Lo \u00faltimo que me atraer\u00eda a la mundialmente popular Sugar Factory American Brasserie ser\u00edan las celebridades que lucrativamente prestan sus nombres al lugar. Aunque para muchos, todo lo que se necesita es que los miembros de la familia Kardashian o raperos como Pitbull y Nick Cannon aparezcan ocasionalmente, y esos establecimientos se elevan a la cima de las listas de deseos de las personas.
\nI was drawn instead by the prospect of seeing a matinee movie in the lap of luxury, and then washing down some hearty American-style fare with a cold milkshake \u2014 all within a single address. Which led me precisely to 701 Fifth Ave. in the Gaslamp Quarter. It\u2019s where TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles opened a massive complex last year housing an eight-screen cineplex gives you all the amenities of flying first class on an international flight. For a price, of course.
\nOn the ground floor is a bright and spacious candy shop that leads into the quasi-glitzy Sugar Factory, the anchor tenant of Las Vegas origin that has expanded to 25 cities worldwide. The restaurant is where you can score colorful cocktails served in big, bulbous goblets, outrageous burgers stacked dramatically high, and “insane” milkshakes festooned with candies and other confections. Your indulgences take place among a brand-oriented crowd serviced by efficient wait staffers seemingly trained to not pull any disappearing acts.
\nMy midday outing kicked off upstairs in the Theatre Box with Jordan Peele\u2019s new horror film “Us.” Because I\u2019m not a frequent moviegoer, at least for mainstream films, the luxury-cinema concept feels like a forbidden pleasure. Here, in these exceptionally acoustic theaters, a separate kitchen is utilized for making you everything from appetizers and salads to sushi rolls, burgers, sandwiches and Sugar Factory\u2019s swooped-up desserts. It\u2019s basically an abbreviated menu of the brasserie.
\nPresiono t\u00edmidamente el bot\u00f3n de servicio primero para las bolas de malta. Luego lo presion\u00f3 nuevamente 30 minutos despu\u00e9s para obtener una canasta de palomitas de ma\u00edz con jalape\u00f1o y queso cheddar, que incluso para este peso pesado de alimentos picantes era demasiado picante.
\nEn cuanto a la pel\u00edcula, sobre una familia de vacaciones aterrorizada por versiones zombis de s\u00ed mismos, encontr\u00e9 su direcci\u00f3n formulista y artificial. Si no hubiera sido por mi asiento reclinable ultra c\u00f3modo, nunca habr\u00eda llegado al final sangriento y recocido de la pel\u00edcula.
\n(Nota para los que se preocupan por el presupuesto: todas las pel\u00edculas en Theatre Box los martes cuestan solo $5 por persona. De lo contrario, est\u00e1n entre $15 y $18).
\nThe vibe turned considerably more cheerful when I descended into the Sugar Factory. Smartphone cameras were used rapid-fire. Oblong plates of “rainbow” beef sliders showing off their dyed buns occupied several tables. And a nearby party of eight spooned into a “King Kong” sundae, an eye-popping $99 creation with donuts and candy affixed to it.
\nUn taz\u00f3n de sopa de cebolla francesa salada fue mi mediocre preludio de dos deliciosos platos, la mayor\u00eda de los cuales ya hab\u00eda pensado llevarme a casa como sobras para la cena esa noche.
\nNo sab\u00eda que el club de la casa de tres pisos por s\u00ed solo podr\u00eda haberme sostenido durante tres comidas posteriores. Cada cuarto parec\u00eda un s\u00e1ndwich entero con sus capas distendidas y coloridas de pechuga de pavo de buena calidad, tocino crujiente, lechuga romana, tomates maduros, queso cheddar, provolone y aguacate. Enterrados en alg\u00fan lugar del interior hab\u00eda pepinillos encurtidos y una sabrosa mayonesa de hierbas.
\nEl pescado y las papas fritas que tambi\u00e9n ped\u00ed fueron los mejores que he probado en mucho tiempo. Hecho con bacalao, la masa era ligera y se adhiri\u00f3 uniformemente a los filetes, y la carne del interior estaba h\u00fameda y esponjosa. Es uno de los pocos platos sencillos en el men\u00fa, junto con fettuccine Alfredo, espagueti con alb\u00f3ndigas y bistec con papas fritas, que tiene una gran tentaci\u00f3n porque presenta carne de res asada con ajo y tomillo.
\nLuego vino el batido, un espect\u00e1culo de pl\u00e1tano y Nutella servido en un vaso alto recubierto por fuera con chocolate y chispas de arco\u00edris. Lo siento, Scott Disick (ex novio de Kourtney Kardashian, quien promocion\u00f3 el debut de Sugar Factory en San Diego el a\u00f1o pasado), no despertaste mi gusto por lo dulce como lo hizo esta cosa. De hecho, todos los batidos y sundaes aqu\u00ed son motivo de emoci\u00f3n y seguramente atraer\u00edan multitudes de consumidores sin personalidades de la televisi\u00f3n y m\u00fasicos apareciendo para ser fotografiados chupando pajitas y piruletas.
\nBut hey, if vicarious stardom is your fantasy, the Sugar Factory goes above and beyond to accommodate that. In a more classic way, so does Theatre Box, which greets with hallway photographs of movie stars dipping their hands and feet in wet cement in front of Mann\u2019s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. \u2014Frank Sabatini Jr. is the author of “Secret San Diego” (ECW Press), and began his local writing career more than two decades ago as a staffer for the former San Diego Tribune. You can reach him at fsabatini@san.rr.com. Sugar Factory American Brasserie
\n701 Fifth Ave. (Gaslamp Quarter)
\n619-814-2225, www.sugarfactory.com
\nPrices: Appetizers, $7 to $28; soups and salads, $9 to $28; sandwiches and burgers, $12 to $19; pasta dishes and entrees, $16 to $49; sundaes and milkshakes, $8 to $31; daily brunch plates, $10 to $28<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last thing that would ever lure me into the globally popular Sugar Factory American Brasserie would be the celebrities who lucratively lend their names to the place. Though for many, all it takes is for members of the Kardashian family or rappers like Pitbull and Nick Cannon to occasionally show up, and such establishments […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":274126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Terror, lunch and a crazy milkshake at Sugar Factory American Brasserie","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}