Stephania Montana

Review of Rideau Carleton Raceway

We were hungry and could have gone anywhere. We po...

We were hungry and could have gone anywhere. We pondered a few other places but decided to spend our money eating at the racetrack.

Let me give a break down of my experience this evening at the all you can eat seafood buffet.

We walk in , there s three woman standing around talking at the podium, it takes several steps just to walk up and their conversation doesn t even break until 10 seconds after us standing there. No smile and seats us.

Its not that busy yet Im noticing how the food in the trays were scarce. It is clear that it had been sitting a while. There was no freshness whatsoever. There was nothing that looked appetizing other than the roast beef. Everything was just blah.

The salad bar: They options are extremely slim. The potato and pasta salad didn t look good at all. The mayo around the edges of the bowls and food had turned transparent as if it had been sitting for hours , therefore didn t eat it and I noticed when I passed by it later that new salad was dumped on top of old -gross.

Cold shrimp salad, tuna salad and cheap calamari salad. Low budget- didn t eat it. I mean who goes to a seafood buffet at a casino thinking mmmm I hope they have that tuna salad or that cold shrimp tossed in mayo or that cold squid salad . I sure don t.

The hot food: Potatoes- bland
Chicken-bland. Tasted like nothing.
Breaded fish, was again bland (if you could get some) and there was a few random pieces that sat there for a good 20 mins before it was replenished- didn t eat it.

Penne pasta with random pieces of peppers that were all cut in different sizes in some sort of cream sauce with nothing else in it-didn t eat it.
There were pork chops- didn t eat it as i came for seafood.

The muscles were over cooked and good luck even finding a shell thats not empty. The crab legs barely had and meat in them whatsoever and if you did get some it was just a few shreds so I gave up on that.

There were only two things I filled up on which were cold shrimp and the roast beef . Even the dijon mustard was hardening around the edges of its bowl.
Dessert: you ask for ice cream and you see all these jars behind but I wasn t offered anything. I think it was chocolate sauce n strawberries or something again I wouldn t know because I wasn t offered anything.

Overall this buffet is by far not worth the $31.99 plus tax. If it was $5 or even free I wouldn t eat here because the food is terrible. Just very low quality and bland.