The Winners of our Classic Car Show!

People's Choice

The River's Choice

Participant's Choice

Casey's Choice

Happy Hour Special

Monday-Friday 4-7pm

Domestic Draft Beer - $1.25

Imported Draft Beer - $2.25

 By now you've probably at least heard of twitter, whether it be on TV, the radio, or references to it online.  If you've been wondering what it is exactly but haven't looked into it, then now's the time to see for yourself.  Twitter is one of the fastest growing websites out there, and for good reason.  It makes staying connected easier than ever before.  The concept is really simple: You have 140 characters to say what you are doing, what's coming up, or really..just about anything you want.  It is being used by all sorts of groups- businesses, celebrities, and ordinary people- to inform and stay connected with one another.  We at the Tamarack have decided to create a twitter account to keep you in the know at all times.  You'll find links to events, our daily specials, alerts on when big games will be on, and the inside scoop on our day to day activities.  The best part about it is that it's all aggregated into one convienent location.  You can "follow" us on twitter, and you'll instantly recieve our feed.  All you have to do is sign up for a twitter and then go to our twitter profile and add us there.  You can even have our updates sent to your cell phone!  So don't miss out on all the benefits that we can provide you with through twitter. Sign up today!

Summer Solstice Splash Dogs Fun Jump & Competition

June 19-21, 2009

Splash Dogs comes to Reno June 19-21, 2009.

Dogs fly high for fun & prizes during the three day Summer Solstice Splash Dogs Fun Jump and Competition June 19-21 at the Tamarack Junction Casino.  Competition jumps will be held throughout the weekend.  On Sunday the event's top dogs compete in Junior Handler, Open and Pro Finals.

www.canyourdogfly.com

775-722-5517

Salads

· Caesar

· Pasta

· Fruit

· Cottage cheese

Baked Goods

· Danish

· Muffins

· Cinnamon rolls

· Bagels and cream cheese

Breakfast (Cold)

· Yogurt

· Granola

· Fresh strawberries

· Smoked salmon with condiments

Breakfast (Hot)

· French toast

· Scrambled eggs

· Vegetable frittata

· Breakfast potatoes

· Bacon

· Sausage links

· Chicken fried steak

· Biscuits and country gravy

Entrees and Sides

· Oven roasted Ribeye (Carved)

· Baked buffet ham (Carved)

· Chicken breast with mushroom sauce

· Rice pilaf

· Sautéed vegetables

Desserts

· Assorted cakes and pies from our fabulous bakery

(Served while NCAA play-off games are in progress)

Pizza, Wings and Beer   $24.99

An eighteen inch, one topping pizza, ten hot wings with ranch, celery and carrots and a pitcher of domestic beer   

The Wing Fiesta Grande   $21.99

Back by popular demand!!!!!!!!!!  The Tamarack’s 30 wing platter served with your choice of three sauces and all the fixings.

Add an ice cold bucket (five) of domestic bottled beer to your “Wing Fiesta Grande” for $10.00    

Appetizer Sampler   $7.99

Six hot wings with carrots and celery, six jalapeno poppers and six wontons with ranch and sweet and sour sauce for dipping  

Taquitos   $5.99

Ten crispy beef taquitos with sour cream, guacamole and salsa

Grilled Roast Beef and Cheddar   $7.99

Thinly sliced prime rib on grilled sour dough with cheddar cheese, sautéed onions and your choice of crispy fries or fruit 

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY SPECIALS

Corned Beef and Cabbage   $10.99

Lean and tender corned beef with braised cabbage, potatoes and carrots. 

Irish Stew   $9.99

Tender chunks of lamb simmered with onions and potatoes.  Served with rolls and butter.  

SOUP OF THE DAY

Irish Potato with Cheddar and Bacon

On Friday and Saturday Sully’s will have a special dinner special, the “Wolf Pack” Steak.  It is a 10 ounce, grass fed strip steak, raised and harvested at UNR.  Flame broiled and served with garlic steak butter, your choice of mashed or baked potato and fresh sautéed vegetable of the day.  $14.99

 After seven years we are wrapping up the final stage of our improvement program.  No doubt you have noticed all of the work going on with our front entrance.  Thank you for your patience in dealing with the access restrictions to our property.

 The improvements will make access to our property easier for pedestrians as well as making the entrance safer for drivers.  We’re also upgrading our landscaping to give the front of our property a cleaner look.

At the back of the property, we have added a drainage trench to eliminate the lake that formed at the bottom of our loading dock ramp every time it rained.

Finally, this spring we will be seal coating and re-striping our parking lot.  All of this finishes up just in time for us to think about repainting the whole building.  As our Chief Engineer Glenn Avilla said, “It never really ends!”

NEW YEARS EVE DINNER SPECIALS

Vodka Shrimp   $12.99

Seven large shrimp sautéed with vodka, tomatoes, capers, prosciutto and herbs then tossed with fettuccine pasta and a creamy citrus butter sauce.

Filet Mignon   $17.99

Center cut choice midwestern beef tenderloin; flame broiled with béarnaise sauce and served with mashed potatoes and sautéed asparagus.

Dining Car Christmas Specials

Specials will be served from noon until 9:00 PM in our dining car restaurant.

All adult dinner specials include your choice of butternut squash soup or garden salad, a basket of freshly baked dinner rolls and a special holiday dessert from our bakery. 

Roast Turkey…$12.99

Accompanied by mashed potatoes, sage stuffing, sautéed vegetables, giblet gravy and side of homemade cranberry sauce

Children’s Turkey…$6.99

Smaller portion of our roasted turkey dinner with all the trimmings and a ice cream sundae or slice of pumpkin pie for dessert

Roast Pork …$12.99

Spice rubbed and served with mashed potatoes, brown gravy and sautéed vegetable of the day

Filet Mignon… $19.99

Choice beef tenderloin grilled to order and served with Béarnaise sauce, mashed potatoes and sautéed vegetable of the day

Glazed Ham…$12.99         

S­erved with grilled pineapple, sweet potatoes and sautéed vegetable of the day

Seafood Cioppino…$19.99

Shrimp, lobster, crab, clams and scallops in a rich tomato and wine sauce with fluffy white rice and garlic bread

Season's Greetings!

If you frequent our website very often, then you would know that we've been experienceing some technical difficulties over the past few months.  I am happy to say that it looks like those problems are finally behind us.  Thank you for being patient through our transitory period and as always we appreciate your patronage to the Tamarack Junction. 

Editor (Josh)

We made some changes to the Sully’s menu, changing things up for the football season we are centering the new look menu around our wings and all of their sauces, our Burgers our Pizza’s and our variety of sausages and hot dogs. Some of our additions include Boneless wings as well as our old wing, platter of 30 wings with three different sauces, Q’s honey Buffalo sauce , Bison Burger, Teriyaki Burger, Chicken alfredo pizza, bbq chicken pizza, vegetarian pizza, Margarita pizza and Hawaiian pizza. On top of all of these changes we are adding a build your own burger and pizza section as well as a whole new section called the Hot Dog Stand which will include Italian sausage, Bratwurst, Knockwurst, Hot link, Ball park hot dog and a Polish dog which will all be grilled to order with your choice of many different toppings. We are all very excited about the new menu and cannot wait to see what all of you think about it.

            Our new menu will be accompanied by some other great special menu’s including our football specials with a steak quesadilla, popcorn shrimp, ham and Swiss sliders and the spicy sampler platter. On Sunday we have the breakfast buffet served from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM serving eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit, yogurt and fresh pastries, muffins and croissants from our fabulous bakery. Last but not least we still  have our lite menu for lighter appetites served Monday thru Friday 11:00AM to 5:00PM, this menu is served with different menu items every week so make sure to check on what fun stuff we are cooking up for the week ahead.

Sous Chef Justin Phillips

This week the Tamarack's website reached 50,000 site hits!  We are thrilled that our website has done so well in the short time we have been maintaining it.  Thank you to all our loyal customers who check our site regularly to get the latest specials, events, and read Casey's Blog.  We try our very best to make tamarackcasino.com the best casino website in Reno and to always give our guests the best information about our establishment.  We'd like the next 50,000 hits to be better than the first, so if you have any suggestions about improving our site or just want to comment about what you like about our site, please feel free to email us at comments@tamarackcasino.com.  We will do our best to incorporate your suggestions into our site.  Once again, thanks for your continued patronage and support of the Tamarack Junction.

~The Tamarack Team

We had one of my favorite lunch specials in our Dining Car today, the Gyro Steak Salad.  It’s a nice light meal for a hot summer day.  Check it out the next time we feature it!

We had our annual car show on Wednesday the 16th.  It was a big success, setting a new record for attendees.  Everyone had a great time, guests and employees alike.  The Tamarack team appreacates all of the nice comments we received from all of you about our show.

Our new dining area outside on TJ's patio is proving to be a big hit with our guests.  We really appreciate the nice comments that we have been getting from everyone who has eaten there. 

It is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Friday and all day on the weekends.  Check in with the Hostess at our Dining Car restaurant inside for details.

Saturday May 31^st, Ramon Sessions, with the help of former Harlem Globetrotter, Ethan O’Bryant, will be conducting a basketball clinic followed by an autograph signing. New West Distributing will provide the Coors Girls who will be giving away Coors “swag”. Chef Frank, and staff, will sell BBQ ribs, chicken and accompaniments by the basketball court (seating will be available in Sully’s). Beer specials will be sold from Sully’s, advertising provided by New West. The Tamarack/NBA D-League season ticket packages will be sold through-out this event.

We have quite an exciting summer event schedule planned at the Tamarack Junction this year.  Along with our month long $30,000 Great Free Play Giveaway, we also will be hosting a Farmer’s Market every Friday, beginning June 6.  June 20, 21 & 22 the pool will be set up for our 3^rd Annual “Dock Dogs” event.  You can bring your pup down and see how far he can jump from our platform into a gigantic pool we’ll have set up in our south parking lot.  Even if you don’t have a pup of your own, it’s a ton of fun to come and watch the canines and their owners.  July 16 is the date we have set for our 7^th Classic Car Show.  We are a part of the 103.7 River Cruise Night.  We had over 300 classics here last year and we expect just as many beauties this year.  So keep checking back as we4 continue to fill our summer schedule with fun activities, both indoors and out.

Well, we have completed another renovation, this time at the Gazebo. The Sliver Lace that we planted around our Gazebo did not do as well as we had hoped, so we replaced all the soil in the planters with close to 3.5 feet of pure, rich, top soil.  We replaced the Silver Lace with Honey Suckle and replanted the old flowers and plants around the Honey Suckle.  It is looking much healthier than before.  As a matter of fact, this morning Lisa Johnson noticed that the Honey Suckle had grown 6 inches since we planted it last week. How cool is that?  

Now is the time to make your reservation to take your mom, wife, sister, best friend or grandmother out to the Tamarack Junction for a Mothers Day feast.  We will be featuring our brunch buffet from 9:30 AM to 1:30  PM.  We have a great selection of breakfast items; eggs, bacon, sausage, pastries and fruit as well as a nice assortment of brunch items such as shrimp scampi, baked ham, roast prime rib and chicken fried steak with country gravy.  Be sure to save room for a mouth watering dessert baked fresh in the Tamarack Junction bakery.  Call the Tamarack at 852-3600 #323 to make your reservation today.

 This week we will be re-planting the big planter on the patio just in time for the Mother’s Day buffet. The old is going to other parts of the property making room for the new. Bring Mom for the delicious buffet and while you are here, check out the planter remake.

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up, She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. 

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word. 

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.' 

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied. 

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. 

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 'What does it mean, mother?' 

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they  had changed the water. 

'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? 

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength? 

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart? 

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest  do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? 

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy. 

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. 

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. 

Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. 

On Saturday Chef Frank sent his crew to Manogue High School to serve BBQ ribs and chicken at the Fourth Annual Trackfest.  They had a great time supporting the local high schools and snacking on some delicious barbecued food with our local friends.  While there, they promoted our new food specials at Sully’s. Starting Sunday we will serve our NBA Playoff food and beer specials.  This promotion will continue into June. Chef Frank has also started working on his “Warm Weather” Specials in the restaurants (lighter fair).

We are also well under way in our upgrade to new gaming software.  This new software should provide our guests with the latest and greatest technology on the market.  We've been working around the clock to get our new system online as soon as possible.  Please bear with us during this transitory stage.

 The Tamarack Junction Casino would like to welcome Dan Eckert as our Assistant Operations Manager.  He will be managing the Cage, Food and Beverage departments.  He has an MBA and 16 years experience in the gaming industry.  Dan has extensive hospitality knowledge and excellent guest service experience that will greatly benefit the success of the Tamarack.  The next time that you're at the Tamarack make sure and say hi to Dan!

In the next ten days we will be rolling out a new menu with a few changes in the Dining Car.  By popular request we will be bringing back the Eggs Benedict.  We are also going to be featuring a breakfast dish that we have been working on called the “Tamarack Scramble”.  It will feature eggs scrambled with breakfast sausage and topped with jack and cheddar cheese served with hash browns and a biscuit with country gravy for $6.99.  We will also be adding three new sandwiches;  hot turkey,  ham and cheese and hot pastrami.  The dinner menu will also have some changes.  We will also be adding a couple of dinner entrées.  One of our favorite specials the Portabella Mushroom Raviolis will be a permanent  addition to the dinner entrées as well as the Chicken Parmesan.  Dinner entrées will now be offered with a choice of a bowl of soup or a dinner salad.  We will offer one trip through the salad bar for an additional charge of $3.95.  We also will be lowering some of the prices on the dinner entrées in an effort to give a better value to our guests.

   Welcome to Casey's Blog!  I'm Casey Sullivan, the General Manager here at the Tamarack Junction.  We have set up this blog to let our customers know what events we will be holding, how our events went, and to give you some insight into what the Tamarack Junction is all about.  All of the Managers will do their best to update this blog with the latest information and the new deals in their department.  Be sure to check back here every week to see what is going on at the Tamarack Junction. 

Have any Comments, Suggestions or Feedback about Casey's Blog? Email us at comments@tamarackcasino.com 

We are also working hard on an upgrade to our player tracking system.  You are going to see some really neat things in the next month or two in terms of some great technology added to our player’s card tracking devices.  We’ll keep you up to date.

We had a great turn out for our Annual ‘Leprechaun’s $10,000 Pot O’ Gold’ Free Play Drawing.  We had a lot of fun, especially with one leprechaun in particular, he was about 6’2” with some great shamrock glasses and a sparkly green bow tie. He did look an awful lot like Casey, maybe Casey has a twin leprechaun!  We’re looking forward to our “April Showers of Cash’ Video Poker Tournament on April 17.  We’re giving away over $4,000 in Free Play and the tournament is free for Conductor’s Club Members who are in the Bronze level or higher.

~Lisa Fox
Casino Host/Special Events Manager