Huell Howser Wool Growers Basque Restaurant - Bakersfield, CA

[@bartonlee3594]

He always had such a genuine positive attitude. And the food looks great!

[@basquevideos]

He was the very best!

[@squint04]

How could four people NOT like this! Huell, a Sunday night tradition! May you rest in peace.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

God bless Huell (RIP) for his enthusiasm for "pecan punch". 🤪

[@timschmidt3784]

Excellent food and excellent people at the Wool Growers. You will not go home hungry.

[@19812000JR]

🔥🔥🥰

[@nikolaflin7979]

Grew up in Bakersfield, to this day, my idea of perfect comfort food is exactly this, with extra helpings of pickled tongue (heaven), Pyrenees French Bread and spumoni ... luckily, family still lives there and I get my fix a few times a year...

[@johnriley8591]

You never leave hungry. Everything is good!

[@laurakaticich1617]

My Mom, Barbara Hudson Katicich, worked with her good friend Frank Elizaldi and his sister Mary L. Elizaldi Curtola in Walnut Creek and Vallejo at El Curtola's Restaurant. Before that she worked at Plans Restaurant. 1940-1950s.

[@billmason2785]

Where was the restaurant located? In walnut Creek

[@UnKnown-cw3tj]

Rest in Peace Uncle Danny

[@angellenolan8504]

Maia is my godmother. So excellent to see her face

[@19812000JR]

🥰

[@johnnyspring7660]

Best Filet Mignon I have ever eaten, Be sure to ask for it chard on the outside and rare in the middle, its fantastic you will think your in Vegas . I eat there every week , wonderful food

[@boogotti1173]

Woolgrowers is 🔥🔥🔥😁❤️

[@darlar.9043]

No truer word, “When you come to Bakersfield, you gotta eat at Woolgrowers.” It’s where take our visitors.

[@girlswithafros]

@folkmusicgirl there are many small booths for solo diners. And the people there will make you feel like family.

[@Beanmachine91]

i love their fries and wine

[@petessmith6623]

Huey Howser what do you mean Mexican Basque? Lol 😆 I guess the original Basque from the 1500s are excluded. I'm Mexican and my DNA is mostly Basque!

[@nancycarlson7571]

I thought they also had pickled white beans?? Those were yummy too!

[@girlswithafros]

Best restaurant in the world.

[@19812000JR]

🔥🔥🥰

[@mcstraviganza]

Zach Galifianakis and his show “Baskets” brought me here! 🤓

[@troysierra5228]

I wonder if this place exists 2022? After the pandemic most places shut down.

[@basquevideos]

Hi Troy, Wool Growers is still serving great Basque food today. During 2020, they operated safely by providing a to-go menu and serving customers in their outdoor dining area. Normal business operations were restored in full during 2021. Merry Christmas, Pierre

[@claustresfrancoise2177]

Très belle surprise au milieu de notre périple dans l’ouest américain, très bon accueil et très bonne cuisine !

[@basquevideos]

Merci Françoise!

[@SFKelvin]

Yum, I've been here.

[@folkmusicgirl]

I will be visiting in Bakersfield in late Sept. or early October 2014. However, I will be on my own and I was just wondering if a person dining alone would be out of place? I see many groups of people together and everyone seems friendly. Food looks delicious. I have never eaten Basque food - I am not from the Basque countries. Are there tables where a person can sit by themselves or would I be seated with a group of people who are all together as a family? I don't know if you ever get customers who are by themselves? Even though everyone seems friendly - they do know each other or have come as a group to restaurant - so just wondering if a person by themselves might feel out of place?

[@adozenfinders7013]

folkmusicgirl Nobody notices if you eat alone there

[@folkmusicgirl]

Susan moon Nobody notices??? Don't they seat groups of people together because I have heard that it is groups who all know each other are all seated together. So where would one person sit who is alone and doesn't know the groups? I would feel uncomfortable to just sit down with a group who doesn't know me. Are there tables where one person can sit without intruding on a group who have come to dine together? I do want to try Basque food but don't know about just being seated with a group of people who all know each other already and aren't expecting an extra person at their table. (who is a stranger to them. )

[@adozenfinders7013]

I'm not really sure about basque food. Though I've never been seated with a group of people I don't know. However you should request that you want to be seated by yourself if the place you go to does that.

[@RK831]

Is this a knockoff of the Wool Growers in Los Banos?

[@basquevideos]

It depends on the definition of “knockoff” while the Bakersfield location first opened its doors in 1954. Los Baños’ restaurant started in 1890’s.

[@Drivapete]

@@basquevideos I can remember as far back as the late 60's when Vic and Genevieve Arretche owned the Wool Growers in Los Banos Ca. Our families were good friends, Vic passed in 1974 a few months before my Dad. Genevieve sold the restaurant to the Iturbide family a few years later and as of my last visit it was the best food in town. Bar none! And the beauty was the food was always great and never changed.

[@Drivapete]

After dinner get a picon punch

[@19812000JR]

😋😋

[@EddieTheHorrorAddict]

those are american French fries LOL

[@19812000JR]

🤣

[@pinkdoll7256]

Basque food looks like cold bland old people food.

[@gloppy101]

your ignorance of this food is very apparent.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

​@@gloppy101Well Pinkydoll is Ratchet and only eats garbage ghetto fast food...

[@EddieTheHorrorAddict]

That comment was cold and bland

[@watermanstonebrake5164]

The adorable icon admittedly store because plywood moberly expand under a bustling cloth. squalid, madly begonia

[@basquevideos]

Oh Waterman Stonebrake, Are you Begonia? Responding will help. Thank you, Peter Franks