Rappelling pizzas from three stories up, he turned his Oslo balcony into a viral food spot | CNN

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … pizza? Lowering orders down in a basket from the edge of his Oslo apartment, Petter Gran does not even have to leave the comfort of his own home to run Pizza From a Balcony, a makeshift restaurant that has sated hundreds of appetites throughout the Norwegian capital and rumbled millions more stomachs across the internet. Recent viral fame has stemmed from characteristically spontaneous beginnings. In August 2024, Gran was mindlessly watching his brother and father build a table for his balcony when he realized he could hear every word of the conversations between passersby below. Turning his gaze to his adjacent pizza oven, a favorite pastime, and then back to his DIY-extraordinaire sibling, the freelance consultant settled on his next side project in seconds, pitching airborne pizza sales to his brother on the spot. “He said, ‘Oh, that’s a great idea,’” Gran, 30, recalled to CNN. “He went home the next weekend and built the pulley system without telling me.” “I’m pretty impulsive and I get bored a lot,” Gran added. “I’m also quite impatient, so I like to just jump from fun thing to fun thing.” Plastering posters a