Anthony’s Pizza

Anthony’s Pizza operates as Papa Anthony’s Pizza out of the large South US Highway 17-92 shopping plaza in Casselberry that also holds Breakfast Club of Casselberry, Country Kitchen of Casselberry, and Wah Yoan Chinese Food, one of several independent pizzerias found within the city that share a similar naming tradition built around the name Anthony, a common signal of Italian-American ownership in pizza restaurants across Florida and the broader country. This location operates under a distinct trade name and website from The Original Anthony’s NY Pizza on the other side of the city at Casselberry Commons, and the two appear to be separately owned businesses rather than locations of the same restaurant group.

Pizzerias using this kind of family-name branding typically build a menu around hand-tossed or New York-style pizza alongside a broader Italian-American menu of subs, calzones, and pasta dishes, a format that has become a genuine staple of Florida strip-mall dining since at least the 1980s. Operating within the same large 17-92 shopping plaza as several other independent restaurants gives Papa Anthony’s Pizza access to shared foot traffic from the plaza’s grocery-store anchor and its other restaurant tenants, a common advantage for smaller independent restaurants that cannot generate that kind of draw entirely on their own.

Casselberry’s independent food scene includes at least two separately branded “Anthony’s” pizzerias operating in different parts of the city, at Casselberry Commons and here on 17-92, a coincidence of naming that reflects how common Italian-American family names became for pizza branding across Florida broadly rather than any direct connection between the two businesses. Diners should take care to distinguish between the two when looking for a specific location.

For residents in the southern part of Casselberry near the Winter Park line, Papa Anthony’s Pizza offers a convenient, independently owned pizza option within the same busy 17-92 shopping plaza as several of the city’s other well-established independent restaurants.

Italian-American pizzeria naming conventions built around a first name like Anthony trace back to the wave of Italian immigration into the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when small, family-run pizzerias frequently took the owner’s own first name as the business’s identity, a tradition that has persisted in Florida strip-mall pizza culture for decades since. That two separately owned Casselberry pizzerias both landed on some version of the Anthony name is less a coincidence about this specific family than a reflection of just how common that naming pattern became across the broader American pizzeria tradition.