Angela Elliott, REALTOR® C21 Classic Properties ~ Gainesville, FL Real Estate

Alachua, FL's Main Street IS the city's downtown. It is a quaint street housing wonderful restaurants, clothing stores, sweets, gift stores and other establishments. Alachua does have several grocery stores and other businesses that you would expect a town to have, but this section is a prize of historic buildings and southern charm & elegance.

Only a short drive to Gainesville, Alachua is a great place to look for vacant land or real estate, especially if you are interested in a home with any amount acreage, a farm, or horse property. I really believe that you get a lot for the money here since you are not in the Gainesville proper .

Alachua is also minutes from some of world's largest fresh water springs: Poe, Blue and Ginnie Springs. Swim in the crystal-clear 72 degree water and pitch a tent on the springs' campgrounds!

Alachua County is strategically positioned so that within a 2-hour radius you can go to the beach, St. Augustine, State Parks, Golf (we have several golf communities here, including Haile Plantation), visit near-by historic Micanopy and a myriad of other activities and places. We are also only a few hours from all of the Orlando theme parks and Silver Springs Park!

Angela Elliott is a licensed Florida REALTOR® with Century 21 Classic Properties in Gainesville, FL. Please visit my profile for more about me and browse my Gainesville, FL real estate website for additional Alachua County information and listings. Your phone calls are always welcome at (352) 256-7038 as are your e-mails to angela.elliott1@century21.com. A portion of all my closed sales will be donated to the Alachua Co. Humane Society (View my mission statement).

I made a slideshow for the Alachua County, FL Countryside, but this slideshow focuses on the city of Alachua, FL (there is a city of Alachua within Alachua County). Alachua lies in a North-Westerly direction from Gainesville and is a lovely little town with beautiful countryside. You will find different terrains in Alachua County from hilly, to heavily wooded, to pasture, to "scrubby" pines and palmettos, etc.

This slideshow focuses on land in and very near (CR 241-one of the most beautiful scenic drives you could ever take in this county!) Alachua, FL.

Angela Elliott is a licensed Florida REALTOR® with Century 21 Classic Properties in Gainesville, FL. Please visit my profile for more about me and browse my Gainesville, FL real estate website for additional Alachua County information and listings. Your phone calls are always welcome at (352) 256-7038 as are your e-mails to angela.elliott1@century21.com. A portion of all my closed sales will be donated to the Alachua Co. Humane Society (View my mission statement).

This probably won't be very difficult for anyone that lives near this restaurant and has seen this. Now, I might be missing something, but I am pretty sure STYEL is NOT, in fact, a word. YES, I did google it to see if it were some type of "classy" thing they were trying to do ala the "theatre" type spelling as opposed to theater.

My results only confirmed that I think this establishment made a boo-boo. Not only did the owner overlook this, but the neon sign maker did as well!

The first time I saw this I "lol'd" and vowed to take a picture of it next time I saw it. Without further ado, where is this sign from:

Angela Elliott is a licensed Florida REALTOR® with Century 21 Classic Properties in Gainesville, FL. Please visit my profile for more about me and browse my Gainesville, FL real estate website for additional Alachua County information and listings. Your phone calls are always welcome at (352) 256-7038 as are your e-mails to angela.elliott1@century21.com. A portion of all my closed sales will be donated to the Alachua Co. Humane Society (View my mission statement).

Haile Plantation is a beautiful neighborhood in the SW section of Gainesville, FL. It spans in the vein of 1700 acres and has it's own golf course, Golf and Country Club, swimming pools, tennis courts and wonderful shops, restaurants, a fitness center, and other various establishments that are located in the Haile Village Market.

Haile Village Center also features a Farmer's Market Saturday Mornings from 8:30-12:00 where you can purchase fresh produce, baked goods, fair trade coffee and gifts (website link below)!

My second installment in a continuing series of slideshows I am doing for various areas of Alachua County focuses on Haile Plantation. The first slideshow showcases the Haile Golf and Country Club, golf course and Haile's beautiful streets:

Haile Golf and Country Club website

Map of Haile Plantation

Homestead Website

Click to view Haile Plantation Neighborhood Slideshow and Info PART 2: Haile Village Center and Shops

Interested in what Haile Plantation has to offer? Please contact me for more information!

Angela Elliott is a licensed Florida REALTOR® with Century 21 Classic Properties in Gainesville, FL. Please visit my profile for more about me and browse my Gainesville, FL real estate website for additional Alachua County information and listings. Your phone calls are always welcome at (352) 256-7038 as are your e-mails to angela.elliott1@century21.com.

I absolutely LOVE food. I'm not sure love is even a strong enough word for it, but I immensely enjoy savoring good food and plan my day around this act of mastication. Pre-career I had time to indulge in cooking at home. That was a different time in my life and I find myself being exhausted at the end of the day and not wanting to deal with preparing a meal, so I find myself picking up food from restaurants on the way home instead.

I have lived here for around 17 years at this point, which is long enough to at least get your feet wet in exploring Gainesville's culinary offerings. I'm quite fond of "Mom and Pop" operations and less interested in chains, as you will see by my list below. These are some of my favorite picks in Gainesville:

Favorite Sushi place (yes Dragonfly is good too, but I live in NW Gainesville and this is less of a hassle.) I've been going here for about 8 years. For those that aren't fond of eating raw fish, there is a huge selection of cooked rolls and even several rolls that don't contain fish. My favorites are the florida, eel, spicy salmon tempura, bagel, spicy tuna and crispy rolls: Ichiban Sushi 4401 NW 25th Place, Suite J Gainesville, FL 32608 (352) 375-8880 Read My Ichiban Review Favorite mexican: La Fiesta (NW location) 9513 NW 39th Avenue (352) 335-8484 Newberry Rd. location 7038 NW 10th Pl (352) 332-0878 MY OTHER FAVORITE HAUNTS: Northwest Grille 5115 NW 39th Ave (352) 376-0500 Liquid Ginger 101 SE 2nd Place, Ste. 118 (352) 371-2323 Satchel's Pizza NY Style Pizza 1800 NE 23rd Avenue (352) 335-7272 If you like NY style pizza, you've got to check this out. Their pesto pizza with feta and tomatoes is amazing. Chutnees Indian Cuisine Try the Palak Paneer, Garlic Naan, Yellow lentil daal and mango lassi. 3833 NW 97th Blvd. (352) 333-1188 Read my Chutnees Review Deneno's (Fine Italian!) Try the veal parm, lobster ravioli or pizza 14960 NW 141st St. Alachua, FL 32615 (386) 418-1066 Sweet Dreams Homemade Ice Cream Plantation brown sugar, pineapple upsidedown cake and lavender/blueberry/honey flavors are to die for. 3437 W. University Avenue (352) 378-0532 2nd Street Bakery & Coffee House 1511 NW 2nd St (352) 505-5039 Great coffee and espresso-based drinks, delicious fresh baked breads, pastries and brioche. The tempeh sandwich on the citrus-herb bread is fantastic. The Top (Unique Vegetarian and Meat dishes. Delicious food.) 30 N Main St. (352) 337-1188 Mr. Han's Chinese Restaurant 6944 NW 10th Place (352) 331-6400 Na'Guara Latin Corner 5240 NW 34th St (352) 225-3555 Falafel King Great gyros, spinach pie, lentil pie, falafel and grape leaves 4445 SW 35th Terr #260 (352) 379-8182 Uppercrust Bakery Try the rosemary-garlic baguettes, artichoke stuffed bread, tapenade, and white bean dip. 4116 NW 16th Blvd. (352) 376-7187 Green Plantains Latino Cuisine 5150 SW 34th Street Gainesville, FL 32608 (352) 378-1930 Great portions, prices and food. I love the Chofan Nuevo Latino (Latin Style fried rice). Absolutely one of the best things I've had in some time. The downside is that it is not consistently good. It tastes different everytime I get it, and the first time was the best. Ever since then it has paled in comparison. <sniff> The seafood patty (empanada) is also tasty. I can't manage to try anything else on the menu because I'm addicted to the rice. Make sure to check out these fine establishments: The Fresh Market Sunflower Health Foods Prime meat, fresh fish, gourmet Knowledgable staff helps you spices, condiments, olive oils, find the right supplements bulk foods, coffees and baked goods 87 SW 34th St. 4120 NW 16th Blvd. (352) 372-7482 (352) 376-1024 Dorn's Liquor and Wine The Wine experts! Over 100 imported cheeses in the cheese gallery. Caviar, chevre, pate, fine chocolates 4140 NW 16th Blvd.

Angela Elliott is a licensed Florida REALTOR® with Century 21 Classic Properties in Gainesville, FL. Please visit my profile for more about me and browse my Gainesville, FL real estate website for additional Alachua County information and listings. Your phone calls are always welcome at (352) 256-7038 as are your e-mails to angela.elliott1@century21.com. A portion of all my closed sales will be donated to the Alachua Co. Humane Society (View my mission statement).