• Additional Information. The margaritas and Chef Ariel Fox menu will transport you across the border in no time without leaving Park Avenue! Serving authentic and upscale Mexican cuisine, including fresh guac, killer margaritas, and South of the Border favorites, Dos Caminos is a New York City favorite.
• Cantina-style eatery in new lifestyle hotel The Alder brings unique flavor to luxury casino resort destination. MONTICELLO, N.Y. (December 12, 2018) – Resorts World Catskills Casino Resort, New York’s newest and closest casino resort to Manhattan, today announced the planned opening of Dos Gatos, an upscale cantina-style eatery offering classic Mexican fare with a fresh twist.

Cantina-style eatery in new lifestyle hotel The Alder brings unique flavor to luxury casino resort destination

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MONTICELLO, N.Y. (December 12, 2018) – Resorts World Catskills Casino Resort, New York’s newest and closest casino resort to Manhattan, today announced the planned opening of Dos Gatos, an upscale cantina-style eatery offering classic Mexican fare with a fresh twist. Dos Gatos will be located adjacent to the lobby of The Alder, Resorts World Catskills’ soon-to-open 101-room lifestyle hotel, which will also feature New York’s only Topgolf Swing Suite. The opening of Dos Gatos will coincide with the opening of The Alder hospitality complex which is scheduled for Friday, December 28, 2018.

View the menu for The Red Grill Mexican Restaurant in New York. Delivery or takeout! 1701 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10128 (212) 722-2188. Take the escalator to Casino Floor, head right towards the front desk. Walk passed the front desk towards the Century Elevators. Keep walking straight; you will pass Il Fornaio on the left walking into the Village Street Eateries. Head towards 48th & Crepe and at the end of the cobble stone walkway will be Gonzalez y Gonzalez on the left.

“We are thrilled to announce the opening of Dos Gatos, the latest addition to our culinary and mixology offerings,” said Michael Beford, Vice President of Food and Beverage of Resorts World Catskills.“Our commitment is to offer guests fresh, unique flavors that are unlike anything else offered in the region and we are confident that Dos Gatos will add the perfect amount of spice to the destination resort campus.”

Dos Gatos will occupy 3,100 square feet of the Alder with 100 year-round seats. The restaurant will feature concrete floors, garage doors that open to outdoor space with additional tables in the warmer months, and a trendy, lively atmosphere. Menu items will include signature guacamole, street tacos, burritos and desserts made in-house. The restaurant’s full service bar will offer more than 120 types of tequila, 6 margaritas on tap, multiple Mexican beers, as well as Rose and other sparkling and white wines. In addition to full-service dinner, Dos Gatos will offer grab-and-go breakfast and lunch options, including breakfast quesadillas and burritos.

The Alder will offer guests an exciting new way to stay and play in the heart of the picturesque Catskill Mountains, with modern amenities, sweeping scenic views, and personalized service. Together with Topgolf, the opening of Dos Gatos enhances Resorts World Catskills’ myriad of dining and entertainment options, which include Cellaio, an Italian inspired steakhouse by celebrity chef Scott Conant, and year-round live entertainment at the 2,500-seat RW Epicenter.

The opening of The Alder and its hospitality and entertainment anchors marks the next phase in the growth of Resorts World Catskills, which opened its hotel and casino in February 2018. The destination resort will continue its expansion in 2019 with the addition of two new offerings, The Kartrite Hotel and Indoor Waterpark and a Rees Jones-redesigned golf course.

For more information about Resorts World Catskills, The Alder, or to make a reservation at Dos Gatos, please visit www.rwcatskills.com/hotel/the-alder/ or call 833-586-9358.

About Resorts World Catskills Casino Resort
Located in the heart of New York’s Catskill region, Resorts World Catskills Casino Resort offers guests unmatched experiences in excitement, entertainment, and luxury. The integrated casino resort includes an 18-story hotel, casino and entertainment complex featuring 100,000 square feet of gaming action including 150 live Las-Vegas style table games, 2,150 state-of-the art slot machines, a poker room and private gaming salons. The casino resort also offers more than 10 varied bar and restaurant experiences, which includes an Italian steakhouse created by celebrity chef Scott Conant, and year-round live entertainment at the 2,500-seat RW Epicenter, casino bars and lounges. The luxurious hotel located within Resorts World Catskills Casino Resort is comprised of 332 suites, the Crystal Life Spa, two indoor pools, and two fitness centers. The integrated casino resort destination also includes additional stay and play opportunities, including The Alder, an adjacent 101-room lifestyle hotel featuring hospitality entertainment concepts opening in December 2018. In 2019, the destination resort will introduce a Rees Jones-redesigned golf course and The Kartrite Hotel and Indoor Waterpark.

Resorts World Catskills
Talya Shlang, 845-428-7200
Public Relations Manager

NEW YORK (AP) — The special dish at La Morada, a small Mexican restaurant in the Bronx, varies from day to day: Perhaps it’s enfrijoladas, handmade tortillas covered with black bean sauce and pico de gallo. Or beef with a side salad.

One thing doesn’t change: It’s free.

The family-run restaurant, which opened in 2009 and has won Michelin acclaim for its Oaxacan food, has also served as a soup kitchen during the pandemic. In addition to serving paying customers, it makes about 650 meals a day for the unemployed, New Yorkers who live without gas and can’t cook, older adults or the disabled.

The Mexican owners of the restaurant are activists who speak up in defense of immigrants without authorization to live in the U.S. — a sign, “No Deportations,” hangs behind the door.

They describe the soup kitchen as fulfilling work.

“We always say that activism is our secret spice, so I feel like it was just very natural for us to serve the community with what we have,” said Yajaira Saavedra, 32, co-owner of the restaurant with her parents. “It also goes back to our Indigenous roots when we all pitched in, gathered small ingredients and made a big pot as a meal.”

The Bronx is among the areas hardest hit by the virus. When La Morada’s soup kitchen opened in April, people lined up in the street and 200 soups were gone in less than an hour, the family said.

“We realized the necessity was huge. The next day, without thinking, we cooked double,” said Saavedra’s mother, Natalia Méndez.

The family was sickened with COVID-19 symptoms early in the pandemic, and had to close the restaurant for a month. When they reopened — with help from an online crowdfunding campaign — they started cooking for the poor, as well.

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Their requests for emergency federal small business loans had been rejected due to their immigration status. The Small Business Administration says applicants for small business loans must be U.S. citizens or “qualified aliens,” which includes immigrants lawfully admitted for permanent residence.

Saavedra is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which gives young immigrants who were brought to the country as children but never obtained legal residency the right to work and shields them from deportation.

Her parents are living in the country without authorization, having crossed the Sonoran Desert in 1992. Saavedra and brother Marco followed a year later with relatives. Marco, who also works in the restaurant, applied for asylum last year.

Before the pandemic, La Morada was a community book exchange center and had named a poet in residence. Images of protests and of immigrants demanding an end to deportations of family members decorate the restaurant’s purple walls.

Today, volunteers and local service organizations, churches and businesses help distribute the food and donate ingredients, and a Brooklyn nonprofit, Rethink Food, provides key funds. The food is delivered to communities in need and to community fridges, a network of over a dozen refrigerators on New York sidewalks.

The soup kitchen runs Tuesday through Friday. On Mondays, Méndez and several helpers do prep work, cleaning and chopping lettuce, garlic, onions, tomatoes and other ingredients.

Volunteers come and go throughout the day, grabbing boxes of food to distribute. With the help of small local grants, the restaurant has even hired a few new employees.

“It is mostly the community pitching in and friends and allies just saying, ‘We are going to do this, we are going to fight together and survive,’” Saavedra said.

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