{"id":910,"date":"2016-07-20T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=910"},"modified":"2017-09-26T03:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:51:27","slug":"new-tables-at-the-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"New Tables at the Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_894\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-894\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-894\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1560.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1560-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saddle up to the Bar &#8211; Virgil&#8217;s BBQ to open at Tioga Downs &amp; Casino, and I had a chance to do a pre-opening walkthru while they were training staff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tables are in the new Virgil&#8217;s BBQ that is scheduled to open next week at the expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiogadowns.com\/\">Tioga Downs &amp; Casino<\/a> complex. \u00a0The current Casino has very a sterile all-you-eat buffet style restaurant and a sports-type bar in the lobby, so this will be a major upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>I was there with our local entrepreneur meet-up, so this gave us a chance to see what goes into a large-scale restaurant\u00a0launch. \u00a0We also had a chance to check out the restaurant and also got a whiff of some smoked ribs.<\/p>\n<p>This place has saddle bar seats and stage with bands and comedy shows already scheduled.\u00a0So I don&#8217;t see any gamble in making a reservation for Virgils. \u00a0As soon as they open the book this weekend, my name is going in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_893\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-893\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-893\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1557-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1557-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1557-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0720_VirgilsTioga_1557.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big picture of Virgil&#8217;s BBQ opening soon at Tioga Casino.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tables are in the new Virgil&#8217;s BBQ that is scheduled to open next week at the expanding Tioga Downs &amp; Casino complex. \u00a0The current Casino has very a sterile all-you-eat buffet style restaurant and a sports-type bar in the lobby, so this will be a major upgrade. I was there with our local entrepreneur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}