PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS BURGER BAR© RESTAURANT TO LUMIÈRE PLACE
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September 21, 2007
PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS BURGER BAR© RESTAURANT TO LUMIÈRE PLACE
World-Renowned Chef Hubert Keller to Open Second U.S. Location in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, MO., September 21, 2007 – Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: PNK) today announced that Burger Bar© is the first in a series of seven restaurants to be a part of Lumière Place, Pinnacle’s new casino, hotel and entertainment district in downtown St. Louis scheduled to open in late 2007. Building on the tremendous success of the original Las Vegas location, Burger Bar’s second restaurant will help create a truly unique destination dining experience at Lumière Place.
Burger Bar offers gourmet burgers using the finest ingredients, including Ridgeland and Black Angus beef, lobster, lamb, turkey, salmon, sautéed foie gras, black truffles and cheeses. The menu also includes the extravagant Rossini Burger, a $60 burger that pairs Kobe beef, foie gras, shaved truffles and a rich Madeira sauce.
“We are excited to bring the signature cuisine of Chef Hubert Keller to Lumière Place,” said Daniel R. Lee, Pinnacle Entertainment’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Burger Bar is both affordable and gourmet, a combination that will appeal to all tastes.”
In addition to the Rossini Burger, the Burger Bar menu offers other unique creations such as the Buffalo Burger, Veggie Burger and Surf & Turf Burger, which pairs Black Angus beef with a grilled half lobster. The taste trends don’t stop there. Burger Bar also serves up a Sweet Burger, which pairs a warm doughnut, chocolate ganache, passion fruit, strawberry and mint. The restaurant will also boast one of St. Louis’ largest selections of wine and beer. Burger Bar will have 24 beers on draught, 30 bottled beers and 14 hard-to-find reserve beers from around the world.
“We are thrilled to bring our enormously successful Burger Bar brand from Las Vegas to St. Louis. We believe the exciting menu will offer something new. Our restaurant serves the traditional American favorite, the hamburger, with a French twist,” said Chef Hubert Keller, Burger Bar’s concept designer. “Our restaurant is an experience to be shared with everyone.”
Burger Bar will bring a unique dining experience in design as well as cuisine. Larger than the original location in Las Vegas, Burger Bar St. Louis will feature a double bar, with one side facing the casino and other facing the restaurant. Burger Bar also offers custom butcher shop and open kitchen visible to most customers. It will offer traditional comforts combined with modern elements. Rich, dark woods and thick moldings will create a comfortable and warm atmosphere. Each booth will feature a flat-screen television where guests can catch a game, TV show or movie. Each tuner will operate independently of the other televisions. The bar features six 50” plasma screens and a leading-edge sound system.
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PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS BURGER BAR© RESTAURANT TO LUMIÈRE PLACE
World-Renowned Chef Hubert Keller to Open Second U.S. Location in St. Louis
About Lumière Place
The $495 million Lumière Place sits just north of the city’s famed Gateway Arch, and is also adjacent to
St. Louis’ Central Business District, the America’s Center convention center and the Edward Jones Dome, resting at the nexus of four Interstate highways and the MetroLink light rail system.
Lumière, which means “light” in French, reflects both the city’s French heritage and the dramatic presence Lumière Place’s 24-story luxury hotel tower will have along the St. Louis riverfront. The tower will be illuminated at night with a striking arc of light, creating a new icon on the downtown skyline. Lumière Place will offer a 75,000-square-foot casino with 2,000 slot machines, more than 45 table games, an intimate poker room, two hotels totaling nearly 500 rooms, a 10,000-square-foot spa, a business center, seven restaurants and retail shops.
Construction began on Lumière Place in September 2005. The project is scheduled to open late 2007 pending final approval by the Missouri Gaming Commission.
About Pinnacle Entertainment
Pinnacle Entertainment owns and operates casinos in Nevada, Louisiana, Indiana, Missouri, Argentina and The Bahamas; owns a hotel in Missouri; and has significant insurance claims related to a hurricane-damaged hotel and casino complex previously operated in Biloxi, Mississippi. Pinnacle also has two casino development projects under construction in the St. Louis, Missouri area, which are dependent upon final approval by the Missouri Gaming Commission. Pinnacle is currently developing the Company's second casino resort in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to be called Sugarcane Bay and anticipates developing a casino project in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, subject to various approvals. Additionally, Pinnacle owns a casino site at the heart of the famed Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on which it plans to build a major new casino resort.
All statements included in this press release, other than historical information or statements of historical fact, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the timing of Pinnacle’s construction projects and expected budgets, are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that could significantly affect future results. Accordingly, Pinnacle Entertainment cautions that the forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected by such statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (a) many construction-related factors could prevent the Company from completing its construction and development projects within budget and on time; (b) the risk that the Company’s new development projects, proposed expansions to the existing facilities, and other capital intensive projects could strain the Company's financial resources and the risk that such projects and new developments might not provide for a sufficient return, if any; and (c) other risks, including those as may be detailed from time to time in Pinnacle Entertainment’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). For more information on the potential factors that could affect the Company’s financial results and business, review the Company’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its Current Reports on Form 8-K.