Foxwoods Resort Casino announced it will reopen its poker room today, and other several attractions later this month that have been closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mashantucket casino will also reopen its Rainmaker Casino, Live@Atrium Bar and Topgolf Swing Suite, an indoor golf arcade, Foxwoods said.
Reopenings come amid increased demand as COVID-19 vaccines are distributed and some state restrictions are being curtailed.
Food Network star Guy Fieri has just opened five new delivery/take-out-only restaurants in Connecticut.
There is now a Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen in Darien, Farmington, Glastonbury, Newington, and Avon.
Flavortown is uniquely fit for service during a pandemic. It will be take-out only and chefs will operate out of a “ghost kitchen.” A ghost kitchen is when a business operates out of an existing restaurant.
The new locations are not the host of “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives’” first restaurants in the state. Fieri also has a restaurant at Foxwoods Resort Casino - Guy Fieri s Foxwoods Kitchen & Bar.
Over the past month or so, Fieri has opened 120 similar delivery-only, ghost kitchens in 25 states and Washington, D.C.
Poker at Foxwoods, the largest poker room on the East Coast, is now open from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week, with new COVID-19 safety measures in place.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s chief of staff and the head of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation told state lawmakers Tuesday an agreement is near on a rewrite of gambling rules in Connecticut that would allow online gambling. “When it comes to the two tribal nations we are much closer with the Mohegans at this time,” said Paul Mounds, Lamont’s chief of staff. Rodney Butler, chairman of the .