Sammy's Restaurant & Bar occupies 285 Bay Boulevard in Chula Vista's Bayfront entertainment district, operating a full-service kitchen and craft bar with woodfired pizza, shareables, and Asian-inspired entrées. The patio and indoor dining room sit along the Bay Boulevard corridor leading to Chula Vista Marina, positioning the restaurant as a pre- or post-boating meal stop for the Bayfront's recreational traffic. The brand traces to 1989, when the first Sammy's Woodfired Pizza opened in La Jolla, introducing San Diego to 800-degree wood-burning pizza ovens that produce a signature thin, blistered crust. The menu extends well beyond pizza into Asian-inspired wok dishes — chicken lettuce cups with black bean-hoisin sauce, sesame-crusted ahi — plus hand-crafted pastas and entrée-sized salads built on locally sourced greens. That fusion breadth — spanning Neapolitan-style Margheritas through Korean-inflected proteins — differentiates Sammy's from single-cuisine concepts, including the dedicated tabletop Korean barbecue format at Manna BBQ. The woodfired oven reaches 800°F and chars the signature Arugula & Pear pizza — topped with prosciutto, Gorgonzola, sliced pear, and organic arugula finished with balsamic dressing — in approximately two minutes flat.