{"id":7596,"date":"2010-04-05T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:17:37","slug":"elton-john-inspires-new-cape-town-rocket-man-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/elton-john-inspires-new-cape-town-rocket-man-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John inspires new Cape Town “Rocket Man” pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On the day before Sir Elton John’s 63rd birthday in Cape Town on 25 March, he expressed a wish to eat pizza after his first concert at Kirstenbosch.\u00a0 He received an order from little-known pizzeria Ciao Amici in Bergvliet, which has renamed its most popular pizza “Rocket Man” in honour of their most famous customer ever, reports the Sunday<\/strong> Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The 16 pizzas he ordered to the value of R 1 490 were described by Sir John as\u00a0the best pizza he has ever eaten,\u00a0and therefore the house specialty pizza with rocket, mushrooms, peppers, salami, sun-dried tomatoes and mozarella will be renamed “Rocket Man”, according to the owner Alan Pluke.<\/p>\n

Sir John and his partner David Furnish stayed in the presidential suite of the One&Only Cape Town, where he was spotted eating sushi and a club sandwich.\u00a0\u00a0 On Tuesday 23 March a R 10 000 a head function was held at the hotel for the Elton John Aids Foundation, which was also attended by One&Only owner Sol Kerzner, Francois Pienaar, and Annie Lennox, who was a surprise performer at\u00a0Sir John’s concert on the following day, singing ‘Daniel’ to great acclaim from the rain-drenched audience.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the day before Sir Elton John’s 63rd birthday in Cape Town on 25 March, he expressed a wish to eat pizza after his first concert at Kirstenbosch.\u00a0 He received an order from little-known pizzeria Ciao Amici in Bergvliet, which has renamed its most popular pizza “Rocket Man” in honour of their most famous customer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,20,21],"tags":[4069,4070,4066,32378,4067,4065,4071,783,88,1094,3322,4068,252,4064,508,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t