
Florida drive-in restaurant featured in new Brad Pitt film goes up in flames
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A fire has destroyed a popular central Florida restaurant known for its burgers and fried chicken. Actor Brad Pitt was recently at the restaurant filming a movie.
Just before 6 a.m., a FOX 35 Orlando reporter said on X that crews told her the fire broke out in the attic around midnight and the structure was a total loss.
"It's a neighborhood staple. The New Smyrna Beach area, everybody knows Pappas Drive-In restaurant. It's a common place for everybody to come around and hang out," New Smyrna Beach Fire Lieutenant Adam Sarwi told FOX 35. "Has a lot of history to it. One of the oldest drive-in restaurants around … And that movie that was just filmed here a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, and so a lot of history here, so it's gonna be a lot of broken hearts for missing a neighborhood staple."