But it’s certainly novel to downtown Delray Beach, and the building-which was six years in the making, three of which were spent just on securing approvals, in a process still hotly debated-already feels like a landmark off Southeast Fifth Avenue. Some of this is not new: Boca moviegoers have been enjoying iPic’s upscale brand of filmgoing for the past seven years. You’ll get complimentary popcorn with every purchase and, pretty soon, you’ll be able to order food, as well as tickets, in advance of your attendance, to ensure an even smoother night out. You’ll get the Pod seat, the pillow, the blanket, the blessed legroom, and the servers moving swiftly and dexterously to deliver food, which you can order at the punch of a button embedded in the movable table attached to your seat. Granted, this experience was tailored for us media folks, but it’s not far from what the average iPic ticket-buyer may enjoy when the cinema opens to the public today, March 7. I suspect most of us were plenty buzzed, not to mention stuffed from the Chef’s Tasting Plate that arrived soon after, with its buttermilk fried chicken, its lobster rolls, its filet mignon sliders, to care too much about the “content” unspooling onscreen. iPic’s “Southern Bird”Įventually, after about an hour and a half of speeches, videos, more appetizers and a magic show, a movie started-“Green Book,” still a middling Best Picture Winner, though it looked absolutely gorgeous up there-and it was practically beside the point. Throughout the evening, as soon as the ice began melting in our cocktails, another one materialized, keeping us all happy and lubricated, awash in the luxury of reclining seats and royal service. We had barely finished unwrapping our iPic-branded blankets that server ninjas swooped in, the first with a tray full of drink options, the second bearing passed hors d’oeuvres-mac and cheese bites, potato mushroom popovers. Reporters, bloggers, social-media influencers and gadflies were escorted into an auditorium, where we selected our own “Pod”-the iPic brand’s newly instituted wrap-around seat, designed to imitate the comfort of a living room. At the exclusive media dinner this past Monday at the brand-new iPic theater in Delray Beach, the pampering began right away.
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