Best “Value” restaurant within the Villages

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We like Chipotle, but weren’t aware there is one that is golf cart accessible. Where is it?
It's near Best Buy, so it may not be golf cart accessible. But, I understand that some people will park near T.J. Maxx and walk across Rolling Acres.
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If we eat fast food, (quick service) take out, it’s PDQ. Tenders or chicken breast can be grilled or fried if one needs that.
Side options waffle fries, zucchini fries, or better choice broccoli

Can have any sandwich as a lettuce bun, or brioche. Salads made with special requests.

Have zero calorie and caffeine free drinks or Milk shakes with real ingredients (peanut butter, not fake morels)

Food made when you order, since you can customize.

Also have great family and party packages

Bonus….employees are great.
Most unhealthy "food" for morbidly obese people who don't care about their health or what they open to eat.
Complete junk crap.
Zero nourishment.
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I'd vote for Bob Evans. Always a good meal that won't break the bank.
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The Lighthouse Point at LSL has the best lunch value around. Look at their basket specials. Combine that with happy hour drink prices and the value can’t be beat. Good food and service as well.
Lighthouse has mixed reviews, but when we went there we were very happy with our choices. My only real criticism was the issue with tartar sauce. They don't make their own, you get a little Kraft brand package of it and if you want another one you have to pay $1.00 for extra. It's not a cheap lunch there, so at the prices they charge, they really should just add a second "on request" and not charge for it. Or they can save money and make their own. They can even make it to order, it only takes a few seconds and costs less than 5 cents per serving.

Their food was terrific, the atmosphere was also great, lakeside dining.

For Mexican I'm an Ay Jalisco fan. They are a -western- Mexican restaurant, not a Tex-Mex. Similar menu to any other Mexican place but the flavors and consistencies are slightly different. A shredded beef taco is basically beef stew in a taco shell. Sometimes you'll get little pieces of potato. It's delicious. Their salsa is never the same from one visit to the next, but it's always thin, almost a thinned out ketchup-based sauce with bits of peppers and tomatoes, onions and cilantro, which is typical of western Mexican salsa.

We've discovered that NYPD Pizza is pretty good if you don't try to get any fancy toppings. The more topping-centric you get, the less New York style the result. Cheese, cheese with bacon, cheese with shrooms, margherita style with sliced tomatoes and sliced buffalo mozzarella with fresh basil and olive oil instead of shredded cheese...

All of those are good at NYPD.
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It's near Best Buy, so it may not be golf cart accessible. But, I understand that some people will park near T.J. Maxx and walk across Rolling Acres.
Yup. If you come to where Staples and Target are, go past that plaza to the back drive behind the strip-mall where the delivery trucks go. Watch out for the speed bumps, they're brutal. But that avoids ALL the stopping and going you have to do, just to get past the pedestrians with shopping carts. Then take a left at the end of the building and park right on the side of PetSmart.

You can walk across the street, there's a traffic island which means you only have to deal with one side of traffic at a time. People turning into that driveway from the opposite direction do so before they get to you. The same on the return walk. You just have to be very patient.

From there it's around 1/2 a new york block down the driveway to your left.
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It's near Best Buy, so it may not be golf cart accessible. But, I understand that some people will park near T.J. Maxx and walk across Rolling Acres.
Got you, that’s why we have never come across Chipotle. The pet store next to T J Max is as far as we have gone in the golf cart. We will have to park there and walk across Rolling Acres. Thanks.
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If you want get you money worth and you are hungry plus select what you want? then Golden Corral best choice. But I understand how that’s beneath some.
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Yup. If you come to where Staples and Target are, go past that plaza to the back drive behind the strip-mall where the delivery trucks go. Watch out for the speed bumps, they're brutal. But that avoids ALL the stopping and going you have to do, just to get past the pedestrians with shopping carts. Then take a left at the end of the building and park right on the side of PetSmart.

You can walk across the street, there's a traffic island which means you only have to deal with one side of traffic at a time. People turning into that driveway from the opposite direction do so before they get to you. The same on the return walk. You just have to be very patient.

From there it's around 1/2 a new york block down the driveway to your left.

I wouldn’t recommend “ golden years” to cross rolling acres road. Squirrel’s can’t even making it across there.
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If you want get you money worth and you are hungry plus select what you want? then Golden Corral best choice. But I understand how that’s beneath some.
I agree, Golden Corral is a great value for the money.
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I wouldn’t recommend “ golden years” to cross rolling acres road. Squirrel’s can’t even making it across there.
I walk it every week. If you're paying attention and don't need assistance to walk, it's not a big deal at all.

I know people who walk across 441 at the walk lights - now THAT is something I wouldn't risk doing. But Rolling Acres in that spot is just such a nothingburger. IF you're paying attention AND you don't need assistance to walk.
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If you want get you money worth and you are hungry plus select what you want? then Golden Corral best choice. But I understand how that’s beneath some.
All buffets are "beneath" me. We got comped at the casino last time we were in Vegas and I wouldn't eat at their buffet for free.
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