Pala Casino Spa & Resort: Pala has permanently closed its Choices buffet and its Sushi Sake restaurants. The Coviside Grill is open for walk-up orders and poolside in-person service. Meanwhile, most of its major restaurants are back in service, including the Great Oak Steakhouse, Paisano’s, Umi Sushi & Oyster Bar and Journey’s End. Also in May, it opened The Cove, its 4.5-acre pool campus that now features a swim-up bar serving beers, wines and signature cocktails such as the Coveside Colada and the Strawberry Citrus Refresher.

Pechanga Resort Casino: In May, this Temecula casino opened 1882 Cantina, a new Mexican, Central and South American restaurant/bar that replaced its former Lobby Bar & Grill. The Phil’s BBQ and Lucha Libre Taco Shop outlets are slated to reopen in a few months. At the Bull & Bourbon steakhouse, a $29 surf-and-turf dinner special is offered from 6 to 9 p.m. Elicit is also offering a $25 all-you-can-eat sushi deal on Thursdays. Its Elicit Asian Restaurant & Lounge has a newly expanded menu that includes pho, ramen and yakisoba options, new sushi rolls and a variety of bao buns. Sycuan Casino: This El Cajon casino has limited dining options for now, but it plans to reopen its UnCommons restaurant sometime later this summer. Meanwhile, its Fiore steakhouse, Oyster Bar, ‘Ritas Cantina, KJ Chinese Restaurant and more have reopened. The restaurant will be one of only four Hell’s Kitchen spots in the world. Harrah’s Resort Southern California: Earlier this week, the Valley Center-based casino announced that global superstar chef Gordon Ramsay will open a 332-seat Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in the former buffet space that closed at the beginning of the pandemic. Meanwhile its Black & Blue Steakhouse and Patties & Pints restaurants are now open Thursdays-Sundays only. In future months, the resort hopes to open more seating for the general public.

Valley View Casino & Hotel: This Valley Center’s regionally famous $42 all-you-can-eat Maine lobster buffet is back, but only for qualified members of its Players Club, only for dinner service and only with servers bringing plated selections to the table. Here’s a look at what’s on the menu at San Diego area casinos. Only one local casino has resurrected its buffet, but with multiple restrictions. But the buffets - which were loss leaders for casinos and banned under public health orders - are not coming back. When the pandemic arrived 16 months ago, the region’s casinos sharply scaled back their restaurant offerings and - to the dismay of thousands of local gourmands who relished unlimited crab legs and lobster tails - closed their popular buffets.Īs the state has reopened this summer, so have many casino restaurants.

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