Dessert is a milk chocolate mousse pastry. The Christmas menu, priced at $120, has a soup course of sweet onion bisque, three salad options, an appetizer choice of crab cakes or lamb chops and four entrée options, including filet mignon, Chilean sea bass, free-range chicken or surf and turf. Hotel stays include a full breakfast there.A Meal to Remember: On Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, Pechanga’s Great Oak Steakhouse is offering five-course pre-fixe dinner menus. A complete renovation of the former BLD Restaurant, now called The Café, which serves everything from eggs Benedict to BLTs and chicken pad Thai.An entire renovation of the buffet restaurant, with updated furnishings, enlarged seating capacity (100 more seats, for a total of 600), and 25 new menu offerings.A renovation of 100,000 square feet of existing casino and restaurant areas, including 65,000 square feet on the gaming floor, the non-smoking casino, the high-limit area and VIP lounge, from the ceiling tiles to carpeting, lighting, pillars, signage, new 75-inch TVs, and wider aisles and spacing between slot machine banks throughout the casino.

A new players club, gift promotion and slot tournament area, off the main entrance, and six new restrooms.

(The beer taps mark the first time draft brew has been served at Valley View it’s now available at all four of the casino’s bars.) There’s also a stand-alone take-out area. Patties & Pints serves eight kinds of burgers - made from a custom, Brandt beef grind - nine varieties of deep-dish pizza, 16 beers on tap, 16 in bottles, 17 kinds of ice cream shakes, including seven boozy shakes.

Its menu was created by Howard Silver, Valley View’s vice president of food and beverage and a former Culinary Institute of America-trained chef.

A new 160-seat restaurant and bar called Patties & Pints, featuring scratch-made, elevated pub fare.

A new grand entrance leads to the added gaming area - made airy by a high ceiling and natural light coming through a sleek, indoor water wall.

An additional 25,000 square feet of gambling space, with 250 new slot machines, for a total of 2,000, and 11 new table games, doubling the previous number.

It also boasts the county’s only casino infinity pool.Īmong the features of its new expansion and renovation are: Known almost as much for its endless Maine lobster buffet as gaming, Valley View has a boutique, 105-room, 100 percent non-smoking, 21-and-over hotel. Valley View, located in Valley Center, is in the core of the North County casino hotbed, with Harrah’s SoCal, Pala Casino Spa & Resort, Casino Pauma and Temecula’s Pechanga all nearby.

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