Best Basque Restaurant in Bakersfield · Bakersfield, CA
Wool Growers is Bakersfield's most beloved Basque restaurant, opened in 1954 by Mayie and J.B. Maitia to feed the region's Basque sheepherders and still run by the same family. Dinner is a marathon of family-style courses — soup, beans, salsa, salad, pasta, and fries — before the lamb, oxtail, or pickled tongue even arrives.
The white-tablecloth dining room and its adjoining cocktail lounge remain a communal, generous experience: you sit down hungry and leave having eaten your way through a full Basque table.
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Since 1954, Wool Growers has served Bakersfield's Basque set-up: soup, beans, salsa, and platters that never seem to end.
Yes — Wool Growers Restaurant is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Basque Restaurant in Bakersfield, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best Basque restaurant in Bakersfield for 2025 for seven decades of pickled tongue, beans, and family-style Basque dinners.
Wool Growers Restaurant is in Bakersfield, CA.
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