There will be a make your own salad bar - composed by a restaurant employee - and also made to order Piadina sandwiches, which will be pressed with a metal weight and available on house-made focaccia or flatbread. Prices for entrees range from $10-$28.Ī section of the restaurant that’s not open just yet is what used to be the Mexican section of the buffet. The new restaurant, helmed by former Buffet Chef Keith Cody, will feature pizza by the slice for people who are looking for a quick bite before heading back to the gaming floor, but it will also have specialty and build-your-own pizzas made to order, small batches of ready-made pasta and lasagna. Though Harrah’s high end steakhouse Fiore (which means flower in Italian) has some Italian-inspired items such as pastas and risotto, Che Bello’s menu is dedicated to Italian food. Why Italian? Jestis said the resort looked at what customers asked for “and pizza was it.” There was already a section of the buffet dedicated to Italian food with a pizza oven and an area to saute pastas, so it made sense to turn that portion into its own venue, she said. Sign up for our Casino Insider newsletter and get the week’s best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos. Gavin Newsom for restaurant reopenings during the novel coronavirus pandemic, but because Southern California’s casinos are often on tribal land they have sovereignty to make their own decisions on buffets. The casino recently announced via social media that the buffet had opened with a new format that had servers bring food to guests’ tables rather than having them get the food themselves.īuffets are currently not allowed in guidelines issued by Gov.

One casino buffet, at neighboring Valley View Casino & Hotel, has come back online. Those casinos have not announced reopening plans for those venues.

It’s intended to be a long-term replacement for the former buffet space, which casino officials have decided not to reopen.īuffets, once an alluring element of the casino experience, have mostly shuttered - at least temporarily - because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Īgua Caliente Casinos in Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage Augustine Casino Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa Pala Casino, Spa & Resort Pechanga Resort Casino San Manuel Casino and Spotlight 29 Casino are among the other casinos that have closed theirs. Harrah’s Resort Southern California in Valley Center has turned a portion of its former buffet into a quick service Italian restaurant.Ĭhe Bello opened Friday, July 3, and features pizzas, pastas and lasagnas in a space that’s been redecorated with its own look and feel.

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