Jerry Cook

What a great place for our family to gather to share memories, great food, room to talk, time to enjoy! AND they have a planes and treats event coming up on the 18 of October. 5 to 9pm!

Arianna A

Service is always top tier here. We got a milkshake for the first time and wow, it was unbelievably delicious! Its always best to come before the first after church crowd wave on Sundays, it's peaceful, not yet packed (but always busy), and the early morning plane takeoff are lovely to enjoy.

Corrine Martinez

I’ve been coming here for years with my family, and it’s always a great experience. The food is delicious, the staff are friendly, and the service is excellent. I especially enjoy the DJ on weekends and sitting outside to watch the planes take off or land. My daughter has a blast with all the games available. It’s a wonderful spot for families, and I’m happy to support this great small business!

Vanessa Gonzalez

**Riverside Airport Café**—perfect for a blog, Instagram caption, or even a voiceover script for TikTok: 📍Riverside Airport Café – Where Brunch Meets the Runway ✈️🍳 If you’re looking for a hidden gem in the Inland Empire that’s *anything but* your average brunch spot, the **Riverside Airport Café** is it. This place serves up *classic comfort food* with a side of airplane takeoffs—literally. ✨ **Family-friendly vibes** make it perfect for weekend outings, and yes, there’s a DJ spinning chill tunes to keep the energy up while you sip on bottomless **mimosas** (yes please 🥂). The food? Think hearty breakfast plates, fluffy pancakes, and crispy bacon that hits every time. What makes it extra special? You’re dining just feet away from the runway—so you’ll catch private planes and helicopters taking off while you eat. It’s like brunch with a built-in airshow. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Great for kids, fun for adults, and a total vibe for your next IG post or family outing. ✅ Food: 8.5/10 ✅ Vibes: 10/10 ✅ Mimosa game: Strong ✅ Bonus: You can literally watch planes take off while eating eggs.

+5

HAITHAM ALSUHAYMI

If you are a pilot or simply someone who loves aviation, you can truly enjoy spending time here with this fantastic view. As someone who travels extensively around the world and I’m a pilot myself—I’ve even trained in countries famous for aviation like South Africa and the United States—I can confidently say this is one of the nicest airport-side restaurants I’ve visited. My overall rating is very positive. The food, service, and staff are all high quality. The view of the airplanes is wonderful and adds so much character to the experience. I ordered a hamburger, and it was delicious.

Eddie F.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Riverside Airport Café is a true local treasure! The food is delicious, with generous portions and that classic diner comfort—perfect for breakfast or lunch. The staff is always welcoming and attentive, and you can’t beat the view of the runway while you eat. Watching small planes take off and land while sipping coffee makes for a fun, relaxing experience. Whether you’re a pilot, a regular, or just passing through, this place feels like home. Highly recommended if you’re looking for great food with a unique atmosphere!

Sona Ardeshna

This place is a true riverside gem! Great music playing, beautiful outdoor seating area to watch planes take off and land, plenty of parking, great lobby and most of all amazing food !! I had the veggie grilled cheese with garlic parm fries and it was amazing !

Larry Kemp

This little airport has a big secret! A great place to eat! 😄 The cafe is bright and cheerful, windows looking out over the patio dining area to the aircraft and runway. It has a great atmosphere with a surprisingly varied menu and delicious tasting food. The staff are very attentive and service is prompt. It's a popular place but I was able to get one of several counter seats with no waiting. If your in the area, it sure beats the fast food places a few blocks away and is great value for your money.

+4

Chris Lopez

I love this place. The staff is so friendly, and the owner is right there working with the staff to take care of everyone! They have a wonderful outdoor patio with views of the runways and busy taxi-ways, as well as indoor seating for those ridiculously hot days that riverside is known for! But all that means nothing if the food isn’t good. The food isn’t good. It’s great! I’ve been eating here for several years, back through the transition from the previous owners to the current owner. I was excited when I heard that the current owner, who was a waitress for the previous owners, would be taking over, her transition was seamless, but now a couple years in, she has clearly made the restaurant her own, while retaining the charm that always existed. I’m usually here on weekends, where there is often a live band playing on the patio (though, playing the song “I could be alright if I could just crash here tonight” probably isn’t the best song to play when pilots are doing pre-flight a few feet away! lol!) it’s good for a quick bite between flights, or getting together with friends for a relaxed dining experience. I’ve had food all across their menu, and really enjoyed it all. But I keep forgetting to take pics! Pictured is a bbq cheeseburger with bacon and onion ring on the burger. It’s an 8oz patty, which is a little much for me, but they were more than happy to cut it in half so my wife and I could split it. (We also split the fries). I’m normally the type that loads my burger up with condiments after it arrives, but this was delicious just the way they made it! The fries, though? They were great too! Crispy and fresh, a little skin on, which I always enjoy, and again, great as is, or of course dipped in ketchup (and of course, they have Heinz here). If you’re flying in the area, stop on in! And if you’re not flying, but just live around here, stop in too! No pilot license required for food! The only thing I wish, is for longer hours, I usually fly mid-afternoon and sometimes I’m hungry after 2pm, and maybe smaller bite options, for when I’m not able to share with my wife. But those are minor issues, did I mention I love this place?

+1

This is such a cute cafe! It’s clean and very spacious. Customer service was nice but not very attentive. There’s also an outside patio where you can see airplane landings and take offs. The food was homey and very diner like. Had a great experience coming here!

Annette W

Everyone from hostess to service was friendly and welcoming. Overall, it was an okay experience. Long wait to be seated. Food took a long time to come out. Dishes did not arrive at the same time. The noise level is very high inside, exacerbated by the loud music. It was already difficult to have any kind of conversation and then it felt as if they turned up the music even more. The food was not bad but nothing extraordinary. The prices a on the high side for the quality and quantity. It's exciting and novel to eat in a working airport with view onto the runway. A once in a lifetime experience that doesn't need a repeat.

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Food portion is small. They continued to call me someone else's name where in I find that inadequate with giving a higher rating. a supposed 4 star. The male waiter helped me and was quite tentative but again it seemed a bit weird with the good Facebook and google reviews that customers behave so very badly . sadly they are behaving inappropriately really upset the customers and there seem to be some sort of go around where the rudeness & denial could not go unseen. Beers are $3 during happy hours for bottles and food selection is nice with cap price of $10. I only spent $21.

Diana Ocampo

The service was excellent! Our group ordered a variety of dishes, my mother-in-law especially enjoyed her biscuits and gravy. The rest of the group felt their meals were just okay, not particularly outstanding, but not bad either. Will come again!!

+4