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Originally Posted by Michael 61
I am moving to TV in a few months from Colorado, and can’t wait! I am the biggest cheerleader for TV here in Colorado, encouraging all my friends who are approaching retirement to book a lifestyle visit. There is one thing I’m going to miss when I move however. TV lacks the restaurant diversity I am used to. I eat out most meals (breakfast and dinner), and enjoy locally owned and ethnic restaurants. I completely stay away from fast food and any chain restaurants. I am an admitted “foodie” and also a pretty good cook myself. During my lifestyle visit, I checked out all the highest rated restaurants based on Yelp reviews. I thought Harvest/Blue Fin/Chop house were all “OK”, as well as Thai Ruby. The Mexican and Chinese places were awful. (We have excellent Mexican here in the West). For the TV being so large, where are the Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Greek, Cuban, Cajun, German restaurants? Where are the French bistros and Spanish tapas places? I was surprised how “meat and potatoes” and chain-restaurant heavy TV is. I guess I will need to drive to Orlando weekly for some restaurant diversity, or I will be cooking more at home myself. Please don’t think I am bashing the TV in anyway -I can’t want to move in a few months, but I will miss my restaurants.
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We moved from Colorado and the restaurant situation was also difficult for me. I saw someone listed Pho Saigon and that is one of our favorites. I was shocked that there was no German in TV. Although there is Indian in Mt. Dora and Ocala, I really miss the wonderful lunch buffets that they had in CO. German is just OK in Mt Dora, Hollerbachs in Sanford is much better but it is quite a hike.
I'm not quite sure why meat and potato chains are so popular here but not my husbands and my favorite either. Colorado has wonderful Mexican. We have found a few descent Mexican restaurants here. There is a lot so you will just have to experiment.