The River Deck - Albury

Location was good Food was good but extremely exspensive most expensive restaurant I have been to would certainly not recommend or return

The location of this restaurant is amazing, but unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the menu, staff, food options, and manager. We booked a table for 8 at 11am and called ahead to see if we could change it to 10, only to be told that it might not be possible. Despite this, we decided to go ahead with our reservation. When we arrived, the restaurant was half empty and the staff seemed reluctant to accommodate us. It was a struggle for them to add a 2 person table to the configuration they had not prepared for 8. It took 10 minutes for them to take our drink order and they informed us that only lunch options were available. We had to request for a door to be opened as it was uncomfortably warm, and even then, a manager had to be consulted. When our food finally arrived, it was nothing special considering the price we paid. To top it off, we were shortchanged on fries. When we mentioned this to the staff during payment, the manager proceeded to confront and ridicule the staff member who served our table in front of us. Overall, the location is great, but the restaurant's service and food quality leave much to be desired. I would prefer food trucks over this experience any day.

Had lunch there as a group of 6. The 2 vegetarian options were no good the organic vegetable bowl was some steamed veggies on an ocean of mayonnaise; the ratatouille was over salted. The others in our group had calamari/ fish and chips all meals edible but nothing special. Pity, as quite pricey.

The take away section was the slowest in the history of hospitality....they need to train there workers to not move at a snails pace.....

Visiting Albury we spent a beautiful warm morning exploring Norieul Park along the banks of the Murray and came across this cafe. We'd first ordered a couple of iced lattes to go along with our walk but these were disappointingly weak, essentially we had iced milk with a mere stain of coffee. However the cafe is so perfectly located and there was such a great buzz of people enjoying themselves when we came back on our return loop that we decided to give it another chance for brunch. There's a brekky menu up to 11:30am and a different lunch offering after 11:30am. Alas we were seated and ready to order at 11:15am and of course our son wanted the waffles n eggs (breakfast menu) and daughter had her sights on fish/barra and chips (lunch menu). No problems we thought, just order the waffles first wait a few minutes more then order the fish. Unfortunately this was a no go as for an unfathomable reason our waitress was insistent that breakfast and lunch menu items can't be mixed on the same table. Nothing on her she was friendly and pleasant, just the rules apparently but couldn't tell us why. Another quirk was at each item ordered she very adamantly asks who it will be for and seemed quite disconcerted that we planned to share the food and drink among us. There's a saying that brunch is for jerks and it seems that the concept is out here, so not wanting to be bigger jerks than we already were, we settled for the breakfast options of waffles, poke bowl, vegie fritters, and the daughter's temporary disappointment. Happy to report though that each of these were generous and delicious. Learning from our experience earlier, I asked for a double shot flat white which was also an improvement on the ice lattes. And the super friendly banter and hospitality by the gentleman who may have been head of staff or the floor manager, who settled our bill, left a smile on our faces as we left.