Usually go for lunch but always good. Best buffet in the area. Great fried chicken, wonderful salad bar and pizzas are top notch. I tried lasagna for dinner recently and it was some of the best I have had anywhere. read more

Rias has some of the best tasting and delicious fried chicken I've ever ate!! I love their salad bar!! It is the best place in Jefferson City for all you can eat salad with nice dressings like blue cheese or ranch(for my opinion).Guss , the owner, is very friendly!! I love their jalapeños and their jalapeños pizza and all their pizzas!! It's my favorite buffet in Jefferson City, Missouri!! read more

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Came to Ria's on a Sunday night. One other table had a few customers. Not busy at all. The Wife and I got seated we sat there for 20 minutes and not 1 person stopped to wait on us, no taking our drink order, not to see how we were doing, or to take our order, Nothing! We simply got up and walked out. There was employee's just walking around doing absolutely nothing. We had been there the previous week after Church and the service and food was very good. We would not recommend this place at all to anyone. read more

this was... seriously bad. i tried multiple foods in hopes that it would get better, but all of it was cold. the service was fine but slow and we had to ask for our tickets even though they should've been given. the furniture/seats/tables were low quality and uncomfortable, and the interior was kinda boring. it is SO bad, i wanna give you a zero... but that's not possible, so i give you a ONE read more

Food was excellent staff was friendly and nice,ordered online when I arrived it was ready

We had not been here for quite a while so we gave them another chance. They were a lot better. Everyone was very friendly and the food was tasty. Seems like they are on the right track. I would recommend. read more

What an amazing find! The buffet was outstanding - pizza choices galore - salad bar was fantastic and fresh - lots of options to choose from - wait staff was incredibly helpful and friendly!! We will definitely be back! read more

Went for a quick lunch and was met with extremely friendly service! The salad bar was clean and they take time to switch out toppings to make sure everything is served fresh. I come here for lunch at least twice a month and they never disappoint. Great buffet and salad bar options and that's not even mentioning the full menu! read more

The owner of Ria's is very nice and the food is excellent!! I highly recommend Ria's because the food is high quality and tastes great and the buffets are reasonable in cost!! I always have a nice comfortable place to sit!! Also, there's a reasonable variety of foods to choose from. I love their breakfast buffet too!! Their eggs and ham are delicious!! Their blueberry pancakes too!! Fast and friendly service!! Excellent food!! Outstanding customer service!! read more

Someone got us drinks but we never got a menu or told there was a buffet - we had to ask. Refills were prompt but buffet pizza was super salty and just warm. We arrived at 12:30 so should have been fresher. Just not great overall. read more

Love the buffet option - seems to be the only place left in town with a salad bar. Service is often hit or miss - waiting for drink refills is almost constant. They also seem to have limited alcohol options and it's often ordering several drinks before we find one they have ingredients for. read more

The food is very disappointing. Service? Self serve. Old lady at register is rude and mean! Don't recommend !

This was my favorite place to dine every time I came to Jefferson City but that drastically changed. we called last Saturday to see if they had a dinner buffet that evening and was told yes. When we got there at 4 pm the doors were locked and lights were off. there were others also in the parking lot so i tried calling and got the answering machine saying they were open, we waited about 15 minutes and finally gave up and went elsewhere. when i called after the fact to ask why they were closed the lady who said she was the manager hung up on me. i called back and the owner answered and when i asked him he said he didnt have enough workers to open that day. when i explained i had called that morning i was told they were going to have the dinner buffet at 4. when i asked why there wasn't a note on the door or a message on the machine the owner started yelling at me telling me he was more concerned with paying his bills then putting a note on the door and screaming what can i do for you now i just hung up the phone. at no time did i raise my voice i was asking simple questions. as much as i loved the food customer service is everything in this business so be warned. if they are even open the upper staff couldn't care less about the customers. read more

Overall, this place disappointed on many levels and I am amazed it remains opened. When we were seated, we had to request menus. One would think giving the customer menus would be done without request. It then took a considerable amount of time before our drinks were brought to us and our order was taken. We ordered an appetizer of peel and eat shrimp and waited and waited. We finally checked on it, and our appetizer had not even been put in. Our waitress did not put in our ticket at all. We then had to wait forever on the entrees. In the mean time, the hostess through the waitress under the bus to us. Once we finally received our food, our waitress never came to check on us. In regards to the food, it was subpar at best. I ordered a steak which was not season and had no flavor. It was primarily fat. My companion had a fried snapper. The fish was overly salted as if it had been brined, as was not edible. Between the horrible service and poor food, I would avoid this restaurant at all costs. The only positive I can give this restaurant, is that the hostess removed the appetizer from our bill, but it still could not get us the nearly two hours we spent at this place back. read more

I see all these negative reviews but I haven't had a bad experience at Ria's. We always get the pizza and it's always great. Friendly staff, even when they are super busy. read more

We were seated at 530pm. Our order wasn't taken until 550pm because waitress didn't come back. We placed 2 go orders with our 5 dinners and asked that we get them with our meals. Our meals arrived 625pm food had been under heat lamps, to go orders not put in yet said waitress. Clean place though. We found out upon departure she was the only waitress in the restaurant last night. Wish they told us that so we would have been prepared for lesser service & overly heated food. read more

I have eaten lunch many times es here. I've now tried eating dinner twice and both times was absolutely terrible service during check-in. They look like they are busy but after setting there and watching for 45 minutes the first time and an hour the second time. It's not that they are super busy. It's that they are very in-organized. The hostess is (for lack of better wording) clueless. The lady that runs the register tries to look busy but is getting a lot of nothing accomplished. I had a party of 4 and was skipped by larger parties then when I asked why, they rudely told me they are busy and they will get to me shortly. I mentioned that we were being skipped by larger parties than us and that came after us and she just gave me a blank look. I decided to just leave. read more

Our server was great, very attentive. The greeting staff very friendly. I wanted that to put upfront. The food came at different times in no particular order. My Greek salad was tasty and had a variety of fresh greens. But everything thing else from the garlic bread to pizza to steaks and shrimp were well below par. The garlic bread was so dry I suspect it was made hours earlier to prep dinner traffic. The pizza had no taste. My steak was dry and chewy on one end and raw and stringy on the other. I had to ask for steak sauce so I could try to eat it. By the way Steak sauce is a sin in a good steakhouse. The shrimp consists of large breaded balls surrounding a very small dry shrimp. Down on the other end of our party tried the buffet and they remarked simply "it was okay." So while the restaurant is busy enough We are wondering is good service enough to make us come back to this especially pricey place? No, it is not. read more

The service was very slow, we waited almost 20 mins after we were seated to be greeted by a server. I ordered the Ahi Tuna, it was very dry.

Worst service in Jefferson City. My husband and I hadn't been here for 4 years due to the horrible service we experienced previously. But we decided to give it another try. It took us 6 minutes for a server to even greet us and 15 minutes to get a drink! Last but not least, our pizza was given away so we waited twice as long. Now we remember why we didn't come back read more

Our go to restaurant. No waiting. Good service. Good food. Greek salad is the best. Pizza steak pasta all good.

My mom, my dad, my brother, and I came here from Minnesota down to Missouri to spend the week with our relatives, we decided to try out this restaurant (party of in total 20) we had to wait a bit but that was expected. When I got my first plate I thought it was pretty good but my brother and cousin didn't share my comment, after that the food got less appetizing: the pizza was bland, the crust was really crunchy, the pizza was very oily, and it didn't have much sauce, the spaghetti was extremely greasy and had some over cooked pieces, the chicken had no flavor whatsoever, the raviolis were really powdery on the inside, and the rigatoni was burnt in some areas. Honestly the best parts were the decor, music and the whip-like, friendly service read more

For the most part I like Ria's. My favorite lasagna around. The only ding I give them is the salads that always seem a little old, sometimes brown, and watery. It's fairly reoccurring. Otherwise the food is pretty good. read more

Wow, what a mess! My wife's salmon came out raw the first time, so we sent it back and received a second raw salmon. Burnt on the outside and still breathing on the inside, it was disgusting. The sandwich I ordered, the Mojo, was a total waste of time. Bland except for the completely botched sauce which was incredibly overpowering. Our dinner companions were not pleased either, but I can't remember what they had as it was about a month ago. The service wasn't bad, but the waitress was giving off a serious "I don't give a shit" attitude. Also, the tables on the patio are the lowest quality possible (bare plywood) and as such, are already warping and splitting from moisture. Pathetic attempts all around. One more thing...I didn't pay this time for obvious reasons. But, when you do pay, you have to go up to a cash register. This is a sit down restaurant, so that doesn't make sense. To add to the annoyance, many times the register area is packed full of people waiting for a table resulting in getting comfy with your neighbor whether you like it or not. This isn't a nightclub or a McDonalds, but if you close your eyes, you might not be able to tell the difference. read more

Not great! I have been to this place for work-related functions on several occasions during lunch. The place has a nice atmosphere and looks like a place for a gourmet or fancy meal in JC. However, for such a nice looking place, the food just doesn't measure up to the decor. I was expecting a lot more than a buffet restaurant, and it wasn't even a good buffet. The items on the buffet consisted of pizza, pasta, and some of your standard buffet items. The buffet is comparable to your standard chain buffet restaurant, as nothing looked that good. On one visit, I ordered the salmon salad for the entree and much of the lettuce was yellow and brown. That salad should never have left the kitchen. Overall, not impressed! read more

Wish I could give less than one star. We should have gotten up and left. We were seated, waited 10 minutes for drink order. We waited another 15 minutes to make our food order. The place was nearly empty at 5:00 in the evening. (Should have been suspicious about that) When we finally got our food, the burgers were dry, mozzarella sticks had zero taste and were barely warm, salad lettuce was limp and nasty and drowning in salad dressing (salad came out with dressing already on it). We didn't and couldn't get refills on our drinks because we only saw the server when she brought the check. If you have $40 go somewhere else. It wasn't worth it. Gordon Ramsey would chew the place up and spit it out. Of course as a side note we both are feeling bad with stomach problems. This place needs help. read more

I really wish that people would regularly review things and not just come to Yelp to throw out one or two bad reviews. Have a bad experience somewhere? First time? I won't ever give a bad review unless something bad happens at least three separate occasions-we are human and things happen. I've been to Ria's more than three dozen times (I have a previous review from 2014). I continue to love this place. This is still our date night place and my coworkers and I frequent it very often for retirement lunches etc. The buffet is always good. They have items that aren't always something people would expect. Their Ranch Potato's are freaking amazing. They have unique dishes pretty regularly. The pizza is amazing. Salad bar has many items to add to your salad. I'm still a regular steak orderer on my date nights with my honey. He gets the pizza every time. The only issue we had was last time we went was getting his alcoholic beverage because the bartender was a bit slow... but we don't go to a place like this to drink anyway. To the one guy that gave it a one star back in 2015 that has solely given that one review on Yelp for being charged outrageously for two shots at lunch... I think you might want to rethink some things if you're needing shots at lunch... Spectators would probably be a better choice to dine :) read more

I ordered pizza for take out. First impressions are most important I think. My pizza was burnt, so as far as other flavors. I could not taste. Very dissatisfied with the quality. No frequent business will be attained from me. read more

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The service was really good but then again the place was almost empty and it was a Friday night. I sat out on the patio where I could barely hear the company I was with due to the passing diesel trucks in the parking lot. The view from the patio is awful as well. The table was also never wiped off. Everything came in a timely manner and the house pizza I ordered wasn't bad until I noticed the canned mushrooms. Really? Is that how we do things? I was under the impression I just paid 17 bucks for a medium pizza. And you insult me with canned mushrooms. Ria's isn't the worse place but they really need to fine tune it. read more

The gyro's and pizza are great. Very good service considering we had a larger group of people.

I could sum my 5/5 stars with one word "Bryan!" Best waiter we have ever had anywhere!!! Hands down, this guy is it. I would follow him if he ever left. I hope he reads this because we don't tip him nearly enough! Besides from that the food is great, pizza is ever better, huge booths, nice atmosphere (can get loud at times, but only during busy hours.) my wife and i enjoy bringing friends and family here. And refer them when people are asking about a great place to eat. Food selection for everyone and a great place to just relax. read more

The food off the menu is really good so that is why I gave three stars. The buffet is not great but I am not a fan of buffets anyways. It took several requests to get something ordered off the lunch menu and I felt very pressured to use the buffet instead of ordering the food I wanted. The food I ordered ended up being cheaper than the buffet so it's not a great feeling to go somewhere to be pressured to purchase what I don't want and to pay more for it. Even though I like the food, I probably won't go back because it is very uncomfortable to have to adamantly request what you want before you can get it. read more

We used to love Ria's. Their food was great and service decent until recently. On Jan 20th we were there and our waiter forgot the salad, bread and butter and forgot to put our appetizer order in to the kitchen. Had to ask several times for utensils. We spent $48. No compensation for the lack of service. Went back tonight because they are normally very good. Waited 30 minutes to order after being seated. I ordered the spanikopita. When it came, an hour later, the taziki sauce was rancid. At first I thought they had just added too much vinegar. I tried three tastes of it, then had my husband try it. It was rancid and sour. My husband ordered a sausage and bacon pizza. It came without bacon. We advised the manager of the problems and I pulled up my back account on my phone to show her that we had also been there just 10 days ago. We told her this was the second time in ten days for poor service and messed up orders. The spanikopita was inedible and sent back to the kitchen. Again, no compensation for my wasted time waiting for food that was rancid. $46 tonight. Never again. read more

This is one of those places that hoards of people rave about how great it is. The pizza is better than Arris's but then again, piles of crap from the cow fields beats the uncooked greasy shit that Arris's pumps out. Ria's has a nice atmosphere, one of the best in Jeff City and an extremely loyal following because of their wide menu. The pizza is good as are the main menu items. It's a busy place and you may want to adjust your schedule accordingly on weekend evening. read more

They are getting one star because it wouldn't let me give no stars. How are they still open. We have given them 4 different chances and we are done. our supposedly 15 minute wait to be seated took 45 minutes. After finally being seated we waited 10 minutes to order drinks. My husband ordered a beer and had to wait another 10 minutes for it. Our waiter messed up a simple request for my salad, and didn't bring any bread for the table. When we finally got our pizza, our drinks were empty, and although he said he would bring refills, we never saw him again. We had to go to the front of the house and ask for our bill. We didn't see a house manager and my husband was given a dirty look when he didn't leave a tip. A tip is not a given it is earned and our waiter certainly didn't earn it. read more

It's been awhile since we visited this establishment. We were visiting later, so we were sharing our dining with around a dozen other couples. We both had salads, one Grilled Chicken Salad, the other, a Grilled Caesar Salad. We chose Calamari for an appetizer. Our server also brought out some fresh bread. Everything tasted great and our server checked in on us regularly. We both wondered why we haven't eaten here more. The location is off the beaten path for us, but it's well worth the additional time to come here. I think a pizza will be my next item on the menu, when we return. read more

Decent food, other local establishments provide a considerably better experience and food quality. Have found that staff is lackadaisical or at other times overtaxed. Would recommend another pizza replace in Jefferson City if possible. read more

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Kind a think all the time this place is overrated... Decent food, no the best Good atmosphere Well trained staff Again 4 star for professionalism and 3 star for decent food not the great one read more

My family and I ate the buffet for lunch today. There were no complaints at all. Our server, Justice, was fantastic with a beautiful smile and great disposition. The fried chicken is one of my favorites and the spinach-artichoke triangles were awesome. I would be happy to recommend this lunch delicacy to anyone who wants very good meal in a hurry. Don't be shy or you'll starve, they are usually pretty busy at lunchtime. read more

Wow! I took the family to Ria's this evening for dinner. We had the best Ranch Potatoes appetizer, flavorful and fresh. Gyros' dinner was amazing! read more