Three Rivers And Grill - Monroeville

What a great place! We'd been to the brewery in Murrysvillle for spooky brew tours, but first time to the restaurant. It's in the location of the former Parkway Tavern, please be careful crossing the street!! We sat at the bar, the bartender was awesome and so sweet! As DD, I enjoyed an iced tea, my partner liked the schloppy monster beer! For dinner, I had yinzer salad, with blackened shrimp and balsamic vinaigrette... Ordered mine without onions. So flipping delicious! The cucumber was cut like French fries cool idea. The dressing was creamy different but good. He's having ordered chorizo Scotch eggs, which don't have the breading layer, he prefers this! His entrée: Catfish and chips very good catfish literally fresh potato chips. Very good, holy leftover salad, as I assisted with Scotch eggs!

Thursday night at Rivertowne. Moderately busy. Ample parking and some great seating choices. Didn't see a single table that was small or cramped. Service was excellent. Food was very good and the menu selection offered a lot off seafood options. We started with a large zucchini appetizer and it was plenty for four. The spicy mayo is great here, folks you'll want it on everything. The homemade chips are terrific, way to good to need the french fry upgrade! We had sandwich, stromboli, chicken bowl and catfish. We were all satisfied and would definitely go back. Great experience all the way around.

I wanted to share while the disappointment was fresh. Rivertowne recently changed their menu. They used to have the best wings in town: Jumbo. Full-Size. Non-Breaded. With skin that snapped in your mouth when you bit it. If you got a large to-go, there would have been two styrofoam containers, steaming with wings. Now Rivertowne has wing dings. A large order is one styrofoam container, 3/4 full of wing pieces. The skin is no longer snappy. The amount of food has shrunk to the size of an appetizer. The cheesesteak has also been changed in the new menu. The meat quality is still good, but there is so little of it. The cheese is a weak squirt of cheesewhiz mixed with beer (yuk! , but there's not enough of it to really worry about it. The cheesesteak is mostly bread now. For comparison sake I should add this bit: We immediately went to Wendy's after seeing how the portion sizes shrunk. So when I got home, I had to choose between eating the Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe or the Rivertowne cheesesteak. The Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe was soggy on the top, with an anemic-looking patty in the middle, and a hard bottom bun, stale from being left on the warmer for too long. I ate the Wendy's first.

We have been coming here since it changed ownership from The Parkway Tavern to The Rivertowne! This was our favorite place for the longest time, the craft beers they had were always excellent and the choices and flavors were hands down the best in the area. The food freshness, quality and variety never disappointed! However, I am not sure exactly what has happened lately. This is probably the second visit that we have there in the past 6 months, and while this visit was slightly better than the last time. The food quality and service has declined significantly. Perhaps they've changed ingredients or began multi-purposing existing ingredients? None the less, it was unfortunately a disappointment. We hope that this review may get things back to the prior glory of the Rivertowne pourhouse so that we may return for food, not just drinks. More importantly, the area that formerly housed the beer making equipment (seemingly not currently in use) appeared to have mold on the overhead pipe coverings. As a health hazard we really hope that this issue will be remedied quickly, if it's not being currently tended to.

This place needs a big sign. The parking lot is actually across a street without a crosswalk and has a huge sign that just says PARKING but no actual indication that this was Rivertowne Pour House. I assumed since my gps said I arrived, but honestly, it could have been any nondescript, beige building. The huge tankards of beer in the main dining room was cool to look at but the design of the restaurant was pretty bad. There were several levels, several rooms but none of the open space roominess that the website pictures seemed to display. Food was pretty greasy and mediocre. I ordered the ginger grilled mahimahi and it really was just okay. The fish portion was pretty tiny and the waiter should have warned me that all their salads come with a bunch of onion straws on top randomly. I would've not gotten the additional onion straws as sides then. My meal came with one piece of cornbread muffin but no accompanying sauce. The waiter was nice but pretty forgetful. It was quiet on a Tuesday night, which is great because I chose this place to meet up with a friend. We spent 2 hours talking so the laid back atmosphere was conducive to that. But overall, I have no desire to come back.