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    Mess Hall

    4.8 (57 reviews)
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    Updated 3 months ago

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    MESS HALL ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    Ian W.

    This is a great concept, a military style cafeteria serving up good comfort food at reasonable prices. Mess Hall is small roadside military style cafeteria located on Route 43 across the road from Averill Park High School. The place opened for business on May 2, 2016 and is owned and operated by a couple (Shawn & Noelle) with a military background. They also operate a catering business too. Mess Hall is only open on weekdays serving breakfast (0500-1000), lunch (1000-1500), and dinner (1500-1900). The menu offerings served here is the basic comfort foods and dishes. For breakfast, the offerings include breakfast sandwiches, egg plates, and hot coffee. The lunch offerings include burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, chicken tenders, all served with a side of fries. Daily soups are offered too. For dinner, one homemade chef's selection comfort dish of the day and choices of two-three sides are served up, $8 plus tax for each entree, pretty reasonable! The place inside is very small and cozy decorated with military photos and goods and there is only one metal table with metal stools for eating in.The place is order at the counter with the daily specials posted above the small kitchen area. While driving through the area, I stopped off at Mess Hall at 1845 hours on a Friday night, 15 minutes before the end of chow time. The place was very busy, not much room inside to stand. Shawn was doing the cooking behind the counter and Noelle was taking orders with the kids helping out. The special dish of the night was a seafood newburg served with rice pilaf and corn. However, they were completely sold out of the seafood newburg by the time I arrived here. Another customer before me had requested chicken tenders as a substitute for the main dish. I also decided to order the Chicken Tenders ($5.50 plus tax) served with fresh cut fries and the two sides of the night, rice pilaf and corn. The food took a while to be ready since the deep fryer needed to be heated up to fry the tenders and fries. The 4 breaded boneless chicken tenders were thick and tender and not greasy, chicken was a bit stringy. The fresh cut fries were nicely seasoned with salt and had a soft texture, slightly greasy. The yellow rice pilaf (pint) was cooked just right with pieces of bacon in the mix, good flavor. The corn side dish (pint) was also very good, which had pieces of fresh green beans and sweet onions. I would definitely go marching back to Mess Hall in Averill Park for dinner and hopefully I can make it to chow time earlier next time around. Mess Hall has quickly become overwhelmingly popular thanks to word of mouth in the community and social media shares on Facebook. Mess Hall appeared on my newsfeed last week and I knew I had to check this place out, traveling across two state lines after I got out of work.

    Marc T.

    I pass this place every day, and finally decided to stop in. It's a unique place for sure, no frills seating inside and out, food is served on stainless steel, partitioned trays, but the food is top notch. Huge portions, and oh so delicious. I had the Charlie Foxtrot, eggs over homemade corned beef hash, with a side of potatoes. Really a fun place to eat that pays homage to our military. Kids would love this place. It's not particularly big, and there's always people here. Do yourself a favor and eat here. You'll be thankful you did.

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    10 years ago

    It's an authentic concept with great food, at affordable prices, if you haven't been here yet, it is definitely worth stopping by.

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    8 years ago

    Food is always great and they make a veteran like myself very welcomed! Some great military memorabilia there also!

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    10 years ago

    Picked up chicken parm tonight and it was delicious! Good job all around down to the roasted summer veggies.

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    Great, comfort food with huge portions. Very reasonably priced. Will stop by many more times during those hectic work days.

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