The new Quil Ceda Creek Casino in Tulalip, Washington is currently under construction and scheduled to open early next year.
More than doubling the size of the current casino located across the street, TBE Architects’ design for the all new “Q” casino covers over 120,000 square feet, providing space for 1,500 gaming machines (an increase of 500 machines), additional table games, an expanded entertainment lounge, state-of-the-art food and beverage services, and a multi-story parking garage.
“From the front door to the back door and beyond, the restaurants at the new Quil Ceda Creek Casino will be the ‘greenest’ in the Northwest when they open,” says Belinda Hegnes, interim executive vice president of Quil Ceda Creek Casino. “It’s a tribute to forward-thinking by the Tulalip Tribes.”
Menu items at each of the dining venues will feature fresh, local ingredients that are prepared using the latest “green cooking” techniques. To prepare food efficiently in a high-output kitchen—without sacrificing flavor and character—the new Q culinary team will be introducing windspeed ovens and other innovations to the food preparation. It’s a no-fry, greaseless kitchen with no vents, and the integration of new kitchen technologies will greatly reduce waste output and energy consumption. Even to-go containers will have a short “life” of 90 days and will be compostable.
“The Kitchen” provides a new food hall dining experience where guests may visit one or multiple stations and choose from a variety of made-to-order menu items. Selections are recorded on a single card as they go, and guests pay one bill for all orders when they are finished, as opposed to the traditional “food court” experiences at most other casinos where patrons pay at each and every station or restaurant they visit.
In addition to “The Kitchen” food hall, the new Quil Ceda Creek Casino will also offer an a la carte dining experience at “The Landing” and several other new food and beverage venues, providing a total gaming, dining and entertainment experience.
OWNER: Tulalip Tribes
SIZE: 120,000 square feet
OPEN: Early 2021
INVESTMENT: $125 million
ARCHITECT: TBE Architects
CONTRACTOR: Andersen Construction
