How to get food from hometown!
 

For those of you who are missing your John's of Bleeker St New York Pizzas, or your Gramercy Tavern hamburgers, or your 2nd Avenue Kosher Deli pastrami sandwiches, or your Legal Seafoods Boston clam chowder, or something else close to home, I have a suggestion.

I have used the website "GoldBelly" to ship out some of my faves from L.A., and it was 100% on the mark.

Hope this helps treat any homesickness.

Just a moment...

No Larosas pizza from Ohio? Appears the famous restaurant has to be on the list. There goes my hopeful Sunday dinner, LOL

Yeah, they have to be willing to accept the orders and prepare/ship out their food to you. I first discovered this place when I learned this was where Tom Cruise arranged to send out his famous Christmas cheesecakes from.

I'm partial to the Olvera Street taquitos in avocado sauce. I wish Vince's Spaghetti was on GoldBelly :(

They have 173 Ohio favorites on their site if you search by region and then state.

Kinda pricey. No wait very pricey.

$100 for 3 Sally's pizzas, and they're smalls so only serves 4-6 people, and one of those pizzas is just potato and onion? No white clam? Heresy. At least with the Zuppardi's pack you get 6 pizzas, serves 10, and you get more decent options. It's still around $20 more for a frozen that you have to reheat yourself, than it is hot from the pizza oven in West Haven. On the other hand, for that price, shipping is included. But the Sally's package is flat out horrible.

Have an awesome way for food delivery. Each visit from kids we get Pete’s Donuts, Wing Hong Almond Boneless Chicken, Eggrolls (no rice) and 5 pound frozen Bricks of Coney. Each flying from smaller airports TSA familiar with odd bag of food, going through X-ray. Bonus for them a box of Pete’s donuts, at the end of conveyor belt.

Yeah, I guess almond boneless chicken is only a midwest thing. Miss it greatly and most chinese restaurants around the villages aren't very good.

One of the biggest “miss”es here in TV is the lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.

I know it’s subjective, but we have not found one yet that passes the minimum quality standards.

Check out Yummy House in Ocala.

There are lots of different GOOD/GREAT ethnic food options outside The Villages, as long as you're willing to drive a minimum of a half hour to get to them. And none of them deliver to your house, because THEY aren't willing to drive that far.

But there aren't any within the Villages, with golf cart access or even just within 10 minutes outside them.

The taqueria on 301 is a great place but it's 20 minutes from home and I can't get there by golf cart. Plus, I have to drive on the nightmare of 441, and then on 42, which is about to become a new nightmare if the new development gets built. Shiva in Mt. Dora is another, but that's an hour away. There are lots of good places in Ocala, but if you live in Danby, it'll take you an hour to get to them. Where I am, it's at least a half hour to most of them.

Agree! After trying several of the Chinese places in the strip malls here we finally gave up on Chinese food. Occasionally we'll get Panda Express, but that’s not even as good as it was in SoCal.

As a former Southern Californian I’m curious what your faves from L.A. are?

Having moved from city to city (MN, OH, TX, MO, FL) I have found the 'best' restaurants are the one or two from your former city......which change when you move again. Bottom line it boils down to consistency and habit that changes. I had some Texas brisket sent in from "the best restaurant in the world" and it didn't taste as I remembered. That is what "memories" are for.

China Maxx in lady lake-take out only -Excelent chinese food!!

For Christmas 2 years ago my son used the referenced Goldbelly website to have 4 Lobster Rolls shipped to me from the Clam Shack in Kennebunkport Maine. They were delicious, but I believe it was absurdly expensive.

Yum! I love lobster rolls! Thanks!

Cousins Maine Lobster Rolls has food trucks that come around the area pretty regularly. They have options, a couple of cold lobster with mayo varieties (like seafood/crab salad, but with lobster meat), and hot lobster with melted butter (aka a Connecticut shoreline recipe) or melted garlic butter. They also have lobster toasted cheese sandwiches sometimes, and tater tots with lobster (the tots are actually pretty good). Prices around $28 each, which is expensive but it's Maine lobster.

If you order from Goldbelly and get a Clam Shack 4-pack of lobster rolls in a kit (lobster meat, 4 rolls, mayo, lemon, and butter), it'll set you back $165, which is just over $41 per sandwich.

$28 isn't too bad. They charge about that for lobster rolls at the Little Fin in Sawgrass, and they are horrible

I my particular case there was some sentiment associated Clam Shack Lobster rolls. I have a vacation house in Kennebunkport that is a few hundred yards from the Clam Shack but which I vary rarely visit anymore. The Clam shack is one of my favorite places.

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The food diversity here isn't good at all. There are no Indian restaurants, and the only Thai one is way up North, and average at best.

We go to the P.F. Changs in the Mall at Millenia once a month to get our fix.

There are also several decent places to eat in Leesburg and Ocala.

We have been buying from Goldbelly for about a decade now, we get the Imo's pizzas from St. Louis. They are about 90% as good as fresh at about 200% the price.