Winnipeg pizzeria becomes unexpected hotspot for Hollywood celebrities
Posted December 5, 2025 5:14 pm.
Last Updated December 6, 2025 12:48 pm.
Vera Pizza has been a staple for people in South Osborne for 11 years, but recently it has become a hub for Hollywood stars. Over the past few months, a slew of celebrities in town for various shoots have stopped by to try the pizza.
“Yeah, it’s cool, surprising. I guess it’s an acknowledgement of, like, somewhere that they would want to eat in Winnipeg,” said Terik Cabildo, owner of Vera Pizza. “The first one was in early September; it was Jared Harris and Joe Pantoliano, and I showed up late to work and I had no idea they were here, but other people in the dining room were kind of aware of them, so there was kind of that feeling.”
Once Cabildo realized who was dining in his restaurant, he knew he had to get a photo with the celebrities.
“I recognized them, I couldn’t think of their names right off the bat, so I quickly ran outside and got a photograph with them, because I knew who they were. I just couldn’t think of their names at the moment, but I knew they were actors,” said Cabildo.
And the excitement at Vera was just getting started. A little more than a month later, Cabildo received a message from a California phone number asking to book a private party. The sender was Adam Arkin, director and producer of the new TV series American Hostage, currently filming in Winnipeg and starring Jon Hamm.
“So they asked for a dinner, and we agreed to that, and then we kind of privately looked up who was going to be in the show, and it was Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi were the mains, so we thought they’d be at the dinner, and sure enough they were,” said Cabildo.
Cabildo says that when he first opened the pizza joint in South Osborne, he never expected to be serving Hollywood’s finest. But he’s relishing the chance to show what his restaurant, and Winnipeg as a whole, has to offer.
“I think we think of Winnipeg as, like, this place in the middle of nowhere, our little own secret, so it’s kind of cool that these super famous people are here,” said Cabildo.
