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Health & Fitness

The Alamo Drafthouse, a 6-Screen Movie Theatre and Eatery, Opens

Movie viewing, meals (entrées, snacks and desserts) and beverage service all come together under one roof at the six-screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The entertainment center opened this week in Yonkers on Central Park Avenue.

The new venture brings "Texas flare" eating to this area, Chef Lupe Gutierrez said. "I have yet to find a place up here in New York that serves a chips and queso quite like ours," he mentioned. "Some of my favorite menu items include our white bean hummus and our tomato and basil pesto pizza.”

Gutierrez added, "The food ranges from American classics like pizza, burgers and sandwiches, to hearty salads and wraps, to creamy milkshakes or liquor versions for adults and a weekend brunch menu featuring Mexican frittatas and crème brulèe French toast."

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The menu includes a green chile queso blanco, eight different hamburgers (including one made with prosciutto and goat cheese) and baked-to-order, oven-warm cookies. 

The Yonkers' Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, part of a chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, has 32 beers on tap, about one-half of which are supplied by local New York breweries including the Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford and the Yonkers Brewing Co. "We tried to find a balance between beers people know and love with less familiar offerings," General Manager Doug Bowmen said.

Customers can order food and drinks including beer and wine from their seats before and during film watching but are asked to observe the house's strict no-talking, no-texting rules. The narrow wood tables that stretch in front of the stadium-style, graduated-level rows of seats provide room for the placing of food and beverages.

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Enduring classics, new releases and documetaries are scheduled. August selections include the 2013-film Downloaded (based on the unraveling of the music-providing company Napster) Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Squirm with its director Jeff Lieberman in attendance, and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy. 

Reserved seating is available. Customers are instructed to arrive 30 minutes before a film begins. Food and beverage requests are written on order cards collected by the servers and orders can be placed at all times.Job openings are available for kitchen staff, bartenders and servers. Employment applications can be downloaded at http://drafthouse.com/careers

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has the same parking lot as the Pathmark supermarket; it is located behind the Burlington Coat Factory and Best Buy. It can be reached by taxi from the Scarsdale Metro North train station located about a mile away.

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is at 2548 Central Park Avenue (Route 100) in Yonkers. 914-226-3082. 

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