New steakhouse coming to Leesburg
 

Just noticed on The Villages Gourmet Club website that a new high end steakhouse will be open in Leesburg next week. It's called Prime 3 On Main. Located across the street from where Sip was. (We miss that place.) That'll give Turners a run for their money. Let's see these prices.

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Never understood why a restaurant would be closed on Sunday especially just starting out.

We have a friend back home that owns a restaurant. He is closed on Sunday. When I asked why, he said he can’t get enough help and must give his staff a day off. I said, why not Monday. He said, people need to have time with their families.

Almost all of Leesburg is closed on Sunday.

Some may recall two previous steak houses in Leesburg. Jeffrey Paul’s Chop House and Vic’s Embers. We’d been to Jeffrey Paul’s twice and enjoyed our dinners. Never went to Vic’s but it always had decent reviews. Hope Prime 3 makes it because great restaurants in this area are few and far between.

BTW, if you’re ever in Vero Beach, The Tides is a memorable experience!

We went to Vic Ember's with a neighborhood bus trip (bus provided by them). It was a disaster and Vic himself blamed it on all of us. Not too long after the place burned down. We had nothing to do with that though.

On our visits to Jeffrey Paul’s Chop House, Jeffrey would stop by each table and ask about your dinners. I can’t recall his exact words but he was not a fan of Villagers. He claimed they were both cheap and demanding. Steaks in those days were about half the price of today.

I got the general impression from Jeffrey that he was tired of being a restauranteur. I never doubted that it’s was a demanding career. In any event, we were sorry when he finally closed.

I really liked Jeffrey Paul's, and at the end of dinner he gave women a red rose.

Gypsy Rose Lee said "You Gotta Have A Gimmick". Some dentist in The Villages does that too.
Ladies: Does that bring you back?

BTW, Jeffery Paul Arnold died in Eustis at 65 years of age in 2019.
He will be remembered for his Bananas Foster and that thank you Rose.
RIP.

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If it was my restaurant some off Sat and some off Sunday, why give up a prime day people go out to eat.

Can’t believe a new high end restaurant going to make it in this economic environment. Just go to Capital Grill or Ruths

High end??? like everyone claims Chop house is high end??? No high end Steakhouse serves Ramen, nor do they put cheese on or in fish! Come on get real, it's Leesburg, how about it's just another steakhouse. Some day this area will get something that could actually be called a proper high end steak house. While it wouldn't hold a candle to Bern's something close would be nice. It's a dream but the area doesn't have the economics to support it.

also what is this "gormet" club.... it occurs to me that seniors lose their ability to taste properly.... so.... someone needs to explain this logic to my overly sensitive palate please. Because so far any recommendation we have had has been far over reaching

Spot on. The area doesn’t have the economics to support any “high end” restaurant. Nothing but complaints about the prices of restaurants constantly by villagers. And Leesburg specifically, has about 1/3 of the population of the villages so even though they don’t complain about pricing, still aren’t enough people to support it. Where Turners is has been at least 10 places in my lifetime.

Maybe they're religious