Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati names 10 downtown restaurant partners

CINCINNATI - Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati will partner with 10 of downtown Cincinnati’s hottest restaurants to complement its own on-site dining options, the casino announced today.

Two of the restaurants are not yet opened.

Members of the Caesars Entertainment Total Rewards loyalty program will be able to redeem rewards for meals at the partner restaurants and for hotel stays at the seven partner hotels announced earlier this month, according to a news release issued by the casino.

The 10 partner restaurants are:

• Boca, the upscale Italian restaurant scheduled to open in the old Maisonette space on Sixth Street.

• Jean-Robert’s Table, the French restaurant owned by Chef Jean-Robert De Cavel.

• Mahogany’s at the Banks, which specializes in upscale southern cuisine.

• Metropole, the new restaurant at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati, which also is one of the casino’s hotel partners.

• Moerlein Lager House, the microbrewery located on Cincinnati’s riverfront.

• Montgomery Inn Boathouse, the family-owned barbecue landmark.

• Nada, the upscale Mexican restaurant near the Aronoff Center for the Arts.

• Sotto, an Italian café that will open in the basement level of Boca in the space that once housed La Normandie.

• Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano, which specializes in Northern Italian dishes in the nearby Pendleton neighborhood.

• Via Vite, a contemporary Italian restaurant on Fountain Square.

Chef David Falk’s Boca Restaurant Group owns Boca, Nada and Sotto, although Nada is the only one of the three that's now open downtown. The group is aiming to open Sotto on March 25 "as long as everyone keeps swinging the hammers with the same intensity," said Brad Kaemmer, the group's chief operating officer. Plans are to open Boca three weeks after that, he said.

"We were extremely flattered even to be considered for the partnership," Kaemmer said. "We really look at it as a great opportunity to partner with some great folks who are trying to change the landscape of Cincinnati."

The restaurants don't know how many customers the partnership will yield, he said, but they did give the casino a bit of a price break to be part of the program.

"We wanted a lasting partnership, and that's kind of the way the system works," he said.

In addition to the 21c, the casino’s hotel partners are: The Cincinnatian Hotel, Garfield Suites hotel, Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, Residence Inn Marriott Cincinnati, SpringHill Suites Cincinnati and The Westin Cincinnati.

A news release from the casino noted that a similar restaurant partner program at Horseshoe Cleveland has been “very successful.” Horseshoe Cleveland guests have booked more than 37,000 hotel rooms and have redeemed nearly $1 million in meals since that casino opened in May 2013, according to the release.

There are more than 250,000 Total Rewards members within 100 miles of the Cincinnati casino.