DRVN by Porsche one-off pizza a hit over Icons of Porsche weekend

Icons of Porsche is not just about passion for sportscars, it is a celebration of UAE restaurants and their creativity.

There is no better example of this than the one-off, festival-only pizza developed by DRVN by Porsche.

The Porsche-themed café created the ‘Cayenne Pepper’ pizza specifically for this year’s festival.

Given the pizza was unveiled before Icons of Porsche but only available at the festival itself, it created a social media storm and drew many food lovers to the site to try the Cayenne Pepper pizza for themselves.

According to Rashed Al Fahim, the founder of DRVN by Porsche, the pizza was an outstanding success.

“From the feedback we’ve had across the festival weekend, it was definitely a fan favourite,” said Al Fahim.

“The pizza starts with a Neapolitan base sauce and we add Stracciatella, some hot honey, a really nice Spanish salami and of course the Cayenne peppers. There’s also some other ingredients I’m keeping secret but I'm drooling right now just thinking about it.”

Not only did DRVN by Porsche have two pizza and coffee stands on site at Icons of Porsche, it also hosted a range of community and media events across the festival week.

“Being a part of Icons of Porsche is an annual highlight for us because it mirrors everything we do at DRVN all year around, in terms of how the community comes together among cars and good food in a family environment,” said Al Fahim.

“Everybody shares the same passion whether it's food, coffee or cars, it's also the passion for Porsche. There's such a huge following in Dubai with classic, modern or just Porsche in general, whether you're going off road in a Cayenne or you're driving an air cooled classic, it's just a massive community.”

With Icons of Porsche primarily an evening and night time event, the DRVN by Porsche café hosted many Porsche enthusiasts from around the world for breakfast each day over the festival week.

As a result, many Porsche people met and chatted with like-minded car fans at the café over the course of the week.

DRVN by Porsche blends a Porsche-themed automotive gallery with a concept store and restaurant on Bluewaters Island in Dubai.

The café has an all-day dining concept with breakfast being a major drawcard for the cars and coffee crowds as well as pizza and a vast menu of food items to please most appetites.