"Top Gun" restaurant catches fire
SAN DIEGO (AP) - June 27, 2008 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.
