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An old Las Vegas pizza favorite returns in a new spot

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Anthony Milo, owner of Anthony’s Pizzeria & Deli
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Anthony Milo owned the supremely popular Dal Italia pizzeria on Flamingo Road from 1993 through 2011, a neighborhood favorite and a hot spot for students at nearby Chaparral High School. He even served slices for lunch at Chap in the ’90s.

Milo sold the shop and opened one Downtown to feed the courthouse crowd for a few years before eventually deciding to move back to Florida, where the Bronx-born pizza slinger lived since he was 10 years old. But he yearned to return to the desert.

“I couldn’t stand Florida. I hated the bugs and the rain and everything that went with it,” Milo says. “I thought, the heck with this, I’m moving back, and sure enough, I found this place.”

That place is the former Horizon Pizzeria in the Green Valley Ranch area, now Anthony’s Pizzeria & Deli. His comeback became official on September 1, and those grown-up high school students found him and his pizza and quickly spread the news.

“I get a lot of kids from Chap, because they put me on that Facebook page, but I’m getting a lot of people from the courthouse [location], too,” he says. “It’s a great location.”

It has great food, too, pretty much the same menu of pizza, lasagna with garlic bread, cheesesteaks and chicken fingers—with some strombolis, oven-baked Italian grinders and gyros thrown in for good measure.

“A lot of people walk in and don’t know we’re back, then they look at me and just laugh,” Milo says. “It just happened today, someone I’ve known for 26, 27 years.”

ANTHONY’S PIZZERIA & DELI 1550 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway #F, 702-897-1070, anthonyspizzeriandeli.com. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

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