Star’s tick icing on the cake
Kiwi’s thrilled Scarlett Johansson describes her chocolate creation as best in the world
Scarlett Johansson says she has found the best chocolate cake in the world, in Lower Hutt. The international star has recently spent six months in New Zealand filming her new movie, Ghost in the Shell.
Johansson told E! News she ate healthily most of the time but had one guilty pleasure.
“There was this incredible place in Wellington called Zany Zeus that had the best piece of chocolate cake I’ve had in my entire life.
“So, it was worth the, like, 35-minute drive to get there . . . I was, like, I was on a mission.
“Give me that chocolate cake!” she told the entertainment news site.
Zany Zeus has been a familyowned business for 17 years in the Lower Hutt suburb of Moera.
It supplies cheese, organic milk, cream and cultured products but every Saturday morning a freshly made chocolate cake is also on the counter.
It swiftly disappears piece by piece, gobbled up by customers in the know.
Zany Zeus coowner Meropi Matsis said Johansson was treated like any one of those customers when she walked through the door. “She was really low key, really friendly and we just served her like we would our others and then she could just sit down and relax and eat whatever she purchased.”
Matsis said the Hollywood actor tried the ice cream and the savouries but there was a clear winner. “As we found out, her favourite was our chocolate cake.” Matsis said the star would always be with a bodyguard and sometimes brought her 3-year-old daughter, Rose Dorothy Dauriac, with her. Matsis said it was incredible to get a glowing endorsement from such a well-known star. “We’re thrilled, we think it’s just wonderful to get feedback like that. We pride ourselves on producing beautiful products. “Getting the endorsement from Scarlett Johansson is just like the icing on the cake really, isn’t it?”