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Originally Posted by mikeod
I've been reading reviews about all the restaurants in and around TV for a while and noticed that often each thread contains positive and negative reviews. One poster says it was terrible, followed by another saying it is their favorite place. While some of this certainly may be due to differing tastes and experiences prior to moving here, I wonder if some may be due to different times of dining. Is the service and food quality different for dinner than for lunch, or vice versa? Could the restaurant that offends at lunch do a better job with dinner? Is the staff in the kitchen different at lunch than dinner? Could this be the reason for the differing experiences?
Perhaps we need to be very clear when we review in specifying when we dined, as well as our experience. This may shed light on which places do a good job with one seating, although not as well with another.
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We were discussing this issue today. It is true that many restaurants get very mixed reviews from great to horrid, from various diners. We are staying very close to Havana, and have not gone there due to the preponderance of mediocre to bad reviews we have read on TOTV. We will go judge for ourselves one day soon, and hope that we have the positive experience some others have reported. We always rely on the gourmet club for their collective expertise, and have found them to be pretty reliable, although we disagreed with their 14 1/2 rating for city fire (we didn't think it was up to that level).
The Villages Gourmet Club Restaurant Review Site