Bob Roth’s New River Groves

Bob Roth’s New River Groves has been selling Florida citrus out of the same spot on Griffin Road since October 1964, back when the Roth family lived above the store while running the retail counter, picking fruit, packing boxes, and shipping orders all at once. That origin story matters because it explains the character of the place today: this is not a roadside stand dressed up for tourists, it is a working citrus operation that happens to also run a retail shop and gift counter, and the difference shows in how fresh the fruit actually is.

The business expanded in the early 1970s when it introduced the Florida Fudge Factory alongside Terry’s Homemade Key Lime Pie, built on founder Terry Roth’s own award winning recipe. That pie turned out to matter more than most people would guess. In 2006, Florida officially designated key lime pie as the state pie, and Bob Roth’s has leaned into that connection ever since, shipping the dessert alongside its citrus to customers across the country and into Canada.

The retail side of the shop still centers on what grows in the ground nearby. Navel oranges and other fresh citrus move through the store by the box, alongside fresh squeezed orange juice, fruit smoothies, and raw juices made on site rather than trucked in from somewhere else. For anyone looking for a gift rather than a snack, the shop puts together citrus and assorted fruit gift baskets that make sense for out of town relatives or holiday shipping, a fairly direct extension of a business that has spent sixty years figuring out how to get fresh Florida fruit to people who do not live in Florida.

Hours run generously for a working farm stand, with the store open every day from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., though the office side of the business keeps more standard weekday hours, Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., for anyone calling about shipping or bulk orders. The Griffin Road location puts it a short drive from downtown Davie, in a part of town where citrus groves and open land are still part of the landscape even as development creeps in from the east.

What makes Bob Roth’s worth a stop is not just the age of the business, though six decades in one family’s hands is genuinely uncommon, it is that the fruit and the pie are both still made the way they always were. A gift basket from here reads less like a novelty item and more like an actual taste of the citrus industry that shaped this part of Broward County long before Davie became known for its university and its suburbs, and the shop’s continued operation on Griffin Road is a reminder of what the area looked like before most of the current development arrived.