Riverside Pub & Eatery

Wings Are not all that good and the rest of the food is just ok you could make the food at home and it would be better… Only thing I would recommend would be the fish and ships all the food had a old oil taste as well too it … Too bad used to be a great place

Came to Riverside to take in their wing night, was disappointed that they no longer sauce shake their wings and now only do sauce on the side, not my choice, also one of my favourites, potatoe skins, has been deleted from the menu.
Sorry Riverside, I will go elsewhere for my wings and spuds.

Great menu. Good food it can be a busy spot here some evenings. Love their potato skins and caesar salad plus much more. They also have a few two for one night specials. The Sunnyside Too kitchen is a shared kitchen for this one so if you like the food there it is pretty much the same here, with a «pub style» menu.

Excellent pub food.
Their wing night is one of my favourites.
The view of the river in the summer from their patio is peaceful and a great accompaniment to the great food and drink!

Good wings, a nice selection of sauces though it’s kind of disappointing that the sauce has to come on the side. The service was great, beer is decently cheap. You can’t get a better price for wings in Bedford, would recommend to my friends.

You’d never know this place was here unless someone told you about it or you actually parked in the lot for Sunnyside Restaurant out front. My partner and I decided to try somewhere new for supper on a nice Monday in June and this one popped into his head as he thinks his sister worked here years ago. The menu looked pretty standard online so we figured we’d give it a shot.
You have to walk up a large flight of stairs when you come in the door, and I didn’t see an elevator anywhere, so it looks like it’s not accessible. :(It was mainly empty at 5pm so we took one of the few big booths by the window, near the few other families that were there. Square footage-​wise, it is quite spacious inside, with a couple dozen tables I would guess, spread front to back and a large bar half way down. There’s a VLT room to the left as soon as you come up the stairs, and an ATM. Not sure if this is placed there for the gamblers or if the restaurant doesn’t accept debit, as I actually had cash on me this visit so didn’t ask if they took debit.
Great value for your money. The Monday special is choice of three pastas for $ 8.99 and that includes a good-​sized Caesar salad. I ordered the spaghetti (mine minus the meatballs as I’m vegetarian) and was definitely satisfied. I actually really liked their Caesar (mine without bacon). They crumble some croutons on top, along with whole croutons, with fresh shaved parm, very fresh/​green lettuce and just right dressing. Maybe I was hungrier than usual, but I would give that salad a better than average rating for flavor. My partner had the chicken pesto penne and really enjoyed it, although to me, it looked too heavy on the sauce. Both came with two slices of garlic bread.
Simple, friendly service.
I’d definitely go back here and try breakfast sometime on a weekend, or even for supper again if I had a craving for grease, since there isn’t much else meatless on the menu besides the standards (nachos, potato skins, etc).

Food was ok, the helpings were generous, prices were fair. I ordered the Fisherman’s basket, it had a variety of deep fried seafood items. The clams were not good, battered fish was ok, a bit soggy. The shrimp and scallops were tasty and the fries were average. My cousin ordered the lasagna, he didn’t have nice words for it. It was wings night, so we ordered a couple kinds. They were plump and the honey garlic was great, if you like hot wings, be sure to order hot, we ordered medium hot and it barely registered. Service was friendly but sparse, i pretty much had to flag the waitress down for anything.

I wanna give this place one more star but Its come down in the last few years and were here now for wings and its pretty dead. Im really surprised!
Not to mention the wings were cold and they didn’t have the large amount of meat they use to. Dissapointed ! :(

This place used to be a semi-​favorite of mine until the last time I came here on a busy night for beer & wings… The place was SUPER-​packed and the server took almost 15 minutes to come take our drink order. I should have taken that as a sign of things to come and high-​tailed it on outta there, but we were hungry and had secured a nice table out on the patio. I ordered sweet potato fries and chicken wings and they arrived after good 30 minute wait. Then, as I bit into the first wing I noticed the raw center! It was bright pink and red around the bone! Uhh, salmonella anyone? Eww.
I would have complained to my server but she was nowhere to be found. In fact, nobody even bothered to come ask how our food was at all. We’d finally had enough and went inside to get service. Another server hastily removed the wings from our bill without so much as an apology. No Bueno.
Between the raw wings and the horrendous service, a 1-​star rating is generous. Get your act together, Riverside, before you make someone really sick!
I will NEVER step foot inside this place again and I can not recommend it at all.

There’s nothing fancy about this place, other than cheap suds & decent wings.
For weekend & early week evenings, this is one of the better locations in Bedford for you to stop in, enjoy wing night or pasta night and cheap beer prices.
The décor is generic dated pub, which isn’t bad as it sets up your expectations accordingly.
The service on par with other pubs, friendly and efficient. Depending on how busy it is, you might not see them often enough, but it was never a problem.
They have daily specials and are usually good value. I’ve been in often enough during the week and weekend to see that it is never a problem finding space no matter the size of your group and serves its purpose very well.

I’ve been to the riverside a number of times and most recently went to meet a friend for lunch on Friday. I always have great service here, for some reason Ben. B doesnt — maybe its my good looks that help me out ;)
I had the kahuna beef grill with a tossed salad on the side. The sandwich was delicious but messy, had to be eaten with a fork+knife. I was happy they delivered the salad with the dressing on the side, as I dont like my leaves to be drenched in dressing.
The décor is dated and one evening when I was there they didnt have music playing, and it was desperately needed!
My plan is to eventually go and eat the mighty dog when Im in a «man vs food» kind of mood! As far as pubs go, this place works for me!

I just can’t do it. I tried to come up with ways that I could ease my review into the two-​star range but this place just hasn’t been kind to me, making for many an awkward Friday office lunch excursion when the popular vote brought us to this top-​floor dive (a term I still use with love) across from Sunnyside Mall. Made crueler still for being almost within earshot of divine dishes at Il Mercato.
Service is sparse but definitely borders on friendly neighbourhood diner quality which is better than some other pubs in the area. So I’ll give them credit for having some niceness in their backpockets for emergency use. Still, odds are you won’t see your server more than four times: 1) the drink order, 2) the food order, 3) the food delivery, 4) when you eventually resort to drastic measures to get their attention for the bill. I recommend bonfires, flares, and a spirited musical number.
The food? Um. Yeah. They have some that you can order… so there’s that.
Maybe I shouldn’t even get into it considering my vegetarian status. I’ll just say that the veggie wrap is an unsauced fried medley of whatever vegetables they have in the kitchen that day. Most times, this has been only onion and green pepper although on multiple occasions, it was just onions. Yeah. I paid money for what was literally an onion wrap.
While I really do hate to hate on a neighbourhood favourite, I really just can’t get behind this spot.

I admit I have a soft spot for pubs. I like them gritty with character and stories, faded elegance. I don’t know that the Riverside was ever elegant, but it looks like it had it’s day and if you go on a Friday or Saturday the day is now it’s so busy! Admittedly you have to work to get great service (read put on your I’m the best/​funniest/​sweetest/​customer ever routine) but the Friday night 2 4 1 Haddock is great as is the Artichoke/​Spinach dip with fresh parmesan… and I’ve seen the famous huge burger polished off here… ick…
Now here’s my tip. Go in the mid afternoon when there are only a few hard cores sitting around the bar. Slide into one of the three booths by the window over the Sackville river. You now have a treetop view and a pub so quiet it feels like your own…

The Riverside is located on the top level of Sunnyside Too (the restaurant formerly known as Smitty’s) in Bedford, across from Sunnyside Mall. Generally, it’s not a bad pub experience. The menu’s pretty extensive, with more variety than you might expect, and the food, which comes in quite large portions, is tasty.
They also have an all-​you-​can-​eat brunch buffet on Sundays. Nothing to write home about here though, just large vats of various foodstuffs including scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, and slightly stale pastries. It won’t blow your taste buds away, but it’s cheap and decent hangover food when all you need is something greasy in your stomach.
If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, they have a 24 oz. burger on their menu, and if you manage to eat it all, as well as the mountain of fries they serve with it, you get the honour of having your name engraved on a plaque on the wall. As well as bragging rights, of course.