Rideau Tavern & Restaurants welcomes you to their dining room. Discover a menu offering chow mein and wonton soup, priced at 11$ to 25$ and enjoy their casual ambiance.
When we want to order chinese food we always order from here as they deliver to the Katimavik Area of Kanata. Our standing order for them is egg rolls, hot and sour soup, won ton soup, salt and pepper shrimp, shechwan shrimp, beef and brocoli, sweet and sour pork, almond chicken su guy, cantoneses chowmein, chicken fried rice. Sometimes we change a few dishes we love their general taos chicken too as well as their sizzling pepper beef ( not usually available for delivery) It costs approx $80 but it feeds our family of 4 - 2 whole meals and maybe a lunch sent to work too - so feeds about 8-10 people. Food here is comparable to china town in some dishes.
Have returned to Rideau many times with family and friends....always good hot food with large portions.
Take out regularly as well. Atmospher isn't fance but we keep returning because of the friendly service and the good food.
Really wanted to like this place because the location is convenient for us to do take out. Didn’t work out…
General Toa Chicken was greasy and gooey and lacked any individual flavours.
The open end eggrolls looked promising but had a processed meat (canned ham?) after taste that was off putting.
The old stand by fried items tasted like the cooking oil was fresh, so were quite good. (how can you go wrong with anything deep fried?)
Ordered Almond Soo Guy and the chicken was
fresh and very good. However, they forgot to add the almonds so I guess we just had Soo Guy? The gravy was a gray goop. So again, the dish was
below par. I was also unimpressed by the “little extras”. After placing a decent sized order, we got two packages of soya sauce and a small
tub of white rice thrown in. No fortune cookies etc.
Will not order here again.
We could make a meal of their open end roll (egg roll) alone but then we would miss out on the other great dishes. As a take-out restaurant we couldn't ask for more, we haven't used the restaurant but I am sure it would be good.
My family (scottish/irish) have been going to this restaurant since they first opened. Sometimes it is as frequent as once a week. The staff there are always welcoming and cannot do more for you. The food is always made to your specifications and come out steaming. Never have we had bad food, old bats or anything that would cause concern. When we have family and friends visiting from all across Canada we treat them to the Rideau. It is the best Chinese food since Calgary and Vancouver. We always order extra for the next day and vary what we order. and free tea while we wait quite often. All their food is excellent.
