Sammy's Pizza Lakeside

Pizza, Italian American · 4631 East Superior Street, Duluth, MN 55804

Restaurants

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 (Destination Duluth, accessed 2026-08-13). 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.

Good to know: dine in, takeout, family owned since 1958, local institution.

Hours and menus change. Confirm directly with the business before you go.
Nearby

Neighborhoods it serves

Lakeside
Duluth · East

Duluth's dry-town-turned-walkable-village, three blocks from the big lake.

 Lester Park
Duluth · East

Nine miles of trail, two rivers, and a waterfall you can hear from the driveway.

 Congdon Park
Duluth · East

Old money, old elms, and a creek out the back door.
Sources

Where these facts come from

Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.