Sammy’s Pizza & Restaurant – West Duluth

Liked the food a lot. I finally found a place with awesome Marinara sauce. The pizza was very good. Stromboli was ok, a little doughy. Overall liked it a lot.

Best pizza ever, and awesome gluten free selection. Friendly and fast staff. My favorite place to eat!

i’ve eaten at a few different locations. each is owned and run by a different family member now. the ingredients and formula is the same however the results are vastly different. (as cousins and brothers do not get along it seems) cloquet has the lumberjack (awesome) and west duluth has the veggie (meh). west duluth buffet has the best variety (4 pizza, spaghetti, 2 types of chicken. cloquet is much smaller but much better pizza 3 types and only one type of wing ever no pasta unless its cold on the salad bar.
west duluth is very dirty. the wait staff needs to clean on downtime. even the cobwebs have a thick layer of dust on them its really hit or miss if you get a good waitress. some never come back and sit at the wait station other come around all the time.
dusty. cobwebs. the wine bottles by the buffet are much worse. they have never been cleaned in the 10 years i’ve been in the area.

I’m visiting from out of town and from the reviews I wanted to try their pizza. Well when I looked on Unilocal under delivery it said yes well that is not true they don’t deliver so I can’t rate them. Just want to let people know not to make the same mistake and get your hopes up for what sounds like yummy pizza and not be able to get it because they don’t deliver.

The customer service was great and the food was really good, the only thing it could’ve used a little more of was a larger selection at the buffet.

Carb reloading @ its best!
It’s always fun to enjoy your Grandma’s marathon victory with crazy friends. This was actually my second dinner on that Saturday night, post marathon. Why not? Still on vacation at the time. Lol the first one was Phở in Two Harbors, MN. And so, I drove back to downtown Duluth and met up with friends around 8pm here at Sammy’s Pizza. It was an interesting fun night, since I was done with the marathon, but sad that I would have to return home the next morning. As is life and vacations. Always looking towards the next one. Sammy’s Pizza is your fix for pizza and all things Italian here in Duluth. It’s your typical Italian restaurant along with a take out pizza window at the entrance. The actual entrance to this place was in the back and not on Central Avenue. Thought that was a little bit interesting.
Sammy’s Pizza is located at 403 Central Avenue in Duluth. Nearby is a McDonalds in a non de scrip neighborhood that could be anywhere in the USA, but we were in Duluth, MN. There is a large private parking lot fronting the entrance, along with stalls on the side of the building. There’s also street parking, where you can find it on Central Avenue. Sammy’s accepts all major forms of credit cards, so that’s always a plus for me. The pricing here is consistent with other pizza parlors and Italian restaurants. The pizza sizes ranges from a small sampler 12″ to an extra large 18″. I opted for the large shrimp pizza, which sold for $ 14, which wasn’t that bad of a deal. Considering that I are only half of it, I could have the rest for breakfast the next day. Win win.
We sat in the back of the restaurant, which was nice and cozy. There were 7 of us there, only 6 of us ran Grandma’s marathon. The service was fast and friendly, however, there was a mixup when she overcharged one beer on a friend’s tab, but she realized her mistake and fixed it right away. The server even took the time to take a few group photos of us, which was great too. When the shrimp pizza came out, it definitely looked like it was plain cheese. I questioned it and where there was small bumps in the cheese, there was the small shrimps embedded in there. Crazy stuff, although I had wished the shrimps could’ve been larger or not diced up before preparing it for the oven. Maybe next time for sure. The shrimp pizza tasted fine and was good with just water for me. I ended up picking up a pint of Ben & Jerry’s at a convenience store near my hotel for dessert.
I would recommend this place for a nice dinning experience. Nice, homely atmosphere with good service and reasonable prices. Order in and take out if that floats your boat as well. The overall experience for me was good. Had a great time celebrating with friends after the marathon and it will be one of the highlights of the short weekend in Duluth. If I had to do something different, I would have tried out a local beer or two.
Still a nice night to enjoy and be merry.
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B+

It is hard to go wrong at Sammy’s! Very good pizza. Lots of seating at this location. Service is generally pretty good here. This is probably my 3^rd favorite Sammy’s.

May be the best of all the Sammy’s restaurants… they’ve earned the best of the best title!!!

Our service was very good and staff was quite friendly. However, I cannot figure out why this is so many people’s favorite pizza. It was so so with each pizza having a different flavor to the sauce, which I found odd. We had a group of 14 and even though the buffet was supposed to be over they were quite accommodating and kept providing fresh and hot food.
Sometimes you’re willing to sacrifice service for the best quality. This would be one of those occasions.

Good quick lunch. Come here once or twice a year for the lunch buffet. Salad bar is good and honestly I like the spaghetti, I hardly make it anymore myself.

Pizza is pizza, right? Not quite so. Depending on where you go you can end up with just a pile of grease. At Sammy’s, the pizza is top notch. I’ve only found a few other places that I enjoy more, but nothing in the Northern Wisconsin/​Minnesota area.
The pizza here is a nice thin crust style. The toppings have always been good on my visits, and the crust cooked to perfection. Of all the Sammy’s locations, I tend to like the West Duluth location the best. I’ve been to several of them, but it seems like this location is always on when I visit.
If you are a root beer fan, check out the 1919 root beer, it is pretty good! Though if you want a beverage with free refills, go for the regular fountain drinks.
If pizza is your thing, don’t miss out on Sammy’s!

Okay, I haven’t live in Duluth since 1995, and my family still talks about Sammy’s. We were home a few months ago and devoured a few of their pies in the 3 days we were there. It was just as good, if not better than we all remembered. There is NOTHING that compares to Sammy’s. The amazingly crispy, but not hard, crust and the variety of the toppings available. Mmmmm, can’t wait till I can go back again…