Award Winning Senior Dining Services
University Village is honored to offer our residents chef-prepared meals by our award winning Chef Fred Lucardie CEC AAC. Our elite senior living cuisine offers fine dining and Masterpiece Living healthy menu options.
Your leisure retirement lifestyle is a breeze with your choice of lunch or dinner in one of University Village’s five elegant and relaxing dining rooms. Our well-trained waiters and waitresses provide prompt and courteous service.
Add variety to your dining schedule and enjoy the selections from University Village’s newly designed buffet dining room—open midday and evening. Masterpiece Living entrees, side dishes, and desserts are marked with the healthy living symbol.
Chef Fred and his dedicated staff prepare a Chef Special each day. With thousands of entrée recipes in his repertoire, you will be delighted with the variety of presentations and seasonings for beef, pork, chicken, fish, and vegetables.
As a certified dietary manager, Chef Fred Lucardie is keenly aware of the needs of the healthy living senior. He is leading the Masterpiece Living initiative by reformulating his recipes and preparation methods to meet the needs of health conscious seniors. Along with our registered dietitian and our Masterpiece Living Coordinator, Chef Fred leads a monthly culinary presentation on healthy eating. His goal is to educate, provide options, and ensure that today’s healthy living seniors have Masterpiece Living dietary choices on University Village’s daily menu.
Our elite senior living cuisine is also enjoyed at anniversary, birthday, and wedding celebrations as well as club and special event gatherings. Parties of eight to as many as 150 are coordinated by Cindy Harris, University Village’s Catering Manager. Enhance your leisure retirement lifestyle and turn over all of the details to Cindy and her dependable dining staff.
Whatever your plans are for the day, University Village accommodates your leisure retirement lifestyle with lunch or dinner seating, Masterpiece Living healthy menu options, and Chef Fred’s award winning senior dining recipes. Join University Village’s elite senior living and be part of healthy senior living in Tampa Bay!
To learn more about our award winning senior dining services, contact University Village to request a brochure or schedule a tour.
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