This report presents a location scout report for Scene Number 76, an interior restaurant scene located off of a plaza in Italy. The location chosen to film this interior scene is the restaurant known as "21 Oceanfront." The restaurant, as is evident on the attached description from the California Film Commission Cinema Scout (2003), is found in Orange County at 2100 West Ocean Front, Newport Beach, California, 92663. The interior of the restaurant, which is set in a coastal landscape, is described as an upscale tavern matching the period from 1930 through 1960.
The restaurant is located within the confines of a shopping mall. It can be entered at street level, through selected stores, via the mall, or on a walkway. It has beamed ceilings ranging in height from 8 to 12 feet, an exposed kitchen with brick windows, a long bar area with stools, and several dining rooms on multiple levels. The walls are wood paneled and exterior features include multiple stories, awnings, casement and floor to ceiling windows. Photographs of the interior and exterior of the facility are attached.
The contact person for the restaurant is listed as Jeannie Lawrance, who can be reached at (949)-673-2100. Rental rates for the restaurant were described by a representative of the company as flexible, depending upon time and day of the week, length of rental, amount of square footage to be rented, use of on-site electricity and other facilities, and any other requirements which might be included in the location rental contract.
Parking in the mall parking lot is extensive and readily available. The site has been used for interior films on several different occasions, and thus power availability is seen as acceptable. Despite the fact that this restaurant is a relatively modern interior in terms of dTcor, it covers a sufficiently broad decorative period to work well for the proposed script. Aesthetically, it would be neces...