[Left to right: Cinema United’s Harry Medved with THE LOT’s Courtney Timlen]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cinema United staff recently visited the California-based luxury cinema chain THE LOT at its Liberty Station theatre-restaurant complex in San Diego, as they were getting ready for the summer season with brisk presales for Lilo & Stitch<\/em>, Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/em>, among other titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe do particularly well here with family-friendly films,\u201d\u00a0THE LOT Liberty Station General Manager Courtney Timlen\u00a0<\/strong>told Cinema United\u2019s Harry Medved. \u201cIt can turn into a full-day outing where families can escape to the movies for a shared cinematic adventure in our auditoriums and then savor their time together at our outdoor restaurant, ZENTRL Kitchen + Bar.\u201d Timlen, a proud graduate of San Diego State University, has been with the theatre chain for more than seven years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Liberty Station arts district and marketplace were built on the grounds of the former San Diego Naval Training Center and THE LOT rehabilitated the center\u2019s 1940s era Luce Auditorium, which showcased the latest Hollywood features, along with training movies, for the new recruits. The Luce\u2019s original oak stage, where Bob Hope and Jack Benny once provided the live wartime entertainment, is on view in the lobby along with a beautiful photo-mural of the original 2,200-seat theatre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today THE LOT Liberty Station takes advantage of balmy San Diego weather by inviting their moviegoers outdoors for a wide variety of innovative dishes & beverages at their open-air ZENTRL Kitchen + Bar, an expansive 5,00-square-foot lounge, bar and coffee island with a giant video wall and sliding glass walls looking out onto the plaza. The menu pulls together Mexican and Asian-inspired cuisine, with breakfast specialties like Croissant Chilando and Matcha Pancakes, and lunch and dinner bowls filled with Chicken Teriyaki and Citrus Lime Salmon. The same offerings are available via seat-side service within their six state-of-the-art auditoriums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The luxury cinema chain boasts 30 screens at 4 locations throughout the Golden State (San Ramon, Newport Beach, La Jolla, and San Diego\u2019s Liberty Station). Additionally, every year THE LOT hosts 600 public events and 400 private events. \u201cIt\u2019s important to make every part of the moviegoing experience memorable,\u201d says Daniel Fastlicht, Food and Beverage Manager for THE LOT. \u201cWe want our customers to feel like they\u2019ve experienced something unique and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Left to right: Cinema United’s Harry Medved with THE LOT’s Courtney Timlen] Cinema United staff recently visited the California-based luxury cinema chain THE LOT at its Liberty Station theatre-restaurant complex in San Diego, as they were getting ready for the summer season with brisk presales for Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":14867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,613,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-member-news","category-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n