When I heard my senior class was having our annual class cook out at Twelve Acres and not at our…read moreschool, I was initially excited. Boy, was I misguided.
When I arrived, my first impression was that the place was old and dated. The banquet space my class was in had carpeted floors and striped wallpaper. The wallpaper, while ugly, was not as disgusting as the carpet. Carpet does not belong in dining spaces, and this carpet in particular was gross. On top of that, the white table cloths were already visibly dirty when I first sat down and, likewise, the chairs were also kind of dirty.
The food was beyond disgusting. We were served buffet style, and had a choice of coleslaw, corn on the cob, barbecue chicken, cheese burgers, and hot dogs. I didn't try the coleslaw because I don't really like it, but the corn on the cob was submerged in this bath of it's own juices. Ew. The chicken looked cheap and gross from the get go, and there was no way I was going to put it in my mouth. There were only cheeseburgers, and no burgers without cheese, which I found frustrating because I hate cheeseburgers. However, this was not such a huge disappointment as the meat was criminally overcooked, had no seasoning what so ever, and might have actually been worse than public school cafeteria meat. Not surprisingly, I only ate a few bites of my cheeseburger, despite being extremely hungry. The only edible aspect of the meal were the hot dogs and, even then, they weren't very good.
While the food was bad, the service was equally horrible. First of all, our drink options were lemonade or iced tea, no water. Secondly, they were served via two plastic water cooler that were positioned on the bar. Even though they were in a self serve container, we couldn't get our own drinks; an old guy behind the bar poured the drinks en masse throughout the evening. Once we had finished eating, the process of clearing plates was just weird. Instead of taking a few plates back at once, the waitresses set up a tray as the designated food dump. The waitresses would take one or two plates, dump the half eaten school food onto the tray, do God knows what with the plates, and then come back and repeat. This took forever, and the waitresses would jump around with tables. It was annoying that it took so long, and the food dump trays were disgusting.
All in all, this place is just gross. The food is gross, the space is gross, everything is gross. While Twelve Acres might be a good option of you have to feed a large group of people for cheap, but don't be surprised if said people don't come to your future events.
