Riverhorse Cafe

Very odd and yet disturbing experience. I ate dinner at your establishment on September 4th and had a really nice salad and a good entree featuring the three game meats. However, whomever was preparing desserts that night was not doing a fine job. The souffle was absolutely terrible. I've never seen such a poor attempt at a souffle before in all of my experiences at supposed high end dining.

Secondly, your manager is incompetent. Your wait staff was blubbering and crying because either your chef or your manager was threatening your wait staff and that completely irritated me to the point of deciding never to return to your restaurant again. I don't care if you can prepare bison or elk. I can do that too on my grill and I don't need crushed cherries to make it taste great. I will let everyone know from Yelp to City Search that you are not good to your staff. And that is inexcusable. It's one thing to hired poorly trained staff, but belittling them in front of customers is low class. Your wait staff are amateurs, but there's no need to yell at them in front of customers. You should fire your chef and you should fire your manager and start rebuilding your menu for the 21st century to people that don't need to be jazzed by overcomplicated menus. You also took a perfectly good trout dish and pan fried it to the point of greasiness. I'm just so upset to see a potentially well branded restaurant so average in presentation and quality. Never again will I dine there.

I'm sorry but you have a terrible problem in your restaurant and it shows.…

Great location, good appetizers, love the live music. My wife and I dined at Riverhorse while staying at Deer Valley to celebrate our anniversary. When we arrived, we were very impressed with the hostess as she took our coats, and we were made very comfortable despite feeling somewhat underdressed (a button-down shirt and trouser-jeans seemed a little sub-par upon surveying the room). Live music was playing, and was a beautiful touch.

We started with the Appetizer Tower, which included smoked salmon on a crispy potato pancake with dill cream and red onion; crispy goat cheese won tons with sweet plum sauce; and Chicken satay with cucumber salsa and peanut sauce. The dishes were simpler than they sound as far as flavor is concerned, and were very good (the smoked salmon was delicious, and the chicken satay was refreshing). This was served along-side a variety of breads and seasoned butter which were also very good.

We also ordered the Heirloom Tomato Bruschetta with fresh mozzarella cheese, basil pistou, baby greans, and aged balsamic. It was very good and refreshing as we waited for our salads.

I had the Riverhorse Salad (baby greens in a red wine vinaigrette, goat cheese, enoki mushrooms, toasted walnuts) which was good, but she had the Heirloom beets and arugula (humboldt fog cheese in a Meyer lemon vinaigrette) which was off-the-charts-delicious.

My wife ordered the Trio of Tenderloins, which turned out to be a surprising volume of food - the Kobe Beef, North American Buffalo, and Elk ternderloins were all cooked perfectly and were amazing (served with Oregon "wild" mushrooms and whipped potatoes, though the mushrooms didn't taste very wild). I was happy to help her finish the dish.

The filet I ordered was perfect, with maytag bleu, red wine demi, and buttermilk fried onions. Absolutely mouth-wateringly delicious. We were ridiculously full at this point, but still managed a few bites of Creme Brulee for dessert (nothing to write home about). We will definitely return (pricey, but well worth it).…

Food is always great, live music is great, but you'll pay for it!. This is a great place to go on a corporate card for dinner. Or in the summer time sit outside on the deck and order one appetizer and order all the drinks you can. This place deserves all the stars it gets as the food is great, and the staff is wonderful. Definitely make reservations during the winter time as this place gets packed.…