Comfy seats, quiet venue, easy to reserve tickets/seats before the movie, pretty friendly staff…read morewith movie treats and snacks, and theres multiple showing rooms and times!

We have been to AMC Lakewood Mall 12 a few times. To be honest we haven't had too much trouble in…read morecoming here for shows or customer service unlike the one in Ruston Point when it comes to Multiplex movie experiences. Parking is way more simplified and streamlined at this movie theater as well compared to Ruston Point. Some of our friends really make a point if they are going to do the theater experience to come to this one as the seats recline and it's a fairly deluxe movie experience as far as the seating and condiments go. As with any kind of theater like this this theater has blockbuster, franchise and mainstream releases which is usually a hit or miss experience for me. Sometimes I can really sink my teeth into them and other times it's quite the opposite. But that has doesn't really have much to do with the theater itself or customer service experiences and is more of a programming preference. More often than not these days I lean towards arthouse or independent movie releases and while Lakewood doesn't have a theater that plays this kind of programming there is indeed one in Tacoma that does and occasionally perhaps two theaters depending what you actually consider to be in definition "arthouse " or "independent" films. But aside from programming preferences I never had a bad experience in coming here and should I be motivated to hit a theater for a movie that has a wide release then this particular theater definitely springs to mind.

We visited Duris Strawberry Farm on the first day of strawberry picking (Jun 13, 2026) and it was a…read morecomplete madhouse. This was about 30 minutes after opening and the small parking lot was completely full. Cars were parked haphazardly all along the street, making it difficult for two way traffic (we had to drive on the grass). Luckily as soon as we pulled into the parking lot a car reversed out. Score! Picking is hectic but organized. They give boxes out at the main stall and have a flag system to mark how far down the row has been picked. The problem is that most people didn't actually use the flags. On the other hand, it's not like the rows were picked very well in the first place. We started at a random one in the middle and there were still plenty of huge and juicy ripe strawberries even on the first couple of plants. We ended up filling our entire box, weighing in at 8.25 pounds by around half way down the row. At $4.75 that was almost $40 in strawberries! The employees said that they would rotate to a second field of strawberries later in the day for more fresh picking. The strawberry variety of the day was Puget Crimson. Since this was the first day, the cream of the crop were still available, meaning huge, juicy, flavorful, ripe strawberries all over. Puget Crimson typically seen at farm stands and markets are medium and small size; these were massive, with the larger ones averaging over 35 grams a piece. Nicely sweet too - I measured a mash of five strawberries at 10.9 brix and a second at 12.1 brix! This particular variety has a decent amount of acidity, but are all full flavored, unlike the first pick of Sweet Sunrise I had a couple of weeks ago, which were huge but somewhat watery. They are deep red/crimson in color, especially for the extremely ripe ones, and mostly conical, although we found a small number of mutants, one looking like 4 or 5 strawberries fused together! Check out is easy. Pro-Tip: there are two checkout lines, one on each side of the stall. The line furthest away from the pathway to the strawberry fields seems to always be shorter. In my case, only 3 groups in line instead of 20+ groups. Warning: these strawberries are planted on top of very sandy dirt, which sticks to the strawberries. Even after soaked and scrubbing, dirt still sticks onto the skin! I will definitely be revisiting Duris Strawberry Farm next year for their first day of strawberry picking!

We stopped and bought some strawberries today and they were spectacular. We received the tip to…read morevisit Duris today from our waitress Lisa at Mama Stortini's during lunch. She said they have great produce so we stopped there on the way home along River road and I'm so glad we did. They had big juicy sweet strawberries picked today just like she said. It was a great tip so I'm paying it forward for anyone who is looking for strawberries. It's best to call them before you go since when they run out, they close and we barely made in time after a late lunch. They only had a few half flats of strawberries bu the time we got there. GPS got us there the back way but once we found it, I have to say it's very easy to find.