Eataly is coming to Orlando. Sort of.

OK, it’s not Eataly, the sprawling complex of Italian goods and eateries housed under one roof with more than 40 locations around the globe but, rather, Eataly, a pizza joint taking the place of another pizza joint that took the place of a pizza joint.

Before that, it was a pizza joint.

Anyway, if the red-and-white banner on the corner of Princeton Street and Edgewater Drive is any indication, College Park Eataly Pizza will move into the recently shuttered Anthony’s Pizza space at 2124 Edgewater Drive. Now I can’t speak to the legality of appropriating the “Eataly” name — “I’m 99 percent sure they cannot,” says a lawyer friend of mine — so something tells me they’ll be getting orders to cease and desist along with orders for large pepperoni pies.

In 2014, Eataly threatened to have a food truck going by the name of Little Eataly impounded for trademark infringement. That was during Eataly’s Mario Batali era and we all know what happened there, so…

We’ll be sure to provide more details on the new restaurant as they come available but, in the meantime, I’m going for a slice.

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