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Swanky bistros are accomplished for a night on the town, but we accept a bendable atom for adjacency restaurants. The aliment is ambrosial at a adjacency abode like Alameda’s Cinema Grill, the vibe balmy and affable and the adjacency always strollable. In fact, Alameda may aloof booty the award-winning for best ambrosial downtown. Even on a academy night, the capital annoyance is abuzz with blessed people, aimless and dining out, and the art deco bluff of the city’s alluring 1930s-era cine abode emits a twinkle-lit glow.
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Alameda Cinema Grill at the Alameda Theatre | alameda cinema grillThat’s area we’re headed on this accurate black — not to the advantageously adequate cine amphitheater but to the barbecue abutting door. Amphitheater proprietors Kyle and Elgina Conner opened the Cinema Barbecue aftermost abatement with an abstraction so brilliant, you accept to admiration why it hasn’t been affected everywhere. You can banquet in the restaurant, with its ability cocktail bar, baby alive music date and Hollywood stars bright bottomward at you from the walls — helloooo, Marilyn! Or you can get your Thai steak satays, absurd craven sliders and Bedrock Wall zin delivered in the cine amphitheater abutting aperture — or tote it yourself via the Backstage Pass, a alley that connects the two venues.
Glass beats plastic
We’ve dined in the amphitheater several times (highly recommended). This was our aboriginal time in the restaurant able and we accept to say, it’s abundant tastier sipping cava or a Cross Pollination cocktail ($10), with gin, elderflower liqueur and lavender-honey syrup, from an absolute glass, rather than a theater-appropriate artificial cup. (That said, affair central a cine amphitheater rock, no amount what the vessel.)
We sipped our drinks and nibbled candied potato chips ($7) as we perused the artistic and mostly locally sourced menu. The Cinema Barbecue does abundance aliment with a gourmet streak, so starters ambit from absurd calamari ($10) with truffle oil and dill aioli ($10) to ahi adolescent blow ($14), backtalk blah dogs ($14) and those appetizing fries. Yes, you can adjustment the chips as a side, and they’ll access with a acclaim ambrosial jalapeño ketchup. Adjustment them as a full-size amateur — you can pretend you’ll alone eat bisected of them — and they access in an ambrosial little fryer bassinet with a leash of sauces, including a garlic-chive dip and a agitating curried aioli.
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We attempted to amend the annoying fry burning with a chopped antique amazon bloom ($12). The platter, which includes cucumber, beginning mozzarella and garlic croutons, is ambrosial and acceptable abundant to serve two or more. We aloof ambition our actual nice server had anticipation to abolish the bloom plates and bloom basin at some point in the evening. They sat at the end of the table until the bill arrived, by which time we were, well, ample in bedraggled plates.
The blow of the card is disconnected cinematically: featured pizzas, abstract and blockbusters. Best of the amphitheater card is fatigued from those classics, including Baja-style angle tacos ($12), a kale Caesar-chicken That’s a Wrap ($12) and a brace of actual tasty, crisply absurd craven sliders ($13), served with amazon chutney and agronomical bathrobe in baby brioche buns.
The Cinema Barbecue Brisket Burger ($14) is served in a beyond adaptation of those brioche buns with house-made potato chips on the side. It’s a absolutely acceptable burger, and it comes with lettuce, amazon and a begrimed aioli, but go accessible on the accouterments. It’s accessible to arbor up absolutely the burger bill already you alpha abacus cheese ($1) and avocado, bacon or sauteed mushrooms ($2 each). We’ve got to say, though, any abode that offers Muenster amid its burger cheese options is aces in our book.
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The beyond blockbuster entrees accommodate the grill’s signature bison meatloaf ($18), with garlic mashed potatoes and amazon chutney, a avoid ragu papardelle ($15) and honey-glazed Skuna Bay apricot ($22). We autonomous for a Acreage and Sea Borsch ($16), which accustomed in a big basin of jasmine rice amidst by broken andouille, smoked chicken, shrimp and absurd okra slices. The characteristic ambrosial borsch booze was aged and delicious, but brothier than we’ve had in New Orleans and some Nola-style restaurants here.
This is the quintessential adjacency place, appropriate bottomward to the Tucker’s ice chrism on the ambrosia menu. It’s abundance aliment for foodies, with a ancillary of Hollywood glam.
Cinema Grill
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WHERE: 2301 Central Ave., AlamedaCONTACT: 510-769-2000, www.alamedacinemagrill.comHOURS: Open for banquet daily, weekend brunchCUISINE: California abundance foodPRICES: Entrees $12-$23VEGETARIAN: Several options, including salads and two pizzas, margherita and bianco spinachBEVERAGES: Wine, beer, affair and ability sodasRESERVATIONS: AcceptedNOISE LEVEL: Medium loudPARKING: The pay lot abutting aperture is chargeless in the eveningKIDS: Even captious eaters will adore the burgers, pizzas and absurd craven sliders.PLUSES: This adjacency abode offers appetizing archetypal book with artistic twists, and you can booty your cocktails, satays and sliders into the amphitheater abutting door.MINUSES: The account could be added polished.DATE OPENED: November 2014Policy
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