Local Places, Local Faces

Two Guys from Italy

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 by KTgreen

We try to give restaurants two chances before we say, “never again”.

But……

Our first visit to Two Guys from Italy–over 10 years ago–was so bad we swore we’d never be back. I’m not going into all the issues because I try to be positive. It must have just been a bad moment in the universe because…

NOW I want you to go to Two Guys from Italy.

Two Guys from Italy is a restaurant on US-19 south of Homosassa Springs.

Recently many of our local friends have been surprised about our past experience. They keep telling us that it’s really good.

So we took their recommendation seriously. And tried it again.

It was FABULOUS!

Seriously. Our very favorite Italian restaurant is Papa Joe’s in Brooksville. But I gotta say, our lunches were equally good. Maybe better because the price was MUCH lower.

Okay. Let me tell you about our experience.

As we walked in we could smell fresh bread baking. Turns out, they make all of their own bread plus bread for many other area restaurants, right there at the on-site bakery.

We ate in the dining room. There’s also a bar and an outside deck. I ordered eggplant parmigiana and Terry had Alfredo Linguine with Chicken. The dinners came with salad and garlic rolls. The rolls were wonderful. Warm with a melted butter and garlic topping. The salad was a little wilted but came with lots of black olives. A joy to me since Terry won’t eat the little slimy things, I get doubles!

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My eggplant parmigiana had to be one of the best I have ever had. Not exaggerating. It’s one of my favorite dishes and I usually order it at all Italian restaurants. This was fresh. And delicious. And a huge portion. This was easily enough for two meals.

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Terry loved the Alfredo Linguine with Chicken. He said the chicken had a different and great flavor. He cleaned his plate up–no leftovers for him.

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It took a little longer than a normal lunch time service but everything was made fresh. Totally delicious and as Terry told our server, “The food was worth the wait!”

Yum.

Oh yeah, and the prices were good! Did I already say that?

I do think we will be back!

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May 16, 2016 by KTgreen

I’ve been posting on Project 365 for about 18 months now. I have some loyal followers (Yvonne, Donna and Terry) but thought I’d share some of the photos from the last 30 days with the rest of my readers.

And we had another meeting…..

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by KTgreen

Yeah. That’s what we do.

And we love it! Because we think we are making a difference for our little community.

This time, Terry volunteered to be on the board for the Old Homosassa Veterans Memorial.

Which is such a great group. There is one memorial for the purple heart veterans in Citrus County. And another memorial for veterans. For $100 and if you are an American veteran living in Citrus County, you can have your marker there. The money for those markers helps pay for the free markers for the purple heart veterans.

Plus they sell flags for $20 at a lot of local venues and make a bit of money from that which goes towards the memorial.

Pretty Cool.

I’m not part of the group but I went along with Terry.

Cause I didn’t have another meeting.

And the meeting was at Margarita Breeze.

The headquarters of American Patriotism and great food.

I figured I could somehow squeeze dinner into that meeting.

Just in case you don’t already know, Margarita Breeze is the reincarnation of Margarita Grill. Just not on the Homosassa River. It’s on Kings Bay. Way north of the old location.