Marie Callender's Restaurant & Bakery — Restaurant in Riverside

We had Sunday brunch here and it was great! The parking lot looked packed but if you drive a little father you can find plenty of parking in the big lot.

The waiting area was small and pretty crowded. I asked to make a reservation for 4 adults and 1 child in a high chair. The employee asked me if I prefered to wait extra for a booth, which was nice. I always forget to ask about that! The wait was only 10 minutes and the booth would have been an extra 5 minutes so I said I would wait for a booth.

We were seated within 10 minutes! Our waiter was very friendly and took our drink orders right away. He also brought out some freshly baked banana and blueberry bread, which was delicious!

We put our orders in right away and it's good we did because the food took awhile to be ready. Fortunately the banana bread kept us busy and the employees were ok with us walking around with the baby (she needs to be carried around constantly).

The food, however, was worth the wait! My mom and I told the waiter we wanted to shair the BYO omelette so he had the kitchen cut it in half for us and serve it on 2 plates with has browns! The meal also came with 2 buttermilk pancakes! All the food we ordered was delicious. The omelette was flavorful and not overly greasy and the pancakes were sweet even without a ton of syrup!

We will be happy to visit this...

I have been eating a Marie Callender's for over 50 years. The one in Redlands gave me food poisoning twice and sick once. They closed years ago and he place was nasty. The one in Ontario which was to be the flag ship was sold and went to hell in a hand basket and was filthy. I loved eating at both. The one in LA Is fantastic. We were in Riverside today. The place was clean enough but the food was a huge let town. My wife got the Salmon and it was dry. She only eats fish. I had the pot pie. The crust was perfect but the filling was week with not much in the way of veggies. Mostly cream filling. It had a funny taste. I love the frozen pot pies I get at Costco but this did not come close. The Potato Cheese soup was great. The veggie soup had way to much of some of the spices and was not good. The soup of the day was just OK. It is hard to kill a salad bar but don't eat the potato salad. It was not good. The mac salad was so, so. For $40 plus a tip it was way over priced. I am tossing in the towel. The manager was nice and so was the staff. This chain has died as far as I am concerned. Food poisoning twice on thanks giving take out. I did not know where the food came form the second year. Had I known I would not have touched it. I am a 70 year old male and a...

I try not to give any place one star or five stars unless they really deserve it. And man, Marie Callendar's REALLY deserves it!

The staff is completely apathetic and it shows. The moment we walked in, we felt like a burden when the host gave me a problem about seating 6 people at 5pm.

When we finally sat, we were taken care of almost immediately and then once we got our food, our waiter completely vanished. Drinks left without being refilled, extra condiments never received, even wrong meals brought, but no one entered the dining room again.

We should have found a way to speak up sooner , but I think the place was devoid of management that night.

Our waiter shuffled back into the room delivering checks and service to other tables, but avoided ours like the plague.

We had somewhere to be so we just wanted to get out of there, and tried to get the check multiple times as he passed, to no avail.

When he finally came through, we got out of there immediately. We were there nearly 2 hours... And it wasn't even busy inside. We saw 3 empty tables that stayed empty the entire time, so what's the problem?

This will be my last time here. It's obvious that they don't want my business, because it's clear the employees don't want to be...