Le Buffet Du Dragon - Rivière-du-Loup

We came for the buffet (based on reviews here), and left disappointedThe one positive was the service - the waitress was super-nice.

Despite the improbable name, the restaurant is not a Chinese restaurant but rather a local Quebecois style diner that serves good pizza, quickly and with

We came for the buffet (based on reviews here), and left disappointed. The one positive was the service - the waitress was super-nice. However, the buffet was atrocious. Fried foods galore including pizza, chicken fingers, chicken wings (of poor quality), onion rings, etc. There was some bland pasta with tomato sauce and similarly mediocre lasagna. The salad bar was also poor - no real unique tastes, and the dressings were all Kraft from bottles. Even the 'homemade fudge' was sugary and cheap.The price was also a bit outrageous. They counted children over 10 years old as adults, so for two families of 10, it cost $160 (including one class of cheap red wine, and three of the worst Caesar's in Canada). Avoid this place!

Awesome crust. However so salty that we could not even eat it. Unfortunately we got take out so were stuck with it.

A plain cheese pizza was $21, which seems to be the going price in Rivière du Loup, though I don't understand why people pay so much for a mediocre pizza. We drove all the way across town from the river hotel to find the sorriest cold pasta and pizza buffet I've seen. We ordered a pizza cooked fresh, but it was bland and just OK, with a sweet tomato sauce and sweet doughy crust. Kids loved it that way, so it was fine from that perspective. The waitress was sweet and didn't speak much English, but my college French got us by. My daughter loved the dragon lamp and took pictures, but it was not the warm atmosphere it strived to be. At least it was not a chain, and it was definitely a unique glimpse at Canadian ideas of a pizza joint, but I wouldn't go back.