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Old 05-10-2020, 09:05 AM
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Gio's. Oxford. Route 301 near Wawa. It's My Choice. It's so good 2 slices and I'm done. Ok, maybe 3 or 4.
Gio is short for Giovanni, so why don't you just go to his original location in the Southern Trace Shopping Center. They have great prices as well, lunch time spaghetti & meat sauce, salad and bread for $6.99. I've been eating there for 9 years and I don't how they do it. His brother Roberto at Pinellas Plaza charges almost twice the price. Technically it's also north of 466 or could say, it's on 466.

South of 466 you have Bravo Pizza at LSL, which a lot of people really like, it's mostly known for dinning in since it's harder to get to. You have the new place, Piesano's Stone Fired Pizza at Lake Deaton Plaza, I call it Rohan, that makes it easier to find. They are very good. You have Mallory Country Club, which is also brick oven, it's a little fancier since you're sitting in a country club restaurant with table cloths. You have Roberto's at Pinellas Plaza, which I mentioned earlier, I've it 3 times, twice good, once bad. You the normal places that deliver from Wildwood, Pizza Hut, Dominoe's, Papa John's and Hungry Howie, I would say Pizza Hut is the best of the bunch. You have a couple of Italian Restaurants that offer pizza, Ricciardi's at Brownwood which was good, but the last time I got one, they only had one size and it was $10, it wasn't enough to eat. What makes that odd is this is their only sit-down restaurant, in Orlando they are a chain of pizza places, so you would think they would specialize in pizza. Then there is Mezza Luna at Colony, I use to go when they opened 6 or 7 years ago, but it seemed to have gone down hill and now I never see any cars and wonder how they stay in business. There is Sammy's on 301 in the shopping center across from Lucky U Cycles. I had it once, one waitress and a dinning room full of people, it looked like a nice place, but understaffed. The pizza had the condiments under the cheese, I just didn't like it at all. I guess my choice would be Giovanni's at Southern Trace. If we weren't limited by location, I would go to Sammy Joe's at Mullberry Plaza at the north end of TV, I have their thin pizza probably 30 times even though I have to drive 12 miles to get there, but it's not the greatest dinning experience, the place is small, tables are small, TV's are impossible to see, but it's very good.