SAN DIEGO — A fire that started in an open cooking pit Thursday at Kansas City Barbeque gutted the landmark Marina area eatery, known for being in the 1986 Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun." The fire broke out about 2:15 pm in the restaurant on West Market Street, located across the street from the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel towers and near Seaport Village. It initially created so much smoke that clouds of it could be seen billowing behind Petco Park, where the Padres were playing an afternoon baseball game. A restaurant cook told firefighters the blaze flared up from inside the cooking pit and spread to the rest of the restaurant’s interior, despite his efforts to put it out. A force of six engine companies and two truck companies, 45 firefighters in all, managed to keep the blaze from spreading to an adjoining office building and had the fire knocked down in about 20 minutes. But there was no saving the restaurant.