Sandor out at Vue on 30A - Santa Rosa Beach Club

[DuneAHH]

I too was looking forward to a new menu.

However, I was not looking forward to Sandor. Not one of my favorite chefs. I can remember the night he told me he was better and smarter than Julia Child.... wish my fish that night would have been cooked versus raw. And yes, I did try and send it back to get it cooked a little more and he refused! Tried to like his food, just didn't.

I did like the food at SRB Club quite a few years (15 to 20) back.

Maybe the folks at SRB Club will listen and get it right, for the locals and the tourists.

I never met him or ate his food so I can't speak to that.

In the world of restaurant choices... for me, great food happily served TRUMPS. A great view while dining is lagniappe... not primary.
Think of all the friendly, great food, 'old dumps' that are adored, recommended, and frequented!

Conversely, a pervasive self-aggrandized-arrogance can curdle delicious food with one brief blow-hard schwoop. IMO there are so many great choices, why endure such a thing more than once (at most 2X for benefit of doubt)?

I'm curious to know how many times people will return to a view/location reliant restaurant that's backed by mediocre food and/or arrogant service? Several NYC landmark restaurants manage to survive on such former-glory-fumes; a thing I always found utterly baffling.

 

[Andy A]

I'll give every restaurant two tries and that is it. There are too many good ones in the area, and BTW, that includes the chains which have their place too, it they're good.

 

[UofL]

I'm confused about which restaurant you are speaking of. The title led me to believe that changes were already in place at the new boutique/retro place in Seagrove, but it sounds as if you're actually speaking of the Santa Rosa Beach Club.
We did eat Sunday brunch there once because of the view. Would like to go back again because of the view but so many choices on 30A.
We're counting down to our spring break visit.
Ellen

 

[Smiling JOe]

Vue is the new name of the dining room at the Santa Rosa Beach Club.

 

[Lake View Too]

I'm confused about which restaurant you are speaking of. The title led me to believe that changes were already in place at the new boutique/retro place in Seagrove, but it sounds as if you're actually speaking of the Santa Rosa Beach Club.
We did eat Sunday brunch there once because of the view. Would like to go back again because of the view but so many choices on 30A.
We're counting down to our spring break visit.
Ellen

The V is the new restaurant in Seagrove. (It's short for The Veridian.) The Vue is what they are going to call the newly renovated Santa Rosa Beach Club.

 

[vote]

I'll give every restaurant two tries and that is it. There are too many good ones in the area, and BTW, that includes the chains which have their place too, it they're good.

seems like sometime back you had maybe the best pork chop ever . so which is it flip or flop ?

 

[Kurt]

Viridian, not Veridian. Vue on 30A, not Vue.

Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed more of green than blue. Specifically, it is a dark shade of spring green, the color between green and cyan on the color wheel. ...

Vue is a mis-spelling of "view", or Visual User Environment (VUE or HP-VUE) was Hewlett-Packard's Desktop environment for the X Window System. It was a rival and precursor to the Open Group's CDE. Work began on VUE in 1988 at Apollo Computer for use with Domain/OS, as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr. ...

Maybe this will help.

 

[Lake View Too]

Viridian, not Veridian. Vue on 30A, not Vue.

Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed more of green than blue. Specifically, it is a dark shade of spring green, the color between green and cyan on the color wheel. ...

Vue is a mis-spelling of "view", or Visual User Environment (VUE or HP-VUE) was Hewlett-Packard's Desktop environment for the X Window System. It was a rival and precursor to the Open Group's CDE. Work began on VUE in 1988 at Apollo Computer for use with Domain/OS, as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr. ...

Maybe this will help.

It helps give me a headache...maybe I should go to the V and have a XX.

 

[Green Knight]

That's really strange...That's alot of money down the drain for a Club that has been struggling to say afloat the last several years...I mean they did not even give the place a few months to see if it worked...Seems like there has to be more to this than what we are hearing for them to change course like this

 

[Andy A]

seems like sometime back you had maybe the best pork chop ever . so which is it flip or flop ?

This is true. It was still the Santa Rosa Beach Club and the chef was Sandor.