LaAvina Mexican Resturant was the site for our monthly dinning experience this month.
We all met on saturaday and had a wonderful time. This is a hole in the wall place in the very small town of Archer, Fl. You can't miss it as it is the only resturant you come to at the traffic light there. The food is wonderful and plenty of it. I think for mexican food it was pretty authinic, and plenty of it. I would suggest that if you are going as a couple to share a dish as each of us had more than half of our dinner left. The service was good but a little hard to understand. This could have been because of the band that was playing at the time. I think that the place is run by a family but not sure. The prices were excellent. You can get almost any dish for under $10.00 and as I said earlier there was more food than you could eat. Everyone in our group gave the overall score of 8 or above to this place which is saying alot for us. The only draw back is that they do not have a bar but they do sell beer and wine. I think that we will all agree that this is an establishment that we would all like to go back and try again. If you are in this area and looking for a great mexican place to eat I would recommand it to anyone. Hope you find this post helpful. Have a great month, we will be going to Bronson next month to Willards to try it out as it was written up in the Gainesville Sun as having wonderful steak. I guess we will see soon.

Just to let everyone know we are going to dinner tonight with our group to a mexican place in Archer, fl. I will be letting everyone know how things go sometime during the middle of this week. This is a new place for several of us to go and it should be alot of fun. Stay tuned for more.

After canceling and then rescheduling several times, only six of us were available for dining at the Northwest Grill on February 28, 2009.   While some members had to work, others had no baby sitter and others were caring for sick relatives, the rest of us met and enjoyed an excellent meal.  Debbie told me I should say whether or nor there was a full bar, I'm not sure.  Our group only had wine or beer, whether by choice or necessity, who knows?

I had the shrimp and scallops, which were excellent, some of the best I've ever had.  Jimmy had steak and lobster tail and enjoyed it very much.  Rusty ordered grilled shrimp and wished he had ordered them fried, like mine.  Lorrie and Donna had steak and both said they were very good.  Pete had stuffed grouper and said it was excellent.

Even though we were all stuffed we ordered desserts from the dessert tray.  Donna, Lorrie and I had cheesecake which just made our butts bigger but was worth it.  Jimmy and Rusty had some kind of brownie with ice cream and whipped topping.  Pete had some kind of fruit tart with ice cream that he requested special.  Everyone agreed the desserts were exceptional.  

We found the atmosphere to be comfortable, making conversation easy.  

The restaurant was a little pricey averaging around $100.00 per couple including drinks, dessert and tips.

We all agreed that we had a great time and would like to meet at this restaurant again.  Hopefully the whole group can go next time.