Pizza Carousel

Pizza Carousel has been a family run fixture on North University Drive in Coral Springs since 1987, which puts it among the older independent restaurants still operating in the city. The restaurant describes itself as family owned and operated, and the menu photography on its own site backs that up with the kind of dish lineup you would expect from a neighborhood Italian American spot that has been perfecting the same recipes for decades, cheese pizza, Greek pita, spaghetti, eggplant parmesan, tuna pita, stromboli, wings, pasta fagioli, sausage dishes, and cannoli and cheesecake for dessert.

That range, pizza and pasta alongside Greek influenced items like the pita and the pasta fagioli, is a pretty common combination for old school Italian pizzerias in South Florida, where Greek and Italian food often shared kitchens and menus going back generations. Pizza Carousel leans into that tradition rather than trying to reinvent itself as something trendier or more upscale.

Hours are set up around a fairly standard lunch through dinner schedule, 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday through Saturday, with a later opening of 4:00 PM on Sundays. The restaurant is closed on major holidays, which is worth knowing if you are planning a visit around Thanksgiving or Christmas week specifically.

The restaurant keeps a Facebook and Instagram presence for daily specials and updates, which is fairly typical for a small independent operation trying to stay visible without a marketing budget to match the chains nearby on University Drive. Online ordering is handled through Toast, the same platform a number of other small Coral Springs restaurants use, which suggests Pizza Carousel has kept pace with how people order takeout today even while holding onto a menu and format that has not changed much since the 1980s.

What stands out about Pizza Carousel in the context of Coral Springs’ Food & Drink scene is simply its longevity as a single, independently owned location. Restaurants that have been family run at the same University Drive address since the late 1980s are not common anymore, and Pizza Carousel’s own site leans into that history rather than downplaying it. If you want a sense of what a neighborhood Italian pizzeria in this part of Broward County looked like before national chains moved in along the same corridor, Pizza Carousel is one of the few places still serving that experience from the same storefront it started in, with a menu that has stayed recognizable across nearly four decades.