Or maybe it’s just that they’re so darn good. Maybe it’s the malts, maybe it’s how the burgers take me back the counters of old.

My nostalgic side always wants to go to Feisty Kate’s.

Plaza Grill also offers two classics: the patty melt, with Swiss, on rye ($9.95) and a half-pound Old Fashioned Cheese Burger ($10.95) with cheddar, American or Swiss, Thousand Island dressing and your choice of bacon or avocado. It’s topped with housemade steak sauce and comes with fries or onion rings for $12.95.

The gourmet in me loves Plaza Grill’s special Kobe burger, which combines Snake River Farms Wagyu and dry-aged prime beef.

The half-pound beef patty comes with you choice of three toppings (Swiss, cheddar, American, Jack cheese, cotija, mozzarella or blue cheese, fried egg, bacon, avocado, mushrooms and sautéed onions).

I’m picky, so I’m partial to Sage Café’s Build Your Own Burger, which comes with fries or onion rings for $10.95.

Barona Resort & Casinoīarona’s burger bounty spans over three eateries - Sage Café, Plaza Grill and Feisty Kate’s. Here’s a taste of some of the best burgers. We’ve eaten beacoup burgers around San Diego and that includes at our local casinos. Viejas, for example, introduced the Impossible Burger on the Baron Long menu, Sycuan Casino Resort serves Beyond Meat sliders at its Retreat Pool & Cabanas and one of the 13 varieties of burgers served at Barona Resort & Casino’s various venues is the Beyond Burger at Feisty Kate’s Burgers & Malts.

“That, coupled with the craft beer explosion nationwide and the availability of quality ingredients, has allowed (casino food and beverage) offerings to rival those that previously would have only been available in more contemporary restaurant settings.”įollowing in restaurants’ footsteps, casino eateries are serving more all-beef alternatives, like the ubiquitous turkey burger, or Pechanga Resort & Casino’s Psycho-Deli Burger, that’s 70 percent beef, 30 percent shiitake and trumpet mushrooms.Ĭasinos have also flipped for increasingly popular plant-based burgers. “Pub food is gaining in popularity due to the approachability in what the menu provides and the ability to adapt to current trends easily,” said David Duran, Viejas’ vice president of food and beverage.

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