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Specialty pastas with a choice of sauces, classic Italian chicken parmesan and lasagna, and a wide selection of meats and seafood. Gluten free and whole grain pastas available on request.
| Event | Hours | ||
| Happy Hour | Sun-Wed 5pm - 7pm | ||
| * $4 Beer, $5 Sangria, $6 wine and specialty cocktails, $6-$7 small-plate selections or four small plates for $20 with a $20 “free-play”. | |||
*Open for lunch on select dates 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
This Happy Hour was reviewed in the October 2020 LVA; some of the information contained in this review may no longer be accurate.
Now this is a happy hour. The Italian restaurant Fresco at Westgate runs a HH in the lounge, Sun.-Wed. from 5 to 7 pm. Beer is $4, sangria is $5, and wine and specialty cocktails are $6. Good pricing for the drinks, but the real deal is on the food. Eight small-plate selections are $6 or $7 apiece. If you want to go healthy, three of the choices are salads, including a good caprese. Also standing out are the (two big) meatballs and a dish called guazzetto di cozze, mussels cooked in garlic butter with sausage and chiles. These are some of the best (moist and plump) mussels you’ll find anywhere. There’s also a choice of Margarita or calabrese pizzas for $10 and three desserts are $4 apiece.
Here’s where it gets good. You can get four small plates for $20—we’d go with the caprese salad, Caesar salad, meatballs, and mussels—which drops the price to just $5 each. And when you spend $20, you also get $20 in “free-play” in the casino. The free-play comes as two coupons on a single sheet: One is a $10 matchplay on table games and the other $10 in slot play. The first is worth about $4.70 and the second about $9.50, providing $14.20 back in gambling EV. The four small plates are easily enough to feed two, so factoring in the coupon value, it’s $6 before tip. OK, throw in a pizza and a couple of drinks to make it $26 total and take the leftovers home. And if you somehow want to stay for dinner (or you purposely go easy to start), you get 15% off the bill. We’ll say it again—this is a happy hour!
Note that you might do even better with the coupons. We went as a party of three and each of us was given the two-coupon sheet. The tab and tip were $66 and we got back $63 from play—the happy hour cost us $1 apiece. It’s possible you’ll encounter a lowest table-game minimum of $15 in the casino. Don’t worry about that, you still have a strong edge playing the $10 matchplay with a $15 bet.
