I totally Agree!! More Chains Ugh!!!

Where did , you all eat before you moved here--mall food courts

Luby's Cafeteria, Pappas Seafood, Ninfa's Mexican, and Kim Son Vietnamese, all in Houston.

A good Coney Island! How did I not think to include that! We've been living near Raleigh, NC for the last 18 years and fortunately, they have a Cloo's Coney Island, which ships down Michigan-made hot dogs and Coney sauce and it tastes like home. The only thing is, they cook it to order instead of in advance, so you wait 20 minutes to get it rather than the waitress taking your order, turning around and shouting it to the cook, walking over to pick it up and returning it almost instantly. And then the manager would hang around your table going, "So, you ready to leave? We got a line here!" Funny thing is, I'd never heard of Coney Islands before moving to Detroit and didn't really know there was a whole Detroit vs. Flint thing on Coney sauce before I moved to NC.

I knew you were from Texas..(a Cowtown girl here) ..real barbque, real TexMex and a good steak place. I have lived here long enough to know that it is impossible to satisfy all of the regional preferences and most seem to eat out often and do not want to pay the price for fine dinning. I must admit I do miss Luby's and that was certainly reasonable.

I think I got it, a coney is a Michigan chili dog--but would you want to go out for a nice evening meal of Coney's--again its food court food

I want to see a restaurant, with real waiters--not servers, a salad made @ your table--wine brought to your table, opened for your inspection-

lobsters, diver scallops, real new orleans seafood stew, low country seafood boil, veal milanese, scungilli,
and a waiter making zabiogne at your table for desert, with some espresso & sambucca

Now thats dining--not eating

Good food
 

A dream come true! Very tired of mediocre food.

Yep. People from the South love cafeterias, but they mostly have gone the way of Howard Johnson's, I fear. BTW, I lived near Ft. Worth (Arlington) many years ago and loved it.
I used to love fine dining like Chatbrat describes but rarely could afford it, still can't. I do remember a heavenly dinner at Commander's Palace once in NOLA.

Since I don't cook, I would like to see more home type cooking restaurants where dishes are made from scratch. IMHO

1. Seafood.
2. Good German food.

Chain restaurants are ok but not a gourmet type meal.

Some of us don't need any more restaurants than we have now.

Myself Bahama Breeze & a nice German Restaurant.

What do y'all think of the new (sort of) German restaurant in Brownwood?

Personally, I would love to have a good Korean restaurant.

And, for the love of all that is good and holy, why-oh-why is there not a good cajun restaurant in TV? :sad:

Its amazing How Quickly Our Priorities Can Change
 

Essentially at this stage in my life I am grateful that I can still taste, have the ability tolerate and digest most foods, can feed myself and have a wife that is still ready, willing and able to cook a variety of ethnic dishes. My preference has always been for so called peasant foods

Sounds excellent- but do you honestly believe such a restaurant could make a profit in The Villages? The dining experiences you mention would be in the $75+ per person range PLUS 20% tip. If you read on TOTV, most posters are complaining at the $15 meals in restaurants.

Sure, you say, we go to Orlando for an anniversary and pay those prices - but how many times a month would you do it? Lots of people every night (all seasons) is how a restaurant stays open.

At the age of most of the residents in TV, the least thing they should worry about is $$, be happy to wake up tomorrow--your estate won't think twice about spending what you leave them

We're in a very diverse community, income wise--IMHO--there are lots of people who will spend--if everything descends to the lowest common denominator--they won't spend their $$here--it goes elsewhere

Look @ the cars on the roads, look @ the cars @ cruise ins, look @ the premier & better designers--do you think these people are on a tight budget--give them a reason to eat in TV