Thursday, March 28

Once Hungry, U.S. Couple Start a Pizza Business on Their Boat in St. Thomas

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This is just too good a story to miss – all about an American couple who left their successful jobs in the U.S. and are now running a floating take-out pizza business on their boat in the Virgin Islands. They love it; so does their baby.

More than a decade ago, Sasha Bouis was a MIT engineering grad working on Wall Street. He wanted something else, so he quit and moved to the Caribbean. Tara Bouis was teaching school in Anderson, Indiana. She too decided there was more to life, and she too moved to the Caribbean, where she taught Scuba diving in the BVI.

Sasha and Tara got together, fell in love, and ran a yacht charter business for eight years, until one night, sitting on their boat at anchor, they got hungry. They particularly got hungry for a New York-style pizza. And a business was born.

They went to pizza school in New York (who knew?). They found an old abandoned boat in Antigua that would serve as their floating kitchen, and brought it back to Christmas Cove in St. Thomas. They fitted it out with a pizza oven and all the works, and opened for business just over two years ago. And they hit a home run. TripAdvisor says that Pizza Pi is the best restaurant in the U.S. Virgins.

Now, if you’re near St. Thomas, you can hail them on VHF Channel 16, or simply cruise over to Pizza Pi. (You go to them; they don’t come to you.) Their menu is on pizza-pi.com. But here’s a really fun video about their story:

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