So every Miami trip doesn’t even come close to being complete without a stop at Pizza Rustica in South Beach. Located in the heart of the party scene this place is insane on the weekend late nights and the first thing I did when I hopped off my flight at Miami International was drive here. After a check on their website tonight they have one open in West Hollywood on Sunset which I will be visiting promptly upon my return. Myself and Will Roegge are out here shooting a NOS TV episode at Hot Import Nights tomorrow and we are pumped up and ready to go. We swam a ton of laps in this crazy pool at our resort that changes colors from yellow/green/blue/red/purple with tons of lights within the pool. The thing always tripped me out a little when the pool went red for a minute. Here is my Yelp review of Pizza Rustica in South Beach:
This place is a must stop for me every time I come to Miami Beach. I prefer this one since it’s the original location and love to just order more food than I could ever eat and hope for the best. Once you cram into this New York sized place you will be greeted by a glass display full of pizza. Huge square sicilian style pizza ready for your order. A friend and myself ordered a Hawaiian slice, Pepperoni, and Sweet Sausage.
Three slices and drinks out the door for under $20 (which could feed three easily) and we sat down enjoying ourselves and people watching in the crazy part of South Beach. Each slice of pizza was top shelf as always which is a combo including minimal sauce and a ton of dough. It’s an interesting approach for pizza and it works, Pizza Rustica knocks it out of the park.
While eating someone spotted us for non locals and picked up that we could never finish these four huge slices among us. We brokered a deal to sell two squares for $1.00 so this man wouldn’t have to “wait in the long line he claimed” and we were happy to receive some return on our pizza investment. My buddy wanted to hang out and sell the rest of our leftover pizza but I was ready to check in to our hotel at this point. Our left over pizza didn’t make it to the trash can outside as a homeless person asked if he could finish it. Mission accomplished, we ate amazing pizza, people watched in South Beach, made a return on our pizza investment and fed the homeless all in twenty minutes.
No where else are you going to find this kind of silly entertainment while gorging yourself in delicious pizza. A+ for atmosphere, location, and taste by me. The only issue your going to run into is PARKING. Especially if it’s a weekend night note that this is a huge post night club scene here. This is the South Beach fourth meal (not Taco Bell) and things can get a little crazy. If your flying in for some food and Washington has no street parking my approach is always to go one block over onto Pennsylvania and park in the residential permit parking (illegally) and hope people take pity on me with my rental car decals! Even though parking will be a battle you will realize it was worth every moment of frustration when you step inside.
Now the huge appeal of moving to Los Angeles from Atlanta for me aside from the car industry, amazing food, and friends was by far the weather situation. Well I got shown by the weather God’s what is up by trying to live in paradise and escape the cold. Anything below about 65 degrees and I think I am going to die so not sure what is going on in Los Angeles. Plus the rain, I thought it never rained here people!? All these lies perpetuated to me from MTV reality shows! Hopefully when get back from Vegas it will have warmed up so I can get to work. I mean it’s even snowing in Malibu today!?
One of the most amazing places in the world is the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. With billions of dollars in investment capitol they are well on their way to build the largest building in the world set to open in September of 2009. DubaiLand will be the largest amusement park in the world as well once it is complete. Right now it is estimated that 25% of the world’s cranes are located in Dubai. Stylecrave did this cool piece focusing on the top 10 architectural wonders of Dubai.
Check out the Top 10 Architectural Wonders of Dubai:
We finally made it to Los Angeles and Urbanracer snagged the wrap up story of our cross country mission in the Infiniti G37. This photo above I took at White Sands, New Mexico after a good 2,000 miles on the trip. She doesn’t looks so bad considering we never stopped to was her off. We swung by Phoenix and hung out with Jarod DeAnda and his family in Phoenix for the evening as well which was a super blast.
Let me start off with saying that this was my favorite place in Los Angeles to eat before I lived less than a half mile from this place. Since being that close I might be changing my mailing address to this location because my goal is to take every person I have ever met to dine here.
Last night was my best experience to date at this place as well. Ordered a four cheese penne and ate away. I don’t think one time my glass got less than 75% full and it was refilled by a worker. Even though the place was full my order was taken right away and food came out promptly. For a moment, my chest started to stick out a little bit and I got a bit big headed. Perhaps the staff has mistaken me for some D list celebrity or something of that nature? The dining spot is a low key Hollywood dine spot so surely this was the case. Then I looked around and realized everyone else was getting stunning service…….
Then it occurred to me that I wasn’t the King of Hollywood at all but I was being treated at a restaurant with a staff that actually cares about customer service and it’s customers. This is one of the most rare things you can find a dining spot in Hollywood. If you wanted to be treated properly and eat amazing food then this is your spot. I cannot comment on parking because I walk to this location but it doesn’t seem like too much of a hassle.
When it is raining you can do delivery until 3:00am and it’s the best late night post club dining you will find in Hollywood with a great location. If you haven’t been to this place yet the only question to ask yourself is why not?
www.bossafood.com Yelp Review
Style: Brazilian
Neighborhood: Hollywood
7181 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 436-7999
I went to visit one of my favorite people I worked on the Slide America project this weekend before leaving for Vegas Drift. Our stop was at Livesockets Distribution to see Thuy as he held an open house for new his location in Santa Fe Springs. I picked up some videos while checking out the new operation including this WRC Final Stage DVD. I just finished watching this amazing DVD and got caught up on the end of the 2007 rally series. WRC is no longer aired on American television so this is the only way for rally fans to stay in tune with the series outside the Internet.
The DVD really got me pumpe about rally after watching the Japan stage which was just pure mayhem! Sebastian Loeb really put on a great show across all three stages until the end of Wales. Sadly WRC won’t be heading to Mexico in 2009 so I probably won’t be catching a round next year but I am pumped and cannot wait for Thuy’s 2008 DVD series to come out so I can stay in tune to everything going on in WRC.
The third of my more four installments is up over at UrbanRacer. We hit the Cadillac ranch in Texas, an abandoned hotel in New Mexico, and the open road. Don’t miss some great photos and memories I typed up in this article.
The latest PM Lifestyle project is called Luxury Vice where we feature and talk about cars over the $60,000 MSPR threshold. I am giving my personal blog readers an exclusive peak into the website. The homepage isn’t even live yet but we are building content daily so you can check it out and follow our progress here. Please throw any feedback to me in the blog comments or things you would like to see. Thanks for your support everybody!
Will Roegge flew out to Atlanta and came on the drive to Los Angeles and probably had no idea what he was getting himself into. Four days later we wound up in Los Angeles and I got moved into my new place already. He did a great job capturing some good memories of our travels except cut all the good stuff about aliens because he doesn’t believe in them…but Will is still good by me, he will believe one day. Check out the video and stay peeled to UrbanRacer as more of the story goes live soon.
For day two we rolled out of Mississippi and found this abandoned motel called the Journey Motel Court and did a mini photo shoot that is on Urbanracer.
This photo I snapped on a local highway in Arkansas as we detoured and explored around Little Rock, Arkansas.
Then in Oklahoma we caught the sunset right off I-40 and camped out for the night. Day 3 of the trip we really hit the open roads and have some fun in our G37 which is right around the corner. To read the full day two story just head on over to UrbanRacer.com or click this link: http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=3568&z=2
