“Our current Serrano restaurant does very, very well, but it does not have a full-service bar or TVs or regional cuisine,” Driver said.

There are also 16 beers on tap from craft breweries throughout the country. Next door, the Good Times Cafe features a diverse menu of breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night bites, including burgers, brick oven pizza, salads and more. There are two elaborate-looking espresso machines behind the counter for making drinks. The outside entrance has an awning while the interior boasts several tables surrounded by plush leather chairs, ornate lamps, white tile and a shelf filled with bright pink mugs to match the name. Pink Coffee serves an assortment of coffee drinks, European-style pastries and gelato, The space has a similar layout to a Starbucks, but with more upscale elements. “In our expansion we want to upgrade the experiences for our guests, and moving into this location was good for us because we could design a new menu that matches what we were looking to do,” Shane Driver, Morongo’s director of food and beverage, said. The opening of the new restaurants is the latest development in the casino’s ongoing renovation and expansion efforts, which include expanding its gaming floor by 30 percent, adding a free valet parking structure and reopening the old Casino Morongo as its own casino after slot machines were moved there from the newer building’s gaming floor in advance of the changes. Sign up for our Casino Insider newsletter and get the week’s best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos.

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