March Citrus County Restaurant Update

 In the last month, we visited quite a few restaurants, including returning to Crystal River Three Musketeers and Katch 22.

A newer Citrus County restaurant (Crystal River) Three Muskateers offers a gourmet menu with many different entrees.  I had the delish veal ribs chops (a lot of food) Art and I split the yummy fennel salad.  Mike had the lamb rack and Art  and Karen had Chilean sea bass. Pricey but nice small restaurant.

We drove to Bonefish in Brooksville …much easier ride than driving to Ocala. We go on Wednesdays when it’s there’s a special on “bang bang” shrimp.   Art and I split bang bang shrimp and the wahoo fish dinner. Also had house and caesar salads and au gratin potatoes. Mike and Karen split the bang bang shrimp, and Karen had a salad. Mike had shrimp and scallops. Good service,  good food, and reasonable prices.

I like Dan’s Clam (Crystal River)  for fried shrimp. You can get the colossal shrimp or I get the regular size… lightly battered.  They accommodated our large group who had the shrimp and mussels among other items.  Art likes the grouper basket.  Food is reasonable, place  is a little noisy, but nice place for dinner. 

We’ve returned to  Sauced Hog for pulled pork, pulled pork sandwich and rib dinner. Very reasonable  and busy place in Hernando.

We returned to Crystal River’s La Casa Di Norma. They were pretty busy that  night, but  again never as loud and noisy as a lot of the restaurants around here. Mike and I always get the crab ravioli with shrimp. Karen had the pear ravioli and Art had spaghetti and meatballs.

We returned to Yankeetown Blackwater Grill.  There were nine of us on a Friday,  and we had a novice waiter who could not get the bill right!  Slower service …we were there for 2 1/2 hours. I will think twice about going there again on a Friday. The food is good but again they changed the menu and missing some of the other items they used to have on the menu. I had a salad with fish. It was good. Several had the ribs, mussels, and cheese curd appetizer.  

Returned to Katch 22 in Lecanto. There were eight of us for dinner. I had the crab cake and split the salad of the day with Art (feta and greens) and he, Judy and Russ had the halibut.  Lloyd had a steak. Joan and Pam split the wedge of salad and believe me that salads are very splittable. They’re huge. Pam had beet salad and Joan had a lobster tail. John had a pasta and shrimp dish. Everyone enjoyed their meal. It is a pricey restaurant.

Last week to have walleye at Culvers…if they have not run out.  (Inverness and Lecanto) 

LUNCHES:

We had lunch at Panera and my girlfriends and I went to Brooksville to  Mallie Kyla‘s. Quite a nice gift shop,  and quite a nice large  menu with salads, quiche , soups …and very reasonable. (https://malliekylas.com/)

We continue to go to Hernando’s Jimmy T‘s for lunch,  even though we’re missing our waitress Katie. We like the reuben. Art likes the chicken noodle soup varieties. They also make a good Cuban and turkey club. Friday is our day at  Beverly Hills New England Café for clam chowder and tuna melt.  Tried a new “hero” sub at Lecanto’s Firehouse Subs. Inverness Pine Street Pub …good side salad and the wings are a specialty.