{"id":51503,"date":"2025-11-13T17:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:42:19","slug":"grand-opening-of-long-awaited-hard-rock-casino-tejon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51503\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand opening of long-awaited Hard Rock Casino Tejon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Hard+Rock+Casino+Tejon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hard Rock Casino Tejon<\/a> will officially open its doors to the public on Thursday, November 13 at noon.<\/p>\n<p>The new casino is located at 1777 Garone Farm Road in Mettler, off of Highway 99.<\/p>\n<p>The lavish casino features a 150,000-square-foot gaming floor with more than 2,000 slot machines and over 50 table games including Blackjack, Ultimate Texas Hold \u2019em and Three Card Poker, and exclusive VIP rooms for Blackjack and Baccarat.<\/p>\n<p>Guests can eat at the world-renowned Hard Rock Cafe, Deep Cut Steaks | Seafood and YouYu, and a food hall with diverse options including artisanal coffee and pastries, street tacos, Southern comfort favorites, and wood-fired Italian classics.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel also features authentic music memorabilia including outfits from Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan.<\/p>\n<p>The casino brought in over 1,000 permanent jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The property will also include a Rock Shop offering exclusive Hard Rock merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Guests can enroll in Unity by Hard Rock, the global loyalty program that rewards gaming, dining, shopping and travel at participating Hard Rock locations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Young will have a private concert Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The project was initially announced in June 2019 and a groundbreaking was held in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the casino unveiled its iconic guitar sign and held a tribal blessing. The Tejon Tribe performed a blessing, praying for all at the casino, including the workers who constructed the massive guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Hard Rock Casino Tejon will officially open its doors to the public on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-51503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}