Famous Anthony's began in Roanoke in 1986 at the Tanglewood location and soon became a well-known stop for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The restaurant has developed unique menus of quickly prepared entrees, which are moderately priced and offer customers a wide variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner choices. All our food is prepared to order and customer preferences are honored. In addition to full service breakfasts and the variety of lunch and dinner selections, we also have daily specials to accommodate family diners.
Famous Anthony's is recognized as one of Roanoke's most awarded restaurants. Following the success of the Tanglewood restaurant, in 1992 a second location opened at Southwest Plaza. In 1994, the Salem store began operation. The Crystal Spring store opened in 1996, 460 East in 1998, Brookside in 1999, and Vinton in 2000. Our franchise location, which is located in Christiansburg at 6 Radford Street, opened in the summer of 2004. Our first Lynchburg, Virginia location, at 2104 Wards Road, opened in the fall of 2004. Following its success, our second Lynchburg, Virginia location, at 2631 Lakeside Drive, opened in the fall of 2008.
Famous Anthony’s has won several awards from the readers of Roanoker Magazine for 2008: Silver in Best Biscuit, Silver in Best Neighborhood Restaurant, Silver in Best Business Breakfast, Platinum in Best Inexpensive Lunch, Platinum in Best Restaurant to take the kids along, and Platinum in Best Family Breakfast.
As your award winning neighborhood restaurant and a good corporate citizen, we support local schools and sports teams as well as civic organizations and charities. Famous Anthony's little league teams, Pee Wee football teams, and basketball teams play throughout the Roanoke Valley. We support area high school after prom parties, area high school yearbooks and contribute to a variety of charitable organizations including the Relay for Life, Junior League, American Caner Society, March of Dimes, Special Olympics, and many others. Our ability to maintain this level of community involvement to continue to maintain high standards of service and food quality, is the result of the ongoing support of our loyal customers and each of our employees taking pride in our restaurants, our products, and our service.
