UPDATE: I have added a photo of the obituary, with both the date (June 22, 2013) when I was at…read moreCandlelight, as well as the address, for those who wish to "debunk" this review.
What a cliche to say that I wish I could give this place zero stars. In fact, I want other people to rate this shithole, and take away those stars because they deserve negative stars.
Please. If this is the only event space that your budget can accommodate, then just cancel your event because your guests do not deserve to suffer this horror.
We walked in and the first thing that hit me was the musty basement smell. (I am talking about my basement, which is unfinished and regularly floods. If your basement is finished and properly maintained, it likely smells a lot better than this banquet hall and I am sorry to insult your home.) It could have just not been aired out in preparation of our event, or the nasty, raggedy carpet, or the vents whose filters have clearly never been changed. It was hard to tell because it was so dimly lit you really couldn't see too much of anything, which was probably a good thing. I mean, it was just so gross it made me want to repeatedly wash my hands, but not there. But we sat down in the hard folding chairs at the school-cafeteria-type tables covered with plastic tablecloths (not the durable kind you wipe off, but the dollar-party-store kind that look like garbage bags, but more flimsy), and waited for the food to come out.
And waited for the food to come out.
And waited for the food to come out.
As it turns out, the food was set up half an hour late because of a storm.
Yes, you read that right. This banquet hall has no plan in place by which attendees can still be fed inside, when the weather is bad outside.
You can imagine we were all pretty hungry by the time the buffet line opened, which is the only reason just about any guest at all ate that HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE food. I am talking about green beans out of a can. Not green beans out of a can, then seasoned and other ingredients added. I mean, just dumped out of the can into a chafing dish. Instant mashed potatoes (really? Outside the army?), with canned/jarred gravy. Overcooked to mush mostacciolli with dreadful sauce. And dry, dry, dry chicken. It wasn't just me. Everyone in attendance commented on the poor quality of food. Some even compared it to public school lunches.
I can only guess that this hall was chosen because it could offer a cheaper price than others that the host contacted. If this is true, this is a perfect example of "you get what you pay for." Though if they charged anything at all, they are stealing from people. Maybe it was hard to research because they have no Yelp reviews, so let me perform the public service of being the first: RUN FAR, FAR AWAY!