Little Anthony’s Pizza

Little Anthony’s Pizza has spent roughly fourteen years serving the Groveland area from its spot in the Eagle Ridge Shoppes plaza along State Road 50, which puts its opening somewhere around 2012 and makes it one of the more established pizza places in the city. The restaurant describes itself as a gourmet pizza shop, and its own materials emphasize a chef with two decades of experience working in fine dining kitchens before turning that background toward pizza, along with a stated commitment to sourcing fresh ingredients from local farmers markets rather than relying purely on standard food service suppliers.

That combination, a chef trained background and a farmers market sourcing philosophy, gives Little Anthony’s Pizza a slightly different identity than a typical strip mall pizza counter. The restaurant offers the full range of service options that customers expect from a modern pizza shop, including dine-in seating, takeout, and delivery, which makes it flexible enough to serve a family dinner at home just as easily as a sit-down meal for anyone stopping by the Eagle Ridge Shoppes plaza in person.

Being located within the Eagle Ridge Shoppes plaza puts Little Anthony’s Pizza in one of Groveland’s busier commercial nodes along State Road 50, sharing the plaza with several other food and retail businesses that draw steady traffic from both Groveland residents and travelers passing through on the corridor connecting the city to Clermont. For families in the surrounding neighborhoods, that plaza location and long track record in the community have made Little Anthony’s Pizza a familiar, dependable choice for a casual pizza night.

Fourteen years is a meaningful stretch of time for any small, independently owned restaurant to stay in business, particularly in a fast growing city like Groveland where the surrounding retail landscape has changed considerably since the pizza shop first opened. That longevity suggests a loyal base of repeat customers who have kept choosing Little Anthony’s Pizza over the newer chains that have moved into the area, and it remains one of the more recognizable independent pizza names in Groveland’s State Road 50 corridor today.

For anyone ordering online for delivery or stopping into the Eagle Ridge Shoppes plaza in person, Little Anthony’s Pizza offers the kind of straightforward, chef-driven pizza that fills the gap between a purely mass produced chain pie and a full sit-down Italian restaurant. It remains a solid choice for a Friday night pizza order or a quick lunch slice while running errands along State Road 50, and its long presence in the plaza means most longtime Groveland residents already have an opinion on their favorite topping combination there.