D'IBERVILLE -- Dec. 9 is a day that will go down in history in D'Iberville when the city's first casino -- Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort -- opens with a ribbon cutting at 11 a.m.

After a few speeches, residents of D'Iberville and visitors will rush inside to get their first look at the $290 million casino with its wavy ceiling and a first taste at the Waterfront Buffet or three other restaurants.

The casino's new website has launched, providing menus and a closer look inside the casino with its 300 rooms, including 56 modern suites and 10 penthouse suites.

Under the Oak Cafe is open 24 hours and customers can dine beneath the leaves of a tree manufactured to look like an oak tree. Holy Trinity Seafood Gumbo is on the menu, along with other Southern favorites such as fried green tomatoes Napoleon, seafood Cobb salad, Pearl Po-Boy, red beans and rice, shrimp boil and shrimp and grits. Beignets are one of the tempting desserts.

Chopstx Noodle Bar features grab and go spring rolls, Vietnamese sandwiches and noodle soup. The casino's fine dining restaurant, Scarlet Grille, is a seafood and steakhouse. Dinner there ends with pralines and cream cheesecake, Godiva chocolate Crème Brulee or fried pecan pie with chocolate drizzle.

Wednesday's grand opening comes 10 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Old Town in D'Iberville, where Scarlet Pearl now sits. Originally proposed as Can Can Casino, the project survived the recession and a missed deadline to build under the former requirements of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. The name was changed and after the July 2014 ground-breaking, the project was built to the new standards with 300 hotel rooms, a 68,000 square-foot casino, a fine dining restaurant and an amenity designed to attract new visitors to the Coast.

The centerpiece of Lava Links 36-hole miniature golf course is volcano that erupts with steam and flame.

Check back to sunherald.com for updates of the grand opening.