Guy's American Kitchen & Bar
 

Went to the opening yesterday for Guy's American Kitchen & Bar. Fun time, great place!! Prices are good and there is a good variety of choices. Drink prices are good. Excellent service. This place will be a hit.
We got the Spinach Artichoke Dip, I got the Volcano Chicken with Mashed Potatoes, Spinach and Chicken on top with little potato strings and a yummy Chipolte Cream Sauce. Hubby got the Chicken Pot Pie.
This will be one of our go to places.

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Looks good Bonny. We will have to try it some time. Do they take reservations?

Not sure.

Is there a Happy Hour? Half price drinks and hours?

Not yet. However the house wines were $3.75 & well drinks were $2.75. :D

Some of the pricing. Pot Pie -$13.95 Volcano Chicken - $14.95 Spinach Artichoke dip - $8.95 Big Bite Burger - $9.95
Well drinks $2.75 House wine $3.75

His location in NYC (near Times Square if I recall) got pretty mediocre reviews. Here's hoping that Bonny's review is an indication that this will be a better fit for TV than for NYC!

Do they have beds??????..............I'll need a nap after one of those. :mmmm:

Needless to say, we have leftovers. LOL ;)

Looking at an article on the unmentionable online news source and from what I could see of the menu--its basically a villages clone of a lot of CC restaurants--hope they're wrong we need a reason to go to the square,besides a movie

The food in NYC is by no means comparable to here in either price or quality. I find the food here very good for the price but trying to compare it to NYC is just silly.

Just got back from dinner. We had a well martinis each, a order of mussels, my wife had meat loaf and Mac n cheese, I had chicken pot pie, both meals were served in a skillet. Food and service were very good, everyone was friendly and attentive, we sat at the bar. No happy hour yet, I'm sure that will change. Our bill including tax was $52.The nice sized martinis were $4.25 each. It will be in our rotation for now.

you can please SOME of the people SOME of the time or ALL of the people SOME of the time or SOME of the people ALL of the time but you will never please ALL of the people ALL of the time

Cést la vie

Went there tonight for dinner. Food was excellent. Right now they do not take reservations. We had a party of 6 and were seated within 20 minutes. They serve an abundance of food. You will not go home hungry. I had the volcano chicken. My hubby had the thanksgiving turkey dinner sub. Prices reasonable! Service excellent. Food not comparable to the CC restaurants. Menu was different and very good. We also had dessert. Mint ice cream pie, chocolate cake and bread pudding were all yummy

Believe me Chat, you will find nothing on the menu that resembles one of the CC. We had dinner there tonight. My wife had a Strip Steak that she loved. I had Meatloaf, that while not "my" meatloaf was good. Their napkins are actually towels. My wife bought a set of 4.:sigh: Service was great!! Most Villagers will think it is over priced. We will be back.

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And Cane Garden includes top shelf during happy hour-- we never drink well drinks and house wine--the brain hurt isn't worth drinking the cheap stuff and since we drink straight vodka martini's with lemon twists it has to be the good stuff

I will be in TV in 6 days...I hope to give Guy's a try...sounds very good. :pepper2: :mmmm:

We are currently in Vegas and wine is $16 per glass. I will be happy to try the new restaurant.

Had the mussels last night. Best I have ever had. The broth was delicious!!!

Wow, my wife and I must be simple/frugal/watch our pennies kind of people; I don't think we've ever spent $52 on a meal for the both of us. To each their own......

$52.00 in this day and age is not expensive 2 entrees @ $15.00 ea. 2 beverages @ $5.00 ea and tip voila $50.00+

How we budget our money reflects each of our own personal values and lifestyles. How much money people have and what they spend it on is another.

I would be willing to bet that most people on a day to day basis who live in The Villages, no matter how much money they have, avoid paying fifteen dollars for an entrée on a regular basis.

Careful with money Gracie.

If I could go out and get food as good as comes out of my own kitchen I would enjoy spending the money to eat out. Unfortunately, it is our experience that the quality of food in TV does not warrant the price. There are a couple of restaurants here that we do frequent from time to time, but only when I just do not feel like cooking and we need something different. Someone mentioned Mac and Cheese and Meatloaf ............. really, you are prepared to go out and pay for those two basic foods which can be made in your own home.

I also enjoy cooking and experimenting with foods and I can put some excellent food on our table with $52.

But, referring back to another ongoing thread "this is just my opinion":D and you know what they say about OPINIONS, everyone has one!

Well said.

I would think that if a person's personal happiness is based on getting easily, a certain kind and quality of food and drink, and they find that it is difficult to obtain or unavailable to them where they live, and they have enough money to relocate where it is available to them...well you get where I am going.

That is from me, who like Madeleine can still cook and enjoy doing it, and like sitting to eat where I can hear conversation. We are all different, and all valuable.

Like Madeleine, we only go out to eat what we don't do at home--we would never go out to eat--mac & cheese, meatloaf, burgers, and breakfast

Not rocket science to cook any breakfast item==we primarily go out for fish and prime rib-- and barbecue, sushi

You must have avoided big cities and Disney.

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Breakfast out .... love it, no grease in my kitchen, no cooking smells and plenty of choice, yes I love breakfast out and if I am in the vicinity it is Cracker Barrel:smiley:

Wow, never spent $50 for a dinner out for two
$52 for a meal out that include two alcoholic beverages, a appitzer, and two entrees is normal and on the less expensive side, with tip it was $65. Just going to 5 guys runs close to $20. Remember we had two separate entrees so if we cooked at home we would have had to make a meatloaf and a chicken pot pie. For us that's a joy of eating out, order hat you want, no prep, people wait on you and no clean up.
We eat about 75 percent of our dinners at home. When we have steak it's almost always at home because there are no good steaks to be had in TV. Same with seafood, fish is the easiest thing to cook at home. A good tuna steak around 8 ounces cost $5 at fresh market, make a mango, peach and jalapeño salsa and we have a great dinner for less than $10 pp that would cost close To $40 pp at Lopez and ours is much better.

What this discussion really comes down to is that we are all basically the same ...............

So far the majority of us go out for what we don't want to cook at home or that we cannot cook at home, and we stay home for what we can cook and enjoy in our own homes.

Life is good. :thumbup:

You sure are right about steaks and seafood. When it comes to them in The Villages there is no place like the home grill.

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Me too!

We have a hard time spending money on a glass of wine that costs more money than the whole bottle retail. And than it's unlikely I am going to buy a cheap wine anyway

Bring your own and pay the corkage fee - if any.

Skip

When they charge a corkage fee do they give you a kiss--the only place in TV that allowed the corkage fee to the best of my knowledge was Hemmingways ,their fee was was just $10.00

And sometimes we go out just for the heck of it because we want to/can :)

Bonny, I see you've been to Guy's twice--that we KNOW about. ;) Tell me, please, how were the lines to get in?

Amen to that!

The line comes and goes. We've been there 4 times. No long line about 4:00 but it got longer the closer it got to 5:00, but it was going pretty quick.

just left there...the food was nothing special..the gal next to me had the salmon..overpriced and just so so...nothing to brag about...i guess they copied too jays for the sandwiches...huge...other than that just normal...don/t know what all the hype was about...the food is just so so from the people i spoke to steaks for $26...which ruined the other place before this...no one is going to get that !!! Time will tell....