Saving Favorite Restaurants without personal risk
 

Please consider a gift card purchase at your favorite restaurant that can be held until you feel safe to dine out again. Turners Kitchen and Bar in Leesburg is an exquisite restaurant that is challenged in this pandemic. I bought a sizable gift card some time ago that they are holding for me. Until I feel safe again, Turners can use the money now to help them manage.

i thought that sounded familiar. i worked with a veterinarian who was from hamden, she raved about the pastrami

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Any idea where you can get chopped chicken liver schemer and matzo ball soup?

As long as you are willing to consider that a possible donation. If a restaurant goes belly up, the gift card you are holding becomes worthless. Ditto for any business selling gift cards.

Ate there 3 times. Three lousy meals. Three strikes and you're out. I think many people eat out In TV just to eat out, not too many with discerning palates! Most restaurants mediocre at best and that’s being generous.

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Absolutely we need to support local businesses when they provide good service or decent food! TooJays was just not decent enough!

When in MI I go to Ann Arbor to eat at Zingerman's Deli, the best west of the Hudson River. But at $16 for a full sandwich, Villagers would not support this great restaurant. Their breads are amazing. Check them out.

Not with the high rents the Developers charge.

TooJay's in Lake Sumter Landing is still open. Is an easy, enjoyable and quick golf cart ride from Spanish Springs Town Square.

Gator's Dockside, Amerikanos and Margaritia Republic are still open in the square. Just up Main St we have The Corkscrew, Panera, Ay Jalisco and Ruby Tuesdays. Just off the square on Alverez McCalls and Flippers Pizza are still operating.

Then if you go a few hundred yard to the east there is the Publix strip mall where Sakura, Darrells and a Chicken Salad place are open.

A couple of restaurants closing is not a big deal. TooJay's filed for a reorganization type bankruptcy. It's obvious that they would close underperforming stores. It has nothing to do with apartments. Demshar's is closed temporarily. Hopefully, they will be able to reopen soon. Once we have a vaccine and get back to normal, those spaces will get filled.

Off topic, but could you post the instructions for making pastrami? I'm intrigued and think my husband would like this.

Toojays Sad to see it close
 

Very sad! love their corned beef. Morse family would let them go rather than giving them a break

Here you go..Hope this helps you.Homemade Pastrami - Easy Method for Curing and Cooking Pastrami at Home

Thank you so much! I am definitely going to try this for my husband.

I too, was interested in this recipe until the end when I saw sodium was 7161 mg per serving. I won't ever have pastrami again.

Where do you get your pastrami?

So it’s the developers fault that too jays filed, and is closing Many restaurants that are under performing. Blame that on those who do not eat there, to keep it a thriving business, changing their rent doesn’t force patrons to eat there

Demshires is now closed
 

More will close. Sorry to see these places are closing and jobs lost.

A Wawa sub is a lot better than Subway. IMHO.

It is! TV rent is 20-30% higher than everywhere else and they have to pay a royalty fee to TV. More and more will move on because the overhead costs are too much. Not just Spanish springs it’s the economy of the future. Less of everything and only the fiscally strong survive. Our world will never be the same.

The only thing coming, is more apartments!

Very disappointing. I love TooJays. I understand that the pandemic has effected many businesses especially within the restaurants. But, with the building of apartments in Spanish Springs I fear what might end up at TooJays site there.

Agreed. We will have a BCV (before CV) and an ACV (after CV) society in the US. International affairs expert, Richard Haas put it this way, " CV won't change history, but it WILL accelerate history".

According to today's Orlando Sentinel, TooJays is under new ownership and has emerged from bankruptcy. They had 30 stores and closed 9. The stores at Lake Sumter Landing and Brownwood are still open.

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not "the real thing". Prices nominal, but no where near quality of NY / NJ kosher style restaurants.

Great ruebens!

Make it a New Dill and I'm in!

Just hope more apartments will not be go up there.

Absolutely correct. Many folks on on TOTV disparage and don't patronize the local restaurants. What did they expect to happen? As to the apartment plan, I look at that as a positive. Anyone who has been to Europe knows that their town centers are mixed with both residential and business. It will take a little time but the addition of residents to the town center will add a vibrancy to SS that is currently missing. Things will improve because this virus will not last forever no matter what the MSM says.

What's a Spartan doing in ScUM territory? :) But I agree about Zingerman's being a decent substitute for Katz's Deli.

Wrong. Sliced cheap meat is not better than higher quality sliced meat. WAWA uses basic lunch meat.

Until someone posts an actual lease with TV, I mark this down as an urban legend.

Change the pickle to a sour one add some potato salad and cole slaw and super meal to be had.

Just tried NY water bagels and thought they were rather good. Good lox to be had at Sams.

Looking for a good reasonable priced Gabilla knish. Too expensive at Publix. Publix does have good bialys though.

I guess starting that diet when I did was a bad thing for these businesses.

Most of all I feel sorry for the workers trying to provide for their families.

The Restaurant Business is a rough way to make a living around these parts. Water, no tip, small tip. Keep it up and we'll be traveling to eat at a decent restaurant or eating fast food on 441.

I hope the owners rebound somewhere else.

They had the BEST hot pastrami sandwiches around. So sorry to see them go. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

I agree! Despite what others may post here, managers within The Villages Development are smart folks. I think it is unlikely they would charge rents so high the businesses could not thrive and be successful. They will adjust to what the market will bear. The Villages is not making money with empty retail space!

People keep saying that they will not reduce rents during this period. No idea if this is true or not.

So sad....being a New Yorker, it was one of my favorite restaurants :(

it was ok but not particularly great for deli, Very surprised cooking of most meats not done there.