New restaurant coming to Brownwood
 

From Daily Sun Facebook page:
"Future dining option in Brownwood! A new restaurant concept called Harvest is planned for this fall. Fred Karimipour, president and CEO of FMK Restaurant Group, leased the restaurant space across the street from FMK's Bluefin Grill & Bar. Harvest will feature a wine bar and fresh, healthy American cuisine menu, featuring produce from The Villages Grown, he said."

I remember reading months ago that P.F. Change had optioned that location but then months went by with no action. I wonder if that deal fell through or if it was just and unfounded rumor in the first place. Either way, it'll be good to expand the dining options in Brownwood. And anywhere on S.R. 44 or into the new southern portions of The Villages, for that matter.

Yay! A chemical grown food restaurant!:a040:

So that spot that has been empty since built is going to be used. PF Chang’s backed out awhile ago.

Darn! I was hoping a good restaurant would have come to TV land. So disappointed.

It is going to be a very nice upscale restaurant.

You should do a little learning about hydroponics. It's pretty fascinating. Also you might want to brush up on your understanding of chemicals. Here's a mini lesson:

Every single living thing in existence on this and every other planet in the universe is made up of chemicals.

Your average organic banana = chemicals.
The 100% pure pine oil that you rub on your wooden furniture = chemicals.
The all-natural horse manure you get from a horse farm to fertilize your flower beds = chemicals.

What hydroponics does, is isolates those chemicals necessary for plants to grow and thrive, and introduces them into the pods where the plants are growing.

The plants, if planted in an organic garden, would be getting ALL those chemicals anyway through the soil, sunlight, bug and insect excretion, dead bug and insect bits, feces of whatever tracks through the soil that causes proper fertilization and nitrogen content, etc. etc.

So instead of it being haphazard and "let's see if this thing will grow," they create the optimum amount of everything, providing the plants with exactly the same things they would get otherwise, but in a strictly controlled environment where they also get zero of the things that might cause harm to them, or that provides no benefit at all to them.

Same chemicals. Only difference: one is controlled, one is not.

Been growing things for years, and quite aware of what a manufactured chemical is, as apposed to an organic chemical.
It's the 'controlled' ones that are destroying the soil, not the natural ones.
On many agricultural farms today the soil is dead thanks to the 'controlled' chemicals!
The few left that use organic fertilisers still have soil with life in.
Hydroponics have just got rid of the soil from the equation, and grow in straight chemicals.
I eat it like everyone else, got no choice in many cases, and as fascinating as it may be, I wish I didn't have too.
Thats why I grow as much of my own the non-fascinating way.

I'm not impressed with any of the restaurants this guy has opened. I have nothing against him - don't even know him, but I have been spoiled in the past, and I know what I like. I'll give it a try. I have no expectations though. Maybe I'll be surprised.

Have you tried BlueFin and ChopHouse?

PF Changs would have been an awesome addition, but we'll give the new restaurant a try when it opens, sounds nice.

Don’t bother,He’s probably one of those guys
 

that eats in buffet restaurants and tries to sneak food out and then bad mouths every restaurant that cost more then $10 to eat

Yes, twice, and I was not impressed with either. At Blue Fin I asked for my fish to be cooked a certain way and both tines they cooked it the only way they knew how. It's hard to find a restaurant that has a good chef, especially for cooking fish. The Chop House's cut of filet was nothing to write home about. I can order better cuts from Omaha Steaks.

When I go to a restaurant it isn't a social event for me, but rather a celebration for my palate.

Did you have that in Captiva Island?

Yes. There were some very good restaurants on Sanibel & Captiva. Sunshine Cafe, Moonlight Cafe (before they were sold to someone who was more in love with making money, than with being in love with cooking), Captiva Inn had a 7 course price fix with only two seatings per night (until the same money person bought it and turned it into a mediocre tourist attraction). The Tween Waters Inn had an extremely lovely décor, the walls were all French doors and they had a piano player playing softly. It was very romantic, especially on nights around the full moon.

I believe those days are gone now, gone for a long while, ever since the investment firms and money people have been buying them.

Still crazy after all these years... that there are still so many empty store/restaurant/shops whatever spaces in Brownwood.

What would have made a downtown a vibrant and wonderful place to visit instead is just a tribute to stubborn greed.

Not disappointed
 

Well, time will tell with this new restaurant. I am not disappointed with the Blue Fin the half dozen times we have been there. You can get a “bad” meal anywhere occasionally and also poor service. That is especially so today, but it suffices to say that the restaurant business is perhaps the “toughest” business to be in today.

Or, since Brownwood is just 2-3 years old, with a full year of pandemic shutdown in there, maybe businesses were just a tad hesitant to invest...

Brownwood opened in 2012 which is 9 years ago.

I don’t understand how Bluefin can be good and Bonifay/evans prairie not so good to be polite. It’s the same ownership yet no consistency in food among the restaurants. Should be interesting to see how the new one turns out

:what:

Like others have said something more exciting should go in the center. I thought the restaurant in fenney would be good but my veal Marsala tasted like stir fry Chinese sauce dish with semi hard squash passing as fresh organic. Very disappointed. I figure this is just another bar with ok food.

I am always interested in those with “refined palates”. I have heard people described, glowingly, as being “hard to please”. Well, it seems to me that hard to please means you are spending much of your life displeased. My mother, God bless her soul, was a person who was easily pleased, and celebrated almost every meal, restaurant or home cooked as DELICIOUS. I guess observing her joy of dining influenced me, as I too generally find a way to enjoy most any meal. Yes, some are better than others, due to preparation, seasoning and/or ingredients, but I usually find them enjoyable, whether it is a tenderloin sandwich at a diner or a dry aged ribeye at Morton’s. I remember once my wife and I were in Maui enjoying our fourth “gourmet meal” at the Ritz Carlton at a company outing, when we both agreed we really craved a cheeseburger and fries from our local beanery at that moment. I am happily “easily pleased”, and thus enjoy almost every dining experience, and if that makes me unsophisticated I plead guilty. BTW, I find the fish and chips at Bonifay delightful.

my take on the TV restaurant problems is that we a community with champagne tastes and a beer pocket book.

(a quote from my Dad)

Just Sayin'

"we both agreed we really craved a cheeseburger and fries from our local beanery".

Loman's Cafe? :)

Well it’s Family Traditions now. We actually have a couple good newer restaurants if you’re in town - Aroma Bistro, and Humphrey’s.

They did have a good cheeseburger. We also enjoyed the food at KoZak's. Been gone for several years, assume it's still there.

"We"?

Sorry, but my wife's only complaint is the lack of better restaurants that we would gladly pay to patronize...

There is a lot to be said for terroir.

Agree with that. We enjoy cooking at home and don't feel the need to go out five times a week or more. But we'd like a restaurant with ambiance and excellent food, and we don't mind paying for it. I bet we and your wife are not the only ones.