Central Cinema

The CD, Madrona & Madison Park


Welcome to a bona fide dine-in cinema. What might be par for the course in Portland, OR, is a rare sight in Seattle, which makes this small neighborhood movie house in the CD all the more precious. The food consists of relatively simple pizzas, but it’s backed up by some decent local microbrews. Movies range from screwball comedies to Japanese docs and indie hits.


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Nearby The CD, Madrona & Madison Park attractions

1. Mount Zion Baptist Church

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One of the cornerstones of the CD neighborhood is Mount Zion Baptist Church, a 2000-member congregation with a choir that has reached national acclaim…

2. Cal Anderson Park

0.7 MILES

Cal Anderson Park is the active heart of Capitol Hill, where you’re sure to bump into locals playing ultimate frisbee, bike polo or soccer as you stroll…

3. Jimi Hendrix Statue

0.75 MILES

Psychedelic guitar genius of the late 1960s and Seattle’s favorite son, Jimi Hendrix is captured sunk to his knees in eternal rock-star pose in this…

4. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

0.84 MILES

This Byzantium Revival building began life in 1915 as a synagogue for a congregation of Orthodox Jews. By 1969 the demographics of the neighborhood had…

5. Roq La Rue

0.84 MILES

This gallery has secured its reputation by taking risks: the work on view skates along the edge of urban pop-culture. Since opening in 1998, the gallery,…

6. Washington Hall

0.84 MILES

Originally built in 1908 by the Danish Brotherhood, Washington Hall has been a meeting place, music venue (hosting Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Duke…

7. Gay City Library

0.92 MILES

This library was set up in 2009 by Gay City, a community organization, and has already collected 6000 volumes on LGBTIQ+ topics. There are regular…

8. Stimson-Green Mansion

0.95 MILES

One of the first homes on First Hill, the baronial Stimson-Green Mansion is an English Tudor–style mansion completed in 1901 by lumber baron and real…