The Potawatomi On line casino Lodge welcomed rock royalty on Tuesday, August 1. That’s when KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley confirmed as much as open their twenty third Rock & Brews as a part of the resort’s $190 million renovation mission.
Gene Simmons of KISS, left, Potawatomi On line casino Lodge CEO Dominic Ortiz, middle, and Paul Stanley of KISS, proper, minimize the ribbon on a Rock & Brews close to downtown Milwaukee on Tuesday. (Picture: milwaukeemag.com)
“Take a look at this place, it’s beautiful … and we’re proud to say it’s proper right here within the Brew Metropolis, accurately,” Simmons mentioned. “You see the correlation.”
The rock-themed American meals chain was began by Stanley and Simmons in 2012 with companions Michael Zislis, and Michael and Dave Furano. It has expanded throughout the US, with six extra slated to open this 12 months.
It even features a Rock & Brews On line casino, opened final Could in Braman, Okla.
Rock & Brews is a worldwide model, with nice eating and music,” Dominic Ortiz, the Potawatomi On line casino Lodge CEO, informed the group, based on milwaukeemag.com. “That is the perfect Rock & Brews ever constructed. This was the dream, to take the model to a brand new degree and produce pleasure. You wished the perfect; we introduced you the perfect.”
The eatery’s menu, supported by 48 faucet beers, consists of the anticipated KISS themes such because the Demon Hen Sandwich, but additionally the Alice Cooper Poison Burger. Cooper was one of many band’s inspirations. Simmons known as the hen burger “as scorching as a superb punch within the mouth.”
The restaurant is a part of a $190 million renovation of the Potawatomi, positioned close to downtown Milwaukee. It was introduced in Could 2022 by the Forest County Potawatomi, which opened the property in 1991. The upgrades will embody a brand new high-limit gaming room, which will even characteristic an upscale bar, a stage, and a brick-oven connoisseur kitchen.
The resort’s on line casino flooring will home 1,800 slot machines and a brand new bar with bar-top video games, a primary for the on line casino.
The on line casino already opened its new sportsbook this 12 months, the primary in Milwaukee, with the remainder of the renovation scheduled to complete later this 12 months.
Sadly, music on the grand opening was supplied solely by a KISS cowl band, and neither Simmons nor Stanley joined them for a track.
