Top 40 From the Villages Gourmet Club (in 2010):

Name Location Stars Type

Sakura Japanese Resturant Colony Plaza 14 1/2 Asian
Bonefish Grill Buffalo Ridge Plaza 13 1/2 Seafood
Cane Garden Country Club Cane Garden CC 13 1/2 Country Club
Legacy Restaurant Nancy Lopez CC 13 1/2 Country Club
Outback Steakhouse Rolling Acres Plaza 13 1/2 Steakhouse
Cheng's Chinese & Sushi Southern Trace Plaza 13 Asian
Cody's Original Roadhouse Land Sumter Landing Square 12 1/2 Steakhouse
Lighthouse Point Bar & Grill Lake Sumter Landing Square 12 1/2 Seafood
Thai Ruby Lake Sumter Landing Square 12 1/2 Asian
Urban Flats Lake Sumter Landing Square 12 1/2 Italian
Ay Jalisco Spanish Springs Square 12 Mexican
CiCi's Pizza Buffet Colony Plaza 12 Italian
Gator's Dockside Spanish Springs Square 12 Grill & Bar
Glenview Champions Country Club Glenview CC 12 Country Club
Olive Garden Italian Resturant Palm Ridge Plaza (466) 12 Italian
Panera Bread Bakery & Café Spanish Springs Square 12 Sandwiches, Soup & Salad
Red Lobster Palm Ridge Plaza (466) 12 Seafood
Redsauce Lake Sumter Landing Square 12 Italian
Ruby Tuesday Restaurant Spanish Springs Square 12 Burgers
Seafood Galley La Plaza Grande 12 Seafood
SonRise Café Southern Trace Plaza 12 Breakfast thru Dinner
Too Jay's Gourmet Deli Spanish Springs Square 12 Deli Sandwiches
Carraba's Rolling Acres Plaza 11 1/2 Italian
El Santiago Club El Santiago Rec Center 11 1/2 Club Resturant
Havana Country Club Havana CC 11 1/2 Country Club
Tea Plantation & Flower Boutique Lake Sumter Landing Square 11 1/2 British
Too Jay's Gourmet Deli Lake Sumter Landing Square 11 1/2 Deli Sandwiches
VKI Japanese Steakhouse Lake Sumter Landing Square 11 1/2 Asian
Bob Evans 466 Near Southern Trace Plaza 11 Breakfast thru Dinner chain
Cattle Baron Club Spanish Springs Square 11 Fine Dining
Giovanni's Ristorante & Pizza Southern Trace Plaza 11 Italian
Golden Corral Buffet & Grill Buffalo Ridge Plaza 11 Buffet
Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Que Lake Sumter Landing Square 11 Bar-B-Que
Tierra Del Sol Club Tierra Del Sol CC 11 Country Club
Katie Belle's Dining & Music Hall Spanish Springs Square 10 1/2 Grill & Bar
Li'l Bits Café Palm Ridge Plaza (466) 10 1/2 Breakfast & Sandwiches
Applebee's La Plaza Grande 10 Grill & Bar
El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant La Plaza Grande 10 Mexican


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Wow
 

I had no idea there were so many!!! :22yikes:

According to The Villages Gourmet Club there are currently 75 restaurants in TV.


http://home.comcast.net/~thevillages...lub/page1.html


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For Info - Village of Virginia Trace Website with links to everything you ever might want to know about TV:

http://www.virginiatrace.com/


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Tall Terri. I am too so will try Toscani though it's not on gourmet clubs' list.

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Chuckinca How active is your Gourmet Club? It seems the places go all over the map with the lists you posted. Now, am trying to find out what kind of dishes are good and popular at the Top 10 of both country clubs and other restaurants. I liked El Santiago listed on your lists but I was told from a friend that it closed recently. That would definitely have been on my list. Also, there was a great fish place near the Catholic Church which opened recently but again was told that closed down. Too bad.

LMAO - Next pizza party is likely in October when Mike and Maggie arrive!

Thanks Tom .....I've been there once and had their pizza.Not bad in fact it was one of the better pizzas we've had since moving south.Why is it that pizza & Italian food isn't that good here.Maybe I'm spoiled living in Massachusetts where these foods are outstanding!

ite!UOTE=katezbox;378197]LMAO - Next pizza party is likely in October when Mike and Maggie arrive![/QUOTE]u

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Mrs Bosox & I will be watching for our invite! If we don't receive one we WILL be crashing your party. Not much we won't do for a good pizza!:mmmm::a20::piray:

It's "The Villages Gourmet Club", one of the hundreds of clubs in TV. I think the list is updated on a regular basis.

There are a few Catholic Churches in and around TV. St Timothy's (in TV) on 441/27 is south of the hospital; north of the hospital is (was?) a fish place that replaced a Thai place that replaced a burger place. We liked the Thai place and used to go there frequently when we were in TV.

I don't understand your comment "It seems the places go all over the map with the lists you posted." I believe those places are all in TV - somewhere but could be all over the map (some in SS, some in LSL, some off 42, some off 466, etc).


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A fish place closed near a Catholic Church? Those places usually do quite well on Fridays during Lent.

They haven't been doing so well since the Catholic Church changed the rule that prohibited meat on every Friday.


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That rule was changed when I was a child...I remember up to about age 8 or 9 no meat on any Friday regardless if it was Lent or not. I still try to avoid eating meat on Fridays during Lent even though I switched to a different denomination 15 yrs. ago.

Totally off topic, but once Catholics reach a certain age -- 75? are Catholics no longer bound by the "no meat on Fridays during Lent" rule? I told my Dad about that a few months ago and he looked at me like I had grown a third eye (he's a very observant Catholic).

Sounds like a plan! When it comes to pizza, I always know when it's time to stop eating... when it's gone.