- I'm Janae Price, and welcome to 'Ride With Me'.
The show where we talk to people we love.
- This is my best friend.
Oh, you're so tough.
(dog barking)
- [Janae] About the places they love.
- [Carmella] They have Prosecco on tap here.
- Today, we're catching up with WWE wrestler Carmella.
Do you get extremely competitive?
- I'm very competitive.
I like to win.
- [Janae] We're gonna get her recommendations
for Pittsburgh.
And of course, I'll be heading there myself
to check them out.
So come along, and ride with me.
Hi Carmella.
- Hello.
- I am really digging-
Are you in your closet?
- It's like a, I call it a "cloffice".
It's a closet/office.
Yes.
- Can you tell me where you're going to be taking us today?
- I'm gonna be taking you guys
to my favorite spots in Pittsburgh.
My husband is from Pittsburgh and I was living
in Fort Lauderdale, and he has three kids.
I now have three stepchildren.
So in order for us to stop doing long distance,
one of us had to move.
And of course with him having the three kids,
I had to up and move from Fort Lauderdale
to now living in Pittsburgh.
And I've been here for about two and half years.
And I have to say, I have fallen in love with the city,
despite it being absolutely miserable in the winter.
There's no sunshine, it's dark
and gray and gloomy and absolutely miserable.
And I think anyone that lives here will agree
with me on that,
but this time of year, oh my gosh.
It's just so amazing and beautiful.
And I just love it.
- [Janae] So where are we heading to first?
- First up is North Shore Tavern.
I love the North Shore Tavern.
I mean, I'm gonna say this
about every place that I'm taking you today
but North Shore Tavern is just,
there's nothing like this place.
First of all, it's right across from PNC Park
- Go pirates.
Woo!
- I mean, I'm not a Pirates fan.
I'm a Red Sox fan, but the park itself is beautiful.
And the atmosphere over there is great,
especially when there's a game happening.
- [Janae] Got the New York strip on a bone.
On a stone is on a bone.
- They're famous for steak on a stone.
So they have these hot stones that they bring over
and you basically sear your own steak,
and it's the best tasting steak I've ever had.
So it's like a meal, but it's also an activity.
It's fun!
- [Janae] Oh, great. Okay.
- Yep.
- [Janae] Well, thank you so much.
So I'm curious, how do you like your steak?
- So I'm more of a medium girl.
Sometimes I'm like medium rare, but more of a medium.
I like a little bit of pink.
I'm not too particular about it.
As long as it's not very well done, then I'll eat it
- [Janae] And let's dip it in some sauce.
Mmm! Oh!
Oh, wow!
- So I like to get scallops with my steak,
a little surf and turf.
And they have these really awesome pretzels that we get
for an appetizer, like little pretzel sticks.
They're so good in the mustard
you dip them into.
Amazing.
- I'll take this.
Bye No Shore.
My little ducky friend.
- Next up, we're headed to the Warren.
So, we went to the Warren all the time
during the pandemic because we would get takeout from there.
We'd get sushi,
and they have a little bottle shop attached to it.
So we'd get wine, and beer, and whatever you could get
especially like a lot of local stuff, which I love.
- [Janae] Hi! - How's it going?
- [Janae] Good. How are you?
Good, I'm Spencer.
- [Janae] Janae.
- [Both] Nice to Meet you.
And the owner of it, Spencer,
He's awesome.
He always like, you know, knew us when we walked in
he just made us always feel very welcome.
It was like a staple,
for us, during the pandemic.
And the food there is incredible!
Once the pandemic was sort of lightening up,
and the rules were getting lifted,
we could actually go in and sit down and enjoy dinner there.
- Anytime someone orders a shot, we ring it.
- I'm not a musician though.
- [Janae] That's so cool.
What are you getting to drink there?
Like what's your go to
- Usually Prosecco.
That's my go-to drink anywhere.
I'm just a Prosecco girl.
- [Janae] What are you getting to eat on the menu?
- I'm getting, I think it's called the Spicy Señorita.
The sushi is so bomb.
It's like a yellow tail fish with some, like a jalapeño,
and I forget what else.
Sriracha on top.
It's so good.
They also have amazing Buffalo cauliflower
and a good burger too.
It's weird.
You would think, you know, sushi, but a burger,
but they're, they do it all.
They're so good.
- Bye! Have a good night.
Ahh, it's raining!
Where to next?
- Next, Coop De Ville.
Coop De Ville is amazing.
It is so much fun.
It's more than just a bar and restaurant.
It's like an arcade.
It's the first time I've seen anything
like this in my adult life.
I guess I just haven't been out much,
but it's really so fun.
And they have, you know,
like a duck pin bowling and all these arcade games.
- Uuuh!
- All right, well.
- But my favorite part of Coop De Ville,
is they have a champagne vending machine.
- [Janae] There it is.
- I know like, wooo!
- I know it's like, ahhh!
- It really is. It calls to me.
- [Carmella] It's, it's amazing.
It is a full vending machine with bottle, like mini bottles
of champagne.
And they give you a straw and you just stick the straw
right in the bottle.
I'm like, this is the best invention,
I've ever seen in my life.
- [Janae] Would you mind helping a lady pop her bottle?
- Certainly.
- [Janae] Thank you. - Yeah, you're welcome.
- We've gone with some of our friends, our adult friends,
but we also it's great because we bring my step kids too.
So we bowl with them.
I can take a little detour to the champagne vending machine.
And it's fun for everybody.
I mean, we have a blast with the kids there too,
because they have all these games that they've never seen.
I mean, they don't even know what this is.
So we're like teaching them and showing them like
this is what we used to play.
- [Janae] Do you get extremely competitive?
- Yes. I'm so competitive.
Even with my step kids, I'm like, no, I'm gonna beat you.
Like, I'm not trying to be like, oh, I'm gonna let them win.
Sometimes I use that as an excuse, if I don't win.
I'm very competitive.
I like to win.
And so does my husband,
so we're always like butting heads, like-
"Can for once?
Can you just let me win?
Like just one time."
- Gooal!
I know that we've got the Money
in the Bank title and the SummerSlam.
How are you preparing for those events?
- So these are two of our biggest events of the year.
The Money in the Bank match is huge.
I hope I get to be a part of it.
We don't know who the participants of the match will be yet,
but if you win this match, you get to use this contract,
that's in the briefcase,
to
cash in
for an opportunity to win
the Raw or Smack Down Women's Championship.
For me, there was the very first Women's
Money in the Bank match in 2017.
And I actually won that.
So I would love the opportunity to get
into this match again this year.
So I can become a three time Money in the Bank winner.
- [Janae] I want that for you.
Thank you so much.
Have a good day.
Let a pedestrian go!
And, we're back.
- Next up Salty Paws.
It's the first dog ice cream shop in Pittsburgh.
I think my, maybe even in the state of Pennsylvania
it is basically like an ice cream shop, but for dogs.
We walk in and they have tons
of dog bones, treats.
The owners now,
every time I walk in, they're like,
"Pancake, how are you?"
He's like the mayor of Pittsburgh.
I mean, everyone knows him everywhere we go.
- Is Pancake around right now?
I would love to see him.
- Oh my gosh, he might be.
Pancake!
- We wrangled him.
- Say hi. - [Janae] Hello!
Hi, Pancake.
- Who is that? (dog barks)
- This is my best friend.
Oh, you're so tough.
(dog barks loudly)
- This is the birthday boy.
- [Janae] This is the birthday boy?
Happy birthday, yes, gimme a sniff.
- [Carmella] You can sample the ice cream.
So we, first time we took him in, he
I wanted to see which kind he would like.
So I'm like, well, I would like maybe the banana.
I gave it to him, he didn't eat it.
But we've come to learn
that he's obsessed with the cheddar cheese flavor.
- Oh, there's the cheddar cheese.
- He loves cheddar cheese, ice cream.
And then they have a topping bar.
So you can top it with different biscuits
and treats and they crumble 'em up and put 'em on top.
It's the best invention ever.
I can't even believe that this
I didn't know this, something like this existed.
- Bye guys.
- Thank you.
- And, finally, Bar Botanico.
Bar Botanico, obsessed.
They have Prosecco on tap here.
So I have to get the Prosecco there, because it's on tap.
It's even smoother.
It's cold, it's incredible.
It's really small and intimate in there,
which I really like.
You can just tell that the bartenders there,
like my husband will say, "make me something with bourbon,"
and they whip him up some fancy cocktail.
- [Janae] Ooh, that's fun.
I really like a tequila.
- Your service is just really, really good,
but it's so intimate,
I really like that.
You feel like you're just kind of in your own little world
- Speaking of drinks,
I hear that you have your own
wine line.
- I do.
I have a wine company called Capo Cagna.
We have a Chardonnay, a Cabernet, and a Rosé.
So I'm just starting out small, one of each.
It's hard for me to know what wine tastes good
that isn't gonna break the bank.
I mean, obviously I'm a little biased
because it's my wine, but it tastes great.
And it, you know, it's not gonna break the bank.
It's all affordable, 20 bucks or less,
but you still feel a little bougie when you're drinking it.
So, it's the best of both worlds.
- Well, thank you so much
for taking us through Pittsburgh today.
It was amazing talking to you.
- Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me.
- [Janae] Yo, I got back of the knee sweat right now.
I'm tipsy.
I'm so tipsy right now.
I'm so tipsy.
Oh. Oh! -[Woman] That's what he wanted.