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Past Dinners - 2008

 

November 2008. Edo Teppanyaki Restaurant, St Pete. 8.14

"Very good."
"Delicious!"
"Very good food! Fun presentation!"
"Great presentation!"
"Couldn't believe they charged $2.09/person for hot tea. Thought it was included."
"Charge for tea?? It should have been included!"
"Tea should have been included."
"Food good - portions small."
"No dessert?"
"Small portions."
"I came for the companionship, not the food. Come on, guys. I could have made this."
"Had to stop chef from using eggs and butter; and one sauce definitely wasn't vegan."
"Too salty, not enough food."

October 2008. Morae's Café, Tampa. 8.52

"As last year - wonderful!"
"Very delicious - I would recommend to anyone."
"Delicious food!"
"Have dessert - not fruit."
"Good food. Distinct spices on each dish. Spotty service. Overall good experience."
"Nice place but I only ate stewed tomatoes, rice and bread. I'm not fond of this kind of food. Fruit should not be a dessert."

September 2008. Leafy Greens Café, North Redington Beach. 9.29

“Absolutely top notch meal!…everything was delicious and refreshing. We will certainly return.”
“1 through 10, it’s a 12.”
“10++. I never knew raw food could taste so good!!!”
“Fantastic meal.”
“Absolutely divine. So good!! Thank you!!! I want to be a raw food dish!”
“I want to come here often! Wonderful food! I lived in the Midle east and your touleh is best!”
“I had a special meal – great.”
“Fabulous! Good nutrition. Creative. Lovely restaurant. Big hearted, generous owner.”
“Very good. Maybe we could eat here every month.”
“This food is unbelievably good! I can’t believe it’s raw!”
“Excellent, very unique. I am much more interested in raw foods.”
“Food was unbelievably delicious! Onion bread sandwich was amazing! Makes me want to try being a raw foodist.”
“Excellent.”
“Super!”
“Great food. Long wait (1 hour 15 minutes).
“Let’s come back soon. Great!”
“Slow service. Outstanding food.”
“Acoustics bad. Food great.”
“Food was great.”
“10++”
“11”
“Fantastic food!”
“Food – excellent – loved it. Quality – fresh, tasty. Atmosphere OK. Service good. A little noisy – otherwise OK. I will come here again.”
“Onion ‘bread’ was great. The zucchini is no substitute for pasta. Dessert was excellent. Service was bad. And a $10.00 charge for bringing in your own wine is outrageous. The talk prior to the dinner was an unnecessary delay. Overall, it was good but I’m not sure I would come back.”
“Too much time between dishes.”
“Very good, but a bit long of a wait.”
“We had a first night server so the service was painfully slow – but the food was great and the desert awesome!”
“Service was so-so but I know 50 people at once is difficult. Dessert outstanding!”
“Food was excellent. Service was poor.”
“I needed a refill and requested more sugar – an hour passed and we constantly reminded the waitress but were never accommodated a refill or sugar.”

August 2008. Casa Tina, Dunedin. 7.00

“Great!”
“Too salty and long wait.”
“Dessert was fantastic. Salad great. Entrée…ho hum.”
“Food awesome. A little loud for conversation.”
“Slow service but good food.”
“Food good. Music loud. Service poor.”
“Supper was served rather late and luke warm. Not conducive to conversation. Servers were very polite and tried to serve as fast as they could. Chairs were too hard.”
“Décor was great but way too noisy! Food was disappointing.”
“Would like more natural rice!”
“Food good. Nice flavor. Atmosphere – too noisy. Service – poor.”
“The place was too noisy. Not conducive to digestion. Some tables had their entrée and we hadn’t even had our salads yet. Burrito was cold.”
“Way too salty. I’m not fond of spicey foods! Dessert was very good!”
“Can we hear?”
“No guacamole, too plain.”
“Too noisy – service slow.”
“Too much salt. The waiter was great…brought me a salad!”
“One of the worst meals of my life. Salt, salt and more salt. Noise level too high to talk.”

July 2008. Raga Indian Restaurant, Clearwater. 8.78

"Excellent!"
"Restaurant personnel and owners were very cordial and good hosts/hostesses."
"Excellent! I'm so glad we found this place!"
"Great spices!"
"Excellent dinner!"

June 2008. Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant, Tampa. Voted the Best of 2008. 9.41

"10+"
"A huge amount of food! Food and service were excellent!"
"Delicious food. Service with a smile. One server asked what she could bring more of. That never happened before."
"Absolutley the best experience this year: the food, the service, the ambiance!"
"Great service...Excellent atmosphere."
"Fun and delicious."
"Great food, service and atmosphere!"
"A little too spicy for me but a lot of food! Nice atmosphere and service. Pleasant people!"
"Utensils would have helped."

May 2008. Faros Restaurant, 12670 Starkey Rd, Largo. 7.05

Our after-dinner speaker was Jim Vuille, whose topic was "Transcendental Meditation."

"Food great. Nice atmosphere."
"Too much rice. Nice spinach pie also. Desert was fantastic!"
"Salad and desert was good, did not care for entree."
"Nice restaurant."
"Great service, food lacked imagination."
"Very uniteresting entree. Where was the vegetable medley?"
"Fresh vegetable ledley on menu--we didn't get it."
"Too much starch in main course."

April 2008. Picnic at Lake Seminole Park.

March 2008. Yasmina International Bistro, 28530 US Hwy 19, Palm Harbor. 8.48

Our after-dinner speaker was Betty Perry, whose topic was "Using Psych K to Rewrite the Software of Your Mind."

“Best of the Year.”
“Excellent!”
“The best eggplant parmesan I’ve had since moving to Florida.”
“Conscientious service.”
“Excellent food, good service and lovely décor.”
“Good service, great seasoning. Fresh!”
“$2.50 for Sprite is a bit much.”
“Good portions.”
“Service was good.”
“Would have preferred rice to be cooked and vegan bread. Nice size portions.”
“Rice not fully cooked (too hard).”
“All starch, little protein. The ratatouille was not adequate food for a vegan meal.”
“The rice was undercooked. The rice pudding was canned (not homemade).”

February 2008. Trang Viet Cuisine, 1524 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa. 9.35

Our after-dinner speaker was Chef Debby DeGraaff, whose topic was "Changing the Real Estate of Your Dinner Plate!" Debby is a very well known and accomplished chef, author, and teacher.

"Always delicious!"
"Always delicious."
"Excellent."
"Excellent, as usual!"

January 2008. Zom Hee Chinese Restaurant, 9015 Park Blvd, Seminole. Voted the Best of 2007. 9.00

Our after-dinner speaker was Dr. Yue Wang, OMD, AP, whose topic was Acupuncture. Dr. Wang is a Florida licensed and National Board certified Acupuncture Physician and an M.D. in China.

"Yummy and plenty."
"Excellent service. Lots of food."
"This place is always great."
"Lots of food. Very tasty."

 

Here are lists of more places we have eaten as a group ...

 

Dinners in 2007

Dinners in 2006

Dinners in 2005

Dinners in 2004

Dinners in 2003

Dinners in 2002

Dinners in 2001

Dinners in 2000

Dinners in 1999

 

(information as of 11/25/08)