The Centennial

Nice event venue on post.If you are looking to hold an event and you live on or near East Fort Bliss, you may want to give this place a chance.It has plenty of space. Rooms of various sizes. It vaters it's own food.Also, if you are looking for a lunch spot, it has a restaurant that serves American fare.We just happened to conduct the months Installation Retirement Ceremony here. There was plenty of room for the seating and a floor that could be used as a dance floor.It's worth a look.

We went for Father's Day Brunch.I couldn't have imagined how much food there was.There was a carving station with au jus.The entree dishes were Carne asada, chicken fajitas, sliders, ham and cheese sandwiches, bacon, sausages, crepe, French toast, waffles, and I'm leaving out some. The sides were steamed vegetables, fruit salad, pasta salad, mashed potatoes, past salad, French fries, shrimp cocktail, scrambled eggs, biscuit and gravy, etc. I could go on and on.While you were waiting, kids got their faces painted for free. You were seated in a gorgeous ballroom with elegant decorations.The waitstaff made sure our mimosa glasses was filled to the top at all time. The place was kid friendly. The food was great. We almost needed rolled out. Reservations are required for special events.

This review is only for the Dining Room experience, and after it re-opened for lunch on June 22, 2020 after being closed for three months. Unlike having some options such as salad only, salad/soup buffet or main daily-themed full course buffet with salad buffet, it now only offers a cafeteria-style main course serving line. Drink choices are either bottled water or canned soft drinks. You can ask any of the staff persons circulating the dining area for seconds or any additional items you wish since you will not be able to return to the serving line, so it's still de facto all-you-can-eat lunch for $10.25. Daily menu theme has not been changed, so Monday is Asian; Tuesday is Mexican; Wednesday is German; Thursday is BBQ; and Friday is Soul Food (perhaps the most popular day). Lunch is from 11 am to 1 pm.Dining area seating is less than what it used to be due to maintaining proper distancing among patrons. Seating is up to four per table. You have to keep your face mask upon entering the facility, use hand sanitizer, register your name, and then proceed to the serving line maintaining distancing. Just follow the marking on the floor--it's one-way traffic so that you can avoid running into other patrons. You have a choice of taking your food out, or dine-in. Obviously, you can take your face mask when you sit down to eat. I enjoyed my German food on Wednesday (photo). I will probably start making this place my regular lunch option as I used to come here before it closed for COVID-19 precautions almost three months ago.

The Centenniel Club has multiple functions on Fort Bliss. It serves as a place to father for lunch or dinner as well as for drinks in the Sam Adams Pub. For lunch there is usually a buffet and you are offered the salad bar, the main dishes for your meal as well as dessert which has included brownies, pie and soft serve ice cream. Additionally you can order meals that they prepare for you such as Mexican dishes and sandwiches.Soft drinks and a variety of teas are available for you to fill up your cup. As for other parts of the club, there are several meeting rooms available for small to large groups. These rooms need to be coordinated ahead of time for use. Most times there isn't an additional fee unless you use electronic equipment from the facility. Fort Bliss also has many large functions commemorating monthly celebrations as well as hiring fairs in this location. The hiring fair has many local companies and national companies that look to hire military members transitioning from service as well as spouses. These are publicized on various Fort Bliss websites and the local Fort Bliss newspaper.

All I have to say is, the nachos, get the nachos! The Samuel Adam's pub is a plus. Beer on tap as well as a pleasant atmosphere!

The Centennial club is often also referred to as the NCO Club, and it also houses the Sam Adams pub. It's a place where we hold a lot of our formal events and sometimes, for example, smaller events from off post agencies, like the tattoo expos, which are happening later on in March, are held here in the main ballroom. But most of our formal Army events are held here. Ballroom, catering, full bar etc.It's located on East Bliss (Biggs Army Airfield for us older Soldiers), across from the Shoppette (the one with the Arby's in it). On Sgt Maj Blvd. There's an ATM inside, as well as a semi-nightclub-ish place that stays open after hours when everything is closed. Smoking out back under covered patio. Samuel Adams Brewhouse is pretty nice. It's what it sounds like, a bar (full service) that has every type of Sam Adams available. Not bad. The ballroom is rather large, and the place caters large events as well. Anyone who is an Air Defender knows all to well the ballroom of the centennial, as we normal honor our patron saint, Saint Barbara, the Saint of Artillerymen, here at this spot. It's been kept up with, but it's old, like a lot of stuff on the old Air Field. I first came to Bliss some 11 yrs ago, and this place already KD an old feel to it back then... As it sat right down the road from the Army's Sergeants Major Academy. And I finally have returned to Bliss, where many a Air Defense Artillerymen got their start over in Abernathy Park or Upper Logan, and Yuuuup, Biggs is now East Bliss and everything is new, but the Centennial still stands tall. Lineage. History. Ft Bliss. US Army. Das It Mayne

Well, in one short sentence, the food sucked.We went to a ball last night. The food served was probably some chef's idea ( and I say chef loosely) of fancy food.The plate consisted of:1 piece of boiled chicken, slathered in Dijon mustard and covered with walnuts.1 piece of what looked like last week's roast at the DFAC covered in a brown sauce with mushroomsmashed potatoes, and those were the only item on the plate that had any appeala spoonful of shredded, boiled vegetables. The cake? Standard tasteless, too much sugar frosting on some dry cake. Awful. I am glad I don't have to go here too often, cause, man, at the rates they charge, it's awful.

The place stinks as soon as you walk in. The food is mediocre and the price is above average.

If you work on East Bliss inevitably you will eat at the Centennial. I can't speak as to every day, but usually there's a couple options you can order (Cafeteria style) like pizza, burger or nachos. Honestly though, its best on days when there is a buffet option of some kind. I highly recommend taco Tuesday. Buffett comes with a pretty good salad bar and then a variety of taco meats, taquitos, guac, chz and various accoutrement. It makes for a fun office lunch on occasion and its pretty cheap too.