Olde Town Pizzeria

Olde Town Pizzeria and Pasta Co., operating along the James L Redman Parkway corridor on the east side of Plant City, has built its identity around a distinctive deep-dish pizza style: the kitchen layers cheese onto the crust first and adds the sauce on top, a reversal of the standard pizza build that the restaurant treats as its signature approach. That layering technique, paired with a dark, cozy dining room outfitted with flat-screen televisions, gives the restaurant a different feel from the chain pizza options that dominate the same commercial strip.

Beyond deep-dish pizza, the menu spans a broader Italian-American range, including pasta dishes, salads, chicken and beef entrees, chicken wings, sandwiches, and desserts such as cheesecake. The restaurant also serves beer and wine, positioning it as a sit-down option for a full dinner rather than strictly a pickup pizza counter, though carryout and delivery are both available for customers who want the food without the dine-in experience.

Olde Town Pizzeria has operated in Plant City for roughly two decades, a run of longevity that has let it establish a regular customer base along a stretch of James L Redman Parkway lined with national chains and shopping centers. The restaurant is open daily from 11am to 10pm, a schedule that covers both lunch and a late dinner service, and it accepts the full range of major credit cards along with cash, checks, and debit.

The restaurant’s name nods to the idea of an old-fashioned pizzeria, and the interior design reinforces that theme with warm, low lighting rather than the bright fast-casual look common to newer pizza chains nearby. That atmosphere, combined with the wine and beer list, makes Olde Town a more natural choice for a group dinner or a date than a quick slice-and-go stop, even though it also handles delivery and takeout orders for customers who want the food at home.

For a city where James L Redman Parkway carries most of the national chain traffic, from big-box retail to drive-through restaurants, Olde Town Pizzeria stands out as a locally rooted alternative directly in that corridor. Its combination of a distinctive deep-dish style, a full Italian-American menu, and a sit-down dining room with a beer and wine list has kept it a consistent option for Plant City residents who want pizza without defaulting to one of the parkway’s national brands.

The restaurant’s roughly twenty-year run in the same location also means it has watched James L Redman Parkway grow substantially around it, as Plant City’s population has expanded and new retail centers have filled in along the corridor. Staying independently owned through that growth, rather than being replaced by a chain outlet or absorbed into a larger restaurant group, has let Olde Town Pizzeria keep the same deep-dish recipe and the same casual, sit-down format that established its regular customer base in the first place, even as the surrounding commercial landscape has changed considerably.