They know who most of you are, especially frequent customers. The minute you enter the casino, you are at the mercy of Ilani. Long time customer (since inception), frequent visitor and gamer, and lots of research after speaking with current and former staff.
It’s something to do on a weekend but it feels like a very poor ripoff of Cochon 555. You are given a wine glass at the start and a wrist band tied to a credit card, you can purchase the very limited variety of food with the wrist band, you are given 10$ to start, anything over that gets charged to the card, two meatballs(about the size of golf balls) cost 8$. There were a lot of wine, cider and hard liquors to try, you get a punch card that limits how many things you try(both a good and bad thing), keeps people from over-imbibing but adults should know their limits and by giving punch cards it feels like they are cheaping out. Andrew Zimmern was the only one i knew by name, it was bites of cold food served to the audience(we tried steak with chimichurri and a fried bite with shrimp and sweet potatoes), supposed to be served hot. We came for the food and wine fest, we paid 50$ each for the tickets, there was a few bites of food available for free if you got into the audience for the chefs. The casino is really nice, decent restaurants.
