Sammy's Pizza Lakeside
Pizza, Italian American · 4631 East Superior Street, Duluth, MN 55804
About Sammy's Pizza Lakeside
Sammy's Pizza has been a Duluth institution since the family started here in 1958, and the Lakeside location at 4631 East Superior Street is the east side's version of it (Sammy's Pizza Lakeside, accessed 2026-08-14). It is the Friday-night and after-the-game default for a large share of Lakeside, Lester Park, and Congdon Park households.
The style is the northern Minnesota take on Italian American pizza that the family helped define, and the appeal is continuity as much as anything: parents who ate here as kids bring their own, which in a neighborhood with slow housing turnover is a genuine part of the local fabric rather than a marketing line.
It sits mid-block on the Lakeside strip, within a few hundred feet of Amity Coffee, Crank and Dasher, and Marshall Hardware, and roughly five minutes from Duluth East High School. The address and phone are confirmed against this location's own site. Hours are not published there, and each Sammy's is separately run, so check this location specifically rather than another's listing.
Good to know: dine in, takeout, family owned since 1958, local institution.
Neighborhoods it serves
Where these facts come from
- Sammy's Pizza Lakeside, own site accessed 2026-08-14
Last reviewed 2026-08-14 by Guide editorial.