Is there a quiet place?
 

My friend and I went to hear the Four Freshmen last night and wanted to have a nice, quiet drink with an appetizer. I started wondering...where is there a place we can do this after everything shuts down after 9 PM???? My friend lives near Spanish Springs, so I suggested the Cattle Baron, but it was SO rockin' noisy that we had to walk out. Not the right setting. We went to Margherittaville and it was ROCKIN' and BLASTIN' with a band and young people. Also, not the right setting for what we wanted. We ended up sitting outside. That was the best choice for conversing at the time. In filtered young people from the outskirts, big bouncer dude checking ID's INCLUDING MINE.....I laughed and said "thank you". Police cars stationed outside. Went back outside. More young people hanging outside and it got noisier and noisier. No wonder people need hearing aids with all the damage of NOISE. LOL My question is...IS THERE A PLACE THAT ONE CAN GO FOR A QUIET LITTLE DRINKY POO after 9 PM? (don't say the lania)...LOL. Your comments would be deeply appreciated.

I believe the Hacienda CC Pool Bar is open until Midnight.

Also heard that Applees is open late too.


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How about Gar Vino in LSL? It's sort of a wine bar type place, mellow music so I'm told.

Gar Vinos, but it closes at 9:00 except Friday and Saturday, then at 10:00.

Short answer to your question: No.

Kathie!

You said it. I have always wondered why TV does not have a piano bar, a cozy place that might even stay open until (gasp) midnight.

I have been known to keep a piano-top tip jar full because I never seem to run out of requests. (I do let others take a turn though.) I always start with "Satin Doll" -- one of my favorites.

And then there are those torch songs.....

Uh oh.....I feel one of my shameless confessions coming on.....

I always wanted be a torch singer. I already know all the words -- if only I could sing. (sigh)

I am not really sure why I even know what a torch singer is.......I'm wild again, beguiled again, a.....er, where were we???

Anyway, my iPod is full of Ella and Julie London and Peggy Lee. (Well, yeah, The Rolling Stones and others from my youth are there, too, but that's just not the same thing.)

Well, I have digressed enough for now.

But Kathie you are absolutely right.

Sentimental Journey Boomer

I don't know anywhere close to Spanish Springs that is quiet. I asked the same question back in 2007 when we first found The Bubble. Sometimes Country Clubs have outside patios which are quiet and pleasant. Hilltop perhaps? I went to Cane Garden Saturday night at 7 PM and immediately got a table on the patio to watch the sunset. It was gorgeous and quiet.

I always enjoy Bonefish Grill because there is no loud background music.
After 8/9 PM, the crowds really dissipate, and it is quite pleasant. There is an outside patio, a restaurant and a bar.

My other choices would be Amelias at the Waterfront Hotel (as Kathie suggested), or Gar Vinos (didn't realize it closes so early).

Sounds like we have similar taste in music, but I must say that my problem is NOT that I can't sing, it's that others can't listen! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...leyTomato2.gif

This sounds like a business opportunity. Nice bar, good wine selection, good selection of appetizers, quiet soft music, piano, intimate atmosphere, stay open late, why hasn't someone done this? This and high end place for special occasions could really do well in TV. I would do it, but I would eat and drink all the profits.

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It would be nice to include a piano bar on the surveys and maybe it will happen. I hope, I hope , I hope.

I would be frequenting an establishment of this kind and enjoying listening to good music. Don't encourage me to sing, you'll be sorry.

I won't. Tired of kareoke too. Thanks for everyone's input. Would love to hear more! I'm just tired of LOUD..LOUD...LOUD. I don't need entertainment thrown in my face every two seconds. Just a quiet bar and a little soft music through a sound system. Everything here is such overkill. I just want to talk to someone in a quiet setting. I guess I'll keep looking for it with the help of many of your comments..and I thank you. Keep them coming.

Hilltop has the Tiki Bar in the Pool area that isn't loud but is a bit smokey and isn't open late. Hilltop also has the indoor bar but I don't think that is open late either - don't do much of the late night things anymore (sort of burned out in the 70's).

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Havana tried a piano type bar, no one stayed late. Everyone heads home after 9 PM


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I've thought exactly the same thing ... hmmm, piano bar, good business opportunity. And I'm a Canadian, looking to invest in a viable business opportunity in The Bubble. But I decided that the Singles have discovered more exciting opportunities. So the appeal is to 1% of the population. The old Wrinklies really aren't looking for a 9 PM and later romantic spot to congregate. Yah, the Wrinklies (and I'm one of them) would rather be home sleeping in their king-size beds.

Other places that have a bar area that is more or less quiet, with piped-in mood music, by late evening are Ruby Tuesdays', Carrabbas, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Fridays'; plus perhaps some of the country clubs. Longhorn probably stays open the latest - I think until 11 PM most nights. It would be nice if there was a piano bar here. Garvino's probably comes the closest to that, although it doesn't stay open very late.

Another thing to consider is that The Villages offers some different experiences that are not easy to replicate in other places where we came from, so we can enjoy new and different entertainment opportunities instead of just trying to duplicate the kind of experiences we are used to from where we moved from; such as having drinks/appetizers on the outdoor patio areas, which often are quieter by late evening, at Red Sauce, Lighthouse, RJ Gators, Margarita Republic, etc; and being able to enjoy looking out over beautiful Lake Sumter or enjoying the lights and charm of the squares.

Good recommendations! I will keep a few numbers on me in the glove compartment and I will call ahead of time...you open? Is it quiet? Am I sounding like a senior? I'm still in my 50's folks! I just married an older dude. LOL. Marry older and you get here sooner. :D

From what I've heard, it is extremely expensive to run a business in TV and you have to have lots of money coming in just to break even with the costs of the building lease, the share you must give the developer, etc. I don't know if a quiet bar would gain the necessary constant revenue it would need to survive in the confines of TV.

That's got to be why Jersey Mike's closed, even though they had a good product. I'm guessing they couldn't draw the constant high revenue required to pay the bills.

I wish there was even a Beef O'Brady's that stayed open to at least midnight in TV, where you could hang out, have a drink and a nosh in a quiet social atmosphere.

I love it here in TV, but I still can't get over the fact that at 9 pm the majority of TV is off the grid. We're done partying here when for most of my life that was when the party began.

Is there a quiet place
 

Is there a quiet place in TV? Yes. For me its my home. Good luck finding a quiet place outside your home, unless you want to hang around the town center after everyone leaves......and were not even completely built out yet

True Richie, but for most of your life you haven't been a wrinklie! :D I understand what you're saying, I'm a night person also.

TV is definitely geared for morning people. It amazes me how most of the Rec Centre activities are early morning. And that many people pop out of bed at 7AM to golf, jog and play pickleball. :mornincoffee:

I know, tell me about it. I get up a little sleepy-eyed and go out for the paper in the driveway and peppy people are jogging and waving good morning and I hear the whacking of the balls from the pickleball courts down the road and am always amazed.

Count Bonefish out. Went there last night (6 of us) for dinner at 8:30.
Very loud AND Rock music blaring in the background (if you call it music). We couldn't hear any conversation and the I found myself shoveling in the food to the fast beat of the.....music.
I asked them 3 x's at please turn it down. Finally someone did.
I love their food, but this will keep me from going back.:cry:

Quiet is, probably, impossible.

I frequent a group who like to go out to dinner together after our "high-brow" meeting. We'd like to be able to converse without shouting.

Recently, we changed our meeting venue so that Olive Garden became the dinner venue of choice. While there's no loud, loud music there, there are so many other folks dining that the decibel level is distressingly high!

Seems to me that a "quiet" venue isn't going to happen. Not even chez moi! When my family come for Christmas Eve Dinner, the decibel level increases astronomically!

SWR
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A piano bar would be a great idea.
 

Thank you. Good information. Anything that isn't another chain restaurant would be wonderful. A piano bar! What a great idea!

I find it interesting that TV is a 55+ community, but the entertainment is set to draw in "younger" outsiders?

Very astute observation. The music in the squares will be geared toward younger residents just like radio stations stopped playing music from the early days of rock-n-roll.

I hope the piano bar idea does not go the way on the dinosaurs but the times are a changin.

Hey, as long as we have running water and flush toilets in the restrooms on the Squares, I'll be happy! :pepper2:

Bill :)

Ditto but one can dream. :)

Just curious..since there are so many clubs in TV, why can't there be a "Piano Bar Club"...in actuality, no piano but we could meet in the squares, maybe bring card tables with candles...our own drinks...and quietly spend the evenings amongst friends. Is this possible? We could bring CDs to have music playing quietly in the background....and the cost for an evening out would be minimal. Is there a curfew in the squares? Can you tell that I spend most of my time here in Michigan making plans for TV? Oh, by the way...I do have a keyboard...but the only things I can play are Happy Birthday and Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley....that would probably get old pretty quick.

Any ideas on where to go after 9 p.m. for guests in their late 30's
 

We're having guests who are in their late 30's who might want to go out somewhere after the squares close down at 9. Someone mentioned that Margarita Republic in Spanish Springs attracts young people but I'm thinking they are younger, maybe in their early 20's??

I'm wondering if there is one of the restaurants in Lake Sumter Landing that has karaoke---it would be for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights. They won't be here on a weekend.

Any suggestions that I can pass along to them will be appreciated. Thanks.

I thought I was the only one that stayed in bed late..I'm a night person & I don't even. drink. Then again I don't consider myself a wrinklie @ age 54!:pepper2::shrug::a20:

Trish,

You crack me up. :1rotfl: :1rotfl: