Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza & Wings — Restaurant in Pinecrest

I'll say it straight away, the great taste of their food is what pushes this review to 4 (and even makes me consider 5) out of 5 stars.

TL;DR: Amazing food, neither cheap nor expensive, bad ambience and spotty service. Their other locals are infinitely better, or you can order it for takeout.

So what's the deal? The interior of an Antony's Pizza varies from place to place. Oftentimes the interior is quite nice and well furnished, but THIS ONE is quite lackluster. The restaurant is often full (a testament to how good their food is) but the space feels very crammed. The ambient noise can get very loud, and they often play the music at a volume higher than the ambient noise (which can get to be unbearably loud). The furniture and interior design is very forgettable, and presence of TV screens in every direction makes you feel like you're at a sports bar rather than a restaurant.

The service tends to be good, although I recently had a rather odd experience with a missing object (I called, they said it wasn't there, I decided to go there in person, they said the same thing again, then I pushed the matter a little bit more, and all of a sudden the missing object appears. I hate to see the worst in people, but this was fishy...).

Last among the list, is their prices. This is the most minor of issues, seeing as the taste is top notch, but I can't help but to feel like it's a little overpriced for what it is. Maybe it's a combination of the lackluster environment with the stereotype of "pizza must be cheap no matter what". But I digress.

I'd recommend that anyone go to Anthony's Pizza for a great meal, any day of the week. But I'd recommend that you go to any of their other locals (the one at Coral Gables is FANTASTIC), or that you get...

So i went to this restaurant instead of the one on kendall drive because my daughter has never been. We order 20 wings a meatball and ricotta pizza a square cheese pizza a sparkling water a beer and two waters. For starters the waiter brings a sprite instead of the sparkling water,no big deal he corrects his mistake... everything was delicious. So we had some left over slices of pizza so we ask for them to go then he leaves to the kitchen with the leftovers and kicks the swinging kitchen doors open with his foot and drops the slices on the floor. The whole time im looking at the kitchen cause we were seated right by the register and I can see everything. The guy picks up the slices and some coworkers witness this also. So im thinking ok this guy is throwing them out and hes probably gonna apologize and maybe compensate us or do or say something about what just happened but this douchebag comes back with a box like nothing happened and denies it to my face,whats even worse is that coworkers saw this too and said nothing. This is the worst and most disgusting experience ive had in a restaurant, I will never eat there again and definitely will not recommend that location to anyone. I cant believe this kinda stuff happens and no one said anything. Manager was nice but I dont even know what to say cause that was a terrible and disgusting experience. If I didnt see it we would have eaten pizza that fell on the floor, unacceptable! UPDATE !!! I was contacted by management and everything was resolved in a professional manner and Im very pleased with the...

2-month update: We've returned in the past couple of months to the Pinecrest location and I can attest improvements have been made and everything feels, looks and smells great ever since! I thought it'd be hard to keep the outside dumpsters smell at bay, but Anthony's has found a way to do so. Aaaaand the Pizza continues to be amazing! Great leadership by the company's HQ. Keep it up :-)

I love Anthony’s Pizza and we keep coming to their Pinecrest location, but our last two visits have left us with a sour taste, or I should instead say, a sour smell. Service and food quality continue to be excellent, but perhaps the management at the Pinecrest location isn’t so focused on cleanliness and having a good atmosphere, specially on the aroma side of things. Floors are just grossly greasy, something I had only experienced at Pincho Burgers + Kebabs, which is not only evidently visible but you can actually feel it as your shoes slide a little bit on the floor. Then there’s the smell, which my wife described as what you notice when a restaurant is getting its grease-trap cleaned. Very particular and not pleasant at all. Nonetheless our pizzas were amazing, our daughter asked for her typical (and boring) Margarita, while we asked for a custom extra Mushrooms + Tomato slices, which was delicious. Hope Anthony’s HQ fixes the decaying Pinecrest location soon (trash container outside was also pretty smelly), otherwise I’ll be ordering for pickup moving forward, or choosing between nearby Piola and Pummarola...