which include pizza/ hot dogs, drinks and popcorn. You can add on to customize your needs. Bring your own cake or cupcakes if you wish. The party room was large and bright. Our party organizer was friendly and attentive. The food was okay. What you would expect from a kids place. The kids enjoyed all the play areas. There's a toddler area for smaller kids, a large structure for bigger kids and even a floor hockey area. Cool. There's lots of comfy seats for the adults and a nice cafe area. Great place for kids and parties.

Pro: awesome place to have a small child's birthday party. The venue was really clean, food…read moreincluded for kids, party host was attentive and help out with everything. The staff was really nice and the price of the party package was very reasonable. Con: the venue gets really packed fast. Gets frustrating as the hour goes on. Lots of kids to spread vermin around. Bleh. Bring lots of sanitizer.

Recently, I attended a wedding that was catered by Storm at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG). They're…read morethe exclusive caterer of the WAG, Millennium Centre and Fort Gibraltor. Foods at weddings can be quite the disappointment due to crazy logistics and volumes at these events. But I have to say that I was impressed with the food. The appys consisted of mushroom bruschetta, vegetable wontons w/ plum suace, Thai chicken skewers, California roll, goat cheese with fresh herbs on tomato slices and a panchetta item. Overall, the appys were cooked properly and tasted good; an average to good showing here. I was impressed that the chicken skewers were quite juicy (and unusually large). The bread basket was pretty good as I ate 3 rolls to tie me over till dinnertime. They were the usual, whole wheat, white and pumpernickel dinner buns but tasted quite fresh! The Roasted Tomato Bisque with Puff Pastry Cheese Straw was really good despite the fact that it was a really hot summer night. The baby green and beet chip salad with sautéed red onion & goat cheese served with a calamata vinaigrette was a delicious salad. The salad was fresh and was not wilted. I loved that they didn't cheap out on the goat cheese as so many kitchens wimp out on that. The beet chip sounded interesting but really, just tasted like a chip from those vegetable chip assortments - I would've preferred roasted beets instead. The main was basil pesto, smoked mozzarella & braised leek stuffed chicken with a sun dried tomato cream sauce. It also came with potatoes, asparagus, red peppers, zucchini and shredded beets. I liked everything about this dish except for the cream sauce as it was too rich and heavy for me. Not that I would've wanted the proverbial brown sauce on chicken. Overall, a great dish as the chicken was super moist (pretty amazing feat as the whole reception was running about an hour behind so I'm sure that threw the kitchen's timing off). The vegetables were all cooked perfectly. The dessert was a Chocolate Bomb drizzled with White Chocolate with Raspberry Coulis & Chantilly Cream. It tasted more like a gelato as it wasn't quite an ice cream. It was a nice dessert - better than a cake! Service was decent - food came out pretty quickly to all the tables. The bartenders were efficient in making drinks as I recall visiting them pretty often! Overall, good caterers as the food here was on par or even better than what I've ever had at the Fairmont or Fort Garry events.

I too was recently at a wedding at the WAG catered by Storm. I have to say I was not terribly…read moreimpressed. The meal was alright (pork with some sort of blueberry sauce, grilled vegetables and potatoes), but the ice cream (or whatever it was) served for dessert was not very good at all. It was full of ice crystals like stuff you forget about in the freezer for a year. Also, I found their mini poutines to be lack lustre and the pink in the middle hamburger sliders left me somewhat concerened about food safety. Oh, and the redheaded waitress needs to check her shitty attitude at the door (no, I wasn't rude to her - I know waiting tables is not easy and I'm therefore very polite to servers, bartenders, etc. This girl was just rude!).

We recently got married as the golf club and had terrible experience. First off if you have your…read morewedding here, make sure you get an inventory of the drinks and check it yourself, as they tried to double charge us for cocktails. It also took us hounding them for weeks after the wedding to receive the inventory to confirm their numbers. The coordinator Kayla is not qualified for the job. She is very unorganised and is not professional. She would not return our emails or messages for weeks before the wedding. We only got a response after calling every day for three days. Due to this we were unable to confirm aspects of our food orders and time plan for the wedding. She was rude to our guests, she disappeared during the setup, and some of the vendors were told the wrong information causing our ceremony area to not be set up. When they did set it up, it was not how we intended it, and it was last minute while guests where at the ceremony area. She reneged on our agreements that had already been made and tried to negotiate the price with us during the reception. The bartenders did not have a bottle opener for the drinks we had ordered specifically for the event and lost the bottle openers that we loaned them. They also stopped serving certain drinks due to having to walk to the other bar for supplies. The General Manager was also rude and would not make time for us to discuss the problems we had with the coordinator and the venue. The General Manager and the Coordinator both failed to take responsibility for the mistakes and short comings at our event and refused to reimburse us in any way. We had to fight tooth and nail for them to honour the agreements we had made prior to the wedding. Do not have your wedding at this venue.

I am in the process of planning my wedding and Niakwa is one of the places I considered. I must say…read morethat I was very impressed by the level of service. Before putting down any kind of down payment on the date, Trevor, the banquet manager was absolutely awesome! When we arrived for our appointment and tour of the place, he had a folder of information ready for us. He made suggestions and offered to customize a meal plan. The place was very pretty and located in a great part of the city. In the end we did not book at Niakwa because there was a minimum of 160 guests that had to be invited. Our wedding will be much smaller, at about 120 guests, so we didn't think having a host bar to make up for the lack of guests would be suitable for us. If you're looking for a gorgeous reception, go see Trevor Clearwater at Niakwa Country Club!

Do not work with this company! I made the mistake of putting my faith in Ashley for invitations…read moreand decorations for our wedding. It was a huge headache. First of all she rarely responded to communication in a timely manner. On multiple occasions weeks would go by and I would have to follow up...she would cite that she had forgotten or thought she had already responded. Once we submitted our deposit she added on items to our quote without letting us know...I anticipated during this time that we would have huge complications with the bill...and we did. Before we even received the bill or the service she put a charge through on my credit card (WITHOUT my authorization). She changed her prices for decoration clean up after we had already committed to her. Overall I had a terrible experience...she seems to be the cheapest in town...but it's for a reason...

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Wow what a great time at the Winnipeg Convention centre. Roast beef dinner, nice salad and dessert…read moreto die for. It would have been a 5 if they brought the dessert to the table rather than making me get up to go pick one out

Nice venue awesome staff. But that's were the love affair ends. Complete cash grab ever turn you…read moretake More and more costs. No cost efficient friendly

Just had Thanksgiving brunch buffet at Larters. Outstanding!!! While the buffet selection is more…read morelimited than Green Gates, the quality is definitely there! Larters offers from the traditional eggs benedict, etc to turkey, stuffing, veggies, gravy to perogies, meatballs, and cabbage rolls to a beautiful desert/crepe station plus pumpkin pie and dainties. Everything was prepared beautifully and hot! Staff was awesome. It was not busy. St. Andrews best kept secret. Excited to try the restaurant for dinner sometime. And def going back next year for thanksgiving!!

From the owner: Our business might seem it is all about Golf. We do have some of most affordable memberships to…read moreGolf, we do host numerous golf tournaments for Charity or Corporate outings, our course is always in "great shape" and we are only 25 minutes from downtown Winnipeg. However, we are much more than a great golf course, we have a great restaurant that features a large menu, specialty buffets, Sunday Brunch and we cater to numerous events such as Weddings, Parties, Banquets, Anniversaries, to name a few. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned that we are located in one of Manitoba's most scenic drives, historic River Road, St. Andrews Manitoba.