Lucas Museum announces new restaurant inspired by Skywalker Ranch — and reservations are already open

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art connected Tuesday announced its flagship restaurant, Skywalker Grill, inspired by laminitis George Lucas’ celebrated Skywalker Ranch successful Marin County. The full-service edifice and barroom features classical American cuisine with California-sourced ingredients and is located astatine the apical of the depository with sweeping metropolis views. It volition beryllium unfastened for lunch, meal and play brunch, with hours that widen good past the museum’s closing. It’s named aft the Skywalker family, which is cardinal to Lucas’ “Star Wars” saga.

Dining is disposable to museum-goers arsenic good arsenic members of the nationalist without tickets, and reservations are present open.

“Skywalker Grill is simply a earthy complement to the Lucas Museum experience, offering an inviting abstraction for guests to link implicit large nutrient and speech earlier oregon aft visiting our galleries,” Lucas Museum Chief Executive Tracey Bates said successful a quality release. “We are arsenic excited for it to service arsenic a destination for Angelenos from crossed the metropolis to bask exceptional hospitality and beauteous surroundings.”

A marquee cook hasn’t been announced yet, but the edifice is operated by Rhubarb Events & Hospitality Collection, which is portion of the concern steadfast Oak View Group. It runs venues specified arsenic Coda and Kensington Gardens Bar wrong London’s Royal Albert Hall. Rockwell Group, which has worked connected restaurants including Nobu, Chicago’s the Hand & The Eye and Museo Casa Kahlo successful Mexico City, designed the restaurant. The eatery features Midcentury Modern touches with curved cherry wood walls and paneled ceilings, arsenic good arsenic illuminated achromatic onyx Corian surfaces.

Menu offerings see appetizers specified arsenic Dungeness crab cakes and lobster maize dogs, and entrées specified arsenic crispy chickenhearted Milanese, chromatic miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger. There volition besides beryllium house-made pastas and seasonal salads.

The depository has announced a slate of inaugural exhibitions, including 1 called “Star Wars successful Motion,” which features conveyance designs, high-speed racers, transport vehicles and flying vessels, arsenic good arsenic props, costumes and illustrations from the archetypal six films of Lucas’ famed franchise. These see Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder and the archetypal physique of General Grievous’ Wheel Bike from “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.”

The Lucas Museum opens to the nationalist Sept. 22.