Buffalo RiverWorks

I booked a bar party for my birthday and it was awesome! Bartenders Tony and Patrick were friendly and attentive. Food and drinks were great. I would do this again in the future and recommend the same to others!

So much fun in the adventure area! My adult daughter came to visit and we purchased the $50 combo tickets and had a beautiful kayak paddle, did the excellent medium and high ropes courses, and the ziplines (the rough stops were a little hard on my neck but the views were amazing). Passed on the climbing wall that was included. We didn't have any younger kids with us but the handful of families in the carnival area seemed to be having fun.

Great place lots of fun activities for all ages. Went to watch the bills play with friends. Food and drinks decent right next to the water. Big place where you don’t feel like you’re all cramped up.

Had a really fun time at our son’s hockey tournament over the weekend. The venue is amazing! So cool, kids loved it! It was such a different experience being outside their their games.

Great place , ball hockey was fun to watch !! Great bar and lots going on !! Need Clamato Juice we all wanted a morning Caesar!! ( no Vodka in mine of course) Good nachos and wings

After coming here for a few years now I had to revise my 5 star review. I don't know what happened to this place but it fell off. Our food took over and hour to come out, which I really don't mind because I believe fast food isn't good and good food isn't fast. But the food was neither good or fast. We had a party of 6 and most of the food taste and looked like microwave entrees. My wife ordered the chicken fingers and received some kind of chicken nuggets. If you're from Buffalo you know the difference. I order the smoke cheddar mac. The pasta was hard and barely had any cheese on it. The IPA I was served tasted like dirty dish water. Highly disappointed. This was one of my favorite spots in Buffalo.

I have mixed feelings about this place: the service was slow but our waitress was nice. The chicken tenders and fries were so so but the water views were great. I could not understand how dead the place was as it was 4th of July weekend! Where did everyone goooo??? 🇺🇸

Terrible. We ate here with as part of a hockey tournament. The restaurant was empty except our team. The food came out completely disorganized and some tables had people done eating before their table mates were even served. The young staff members were absolutely rude and didn't quite get how to serve a large group. The food was crap. For a place this size, we should have easily been accommodated. The whole experience was a complete rip off.

Venue is fun, but... If you want better food, you're better off going to Bill's game. The food here is always the same. It's rarely hot when it gets to your table. There's no texture and everything has the same sort of softness. And it's otherwise pretty bland with no flavor. Even the pizza pie requires muscling because it isn't fully sliced up in the kitchen. The food is just bad so it makes the overall Riverworks experience rather disappointing.

Damarr D. was our server. He didn't come over until about 10 mins after being seated. When he finally introduced himself he said in a very monotone voice "I'm tired but I'm here" and he had deodorant marks all over his black shirt. Not the best first impression at all. Pretzel sticks 7/10 Very soft both inside and out, like a typical baked soft pretzel that you can get in the frozen section at the supermarket. Wish they were crispy on the outside. Cheese and mustard are slightly spicy but not much, they were ok. Nickel city nachos 9/10 Really good. Chicken was cooked great. Tons of cheese. Tomatoes were a nice refreshing touch too. the shelled fish (taco) Server came back to tell us they were out of that, but the Reuben on the river was the same (they are definitely not the same). So we ordered a burger instead. Flying Buffalo burger, med rare 8/10 Not really Med rare. More like medium. The burger needed more seasoning and salt. Wing dip was good. Burger as a whole just again needed some more salt to bring the flavors out. Everything together was just slightly bland and you couldn't taste the wing dip that much. Fries were pretty good.

Sad to say, but do not come here unless you want your order messed up and waiting twice as long for your food to come out after people who ordered and sat down after you. We're here with our kids, and it's taking the strength of my home training not to lose it. I get it: it's summer, and it's busy...But there is truly no excuse why we're still waiting for our food when the people to the left of us sat down 15 or so minutes after we did and have their meals and our server took the table to the right of us's (a group) order after ours. Add in our drink orders were completely wrong the first time and the next drinks watered down and awful. No plates--for the appetizer (wings we had to pass the tray around) or my child's pizza. Burnt my other child's hot dog. Waited 90 MINUTES to get our food. This is a joke, and I'm not with games... Do not come here unless you want to deal with madness and pay the bill. UPDATE: Our server apologized and noted we're getting money off our bill. She also said the managers are in the kitchen cooking food because the kitchen staff "walked out." What the heck kind of place is this???

This review is for the Independent Health Buffalo High Urban Ropes Course, located inside Riverworks. Actually, forgot that that was inside, great place to test your agility, skill and just to have fun. Inexpensive 2 level course, their were a few challenges along the way, overall a lot of fun, great view, and exercise. Just be careful of the spiders, and be sure to wear closed toe footwear, regular sneakers and comfortable clothing, my best recommendation.

Disappointing Mother's Day Dinner at Buffalo Riverworks My family and I decided to celebrate Mother's Day at Buffalo Riverworks, hoping for a special dining experience. Unfortunately, it was a huge letdown. The food was cold and tasted like it had been sitting out for hours. To make matters worse, the desserts were store-bought cookies and brownies, far from the special treat we were expecting. The service was abysmal, with servers seemingly indifferent to our dissatisfaction. Overall, it was a terrible experience that ruined what should have been a special occasion. We will not be returning and would not recommend Buffalo Riverworks for any special events. Just giving you feedback. I wouldn't pay $20 for that.

Ok, I get why the reviews here aren't great. We had high hopes for this place but those fell way flat. We did harvest host and specified that we had a dog. When we first got here, it wasn't a problem. We sat on the lower deck and our server was awesome. When we came back after cooling off in our camper different story. The bartender told us dogs aren't allowed anywhere on the property (Some weirdo in the astroturf also asked us randomly if our dog was a service dog... Maybe he's buddies with the owner -or the owner himself- either way I should have taken that as a sign to turn back around). I understand not everyone likes dogs, but then why do Harvest Host? We even figured we would order to go food but my husband waited at the host stand for a solid 5 minutes. Employees were there but ignored him. I guess having prime real estate buys you some freedom for subpar service. Other than our wonderful server we had in our first go round, I don't think I'd recommend spending money here for anything but the rides.

Took a friend from out of town here and I am flabbergasted about how bad it was. Completely embarrassing. First of all, took 20' mins for the server to come to the table. We ordered the Buffalo Cauliflower and our meals and a few drinks. The beer came and it was warm. The cauliflower came out and apparently it was for a different table, which we found out later. My friends salad came with no dressing. We could not find the server so he had to sit there and wait for someone to come by. Completely inattentive. 20 mins later another cauliflower shows up, which means the first one would have taken that long! The ambiance was probably the worst part. The music was so loud and was this terrible club music. We were just trying to have a peaceful Sunday meal on the waterfront. Never again. What a shame.

We did not try the food we only stopped by to have a drink and check it out. It's located right by the water and has seating indoor and outdoor. Everyone was super friendly, drinks were very reasonably priced and the food that we saw coming out look very good.

What a fun place to come to by boat! There's an easy access dock, a ton of seating, and the menu is good. The fish tacos were delicious!

Food is terrible!!! I would not recommend at all. The view is nice and they have some decent events but I would not eat here again. Buffalo has way too many delicious restaurants to eat here.

Riverworks is a fun place! I enjoy the views and the activities they have there such as live music. I also attended a murder mystery event here and they put on a really great event. The party was fun. Drinks and service were really good. They have many different cars so it's pretty easy to get served here. Overall I think this is a great place for family friendly fun, or a night out with friends for some fun. Check out the schedule in the summer. They have a lot of events inside and outside and there are some fun activities for kids too.

Once a year River Works hosts IceCycle, a spinning event on the ice rink, benefiting Roswell Park. I was part of the JCC team. We had lunch after our hour of spinning. There are plenty of tables, all high tops and one big one was reserved for our group. We started our rehydration with a beer; they have a number of home brews. I tried the Rejuvenator, a very nice IPA. For lunch I decided on a chicken and bacon wrap, a good choice. It is served with plenty of chips. It was a very generous serving, I took half of the wrap and some chips home. I have been at River Works before, today's experience was a lot better than some previous ones. The service was fast and friendly, the menu is better.

The best thing about Riverworks was Tyler at the bar. He was super accommodating and easy to interact with. He brings the people in. Give him a raise!

Not clean! Hopefully, there are no herpes from this error. Generally, a relaxing place!

Came here for a quick drink and sunlight on the patio. Another wonderful redevelopment of the riverfront in Buffalo. There seemed to be a lot of family friendly activities and/or date activities. There was a Ferris wheel, zip lining, and even an indoor skating rink (not in use at the time that I was there).

If you want to have a get together or throw a party, this is THE place. Becky was amazing in helping us plan out party. Tony and Steph were amazing bartenders and took care of everyone so well. It was a big night and they made everything perfect.

The service at this restaurant is not good. It took so long for someone to take our drink order I thought we had been forgotten. Then it was longer to take our food order. One of our orders was wrong, they offered to fix it, but given how long everything was taking we didn't risk it. They were out of all seafood. Based on other reviews this is a common theme. There was no avocado in the southwestern salad despite that being in the description. $15 for a salad and you leave out the avocado? Not good. Our waiter never came to see how the food was or offer refills. He only came to bring the check. It's pretty ballsy for a restaurant to suggest up to 22% tip when the service is so bad, the food is not as described, and the kitchen gets 1 of the orders wrong. Yikes.

WNHS senior prom tonight. I know it's a heat wave, but how is it 95 inside? How was River Works not at all prepared? How are the drinks warm? It's too hot. Lazy management.

The service takes forever and they are not very attentive. The place is also filthy, I don't think they ever clean. In the photo, it looks like the bar has not been wiped all day. The only thing that they are good for is large parties.

Place is a complete unorganized mess. If you are visiting I would avoid it! It's impossible to find anywhere to check in and no one is there to help you!

For starters, they forgot we were there waiting for an outside table, which in itself seemed like asking too much of them, rather than sitting in the dank dark cavernous dining room that wasn't air conditioned on the hottest day of the year. When I went back and reminded them, they had just cleared some tables. When we asked if we could sit along the rail we were told we "weren't allowed". Right after they seated us another table got sat where we "weren't allowed". I think I know exactly what happened here. Some greedy server looked at us, three fifty-somethings and decided she didn't want to wait on us. Too bad for you sweetheart. Our server got about a 50% tip. I'm pretty sure you didn't. The food and drinks were reasonably priced, but don't treat people like that. If it had been me by myself I would have turned and walked, loudly beshitting your name on the way out.

Five. Stars for the ambience, but two stars for the kitchen. What a nice location on the river. The place is Cavernous. It seems they have a lot of things that go on there on a regular basis and that's cool. There wasn't anything going on there when we were there other than some live music on the floating stage which was interesting. They had a lot of chairs set up and people were hanging out, listening to the music. We came in to get lunch. The restaurant was may be halfway full not too busy. It took about 40 minutes to get our lunch. The server was nice but the kitchen was not. We ordered a burger and a fish sandwich with no bun and they both came out on a bun. The fish sandwich was just two fish nuggets. It looked like two chicken fingers, it was quite disappointing, and it was mostly batter and it was cooked to death like I could bang it on the table. All the burgers were cooked literally to death like there was not one shred of juice left in those burgers, and God forbid there was the tiniest, micro speck of pink inside. It's been a long time since I went to a restaurant where they didn't bother to ask you how you want your burger cooked and then they just sent it out burnt to a crisp like talking about flavorless dry disgusting $20 burger. What a shame. And the thing is, it's so easy to do better, I had high hopes for this place . again, the server was super nice and she was apologetic that the kitchen messed up. The food was insanely overpriced for what you get, but you're paying for the view and I get that, but it was barely edible when he took away the bun, there was maybe 2 ounces of fish, and 1 ounce of slaw I wish I had taken pictures, but I didn't think to do it and so I might come back here to have a drink if there's an event but I'm not coming back for the food.

This is such a great place as my wife and I have literally watched it evolve. Cool things to do, decent food but, the staff/Bartenders are just so unfriendly with the exception of "Betty" who is the nicest and most attentive server. Still a great place to come

I've been to a number of different events at BRW, and, while the events themselves are typically well-planned and good, one can't quite shake the essential seediness of the venue itself. It's as if the entire place was designed as a multi-level, interconnected dive bar. That's not all bad, of course: for an event space, drink prices are actually quite reasonable. If you wander between the various food spaces, you can manage to find a couple of decent vegan options and there are fun diversions like table and arcade games for the young and terminally immature (I identify as the latter). There's an ice rink that gets used for a number of different events as well. It's a nice venue for local festivals, especially in warm weather when the outside walkways are welcoming, and, as I mentioned, I've enjoyed both music and trade shows here peddling everything from Halloween to punk rock to whisky to arts and crafts. It's a usable resource with a number of good qualities. I just wish it was a bit less squalid.

Stopped here fir lunch with a few people. So nice sitting outside by the water. We ordered a couple of pizzas to share. One was the bruschetta pizza and the other a build your own with your typical pizza toppings. Both were decent but I really enjoyed the bruschetta pizza. The fresh basil and balsamic reduction gave it such a unique pizza flavor. We started with an order of Buffalo cauliflower. It's described on the menu as a generous portion and it indeed was. All 4 of us dug in and thoroughly enjoyed it. The perfect way to take a very healthy dish (the cauliflower), fry it up and serve it with blue cheese. Add the carrots and celery and you think you're eating chicken wings. Well maybe close to wings. Amazed again on what's been added since I was here last. First a ferris wheel with a few kiddie rides and ax throwing. Always something new here. 2021-137

The place is really cool, the first thing i noticed about the place is it had a very darien lake feel to it. The darien lake feel is accompanied by a very darien lake quality experience. I paid $15.50 for a wing dip appetizer that came with approximately 6oz of dip and a tray full of chips that could have been a quarter of the size. I got about 15 chips worth of dip, 1 dollar per chip. It wasnt even that great of dip, it had a very strange texture and didnt feel like it had any chicken in it at all. To add insult to injury, i dropped about a dollars worth of dip on my foot. The atmosphere and amenities of this place are unique and honestly its a pretty cool place, the food that ive had aside from the dip was delicious even though we waited over an hour for our food. My entrée was the sticky bird cajun honey sriracha chicken sandwich. For $20 i definitely wasnt expecting the pickles to be thicker than the chicken. The taste was great but for $35 between the buffalo wing dip and the thinner than pickles chicken, i left feeling hungry. Over all my bill was $100 and some change for 3 beers, 2 hard ciders and 3 mediocre dishes. I feel like the prices are high to maintain the otherwise barely used facilities and i probably wont be returning. I usually give a place 3 chances, this one doesnt warrant a third.

The menu changed since the last time I was here in February. I was looking forward to the chicken and bacon wrap, but it is no longer on the menu. I ordered the Angus burger and requested sliced onions as an extra topping. Perhaps because it was a party of 11, and because several waiters carried out our orders and the man who took our orders was not one of them, orders got a bit screwed up. Three people ordered the Angus burger. Mine was supposed to be medium rare while another fried ordered "pink". It was not apparent that we had each others burgers until we started eating them. Our waiter did allow us to get separate checks, which is always easier than figuring out a huge bill, and he was very attentive with checking water and drink glasses. He also quickly returned with the sliced onions which were not on my plate when it was served. The strangest part of this restaurant is that there is an outdoor area, overlooking the river, but as a party of 11 we were not allowed to put two tables together out on this deck, nor were we allowed to sit there to wait for the rest of our friends to arrive. It was a Tuesday and very few patrons were there at noon. During the two hours we sat and ate and caught up, the restaurant was never "jumping", including the outside area. My burger was pretty good; the others in our group all seemed to like their lunch choices, but the chairs are hard and uncomfortable. It is a nice place to eat outside if you are a party of no more than 6.

We sat at the bar and watched the sabres game. Staff was awesome and we had the chicken wings and the Buffalo cauliflower, both were great. I tried the new Buffalo vs everyone lager and it was really good. Off to watching the curling match!!

Great vibe and decent beer. Overall, its a fun place to hang out with your buddies. Pretty cool that they have a small arcade inside the bar. Decent collection of classic games like skee ball and air hockey. The interior could be a little more modern and cleaned up in my opinion.

Poor poor service, food was sub par, overpriced and cheap tasting. Took forever to have someone take our drink order (wasn't busy at all). Server didn't come over once after we got our food at all to see if we needed anything. Just a bad experience won't be back

The space indoor and outdoor is absolutely amazing! They have an amazing set up and I love haw they utilized this space on the water front. The service was amazing, the waitress was very attentive. I got a Jim Beam Chicken Sandwich, it was not my first choice as they were out of all their entrees, but it sounded yummy! Unfortunately, it was just a basic, plain chicken sandwich. If not for how much more this place has to offer, I would not have come back

Love River works, but the service is not always up to par when busy! We had stopped in during the Summer time around 4pm on a Saturday and were seated after about 40 minutes of wasting time at the bar. The cheese & pepperoni pizza is amazing!! Crispy and cheesy just the way we like it. The chicken bacon ranch wrap was delicious, but had no bacon as it had been left out by mistake. They apologized for the inconvenience, but the food took an additional 40 minutes to come and I did not want to wait for them to remake it or just bring me out bacon to stuff inside. The scenery is beautiful as it is right on the water. Reservations are best!

Great drinks and beautiful view of the lake! The music was awesome as well, the service was steady. Will be back

They refused to seat our party of 15, despite us saying it was okay to put us at separate tables or put us on a waiting list. The hostess and the manager were RUDE. Never coming here again!!! Not the least bit accommodating!!!

Food was blah! Over priced. Little kids running around. Will not be back. Service wasn't great either.

Pulled up on our boat, to see several empty tables however, I was advised it would be a 30 minute wait... which turned out to be more than 1hr & 15 mins! Expected to order fish, and was told they ran out of all seafood. Seemed as if the kitchen was overwhelmed with the restaurant running at less than a third of the capacity. Sad because this is a nice facility and could be a stand out for the area, if management can utilize the facilities potential.

Loved it. Came here for the first time recently (2/12/21) for a monthly meeting with my women's motorcycle riders group. Made a reservation on an app for 6 of us. They accommodated us nicely. What a good time we had. Service was friendly and attentive yet not overbearing. Pleasantly surprised to find a live band (a duo) playing that night as well! I had the pot roast melt which was so good, I can't even tell you. I will definitely be back.

Wow was this place a true disappointment! The outside looks amazing, can't really offer a review of that cause it was closed due to the season. The inside isn't as impressive but it has a small arcade so that was pretty cool. The claw machines are pretty easy to win and they have a decent collection of classics like pinball and air hockey. This made it so kids would run around and play hide and seek which the staff seemed to do nothing about dispute the disturbance they caused. The food is just not good. For a famous buffalo location the wings are really lacking. The sauce is very buttery and doesn't pack much heat. I got a gourmet Mac and Cheese. It came out looking very good but the sauce was overly smoky and was very grainy. I also found it funny that it came with a Texas toast breadstick. It should also be noted someone with me was presented a raw fish fry! Oh and none of this was comped despite the fact I hardly ate any Mac and cheese. The outside is probably interesting to visit in the nicer weather but for now this place just isn't worth the time

Food was average pub food. Drinks were very good and the views were spectacular! The rejuvenation of this area is inspiring.

Great summertime staple to visit. Central location, good variety on menu, decent service. Casual but great for a group or couple

Please Please please if you come here don't think this is buffalo food. Not real wings not real fingers not real blue cheese. This is a tourist trap at best. Great location but this is not a restaurant. Table of 9 one order came out 45 min before the rest. Every thing else came out wrong when it got there. Wish this place was good. Has sooooo much potential.

Riverworks is a very big venue that has a lot of different things to offer. They have an ice skating rink, a ropes course and what seems to be like a mini carnival in the front. I enjoy this spot, but the food is not exciting. The menu consists of bar food which is fine but my chicken fingers and fries came out a bit cold when eating them. We sat at the bar and the fruit flies were a bit out of control and interrupted conversations while at the bar. I have never been to a concert here and have no advice on that but the bar does have a huge selection of beers and liquors.

The highlight here is definitely the patio view, but be prepared to pay a premium for it. Prices were on the higher side for my budget, and unfortunately, the appetizer I ordered didn't meet expectations in terms of taste or value. Service was mediocre and staff was just standing around (no one checked in on any tables that we saw), although it was a quieter day (midweek), so it might improve on busier weekends. Overall, I wouldn't choose to dine here again and likely wouldn't recommend it. There are plenty of other places in Buffalo with better food, service, and affordability.

I am not reviewing the restaurant just the place. I went to Riverworks just to walk around with out of town friends on a recent Friday (they actually brought me there because they had been there and I had not, ironic, but they are always showing me new stuff in my hometown when they visit) and I was impressed at what a nice spot it is. There are so many things to do, ropes course, zip lines, the Ferris wheel and a few other old timey rides, ax throwing, food, drink and just walking around to enjoy the water view on a hot summer night.Theres also a roller rink and probably things I missed. I didn't actually do any of those things except being outside on a beautiful night with friends but next time I might try the Ferris wheel and get a drink. If you haven't checked it out, you should, it's really a very interesting spot!

I went here for a concert event and the employees here were the rudest people I've had to deal with in a long time. First of all all parking is cash only so they charge you five dollars and has to be in cash and their response is to go to an ATM or park across the street and walk late at night. I misunderstood the woman at the booth, and she yelled at me and was incredibly rude. Second of all. When we were getting IDed to enter the concert, a security guard was very transphobic to my friend. He said " this isn't you." Talking to my friend about the photo on her ID then made her say her dead name, and then read out all of her personal information. I mean, why would a girl use a man's ID if she's trying to have a fake ID , like use your brain.

Mother's Day brunch was a very disappointing event. The food quality was poor and the presentation was similar to a school dining hall. Highly overpriced and an overall poor experience.

This wasn't my first time here but it was my first time ordering food. We sat outdoors so we didn't get a server - no biggie because we were able to see the food come out immediately. They should probably consider putting covers over trays in the future... imagine your food just sitting there because you didn't notice it So I ordered the bacon jam burger with the sangria. Let's start with the drink, which was really refreshing and pretty strong. I think it was a great value overall. The burger was ok. 5 stars for size because it was pretty big but it had zero taste. I also didn't love that it was a party instead of a hand-formed burger. The bacon jam was actually really good with the blue cheese but there wasn't enough on the burger to maximize the impact. The fries were fine and they gave a decent portion as well. I'd definitely come back all things considered because the vibe was amazing.

My wife and I drove out from Syracuse two hours and fifteen minutes away to see Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio in November 2021. The Good: Well the place was pretty cool looking and had lots of stuff to do including a skating rink and all sorts of outdoor activities that would be lots of fun if the weather were warm, like zip lining, a climbing wall and kayak rentals I think. The place was easy to find and access from the Thruway. The entry was super quick and easy. They had ample staff and they were well organized. It only took about 3 minutes to get in the building. I felt like the COVID procedures were adequate, although you didn't have to prove that you were vaccinated. The place was pretty much smoke free which made me happy, but there were some vapers. We would definitely go back to this venue and if the weather were warmer consider making a day out of it. The Bad: I didn't love the acoustics, but it may have had something to do with where we were standing. We were off to the side a little bit. I never bought anything, so I can't comment on the prices. Vaping is a problem for me, but it wasn't overwhelming. Hot Tip: if the concert is a big one, do yourself a favor and use the AllPro parking lot #48. It was super fast access, we were literally the only car in it and it only cost us $3 (because we paid on line, $2 in person, but I had never been to the venue before and wasn't sure how parking and leaving the place would be with the crowd). We ended up being happy we used this lot, because the streets were packed and it would have taken twenty minutes to park at the venue. Instead it took us less than 10 to walk it.

Riverworks is the place to go in Buffalo there's so much happening at this place it's near constant!! They've got so much to do from festivals to a tiki bar, to rock climbing a ropes course and so much more! This is a destination place of buffalo and I'm glad we have it you could easily spend a day or two here. They've got a huge patio on the water with tons of indoor and outdoor seating lots of food and drink options and even live music on the water as well! They've got an extensive parking lot on site as well. Food and drink is very good and the service is quick and efficient as well. We always have a great time here and it's always fun. If I have one thing to gripe about its their festival hosting. They've got more festivals here than anywhere else and it's awesome to attend them but to charge parking for these festivals is deeply deeply unfair and discourages people from coming. If you want people to come to your place welcome them to your place and don't put it behind a pay wall. They make more than enough money to let people park and people are buying food and drink while they're there anyways.