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Best Known For: Wide variety of upscale food offerings
Most Popular Item: Kobe beef burger, $13
Capistrano’s newest eatery has a lot to offer: A beautiful wood bar and matching dining tables over marble floors. A fireplace and two big-screen televisions. A second granite countertop, outdoors, with sweeping views of downtown San Juan Capistrano. Unquestionably, it’s enough to make you forget you’re in a movie theater. But that was Regency Theater President Lyndon Golin’s plan: To make those entering the second-floor of Rick’s Café feel like they were stepping into a scene from his favorite movie, Casablanca. There’s even a mural of Bogart—from the movie—in front of Rick’s, over the stairway. Rick’s serves beer and wine, as well as a selection of burgers—we had ostrich ($15)—salads and, another favorite, a three-cheese grilled cheese sandwich. The menu includes a wild mushroom and onion pizza ($13) and crispy batter halibut ($13.) The food is available from waiters in the upstairs VIP theater, but you can also enjoy Rick’s without buying a movie ticket.
Price Range: $6–$15
Payment: Cash or credit cards
Reservations: None
Hours: Varies, open with first showing of movie, typically 11 a.m., and until end of last showing.
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