Waitresses work their tails off and just maybe aren’t interested in your jokes. How about just ordering properly and saving the jokes for family who are forced to sit thru it

Perfectly said. And it sounds like they received an alfredo sauce, not clam. Changing a sauce is changing the entire item. It’s not like asking for a change of salad drsssing. And who mixes a white clam sauce pasta with chick parm which comes with a red sauce? I think the whole,order was a horrible idea. Sometimes it’s best to just stay home.

My teenage hangouts! Most have been replaced by Harvard owned corporate tenants now. Was one of the best live music/drinking spots I can ever remember. Too antiseptic now

I’m amazed some Villagers heads can even fit through most restaurant doors here.

This IS the type of incident that keeps me from frequenting restaurants. I enjoy eating at home where I can control the environment and the ingredients put into my food. For example, I don't like excessive spicy. Restaurants typically jack up the spice to give their customers a more "memorable" experience eating out. Also, many restaurants seem to "hurry the customers out the door" for maximum profit. But, the customer wants a COMFORTABLE and RELAXED night out.
......I have also always felt that the tipping process created a "phony interaction with the waitresses or waiters"......like "pretend" friendliness.

LOVE German cuisine. With one exception: raw beef or pork, AKA the "cannibal sandwich" popular with many Milwaukeeans. We have family there and have encountered it from time to time: it is a favorite of my sister-in-law, an ethnic German. I've tried it, mainly just to be polite: I recall mom staring at it for a time and then commenting, "if you give me a frying pan I can fix that".

But overall, great food. Hollerbach's in Sanford serves good German food in huge portions.

And if you stay at home you are creating less greenhouse gases:a20:

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I agree

Love that place. Humans make mistakes sometimes.

German Cuisine. Meat, potato, Strudel and beer.

I hate to say it but you DID SAY white clam sauce as a past server you got exactly what you ordered. YOU made the mistake thou not the kitchen or her..........No reason to not go back when you were at fault.......

I think Prima is good. Harvest is beautiful venue(great service, did not care for the food there). The Chop House is the best restaurant IMHO. Once I went to Roberto's on a Friday night. The restaurant was vibrant and crowded. I was very optimistic. But soon realized, that the food here was not good. Had house salad (lettuce and tomato) - total garbage. Chicken Parmigana (tasteless), Pizza (fair). Sent back the chicken, took the pizza home and ate it there. Carrabbas is good and consistent. Wolfgang Puck's is good, but there is a small menu.

Seems to me your protein was the chicken and your choice of starch was linguine and instead of tomato sauce you asked for clam sauce. You got the sauce you asked for. If you had just ordered linguine with clam sauce the clams would be your protein.

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If only there was a restaurant with Middle Eastern Shwarmas, Shanghai lumpia, Kimchi, Turkish rope bread, German Schwank, French crepes, UK pasty’s and Mexican street tacos. Then maybe top off the whole smear with service at tables on uneven walk stones and coasters to balance the legs. Throw in a fine selection of the entire universe in beers and paradise would be achieved .

I would settle for a good German restaurant.

Sounds to me like a great combination for a food truck festival. Add poutine, falafels, wood-fired pizza, a pig-roast, a teriyaki truck, cannoli shells stuffed with your choice of flavored mascarpone filling to order, a Philly Cheesesteak truck, buffalo wings, the obligatory popcorn truck, and stroopwafels with toppings, and of course Cousin's Maine Lobster truck and you could easily fill Oxford Downs behind Brown & Brown farm store on 301.

That restaurant isn’t in The Villages and I’m guessing you’re a joy to wait on.

Best comment so far.

You would have to ask their corporate offices to get a definitive answer for that. But, I would guess that with their nation wide popularity, they must be doing pretty well with their Italian inspired selection when it comes to pleasing Americans hungry for Italian style food.

Bye the way, had lunch today at a (supposedly) real Italian restaurant in TV. Very popular place. Was it great? No. Was it good? No. Many we like better. Even O. G.! The only item we thought was good was the garlic rolls served with a small, fairly plain salad. My next Italian meal will be from our kitchen. Yes! I can cook! Haven't killed anyone, yet! Now, where did I put those camparri tomatoes? 😋

I think my earliest post on this was the same as yours....when it comes to Italian, selfishly, I can do it better in my own kitchen. As another stated and I agree, you control the ingredients. Try the authentic san marzano tomatoes if you're going red ;)

And you can wash your paper plates!

No food in or near the Villages is as good as the food back where you came from.
No restaurant in or near the Villages is as good as your favorite restaurant back home.
No dish served in or near the Villages is as authentic as the dish you had in the country you visited.
Nothing served in or near the Villages is as good as you can make yourself in your own kitchen.

WHY IN THE WORLD DO YOU STILL GO OUT???? Can we get back to talking about roundabouts, snowbirds, and dog poop?

We can do better than just guess

That is not what we have a real dishwasher for:bigbow:

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None of your business!!!!

I'm sure all are waiting with great anticipation on your 'sage' takes on 'dog poop'!

Depends on what is for dinner and who is doing the cooking! 😉😏

Yeah that was my thought. Definitely not Kosher Italian.

Reminds me of when a known manufacturer was asked why there was no lobster listed in their ingredients for lobster sauce. Simple, they said, it was a sauce FOR lobster. ;)

Common Chinese food takeout menu item: Shrimp with lobster sauce. There's no lobster in the sauce. But it evolved from a dish called Lobster Cantonese (which is amazingly delicious), but it uses shrimp instead of lobster.

Did you know that there is no popcorn in popcorn shrimp?

Do not eat shrimp but now we have another reason to avoid it.

I smell a new thread cooking up...

Truth in advertising be damned. What is next? No guaca in guacamole?

Just another bug that lives in water, like crab or lobster.

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No dog in hotdogs?
No tail in cocktails?

Hotdogs in some countries might surprise you what is in it.
Cocktail! There is a rational explanation for the name. The answer might get me banned. 😉😉 nudge, nudge.

👵Oh! You nasty man! Harumph! 👵

I was going that way as well. Guess it matters where/what clubs you frequented in your youth. Shout out The Palace in Saugus MA RIP

Next time people will tell me there is no egg in an eggcream.:a040:

I've eaten all kinds of things, from abalone to witchitty grubs. What the heck is an egg cream and what kind of repile secrets it?. I am intrigued by the thought of a new culinary experience. Is it related to "birds nest "?
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