(sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
Also called borscht belt.
Origin
1935-40; so called, facetiously, from the quantities of borscht consumed there
Slang definitions & phrases for borscht circuit
borscht circuit
noun phrase
The resort hotels of the Cats-kills borscht belt, regarded as a circuit for entertainers, lecturers, etc (1930s+)