Please look @ The Lucky Pelican, in Sarasota--do you think a restaurant like it, could make it here--its not large, but the food is fab

Look @ the pictures of their entrees & you'll see what we're missing in TV's---real food

I'd go.

Is it still in business? The dinner menu isn't showing;

Lucky Pelican Bistro | Fresh Seafood Everyday

We aren't missing real food, just not the kind some people want. One of our favorite places; Bob Evans that had really good things is taking things off the menu. Some people never tried them because they don't serve booze or it is too "hinterland" for some and not a place you'd find steak or lobster or a variety of seafood. I think the reason that the kind of places that some posters want, are not popular choices because of price.

I downloaded the dinner menu. Great selections.

Hinterland is a fantastic word. I really need to get it into my vocabulary.

I feel like people claim they want something a step up from Culver's but then want $10 entrees. Then they say "This rubbery ten dollar Chicken Fantastico Supreme from Applebee's was terrible" etc etc. Or "Why do they use a microwave?"

This is what I think should happen at Guy Fieri's. The bar should stay. All the tables should be cleared out. It should be an inside market with a bakery, a fish shop, a wine shop and local brewery selling, an Italian deli, a cheese shop, a flower shop, fruits and veggies and a chocolate shop and coffee shop. Everything would be in its own little area, with bistro tables to enjoy a drink with some of the fare bought there. Our own little Faneuil Market. With outdoor seating too. Let's go Metro.

TV is no longer a small community--its approaching 150K population--looking @ the backgrounds of people who live here, CEO's,0-6 retired military, big city pensioners, selling big houses up north and buying a house here for cash--they can & will support a restaurant , thats worth supporting--The Rose Plantation is doing OK--Lots of houses selling in excess of 500K--

a real mistake is trying to pass off junk on people who know better-that's what Guy and Honest John's did

That sounds lovely but I don't think it is big enough. I'd be happy with anything that isn't greasy and covered in gravy.

"Hinterland" is not my word but one that a poster on this thread used earlier.

I think people who put down others because their taste in food is different are very unrealistic. The market will choose the winners. It has in the past and will again. I am sure we have among us people with refined taste, but most of them also like "ordinary" things and will whip up scrambled eggs for themselves on a busy day and find them yummy.

I very much dislike equating people who have been financially successful with those who know a good peanut butter sandwich from a bad one. Or only "DINE" at expensive places. Most successful people have been around and know their way but not all are going to spend a lot of money unless it's warranted. It is my experience that monied people are often frugal and careful. That is probably one of the reasons they got "monied".

Waffle house!!

There are four restaurants run by Jeff Ruby in Cincinnati and each of them has a different flair. I like them all but doubt if they'd be right for The Villages.

Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse Cincinnati

You're faded. How much? Never eaten in a bad Wolfgang's whether he's running it or it's a franchise

For many years I've observed that when a location has 3 failures then there will be either an Asian or Mexican restaurant move in with limited success.

I love the Faneuil Hall marketplace, but I think this is too small. You could move to Paris. :)

Some restaurants in TV offer unauthentic food, in particular, not heavily spiced regardless of whether it should be.

So, a good option may be food typically prepared in a mild flavor, if you will. Some examples would be Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and such, with warm, delicate spices, like tarragon, parsley, marjoram. Much like French country cooking.

Oh! This is my 1,111th post. I talk too much. Lol