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Fire guts San Diego eatery featured in ‘Top Gun’
Landmark restaurant, where Tom Cruise sang to Kelly McGillis, destroyed
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Fire at 'Top Gun' famed restaurant June 27: San Diego's 'Kansas City Barbecue' goes up in smoke. The restaurant was featured in the movie 'Top Gun.' Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. msnbc.com |
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updated 9:13 a.m. ET June 27, 2008
SAN DIEGO - The restaurant where Tom Cruise crooned to Kelly McGillis in the movie “Top Gun” has been gutted by a fire in San Diego.
A cook at Kansas City Barbecue says the blaze started Thursday in an open cooking pit and spread quickly to the rest of the restaurant’s interior.
San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque says the landmark restaurant is “destroyed.”
But no one was hurt and the fire was extinguished in about 20 minutes.
A sign in the restaurant notes that the 1986 movie’s “sleazy bar scene” was filmed there.
Luque estimates the damage at $400,000, not including the cost of photographs and props from the film.
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