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Expansion brings 144,000 sq. ft. smoke-free gaming environment
Graton Resort & Casino has opened a major expansion that introduces a combined dining, gaming, and entertainment district to the property, the largest such addition in the resort’s history.
Anchored by AYA, a new rooftop restaurant from Chef Roy Ellamar, the expansion brings together restaurants, nightlife, and gaming in a single district designed around the wine country setting. Spanning 144,000 sq. ft., the smoke-free district functions as a destination within the resort, allowing guests to move between rooftop dining, craft cocktails, sports viewing, specialty desserts, and gaming.
The debut is among the more significant hospitality investments in Northern California in recent years and adds to Graton’s growing profile as a culinary and entertainment destination for both regional visitors and travelers from farther afield.
The expansion also introduces a 144,000 sq. ft. smoke-free gaming environment featuring nearly 2,000 additional slot machines, including exclusive and newly released titles, alongside The River Poker Room and Lotus High Limit Slots, the resort’s premier high-limit gaming lounge. The space was integrated alongside the district’s restaurants, bars, and social venues, allowing guests to move between gaming, dining, and nightlife in one smoke-free setting.
Playbook Sports Bar is a game-day venue anchored by wall-to-wall screens and a halo display suspended above the central bar. The menu takes a chef-driven approach to tailgate classics, featuring Detroit-style pizza, birria nachos, and Buffalo wings, alongside standouts such as a pastrami bánh mì layered with pickled vegetables and Kewpie mayonnaise and Korean-inspired gochujang wings.
“What we’ve built here is unlike anything else in Sonoma County or Northern California,” said Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman. “This expansion is about our people, our community and our guests. Sonoma County has extraordinary food, culture and people, and we’re celebrating all of it. Additionally, we’re putting people to work with more than 450 new jobs right here in the North Bay. That has always been the vision: that this business lifts Indian and non-Indian alike.”
