The Bomb Shelter Crew
Chef James Martin, manager Ronnie Pryor and consultant Massimo Giordano are working to make The Bomb Shelter restaurant a destination eatery in Perris.

The Bomb Shelter restaurant in Perris is not your typical airport snack shack.

Where else can a world-class skydiver, Perris business owner or a teacher on a lunch break get a grilled Portobello mushroom or a Jack Daniels glazed salmon on the menu. Or a California turkey wrap? Or grilled steak and shrimp?

All with a front-row seat at one of the most renowned and well-known parachute drop zones on Earth.

The Bomb Shelter recently upgraded its menu with the addition of chef James Martin and consultant Massimo Giordano, who together have more than 30 years in the restaurant business.

“Once you’re here, you’re hooked,” Martin said. “When you walk in, you are one of us.”

The Bomb Shelter is one of more than 60 Perris businesses taking part in the City’s recently launched “Shop Local” initiative. The restaurant is offering 10 percent off to patrons who clip the Shop Local Card off the City’s website and present it to the cashier.

Menu selections include appetizers (cheese quesadillas, $4.99; loaded potato skins, $6.99), sandwiches (grilled cheese with side dish, $5.79; house club, $7.49 with side) to dinners (New York steak, $11.99; grilled pork chops, $9.99; Jack Daniels glazed salmon, $12.99 and grilled Portobello mushroom, $8.99). The complete menu includes more than 100 items. There’s also a full bar.

Martin said the restaurant served up 3,000 meals a day during the momentous “Jump for the Cause” in September. That event, the kind for which the Perris Valley Airport is legendary, attracted thousands of people from around the world. The weeklong event raised nearly $1 million for breast cancer research.

But it’s the local people that keep the place going between major events.

“Once people come in here, we know we can keep them coming back,” Giardano said. “We’ve just got to get them in one time.”