[shaw8700@outlook.com]

Mission BBQ has the best brisket I’ve had in a long time.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Marks Prime in Ocala

[Rainger99]

You might to break down recommendations by price.

Under $50 for 2.

Under $100 for 2

Over $100 for 2.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Piesanos for pizza

Originally Posted by scubawva

Roberto’s for pizza, good Italian & lunch specials.
Pho Saigon for Vietnamese

I avoid carbs so only eat pizza a couple times a year for a cheat treat. But when I do, its Sammy Joe’s at the Mulberry Plaza.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by pcbme

Best pizza and Greek salad in it outside if the villages. Located in Leesburg

Their "Greek salad" is nothing even close to being good. It's shredded iceburg lettuce with domestic mild feta cheese crumbs (not crumbled, but crumbs), little strips of ham, a couple of kalamata olives with the pits still in them, a diced pepperoncini, a couple of tomatoes, and a vinaigrette dressing. You can ask for anchovies but it doesn't come with them automatically. You shred lettuce to make subs, not salads. And the feta cheese should be pungent, salty, in small diced chunks or thick crumbles, not tiny tidbits like panko bread crumbs. The dressing shouldn't have vinegar in it at all, greek dressing is olive oil and lemon juice. You don't put ham in a greek salad. That's just - not a greek salad at all. It's a bread-less hoagie.

Their red sauce is a meat sauce, and it's a good sauce, but they serve dishes with italian names and greek lasagna should be called pastitsio, not lasagna. Theirs is absolutely a greek dish, and is absolutely not an Italian lasagna. For italian lasagna, it's horrible. For greek pastitsio, it's very tasty and well-made.

They need to not try to be something else, and focus on being greek. And for god's sake don't sell meatball subs. They're bread subs with meat in them. Really bad.

[MplsPete]

I'll vote for the Coney Island Drive-In, in Wildwood. Cheap and tasty. A dog and fries was < $10.

[bioman419]

Originally Posted by Pajazz28

DW and I are coming for a Lifestyle Visit at the end of August can you please share your favorite resturant in and around The Villages, thank you?

Best Pizza; Napolinos on 301

[Michael 61]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Their "Greek salad" is nothing even close to being good. It's shredded iceburg lettuce with domestic mild feta cheese crumbs (not crumbled, but crumbs), little strips of ham, a couple of kalamata olives with the pits still in them, a diced pepperoncini, a couple of tomatoes, and a vinaigrette dressing. You can ask for anchovies but it doesn't come with them automatically. You shred lettuce to make subs, not salads. And the feta cheese should be pungent, salty, in small diced chunks or thick crumbles, not tiny tidbits like panko bread crumbs. The dressing shouldn't have vinegar in it at all, greek dressing is olive oil and lemon juice. You don't put ham in a greek salad. That's just - not a greek salad at all. It's a bread-less hoagie.

Their red sauce is a meat sauce, and it's a good sauce, but they serve dishes with italian names and greek lasagna should be called pastitsio, not lasagna. Theirs is absolutely a greek dish, and is absolutely not an Italian lasagna. For italian lasagna, it's horrible. For greek pastitsio, it's very tasty and well-made.

They need to not try to be something else, and focus on being greek. And for god's sake don't sell meatball subs. They're bread subs with meat in them. Really bad.

It’s because they, like most restaurants, source their food from Sysco. The food items arrive already processed, and pre-sliced or cut up. All these types of restaurants do back in their “kitchen” is open up the individual plastic bags of pre-made and cut up food items, and arrange them on a plate or heat up and add the Sysco-made sauce packet to the protein or pasta item. That is why so many restaurants taste like each other, cause they are sourcing their food items from the same place. It’s hard nowadays to find a truly mom-and-pop place that doesn’t buy their food from Sysco or a similar vendor.

[village dreamer]

Originally Posted by MplsPete

I'll vote for the Coney Island Drive-In, in Wildwood. Cheap and tasty. A dog and fries was < $10.

you know its chicken beaks and feathers right???

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

It’s because they, like most restaurants, source their food from Sysco. The food items arrive already processed, and pre-sliced or cut up. All these types of restaurants do back in their “kitchen” is open up the individual plastic bags of pre-made and cut up food items, and arrange them on a plate or heat up and add the Sysco-made sauce packet to the protein or pasta item. That is why so many restaurants taste like each other, cause they are sourcing their food items from the same place. It’s hard nowadays to find a truly mom-and-pop place that doesn’t buy their food from Sysco or a similar vendor.

Wonder how many of the restaurants we frequent actually do the cooking from scratch?

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Wonder how many of the restaurants we frequent actually do the cooking from scratch?

In the bubble....I don’t want to ruin the surprise!

We had a lengthy thread awhile back on Mallory? ...about Sysco. There are many tiers in their offerings to clients. A schools tier, hospitals, prisons....as well as different restaurant levels of products/price points. It is what it is. The only quality you can control is in your own kitchen!

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by village dreamer

you know its chicken beaks and feathers right???

Pig lips and aholes, an ear tag here and there.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Wonder how many of the restaurants we frequent actually do the cooking from scratch?

When that deli comes to town maybe it'll be different.

[Michael 61]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Wonder how many of the restaurants we frequent actually do the cooking from scratch?

Exactly - that is why I hesitate to call most people working in the restaurant kitchen a “chef” - anyone can open up a plastic bag and dump the pre-made contents into a steam pan to heat up and then plate.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

When that deli comes to town maybe it'll be different.

Sysco will not be supplying the food.