In June 2018, Harrah's Cherokee announced an ambitious expansion with a price tag of around $250 million.  The new space will include 725 hotel rooms, 83,000 square feet of space for conventions and meetings, a parking garage, and new shopping and dining options.  This summer, Harrah's announced that the expansion was on pace to be completed in late 2021.
We got to stay in one of the new rooms in March 2022, and it did not disappoint.  The rooms are quite nice, with upscale furnishings, mini fridge to store your goodies, plenty of dressers and all the amenities you'd expect for a high end resort.
While it's still not entirely done, there is a new restaurant open for business to try out.  It's celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Cherokee Kitchen and Bar and has 200 seats available for guests!  The menu features a lot of upscale bar food type dishes, like the Bacon Mac-N-Cheese Burger or the Signature Bourbon Brown Sugar BBQ Wings.  You can view the full menu or make a reservation here.  Get a peek at the menu:
We visited the restaurant right when it opened at 4 PM.  It gets busy, quick.  We recommend making a reservation or putting your name in as soon as possible.  Then, go enjoy the atmosphere in the new Cherokee Tower lobby for a bit!  There's a nice bar and a DJ shows up for the evenings on most nights.
Also, the bar does serve a limited version of the Guy Fieri's Cherokee Kitchen menu, if you're in a hurry to do some gaming and can't wait for a table.  It'll do the job in a pinch.