River’s Edge

I’ve been here twice before. Once with a large group of people and one other time with my husband. Both times before were enjoyable.
When I went back for breakfast with my two year old on Monday morning I was not impressed. When we walked up to the entrance there was trash on the newspaper machine-​an old muffin wrapper. On the front pillars there were also trash on the ledge. Empty beer bottles were on the ground by the front door. In the front lobby were discarded plastic cups in the plants. I should have turned around and left.
We walked down the hallway to be seated and stood there for about 5 minutes. Not too bad, but the place was not busy. I think the waitress needed some help because she was tending the bar and the dining room. She was pleasant, but had holes in the belly of her shirt. She seated us and it took her another 10 minutes to get us a highchair. The highchair was disgusting. The seat was covered with dried on food I wiped off. I put the napkin on the table and our waitress didn’t take it! She watched me wipe off the highchair!
We ordered and as I looked around I saw an old piece of bacon on the floor, a green bean under a chair, and old straws on the floor.
After we ordered, our food came rather quickly. I ordered the breakfast burrito with steak which was delicious. This is the only reason I came here. They make a great breakfast burrito. My two year old ate her breakfast too. I think she liked her little plate too.
Sadly, I was hoping to make this a regular breakfast place. My memories from before were of great food, good service, and a clean restaurant. This time around was probably my last time visiting this restaurant.

The Rivers Edge is the local restaurant attached to the Valley Golf Course. It is located in a beautiful area, with views of the golf course to enhance your dining experience.
I have been here for a variety of events, with my running team Friends of Mia. I love the kindness the restaurant shows to the organization. They have created special menus for our events, depending on the time of day, both I am sure to make their lives easier, as well as ours. Their food is affordable but more importantly their service during these events is so wonderful!
The staff work hard to make sure our groups of sometimes 60+ people get serviced quickly and efficiently. I appreciate a place that is so supportive of community organizations, so I thank the Rivers Edge for their support of such a wonderful organization.

Simple breakfast. Nothing fancy but unless I’m desperate will go other places. I had fried eggs and hash browns and bacon. Hash browns tasted like they were from a bag.

We have been to this restaurant twice and will likely try it out again. Typical pub food, but good service and the prices are fair. Husband was dying for a Reuben. Came with the right bread, dressing and not too fatty pastrami, BUT no sauerkraut! Why?
My Caesar salad was very good and the salmon with it was melt in your mouth good.

Terrible service, waitress left us sitting outside for a half hour. I spilled my drink and when she came back she said and I quote «I leave for 2 minutes and you do this!». Food was pretty good but I’d only come here if you want your morale beaten down.

Ok, but not great nor memorable.
My wife and daughter enjoyed their breakfasts (some skillet thing). I had simple eggs, hashed browns and toast. The hashed browns had the after taste of the previous day’s iron grill cleaner. The coffee was a bit weak for my taste.
I will say that the service was good, the servers very friendly and efficient.
Tried the place but no reason to go back, for breakfast, at least.

Ordered the French dip and was very surprised at both the portion size and the quality. It was about half what you would normally expect for $ 11. Was literally 6 bites and the bread was cheep and without flavor.
On a positive, The fish and chips were very good.

Got the Rosemary Chicken and Mashed potatoes, Excellent.

Amazing Meal and even better service. Pancakes are CRAZY HUGE and scramble is great. Ask for Tammy.

Hubby and I stopped in because we heard about this ridiculous Bloody Mary. So we ordered two Mother Mary’s. Umm… we had NO idea how big they were. Holy crap. One of these could easily be split between two or three people. Comes in a huge mason jar with cheeseburger sliders, onion ring, fried green beans, etc and all the normal Mary stuff! It’s a meal, not a drink

We had a last minute retirement party here last night (we had 5 days notice to organize the party), River’s Edge accomodated us last minute without hesitation. Within hours we had a limited menu for our guests and the room reserved. When we arrived to set up, everything was set up and as a bonus there was music, a speaker system, and a microphone. They provided us with 3 servers, each server handled our large group with grace. There was a mix up in the bills at the end, but with 60 people something is bound to happen. Thank you so much River’s Edge for accomodating us at such short notice and for providing great food and service. I was extremely impressed and pleased by how smooth everything went!

I’ve been here a good two dozen times over the past few years and love their food! The eggs Benedict, beef stroganoff, and nachos are some of my favorites. Drinks are delicious, be sure to try a bloody Mary for breakfast!

I went here tonight with my husband and kids for a «company Christmas dinner/​party my husbands employers booked. Top notch service. Outstanding bar tenders and wait staff. They were very busy with many other parties going on, kitchen was slightly backed up with orders… Of course! That is to be expected with several parties happening! Anyway, great job guys! I will most definitely be back!

I sort of wish that there was a 3.5 star option for River’s Edge. I like it and have been there a a few times, and plan on going back.
For a golf course restaurant the menu is very interesting, a burger served on french toast might sound odd but it is actually quite tasty. I do drop them down from getting a higher score as I think that draft beer selection for a golf course place is pretty limited and what is there simply isn’t all that interesting.
Again, I like the place and it is one of the better «bar» type places in the Tumwater area.

We showed up at 8:15 on Halloween 4 other people in the bar, we asked if we could order food, she said we could for 15 more minutes… Ordered fish tacos as recommended by server, bad.
We were given our bill at 9:30 without asking for it, they turned off TVs at 9:45 and we said «I guess you are closing» our server said…“We’ve been trying to for a while” wow. Usually good food here, but it will be a while before I consider going back. Wow.

Went into rivers edge on Saturday for their Seahawks rally. Found out they are one of twelve bars selected by the Seahawks to do these rallies and they are the only one south of Tacoma. I started off with the sweet and spicy Mongolian wings and they were the teriyaki wings I have ever had. For dinner I had the Reuben and that was very good. As the rally continued I ordered the sweet corn nuggets and they were a very unique appetizer, corn in batter then deepfried. Wish more restaurans served them. The only disappointment was that I didnt win the Richard Sherman autographed football.

The salads are super and the skinny drink menu is thoughtfully put together. Came here for a large party and the server was attentive and kept everyone taken care of. Kind of an odd entrance, you come in to an empty area that seems confusing. I’ve been coming here for 25 years and it seems like every restaurant that has occupied this space has had the issue. Strange.

Came here for my aunts retirement party. Definitely not impressed. The fish and chips had virtually no flavor at all even though they were covered in a hard and crunch flavorless breading. Oh wait a flavorless breading doesn’t add any flavor!
The fries were okay, but that’s about the only positive thing. Wouldn’t try it again.

Great breakfast. Joes scramble is a must but so far nothing is ever bad.
Coffee is kinda bitter. So I order their ice tea instead.
Nice place for happy hour and breakfast even if you don’t golf.
I love their blackened cod tacos — they are truly wonderful. They so need to get a better Caesar dressing though, it’s served with that on the side and an ample portion but the dressing isn’t great. And when they do a chicken casesar the chicken is super bland. It is like boiled chicken shredded and not good — it needs to be breast pieces with grilled texture. I’ve eaten there with a lot of friends and they all complain about the chicken on the salad.
We love this place and will continue to go.

The main reason why I’m giving River’s Edge four stars is due to their comedy nights called «Comedy at The Edge», which are held every Friday at 9 pm. The night I attended featured Dwight Slade and Riggs and my friends and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout the entire show. If I was in town more often, I definitely would check out «Comedy at The Edge» on a regular basis.
As for their food, it’s pretty much standard «American grill» food featuring cobb salads, sweet wrinkled potato fries (my fav here) and nachos. They’re good yet they’re nothing to blow you away. However’ they are generous with their portions.
If you’re looking for something to do on a Friday night, give this place a shot.