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Contact: Al O’Brien
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Black Oak Casino
209-928-9318
aobrien@blackoakcasino.com


Black Oak Casino’s Seven Sisters Restaurant

Welcomes Guest Chef Klaus Tenbergen

Tuolumne, CA – March 13, 2008 Chef Klaus Tenbergen, cook book author, and master baker, CMB, CEPC, CMFE, will visit Black Oak Casino on March 19 and 20 as a guest chef to prepare a five course dinner at the Seven Sisters restaurant for invited Players Club members. Guests will enjoy a delectable menu that includes a tomato-orange soup, Cucumber and Biltong salad, along with a palette pleasing Yukon Gold Potato and vodka sorbet. Entrée choices will feature Ostrich fillet, filet mignon with Australian lobster tail, or a brie and herb stuffed organic chicken breast. Cherries Jubilee will close the evening and be prepared tableside by Chef Tenbergen.

Tenbergen was born in Germany and has a culinary background that started in 1977 as an apprentice baker. Chef Tenbergen also owned a bakery, confectionery, and coffee shop in Pretoria, South Africa for nine years exposing him to an international audience, along with working in Namibia, Boputhatswana and in Peoria, IL where he owned a fine dining restaurant. He is currently the Culinology® Program Director and Assistant Professor of Culinary Science in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at California State University, Fresno

Executive Chef Ed Wickman stated, “We are very excited to welcome Chef Tenbergen to Black Oak Casino. We are honored to have a chef with his knowledge, experience, and respect in the culinary field visit us for this very special evening. Our invited guests will be treated to an incredible dining experience.”

Black Oak Casino is owned and operated by the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians in Tuolumne, California. The Casino encompasses 164,770 square feet of gaming and entertainment options for the whole family, including 1013 slot machines, 24 table games, an automated poker area, a non-smoking gaming area, three restaurants, two casino floor bars, an interactive sports bar, a state of the art bowling center, a live entertainment lounge, a players club, gift shop, and kids arcade.

For more information regarding Black Oak Casino, please visit or contact Chef Ed Wickman at (209) 928-9313 or Al O’Brien at (209) 928-9318.


19400 Tuolumne Road North, Tuolumne, CA. 95379 (877) 747-8777. www.blackoakcasino.com
"A California Indian Gaming Casino - Just 8 miles east of Sonora."