Restaurant Le Tournesol in Rivière-du-Loup

292 Rue Témiscouata, Rivière-du-Loup, QC G5R 2Y5, Canada

★★★★☆
(705 reviews)
Categories: Restaurant

About

À Rivière-du-Loup, le restaurant Le Tournesol fait figure de pionnier dans le monde de la restauration, en proposant depuis plusieurs années de délicieux mets chinois, canadiens et italiens. En famille, entre amis ou avec des collègues de travail, tous connaissent la meilleure adresse pour se régaler!

Website
restaurantletournesol.com
Address
292 Rue Témiscouata, Rivière-du-Loup, QC G5R 2Y5, Canada
Plus Code
RFCQ+V2 Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Time Zone
America/Toronto

Business Hours

Sunday
7 AM–8 PM
Monday
6 AM–8 PM
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
Closed
Friday
6 AM–9 PM
Saturday
6 AM–9 PM

Services

Service options
Takeaway Dine-in
Highlights
Great cocktails
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible car park Wheelchair-accessible entrance Wheelchair-accessible seating Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Offerings
Alcohol All you can eat Beer Cocktails Coffee Healthy options Small plates Spirits Wine
Dining options
Breakfast Brunch Lunch Dinner Catering Dessert Seating
Amenities
Toilets Wi-Fi Wi-Fi
Atmosphere
Casual Cosy
Crowd
Family friendly Groups
Planning
Accepts reservations
Payments
Credit cards Debit cards NFC mobile payments Credit cards
Children
Good for kids High chairs Kids' menu
Parking
Free of charge street parking Free parking lot Parking

Reviews

4.2
★★★★☆
705 reviews

Most Mentioned

buffet (94) food presentation (51) chinese food (17) supper (6) selection (5) wolf (3) blue mussel (3) maple syrup (3) crepes (3) jam (3)
5 stars
348
4 stars
238
3 stars
67
2 stars
27
1 stars
25
★★★★
November 26, 2024

Fair price for a buffet in a small town. Good food Good drinks Good service. You you are looking for a buffet this one is the place to try.

September 21, 2024

One of the worst buffets I have visited selection is very limited, Food is terrible, and the service could use some major improvement !!!

★★★
June 2, 2024

Several of the buffet items were out for a very long time. Very very slow to fill the buffet and the desserts.

★★★★★
May 14, 2023

Very affordable and delicious! We had their breakfast/Chinese buffet, and everything tasted fantastic and was at a great price. Super accommodating; wonderful service, even though me and my family are from out of town and don’t speak French. If we ever stop by here again, we’ll definitely go back!

★★
April 30, 2023

Staff is really nice, but the buffet is only so so. It's really small, and many of the trays were empty for long periods of time. Some items were good, other items were not at all. At 25.00 per person.... this was a bit expensive for the experience.

★★★★★
August 25, 2020

Even though the buffet is small, the Quality was really good. And the servers were really friendly. Will pass by their again on my next road trip

★★★★★
July 30, 2019

Excellent food and service! Homemade hot jam with breakfast. Real maple syrup served without asking and no extra charge. Homemade baked beans excellent! Definitely won't be the last time I visit there!

★★
August 1, 2014

So for $20/person, you get a fairly small buffet of average quality. The décor is average to match. Complete with clear vinyl table cloths. Classy! Recommended at $10-12/person, no more! Follow me as I write my honest reviews.

★★
December 22, 2024

Saturday lunchtime buffet, end of brunch, beginning of Chinese, dry rice, vegetables in sauce and the chowmen tasted like surit. It was overheating. Really disappointed with our meal.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 9, 2024

Very good restaurant. It tastes home ! I recommend. Caruso Burger 10/10

November 23, 2024

Nous avons reçu le poulet au amandes avec des legumes cru et sans poulet je trouve que c est une hote de plus nous avions commandé 2 plats de nouilles et ils ne nous les ont jamais donner le service était tres long l ambiance était absente tout le long de notre attente je suis un client fidèle et je n ai meme pas de poulet dans mon poulet au amandes tres déçu

★★
November 23, 2024

Last experience Really disappointed all round unfortunately Usually the lunches are very good!

★★★★
Local Guide
November 23, 2024

Lunch menu not enough content not elaborate enough lack of creativity.

★★★★★
Local Guide
October 23, 2024

Very good service and the Chinese dishes are excellent, just like the lunches!

★★★★
September 23, 2024

Alright

Local Guide
September 23, 2024

The buffet was not really a Chinese or Asian buffet worthy of the name. There wasnt much choice and some were dry. Too expensive for what they offer. In short, its not worth the detour

★★★★★
Local Guide
September 23, 2024

While passing through the city, we didnt want to go to a franchise-type restaurant for this dinner. Le Tournesol was our choice! Because we are not big eaters, the a la carte menu is our choice! Lots of varieties offered by a very friendly waitress! Lukewarm drinks, even beer, but good. My negative point is the cafeteria atmosphere of the dining room where we were. So!

★★★★★
July 23, 2024

Excellent for a family buffet!!!!

★★★★★
Local Guide
July 23, 2024

Always great food and service

★★★★★
Local Guide
July 23, 2024

I discovered this restaurant several years ago. I thought it was good...but not for going there regularly. Last week I wanted to go there. To my great and very pleasant surprise, the dishes were really, really good. I enjoyed myself. Totally different from before taste. I asked if it was a new administration? No, they are almost all new cooks. Congratulations!!! Its excellent, Im going back next week. Not forgetting the excellent service

★★★★
Local Guide
June 23, 2024

Very good service!

★★★★★
Local Guide
June 23, 2024

Nice place and good service

★★★★★
Local Guide
June 23, 2024

Excellent Chinese buffet, especially in the evening. Not a lot of choice but what there is is very good!

★★★★★
Local Guide
April 23, 2024

Everything was super good, the service was great. I really recommend a stop at this restaurant.

★★★★★
Local Guide
March 23, 2024

Best brunch in town, almost the price of a lunch plate.

★★★★★
February 23, 2024

Super nice place. Excellent food. Welcoming staff. VALERIE Is wonderful. I recommend Parking: Nothing to add

★★★★★
February 23, 2024

Nice place, quiet, good service and good menu

★★★★★
Local Guide
February 23, 2024

Excellent service, good buffets..

★★★★
Local Guide
February 23, 2024

Excellent value for money, thank you

★★★★★
Local Guide
January 23, 2024

Jadore ce restaurant. Pour moi la première des choses cest la propreté et ce restaurant là . Moi je vais de temps en temps et cest pour le buffet, ok il ny a pas autant de choix que certains restaurant à buffet, mais tout ce quil y a est très succulent et surtout qui a toujours étai fidèle depuis plusieurs années. Bravo à toute le personnel ainsi quaux propriétaires!!!

★★★★
Local Guide
January 23, 2024

The people are nice, the service is good and its not too expensive!

December 23, 2023

I have never eaten a supposed Chinese buffet that was so disgusting...I will never go back there for 30.00 for mud which tasted like nothing, no thanks

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

The buffet was good, very good service

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Good service, decent food, slightly outdated atmosphere, a rejuvenation of the place would be good.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Best restaurants

Local Guide
December 23, 2023

It takes a special kind of person to screw up breakfast....but they managed very well.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Very good lunch and good service

★★★
December 23, 2023

Several times I come and there is very often a lack of stock in the buffet dishes. Average service for the liquor refill. For the price, I find it very expensive for the quality.

December 23, 2023

Not very good

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

The buffet was small, but not bad tasting, price was ok

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Clean restaurant, delicious and varied dishes, fast, efficient and smiling service!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

The lunches are super good, the prices really wow, cleanliness and kindness. Parking: Large parking space Wheelchair accessibility: Large door and entrance too

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Delicious

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Impeccable and professional service.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Very good Restaurant. Its worth going to this restaurant.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Best buffet Ive ever eaten

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Good food, takes a bit of time to be served main menu is oriental

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Its a really great place, very clean, good food with fresh products, A1

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Superb clean and warm atmosphere.

★★★★
December 23, 2023

Family restaurant with a very varied à la carte menu, a buffet is available and includes Canadian lunch dishes and a Chinese buffet with excellent mussels. Every time I buy chicken fried rice from the takeaway counter.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Very good lunch

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Good buffets usually...arrive early

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Book not even in St-Antonin...

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Alright

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Good buffet

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Frankly, apart from the welcome when you come home from a tall woman to whom you ask a question and who is as stupid as her feet. Marie-Pierre, the kind waitress with a warm smile, made all the difference! If we go back it s thanks to her and her warm energy!! Please take care of your customers if you want them to come back!!! We arrived from a 6-hour drive to visit our parents!!! But the food and atmosphere is excellent!!!!

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Very good food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Always a nice place to eat

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Nice good place

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

The team is courteous and warm. Buffet always lives up to expectations. So much for breakfast, brunch or dinner!

December 23, 2023

Horrible, tasteless food, go visit the kitchens and you will never eat there again .

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

I ate very well and served quickly

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Always good service at 5:30 in the morning. THANKS.

★★★★
December 23, 2022

Warm cuisine with good value for money! The staff is courteous but sometimes the service is slow due to popularity and most likely lack of manpower!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very good buffet, one of the rare places in Bas St-Laurent where you can eat Chinese-Canadian dishes. Good service and good food!

★★
December 23, 2022

We always order before leaving home (20min). We get there and its never ready within the time frame he gives us. We waited 45 minutes at the restaurant even though we had called 45 minutes in advance. No show main left (no big deal) but was not replaced by anything else. No soy sauce or fortune cookies.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Great lunch, good price, impeccable service

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Good food and good service. Thanks Karen

★★★★
December 23, 2022

Once again, great service and a good buffet.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

It was okay

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Really not great, the buffet includes too many different types of food that dont fit together, its chaos.

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Excellent buffet! Smiling waitresses, I love this restaurant!

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very good service, but the food is bland and not very tasty.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very good I eat little because its been 2 years since I had baritic surgery. It should be charged at half price. This is my suggestion, thank you.

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

To recommend. There were 3 people very satisfied with the service. Isabelle. Smile . Good mood.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very satisfied! I ate a chicken shop suey, it was tasty, good taste, very hot temperature, fresh vegetables and not overcooked!!! My partner and my daughter had the buffet and they too were satisfied!!! Thank youiiiiiiiii

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

The only Chinese restaurant in lower Saint-Laurent to recommend. The best

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Very good service and welcome!

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Not bad food... waitress doesnt like her job. .should stay home.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Excellent lunch, Excellent service

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

I went there for lunch and tried the Chinese buffet. Everything I had was good and freshly made and everything was hot. A little expensive for a lunch buffet, but I liked it.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Truly delicious and attentive service!

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Very appreciated service, if you want a good breakfast its great. We will soon try the Chinese buffet. Bon appetit

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Friendly and welcoming staff The food is good Nice place

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

The Chinese buffet is delicious at all times!

★★★★
December 23, 2022

Good Chinese buffet

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Best buffet was perfect like 4 years ago on my first visit. Better than all the big buffets and cheaper than all the others

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Good food waitress very friendly

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very good lunch!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Parking: 2 electric charging station available Wheelchair accessibility: Access ramp

★★★★
December 23, 2022

Very good buffet

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Very good service, delicious fresh Chinese food. I want to go back for the buffet.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Great food

★★★★
December 23, 2022

Parking: Grand et facile daccès

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

I take my hat off to you, I congratulate you, very good food especially the Chinese buffet, I love youxxxxxx

★★
December 23, 2022

Good service but very average food. Like all the restaurants in Rivière du Loup.

★★★★
December 23, 2022

This is my favorite restaurant

December 23, 2022

The Sunday lunch buffet didnt seem very fresh at 11:30 a.m. The various meat dishes were very dry. The egg rolls were very hard. The bacon tasted burnt and was really dry and tough (first time my 7 year old really doesnt like it). My orange soda was really small. Only the onion rings and pizza were refilled in the buffet around 12:00. The toilets were dirty and the floor very very sticky. Etc. Unfortunately, this was the worst buffet I had to eat at. I had a heart ache after leaving the table... First and last time for my family and me. I didnt take photos out of respect for my family and the owner as well...

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Always very good and excellent service.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Good service and lunch is excellent

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

First time....not the last

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Excellent lunch and excellent service!

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Very good dinner Chinese food.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

I adore Parking: Mass parking Wheelchair accessibility: All amenities

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

I will definitely come back for the really good and fresh Chinese lunch buffet.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Warm decor, polite waitresses with a lot of courtesy! Excellent food. A bit expensive though for a buffet, there was always a shortage of certain things. On the other hand, we must take into account inflation as well as the lack of personnel! I give it a 5/5 anyway because I have never been disappointed!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

I really like their lunches!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Best chicken rice in Quebec

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Little choice at the buffet, courteous service and a very friendly and smiling waitress.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

It was really good

★★
December 23, 2021

Lunch not recommended

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Very good service despite the few employees who, by the way, are very professional.

★★
December 23, 2021

I wrote, lunch not recommended, because it was impossible to cut my French toast (not brown bread) with a fork, and the pancake that the person who accompanied me asked the waitress the composition of crepe,, we never told him that it was a French crepe with 90% whipped cream inside with 2 sliced strawberries and 8 blueberries,, my partner doesnt eat whipped cream, ask yourself the question??

★★★★★
December 23, 2021

Very good service and buffet

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Alright ! A good Chinese buffet!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Very good restaurant, everyone is good and arrives happily because it is always full. I am sure you will return there.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Welcoming and smiling employees. A la carte or buffet menu for less than $18 (week). Excellent value for money. Chinese and Canadian meals. I had the buffet and I really liked it.

★★
December 23, 2021

Hi I have to share my experience with you..for the third time I placed my order and they told me 45 minutes before receiving my order..until it goes..but unfortunately the reality was 1hrs 30 mins to 1 hr 45 delay each time.. and it allows you to request payment in advance by credit cards and to ask for a tip..!!? Ill be polite... I have to mention that their food is very good!! So if you are not in a hurry, these are the ideal restaurant..

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

When we arrived, the first thing the waitress asked us was Is this for takeout? In short, everything to make us not want to linger too long, even if it was 3 p.m. and the place was empty. Decent food When the customers at the next table mentioned that the air conditioning was too much. high, the waitress replied that it was because the Rush was coming and it would be hot

December 23, 2021

**October 4**: Warm-cold Cantonese Chow Mein. The noodles were cold...the container was boiling hot though... As if it was reheated from the day before. It had no taste. Ordered 1 hour in advance on the phone... telling them I would come by at 5:15. I arrived and was served this after 45 minutes of delay Its shameful to serve this to their customers, its really laughing at them...

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Good sugar tart and good service

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Excellent food and excellent service I will return without a doubt