BTS visited this Bay Area pizza spot ahead of sold-out Stanford shows
bts They’ve been making time in between their sold-out Stanford Stadium live shows to discover the Bay Area — and one native enterprise particularly received their hearts.
The Okay-pop boy band visited Vesta, a pizza spot in Redwood City, on Monday, May 11. V, the group’s vocalist identified for his love of pizza, later raved concerning the restaurant throughout BTS’ first live performance.
“Next time we’re at Stanford, we’ll eat that yummy pizza,” he informed the gang on Saturday, May 16, though he did not particularly name-drop the restaurant. “I think Stanford’s got the best pizza.”
Vesta co-owner Peter Borrone informed the Chronicle that though the band by no means explicitly recognized the eatery, BTS’ intelligent ARMY fan base acknowledged the group was speaking about his restaurant and messaged him.
“That was crazy for them to open up like that,” he stated. “They came in and they loved it… It was very random.”
Borrone, who opened Vesta 14 years in the past along with his spouse, Courtney, stated that the group got here with an entourage of safety and parked their SUVs down the road. They sat within the restaurant’s extra personal again eating room.
“They really enjoyed the food,” stated Vesta worker Luis Valbivia, who was engaged on Monday throughout their go to.
Valbivia famous that they ordered a number of pizzas together with three orders of Vesta’s common Sausage & Honey pie.
Borrone stated that the restaurant hadn’t posted on social media about BTS’ go to but in hopes the seven-member group would return earlier than their remaining present on Tuesday, May 19.
Vesta wasn’t the one native scorching spot the band has visited over the previous week.
Earlier final week, followers noticed BTS on the Hub Pickleball Club in San Jose. Several photos and videos shared to social media present members dressed down in basketball shorts, baseball caps and hoodies as they confronted off towards one another.
Then, on Saturday, Jin shared an instagram put up of himself consuming a churro and pretzel at California’s Great America. The put up additionally featured a number of photographs of him sitting on a bench close to the amusement park’s iconic double decker Carousel Columbia and in entrance of a number of curler coasters.
BTS — made up of Jung Kook, V, Jimin, Suga, RM, Jin and J-Hope — is within the center of their large world comeback tour that marks the band’s first full-scale return to performing since 2022. The seven-member group’s string of Stanford shows is its first Bay Area run since their 2018 “Love Yourself” tour cease in Oakland.
In assist of their new album, “Arirang,” launched on March 20, the tour strikes on to Las Vegas subsequent with stops additionally in Japan, Europe, the United Kingdom, Latin America and Australia.
ARMY members who did not have the prospect to snag tickets to BTS’ native shows will nonetheless have a possibility to attach with the group this fall, when RM’s personal art collection goes on show on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
“RM x SFMOMA” is about to open in October and can deliver 200 items from the musician’s private assortment to San Francisco for the primary time.
