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pauld315 12-05-2010 11:24 PM

Need a Trader Joe's
Need a good bar with 30 or 40 different craft beers

Barefoot 12-06-2010 01:21 AM

How about a Country and Western Honkey Tonk? With a sing-along piano player.

Larryandlinda 12-06-2010 01:52 AM

We've gotten it down to two - we found someone who mows, weeds, trims the shrubs (including the palm trees), hauls away the debris and takes care of the sprinkler system, then we use a chemical company to do all the fertilizing, pesticides and termite protection.

Rex Shriver (352-470-4715) does the yard work and we've been pretty happy with him and his crew.

brostholder 12-06-2010 10:08 AM

A great club that serves craft ales and lagers on tap, great barbecue, and features blues music. We can call it "Beer, BBQ and Blues." Anyone want to go in with me?

markchat 12-13-2010 09:02 AM

If you are in to franchising . . .
 
TV really needs a Trader Joe's.

I ran out of cherry preserves and I think the nearest store is in Atlanta.

DearPrudence 12-16-2010 09:34 AM

what TV needs is a german restaurants. most of the people here have a german background or were stationed in germany. they know the german food and the german beer and a german restaurant would be very successful!

villages07 12-16-2010 09:55 AM

Prudence...it's a little bit of a drive, but, the Schnitzel Factory on the east side of Ocala is pretty good and very authentic.

Jane52 12-16-2010 10:21 AM

The Villages needs:
 
Great Harvest Bread Company

http://www.greatharvest.com/

I miss being able to stop in at this whole grain bread bakery to buy "real bread" that's freshly baked every morning. It's a franchise with local bakeries all across the U.S., and the couple that owns the one near our former place could not be happier. They have theirs in a small shopping plaza at a major intersection in the suburbs and customers rave about the breads.

They make about 7 whole-grain breads each day, plus honey white and whole wheat dinner rolls (to die for), and they make various sweet breads and cookies every day, too. They also make/sell beautiful catering trays of sandwiches made with their breads, and the bakery has a little coffee shop area in front with coffee, teas, soup and sandwich, where people can stay awhile and read the newspaper etc.

They also have a sample cart from which they give you a nice big slice of one of the breads made that day, with real butter if you want, so you can try it. Nobody leaves without buying at least 3 loaves and a dozen dinner rolls. It's reasonably priced too. A loaf of honey white or wheat is around $3.50 and it's hearty bread. The supermarket bakery breads here don't even come close to Great Harvest which is half their price.

I wish we had this in Colony Plaza or at LSL near Sweetbay etc.

actor 12-16-2010 11:08 AM

82K people here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DearPrudence (Post 315828)
what TV needs is a german restaurants. most of the people here have a german background or were stationed in germany. they know the german food and the german beer and a german restaurant would be very successful!

and you know that most are of German extraction? That's a good one.

FrankD 12-16-2010 11:37 AM

Pizza
 
Chicago style deep dish pizza, like Gino's, Uno's and Lou Malnattis

Jane52 12-16-2010 11:44 AM

Most are of German extraction???
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by actor (Post 315850)
and you know that most are of German extraction? That's a good one.

I think that writer had never been outside of Milwaukee (pronounced MWAUkee) before this.

DearPrudence 12-16-2010 04:43 PM

The SchnitzelFactory in Ocala is not authentic. They are german but the only american there (the dishwasher) is the only one cooking there. They deepfry everything even the Schnitzel. The food is just terrible. If you know the real german food you will not go there anymore. And the next german restaurant is in sanford, I think. It would be a wonderful idea to have one in TV.

Pturner 12-16-2010 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brostholder (Post 313397)
A great club that serves craft ales and lagers on tap, great barbecue, and features blues music. We can call it "Beer, BBQ and Blues." Anyone want to go in with me?

We do!

Pturner 12-16-2010 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barefoot (Post 313357)
How about a Country and Western Honkey Tonk? With a sing-along piano player.

:coolsmiley: That would be fun and probably do very well here!

inda50 12-24-2010 04:02 PM

good pastery and bread, and a good gym,a Planet Fitness!!!,good chinese food, performance arts center, in any order you want.


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