restaurant review 10070 SAN PABlO AvENuE IN El CERRITO | 510-273-9102 (ThEATER) 510-528-8759 (WINE BAR) Rialto Cinemas® Cerrito: El Cerrito’s Home Town Movie Theater (PS: Have you SCENE their Wine Bar?) If you’ve been looking for a place (other than your family room!) where you can enjoy dinner, a movie, and even a pleasing glass of wine to end the evening, here’s a perfect suggestion! Rialto Cinemas® Cerrito, conveniently located on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito between Central and Fairmount Avenues, offers much more than standard theater concession fare to enjoy inside the theater while watching movies. Afterwards, patrons can conveniently enter SCENE, a petite, classy wine bar, directly from the theater lobby. There, they can enjoy a night cap, and even a late night snack. 34 MARKETPLACEcontracosta.com December 2015 rialtocinemas.com/cerrito Rialto Cinemas® Cerrito was opened in July 2009 by business partners Ky Boyd and Michael O’Rand in July 2009. Formerly known as the Cerrito Theater, the building originally opened in 1937, but went out of business in the 1950s. For some years thereafter, the theater building was used as a storage warehouse for nearby Kiefer’s Furniture store, until it also went out of business. In 2006, the theater was revived through the collective efforts of the City of El Cerrito Redevelopment Agency and the Friends of the Cerrito Theater. As a result, the original art deco murals, mirrors, etchings, and artwork from the original RIBEyE PhO hEIRlOOM TOMATOES ANd BuRRATA by vickie lewis
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