As proprietors of the famed Time Market, the Carlino family has been serving Santa Clara valley with the finest foods available since 1950. The Time Market served the community with produce, fresh meats and gourmet grocery items not available anywhere else. The market was known as much for the friendly and personalized service as it was for the quality and uniqueness of the merchandise. (Learn more about the Time Market and the extraordinary legacy of the Carlino family.)

Sam Carlino, Sr. sold his share of the business to his brother Joe in 1979, who later sold the market to the Jussen family. The shop is still in operation today as the Time Deli.

Sam Carlino, Jr. began his food career at age 8, helping his father make Italian sausage in the Time Market meat department, and later became a journeyman meat cutter for Zanotto's Market.

In 1992, father and son opened Sam's Bar-B-Que on Bascom Avenue, and have since continued the Carlino tradition of excellence in the food industry.

Sam's Bar-B-Que offers a wonderful array of barbeque meats from regions across the country. We use only the freshest ingredients, and all of our meats are slow-cooked with real wood-fired smoke that locks in the flavor and seals in the meat's natural juices.

• You won't find the 'boiling barbeque' at Sam's. Many BBQ restaurants will actually BOIL their ribs and then try to pass them off as Genuine BBQ by slapping barbeque sauce on them and re-heating them on a char-grill. Yuk! Real barbeque fans know and can taste the difference.
  
• Sam's Bar-B-Que uses only USDA Choice meats.
  
• We grind our own hamburger meat from USDA Choice cuts of chuck.
  
• We make our own homemade Italian sausage, using fresh pork.
• We cut all of our steaks by hand from USDA Choice cuts of rib-eye.
• Our Baby Back Ribs are specially ordered to be extra meaty and extra big.
• Those same Baby Back Ribs turn a pinkish color due to the hours of slow cooking in our BBQ ovens.
• Our Carolina-style Pulled Pork is slow smoked 16 hours and enlivened with authentic Carolina seasoning.
• We slow smoke our USDA Choice Prime Rib every Friday and Saturday night.
• Our chicken is marinated in our own homemade salsa blend and stuffed under the skin to lock in the southwest flavor.
• We pour award-winning wines from local vintners around the Bay Area.
• We won First Place in the Santa Clara County Firefighters Chili Cool-Off with our All Meat Red Chili.
• We can cater your corporate or private event for any amount of guests.

Have you fallen in love with our housemade BBQ Sauce? Now you can take home the rich, smokey flavor of our delicious bar-b-que sauce, voted Best BBQ Sauce by Home Magazine, and pour a little bit of that Sam's goodness on your home dinners.

Come on by the restaurant and pick up a bottle! Our yummy BBQ Sauce can also be found in the following local stores: