Sal's Neighborhood Pizzeria

A Boxer's Kitchen, Brought to the Island

Sal Cenicola was a New Jersey boxer who traded the ring for a brick oven — and brought his family's Italian recipes to coastal Georgia. This is how a neighborhood joint becomes the one you keep coming back to.

Sal Cenicola, Fighter Turned Cook

Sal grew up in New Jersey making food the way his family made it — from scratch, with recipes that didn't need improving. When he landed on St. Simons Island, he didn't open a restaurant concept; he opened his kitchen to the neighborhood.

The Recipes Nobody Touched

The Pomodoro and Bolognese sauces on the menu today are the same ones from Sal's family — inherited, perfected, and stubbornly unchanged. You don't mess with something that's already right.

Made to Order. Worth Every Minute.

Every pizza comes out of a brick oven, made fresh when you order it. That's not a caveat — it's the whole point.

Red Walls, Boxing Gloves, Sinatra

Family photos, vintage boxing posters, Italian memorabilia — it took years to accumulate and it shows. Feels less like a restaurant and more like somewhere you've been before.

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