The Killers, Jimmy Barnes and Axl Rose spotted dining at the same popular CBD restaurant this week
If it’s good enough for Axl Rose, Barnesy and now The Killers, this high-end Adelaide restaurant is good enough for us. Dinner, anyone?
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After touching down in Adelaide ahead of their Adelaide 500 shows, The Killers and Jimmy Barnes have been spotted dining at a popular CBD restaurant.
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was also spotted at the restaurant, Fugazzi Bar and Dining Room on Leigh Street, earlier this week.
Diners’ mouths were left agape as legendary musician Axl Rose and his entourage took a seat at an up-market CBD restaurant.
Customers were treated to a glimpse of the rock icon as he enjoyed a late meal on Monday night at around 9.30 ahead of the blockbuster Guns N’ Roses concert.
“There were some big smiling faces,” Laura Sharrad who co-owns the restaurant with her husband Max, said of Rose’s impact on her customers.
Mr and Mrs Sharrad had just three hours to prepare for the music legend’s arrival.
“Someone called just before dinner service saying that someone very important is flying in so all the staff were very curious,” Mrs Sharrad said.
But Rose was not shy about eating with all the other customers in the restaurant.
“I prepared this beautiful private space and he was like ‘nah, I’ll just sit right in the middle of the restaurant’, which I think was really, really cool,” Mrs Sharrad said.
But not everyone was starstruck by Rose.
“To be honest, none of the young kids really recognised him which was quite funny,” she said.
Rose began his meal with beluga caviar with waffles before chowed down on the $49 hand-rolled taglierini crab pasta (perhaps a nod to the name of their fourth album, The Spaghetti Incident?) with an unconventional pairing of french fries and tomato sauce.
His stay was relatively short as Rose had to rest before his concert the next night Mr Sharrad said.
“As Axl was leaving he said that he loved everything and he was a very generous tipper,” he said.
Mr Sharrad was impressed with Rose’s choices from their restaurant menu.
“He knows his food and he knows his wine,” he said.
“If I was in his shoes I probably would have eaten something similar.”
Fugazzi is used to having celebrities at their tables as in the past they have served up fresh dishes for Nigella Lawson, Jimmy Barnes and Cate Blanchett.
Rose’s love of pasta is well documented, with a leaked online rider from the band’s late eighties glory days containing demands for no less than three separate pasta dishes – angel hair pasta, pasta primavera and an order of fettuccine alfredo.
While backstage details from this week’s tour are still top secret, the Gunners are known for being a demanding act.
Rider requests over the band’s 35-plus year career have included an assortment of adult magazines, Camel filter cigarettes and honey and lemon tea.
Before their 2017 Adelaide Oval concert Rose reportedly made a last-minute demand to have a separate dressing room constructed on the opposite side of the stage to his bandmates’ facilities.
Adelaide production guru Peter Darwin told The Advertiser in 2020 that the request cost around $25,000.
“Axl spent three minutes in that room, at the most,” Mr Darwin said.
“It was one of the very few gigs I’ve ever heard of where Axl was actually early. The car drove him to his dressing room, he went in, changed his jacket, then walked to the stage to play.”
Drummer Frank Ferrer was also spotted at iconic East End clothing store Midwest Trader on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the big show.
It had been more than two and a half years since Adelaide Oval hosted a big international act, but Guns N’ Roses were ready to rock.
The legendary rock band arrived Monday night in a private jet just after 8.30pm and were greeted by more than 40,000 fans at the venue on Tuesday night. Read Tuesday night’s review here.
The band is the biggest music act to rock the Adelaide Oval since the pandemic, and last played here in 2017 – you can read our 2017 review here.
Their crew – made up of more than 100 people – were here for five days before the concert setting up the stage.
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