[villages07]

The $9.99 specials must be working....been here a year and a half and had never eaten there. Went there Fri night with another couple. Dinner, drinks, and dessert for 2 of us was $35...pretty reasonable. The food was decent...not outstanding and not bad. Certainly was a good value ($1 beer drafts and $2.50 for house wine). I, too, noticed the very pricey selections on the menu and had a laugh at that...figgered it was for the lifestyle preview guests.

[l2ridehd]

On our preview, Palmer restarant did the same thing. A "kobe" beef special, that turned out to be like $60 and way not worth it. Comped, but did not make me a fan of the place.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by Rokinronda

What a joke! WHO manages this place and makes these decisions??!!

Answer: The "developer". All the developer-owned restaurants have special offerings for LifeStyle Preview Visitors. Expect Havana CC will also.

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[Rokinronda]

Originally Posted by Skip

Answer: The "developer". All the developer-owned restaurants have special offerings for LifeStyle Preview Visitors. Expect Havana CC will also.

Skip

Give the Lifestyle Visitors a seperate special menu and not have ridiculously priced items on the regular menu. They are making a mockery of themselves!

[Talk Host]

I think those high prices telegraph two things to prospective residents:

1. That current residents routinely pay (and can afford to pay) those kinds of prices.
2. That they will be expected to pay those prices when they move here.

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by pm10

We also ate at KB's on our lifestyle preview. Our waitress of course steered us toward the really high priced meals. But we chose smaller steaks - and weren't at all impressed with the food. We said we certainly wouldn't rush back to KB's for the food. (the evening was a blast, with the music and people watching, though)

Our exact thoughts as well.

[renielarson]

I had chicken parmesan, too, at KB's for $13.95. ;D ;D ;D

It was a lot of food for the money, however, I was surprised that I had to pay extra for a house salad. Most places a salad comes with the entree so that surprised me.

Like...spaghetti, chicken, and lettuce aren't the most expensive items to buy at the store...duh? You would think a salad would be included at no extra charge!

Ooops...sorry about the "duh"....a little sarcastic, huh? Oh well, many of you know me and know that is how I talk.

[zcaveman]

I saw those prices on the outside menu about a year ago and asked the guy at the door about it. I thought it was a typo. He told me that the lifestyle visitors buy them to get rid of the money on the credit card they get during the preview. Back when we got Village dollars we had a number of places to spend it. Or we could give it to a friend or sell it to a friend at a discount. The new life style credit card is for the holder only and expires when the visit is up. So if you have lots of money left on it you go to one of the restaurants that takes the card and get the most expensive thing on the menu. In this case the $72 T-bone or the $69 pork chop.

I know it sounds ridiculous but it maxes out the card.

[pm10]

Maybe we didn't look close enough - but we never saw any amount on the cards we got, for the freebees during the preview. We just had 4 restaurants that we could go to, and have whatever we wanted. :dontknow: Each waitress we dealt with pushed like crazy, for us to have dessert................ so since we left...............I've had a constant craving for key lime pie!!!!

[Russ_Boston]

They used to do 'dollars' on the preview but now they just give whole dinners and/or lunches. Yes the waitress will push meals since they want the biggest tip. My waitress at two places told me about meals the chef could pull together just as a treat for our preview visit. The price of the treat was over double the average. But boy where they good!

They do spoil you on those preview visits.

[Muncle]

With all this talk about some prices at Cattle Baron being so high that they were insulting -- to some one, not sure who -- I got a little worried. So I dug out the paperwork for my home purchase and checked it pretty thoroughly, especially the CCR parts. I couldn't find anywhere in there where it said I had to go to Cattle Baron.

On the other hand, I've been to a lot of restaurants over the years where there were items on the menu that I could not afford or would never choose to buy. I've seen wine on a menu that cost as much as I paid in rent for a month. Somehow, the existence of these items did not detract from the quality of the food and drink I did order.

On the third hand, I've heard several people comment over the years that TV needed at least one X (3, 4, 5 -- whatever scale you're using) star restaurant. Some have tried to be and some thought they were, but none were really class restaurants. No, they would not be high volume and for folks like me, they would be a very rare treat. But not everyone need be able to afford everything. It's not an insult to me or anyone else that something exists that is beyond my means. That's life.

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by Muncle

With all this talk about some prices at Cattle Baron being so high that they were insulting -- to some one, not sure who -- I got a little worried. So I dug out the paperwork for my home purchase and checked it pretty thoroughly, especially the CCR parts. I couldn't find anywhere in there where it said I had to go to Cattle Baron.

On the other hand, I've been to a lot of restaurants over the years where there were items on the menu that I could not afford or would never choose to buy. I've seen wine on a menu that cost as much as I paid in rent for a month. Somehow, the existence of these items did not detract from the quality of the food and drink I did order.

On the third hand, I've heard several people comment over the years that TV needed at least one X (3, 4, 5 -- whatever scale you're using) star restaurant. Some have tried to be and some thought they were, but none were really class restaurants. No, they would not be high volume and for folks like me, they would be a very rare treat. But not everyone need be able to afford everything. It's not an insult to me or anyone else that something exists that is beyond my means. That's life.

You seem to have missed the entire point. Oh well, that's life

[poromo]

What kind of Dinner did you get for $9.99 at the Cattle Barons?

[villages07]

poromo....

They had several chicken choices (marsala, hawaiian, francese); 8 oz prime rib; grilled salmon, a shrimp dish etc. An assortment of their usually more moderately priced entrees. You also get the soup and salad bar with dinner. It was a very good value.

[poromo]

WOW!! CB has a great salad bar and their soups are the best.
I'll have to make it there next time there is a coupon. Was the coupon in the Villages Sun?