River Rock Bar & Grill

My wife and I ate there last night, and it was simply awesome! We sat at the bar and Jonathan was our server. My wife ordered a wine and Jonathan suggested an alternative less expensive kind that he felt was better… It was! Great suggestion. We both ordered steaks, New York and a filet. Both excellent!

My personal opinion is that the menu left nothing that you couldn’t get anywhere else. While my burger was good, it was an average burger. If you want a burger, you are better off visiting the Springfield Inn a few miles down. My husband loved his Caesar salad and French onion soup. The place itself is really pretty and up north feeling! I think overall we will eat here again but not sure how often.

Service was slow. Food was just so-​so. We won’t be back.

First timers. very cozy restaurant for a December night. Service was good but food was so, so. Ordered prime rib special and as our starters arrived (soup, salad) our dinner arrived 1 minute later. Very odd and not what I want in my dining experience. My prime rib was mediocre warm, not hot and I sent it back for heating. My husband spent more time cutting fat out of meat then eating meat. Not worth the $$$. I would return for drinks, appetizer and maybe a burger but no more than that.

The food here is ok. A little pricey I think. Use to go here cause they use to have the best spicy cheddar balls for an appetizer just loved them. Went there and they took it off there menu. Just got up and left. Will not return that’s was the only reason I went there. Worst mistake they made. I can go else where and get better food and pay less. Nice place very clean and good looking place. But there are way better places i can think of to eat at. Just saying.

I wish I could rate this place with less than one star. One star is way too high a rating for a place as bad as this. If you love good food, you will hate this place.
We were 4 adults, one three year old and an infant. We looked over the menu and asking about the contents of several of the food items. Our grandson, the three plus year old, is allergic to a few things. He specifically cannot eat things with eggs in them. Our wait person went back to the kitchen to ask about the ingredients of the breads and noodles we inquired about. She came back and said that they didn’t know for certain but they suggested avoiding the items we asked about in case they contained eggs, which was the item we needed to avoid. It wasn’t as if we asked her a difficult question. It seems pretty dangerous for a restaurant to not know what is in the food they serve. But she didn’t know and we had to avoid a lot of the menu.
Once we ordered, we were brought some glasses of water. The water tasted pretty funky. It was clearly well water. So people didn’t want to drink that.
Then the «food» arrived. I had ordered a ribeye steak cooked medium rare. It was advertised as 14 ounces. The thin piece of what looked to be vinyl siding might have been medium rare once in its life, but not very recently. It was, at most; ¼ of an inch thick and I cannot imagine how anyone could have cooked this to a medium rare. I would guess that before they overcooked it, it might have been as much as five ounces. But the tiny portion was cooked far too long before I got it. It was full on well done. So I wasn’t about to pay $ 27.95 for a petite and overcooked shingle, and I sent it back. Twenty minutes later another shingle arrived cooked all the way through just like the last one. I sent it back and asked to see a menu. I noticed that the barbeque combination that my wife had ordered with the BBQ sauce served on the side came out drenched in BBQ sauce. So evidently either the kitchen staff cannot read or they just choose to ignore what customers order. The waitress waited while I pondered the menu and I reconsidered my fate. I asked her if the cook could make a hamburger really rare. She started to say yes when my daughter, who had ordered her hamburger medium rare, said loudly «Dad, don’t do it. This burger was ordered medium rare and it is very well done, greasy and tough and it has these strings running through it. You will not like their burgers.» Another satisfied customer. So I stopped the burger order. By now everyone else had either eaten or just left their uneaten and inedible food on their plates. So I ordered fried chicken and hoped for the best. The chicken was not very good, but not terrible. It was overcooked and dried out. I shoveled it in so we could get out of there.
The waitress, recognizing that this meal was a disaster, apologized and said that the manager was going to discount our bill.
So we skipped desert as we all just wanted to get out of this terrible place.
The check came and I noticed two things:
1. The bill was not discounted at all.
2. The child’s hamburger was charged at the full adult price.
I could have attempted to get this fixed, but considering all that had come down so far, I didn’t question the bill. Nor did I complain. When a meal is this much a disaster, the best thing one can do is escape before the ceiling falls in or some other natural disaster occurs. I tipped the waitress the full amount as if the meal had been good. After all she didn’t cook it and she didn’t write the misleading menu. All totaled the damages came to around $ 100 for what was to have been 4 adult meal items and two kiddie plates. The food was largely inedible, the kitchen seems to ignore customer orders and the staff seemingly has no recourse to appease angry customers. Now I see other Unilocal reviews of this place that show that others have identical issues with the food and the service.
If you like good food, you will hate this place. We will never go back.

My husband and I frequently meet friends here for dinner and we always have an awesome time! The staff are friendly and make you feel welcome and comfortable. This place has great food and an even better atmosphere. Highly recommend! :)

Atmosphere seemed great, but apparently medium rare means cook til it’s a hockey puck and the meat on the nachos was ridiculously bland.

We have been here a few times and have had better than our experience here tonight, Service was good and our guests who had never been there were very happy with their orders. I am sure that we will return in the future for a special occasion as we surely can not afford to eat here often…

Really great food… Loved the Nachos! The burgers and sandwiches are great too… We’ve eaten here a lot… great atmosphere and awesome service always! Try the fried pickles… Also a large selection Michigan craft beers and wine… enjoy !!

Good beer selection, terrible service. Arrived at bar 6:30PM on a Friday evening. The place was hoppin. Waited 10 minutes to get served by bartender named Johnathan. Thought I’d order dinner while at the bar. Despite four valiant attempts to get bartenders attention I finally succeeded at 7:10. Bartender said «I’m real busy right now» So instead of ordering another beer and dinner I just asked for my check. No tip for you Johnathan. Went down the road to the Springfield Inn, got a GREAT burger, two more beers and tipped the waitress $ 12. Attention River Rock Management: tell your bartenders to ask for help — and give it to them when they are overwhelmed.

Finally managed to go here for dinner about a week ago and I have to say I was under whelmed.
We were there at about 8pm on Friday evening the place was fairly empty and they had entertainment.
First of all the two piece group they had was way too loud as the place was 90% empty, but they were at full volume as if it was packed. They were alright, but after a few minutes of not being able to talk with the others at the table I had had enough of them.
The service was good, however the menu was kind of fell flat for me. I ordered one of the burgers which was expensive and frankly not all that good. If you are paying $ 14 for a bacon cheese burger it had better be at least really good.
This one wasn’t.
The others who were with me all felt the same about their choices also.
A couple of them had the French Onion soup and both said that it was too salty and lacking in the flavor department.
It was high end prices for not much better the standard bar fare quality.
I’ll probably try it once more, but I’m not expecting that I’ll be any more impressed next time.

Had dinner and drinks here a couple Friday nights ago with friends. We had a 7:30 reservation, arrived promptly and waited 15 mins for our table. There were many people milling around waiting to be seated. We ordered a variety of entrees, I had the cranberry stuffed chicken special. It tasted like a holiday dish, actually much like a Thanksgiving meal, with stuffing and broccoli on the side. Starter was salad of choice, I had the Caesar and it was pretty good. My husband had a hamburger which arrived with well cooked (burnt) fries and a bowl of French onion soup as an appetizer. The broth was not well seasoned, it lacked flavor and the cheese was meager to say the least. The live music was great, there was a guy playing a guitar and singing along with him was a lady, they were were quite musical. Service was extremely slow, our waitress forgot things that were requested, and took at least 15 minutes to take our order. The food was not up to par, we would never return. It was also expensive for the quality received. Entrees were about $ 20. Arrived at 7:20 left at 9:40 pm.

I really like this restaurant and the food has always been really good! The service is great and my only complaint is the wait time after you order. It seems rather long, but my burger was so delicious… it was totally worth the wait! Thumbs up!

First visit to RR and my wife and I were pleasantly surprised. Great food with a nice up north atmosphere. Live entertainment was just starting up as we finished on Friday night. The service at the bar was great. We will definitely be back.

Bad service and poor quality food. Can’t seem to get their act together and keep trying to be like bottoms up, Which is where the owner came from. I can’t say that this place is a recommend. Very pricy for food that shouldn’t be.

I ordered the fish and chips. Fish was ok but the fries were lukewarm and soggy. Probably nuked. The bartender, although pleasant seemed to be in the weeds with seven people at the bar. He was running service bar as well.
First time here and not terribly inpressed.

I have passed this place several times and it looks great from the road. Inside matched the outside — it reminded me of being in a lodge up north. It was nice. They have a nice bar and several TV’s. The fireplace in the corner is very nice and cozy as well.
Service here was okay. Drink refills were pretty lax and the waitress didn’t check on us at all. She seemed busy setting up the tables for the next day.
Food was just okay as well. Nothing over the top and the prices were a little more steep than I am used to. The potatoes were salty (I ordered mine without potatoes and still got them — it looks like the chef didn’t know how to plate it without putting mashed potatoes on the plate). The vegetables that were included we a mix of broccoli stems, cauliflower and carrots. I would have liked to have broccoli crowns instead of the stems, but maybe that’s how people like their veggies in this restaurant.
I would probably come here again to enjoy the bar and watch a game… maybe order an appetizer. That’s about it.

We decided to take a cruise to Holly on a Friday night and I heard that this place was now open for business so we stopped in. It’s HUGE inside. It’s almost too big really. We sat at the bar and the bartender was most fabulous. Very professional and very friendly. He gave me the beer menu and I saw Founders was being advertised there but it’s no longer. The bartender explained that they are having a hard time getting craft beer vendors to come out their way. They have been trying to get Short’s out there on numerous occasions but to no avail. Such a bummer but he said apparently Holly is not an up and coming place for craft beer, so I opted for a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.
The hubs and I decided to split a burger and an appetizer. Calamari was the app-​very tender and not rubberband chewy, which I hate. The batter was a bit different than I’m used to. I like it spicy and this was a light batter and it came with this thai chili flavored dip. I prefer marinara myself, but it was still good. The burger was huge and delicious, big enough for us to split and we were both full. It came with all of the fixings, plus fries, and on a pretzel roll. BONUS!
P. S. I hope you LOVE country music because that was all that was blaring out of the speakers.

I took a client here for lunch. The food was solid and I would be comfortable taking clients there again. I thought it would actually be better for a date.
I especially enjoyed the sweet potato fries. They were spicy sweet which is my favorite combination.