TooJay’s

Three years since my last review and it’s still the best deli in the area!
New to their menu is a selection of small plates which I would of never expected, but if you add a cup of soup I can see a satisfying meal. Lucky for me their classic deli sandwiches are the same. They’re still huge, filling and delicious. All of the deli items are made in house and I can’t think of anywhere else within 100 miles that has chopped chicken liver, whitefish salad, stuffed cabbage, knishes & tongue.
Service rocks and the patio is perfect for dining while watching what is happening on the Square.

Soup is good. I have had the French onion and broccoli cheese. Pastrami just ok. Delicious vegetable salad. Not thrilled with waitress telling me to have a blessed day and calling me hon.

A little pricier than the average joint, but then again, if you’re looking for average this isn’t the place.
Great food, a pleasant dining experience, and lots of options.

Had a nice breakfast at a reasonable price. Quick and friendly service. A wide variety of choices. Very tasty!

Ordered the Greek salad with a chicken breast on it, when it got to me I realized the chicken was ice cold, dried out and like rubber. I asked the manager about it and he said that’s how they do it in a condense ding way, like I’m supposed to know. Well I know this I will never come back and will call the corporate office to tell them this story. The managers name is Eric and he could care less.

My friends like this restaurant so I thought I would try it
Very clean
Excellent service
I thought the prices were a little high
Example a bowl of soup $ 10.00
I looked at the deli as I walked in
Some things did look good
I ordered the hot corned beef on rye
The bread was dry and the corned beef looked more like thin sliced lunch meat
I was really looking forward to that sandwich
My girlfriend ordered the Mandarin chicken salad and tomato dill soup
The salad was plain and not flavorful
The soup she liked I thought it was ok but salty
It’s a very nice looking restaurant I just wasn’t impressed
My girlfriend and I are both great cooks so I am disappointed often
We love to eat out
But the best food is at our house

I was not particularly impressed with this place. Food took forever to get (chicken salad and a Ruben) and the service was mediocre. I would probably go back if the service picked up a little more and didn’t take forever to get a sandwich.

Toojay’s lived up to the reviews, both for lunch and dinner. In our visit to The Villages, we had their Reuben for lunch and were blown away! Then days later, we dropped in for dinner, and again ate very well. My wife had «the best Shepherds Pie ever,» while I enjoyed the Chicken Capri, which deliciously mixed artichoke hearts, capers, and mushrooms in a lemon/​wine sauce! Excellent service, great food, at reasonable prices. What’s not to like?

I’m a huge TooJay’s fan. I’ve been in a variety of them around Florida. The kitchen in this on truly sucks. There were 4 of us at dinner. The two people who had the pot roast couldn’t finish their meals. The meat was that bad.
The person who ordered the Pastrami/​Corned beef sandwich said the bread was stale.
I ordered the Cabbage rolls and the cabbage was unbelievably tough.
The service was extremely good and the server offered to replace all our meals but we felt things wouldn’t get any better.
This kitchen has a serious problem, It’s going to be a while until I can return to a TooJay’s

Great menu! The loaded lahke (sp?) is huge, unique, fabulous potato pancakes with bacon tomato cheese sour cream scallions — I can’t ever eat nachos now that I’ve had this. Real pastrami sandwich. Wow.
I had the chicken noodle soup which was good but not quite wow.
This is Great Food in a neat retirement village. Very comfortable. I’m coming back.

I eat here often, its just average, never better. The staff is never great, but the do show up for work. Its a bad version of a top notch deli. Chain feeling and lacks that «hey how have you been» feeling that comes with your neighbood north east or miami deli. Good menu selection with all of your typical items. I will be back as its the only game in town.

This is my favorite place to eat when I visit Lady Lake. I’ve had several wonderful meals here. I have to start out saying my 2 favorite things to eat here are the beef and cabbage soup and the rye bread is the best I’ve EVER eaten!!! All my meals here were delicious… Try the brisket!
Today we had a lovely waitress… Coleen. She was very personable and took great care of us during our visit.

Outstanding Beef and Cabbage soup-​of-​the-​day!!! Hubby had Chicken Noodle and really liked it too! Very pleasant décor! Our waitress Nicole was terrific… very attentive! Great hot pastrami!!! Good cole slaw, and pickle too! Tons of other things looked excellent too! We will be back– and often! The sweet treat case looked so good but we did not indulge-​this time!

Had a great experience. Store was very clean and the service was really good. We had to wait for about 15 – 20 minutes to be seated but that was ok. They were super busy. We were seated and the server took our drink orders. He came back a few minutes later & took our orders. Wife ordered the Reuben sandwich and I ordered the tongue sandwich. Yeah I know! Tongue, yuk! It’s actually the most tender beef you will ever eat. And very tasty. We waited about 15 minutes and the server came back and said someone stole the reuben! Hahaha! Yep! Stole it off the shelf. That’s a first. He said another will be right up. Our meals were very delicious. We will return.

Now, I’m really skeptical when it comes to delicatessans considering I worked at an extremely well respected and famous deli in Michigan, but this place was legit. We ordered loaded latkes to start off with and they’re literally as delicious as they sound. Crispy, hot and not greasy at all. Yum! For my meal I went with the brisket sandwich that is topped with caramelized onions and provolone served with a side of French onion soup for dipping. Anything that contains caramelized onions in their list of ingredients has me signing up almost immediately. The ONLY thing I wasn’t a huge fan of was the dryness of the brisket and how bland it was. But it was nothing a little salt and pepper couldn’t fix. Make sure you swap out the fries for beer battered onion rings! The sauce that comes with is divine!

I Love this restaurant. I feel like I’m back 8n N
Y.
They also do excellent with caterung. We used them for my mom’s 7^th b.d. and we could not have been
Happier. Can’t wait to go back

Great breakfast. Great service. Huge menu. Definitely will stop in here next time were in the villages.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE New York style delis. We only have one in the Charlotte area and it’s great but it’s too far from my house to visit more often. So when I spotted this Toojay’s right near my hotel, I knew that it had to be a dinner spot at least once this week.
From the shape of the entrance and waiting area, it’s obvious that the place gets very busy at times. Probably late breakfasts on the weekends. At dinner-​time on a weekday, not so much. I was seated immediately.
Despite a huge menu with everything from eggs to sandwiches to platters, I knew what I wanted almost immediately. Everything bagel with whitefish. Oh, and a cup of matzo ball soup. Just like momma used to make. Well, not really. My mom didn’t make much matzo ball soup but I think you get the idea.
The soup (which didn’t photograph well) was excellent. Nice sized matzo ball (clearly hand-​shaped) with a tasty broth and some veggies. Maybe a little salty.
The bagel arrived next. Perfectly toasted for me, there was probably a pound of fish. I ate it all. Not a single bone was to be found. Yummy.
Probably the least expensive dinner that I had all week.

The size of the sandwiches aren’t worth the almost $ 9. However it does come with a small thing of cole slaw and a pickle. I got the Italiano, the roll it came on wasn’t a real kaiser roll, more like those pre packaged hamburger rolls. We got ours to go and they put the dressing on the side which was nice.
One sandwich I asked for was Turkey with lettuce and tomato, by the time I got home and opened it, there was only Turkey on it. Really? The guy who took our order seemed really annoyed with us. I didn’t even want to ask for anything. He also didn’t ask if we wanted anything else before adding up our to-​go bill, and he didn’t even ask if everything was together when 2 of us ordered, and I told him I was ordering 2 sandwiches myself.
Checking in on foursquare said we get a free Black and White cookie, he gave us the bite size ones… 3. Which I guess was okay since we ordered 3 sandwiches, but I wonder what it would have been if I only ordered 1. (I wasn’t such a big fan however of the taste.) We got fountain drinks and they came in huge to go cups which was actually nice.
I was surprised that you could actually sit and order.

Was kinda dragged here. BTW, what is with that one reviewer giving it 5 stars yet dissing a variety of things? (shaking my head…)
The menu is quite extensive but was hit and miss for our table. Some dishes, like potatoe pancakes, were stellar, while other dishes came out simply average. The salad dressings were stellar too. Oh, of course, the ones loaded with cheese, cream and taste that is. :-)
Nice location with outdoor seating perfect to listen to the nightly music at the town square.
They had plenty of wines I enjoy by the glass, so I’m sure we will return.