Location & Contact:

3110 N MAROA AVE
Fresno, Ca 93704
559-226-7499

Description:

WELCOME - ONGI ETORRI

The Santa Fe Basque Restaurant, a 2-time California Restaurant Association Award winner, is proud to serve the people of the Central Valley of California as well as travelers from all over the world!

Located in Fresno, the restaurant is on your way to such destinations as Yosemite National Park, Kings and Sequoia National Park, and is the midway point for motorists travelling between Los Angeles and San Francisco/Sacramento. The restaurant is just a short hop from most of the major hotels in Fresno!

The Santa Fe Basque Restaurant has provided a taste of Basque culture for over 70 years.

We await your visit! The Picon Punch (our house drink) will be on the bar, and our kitchen will be well stocked with our American Beef, American Lamb, Poultry and Fish (nationality unknown). Check out our menu and call in or fax your reservation today!!
Gero Arteo

THE SANTA FE AND THE BASQUES
Begun in 1926, the Santa Fe Basque Restaurant originally served as a boarding house and tavern specifically for Basque immigrants who came to America from the "old country" (of what is current day Northern Spain and Southwestern France). The Basque hotels constituted a network of ethnic establishments along which Basque immigrants could enter and move about the United States with a maximum of protection and a minimum of culture shock.

As was the custom, the Santa Fe was built in the railroad station district of the town. Typically, the hotel is a two-story structure with plain but clean lodgings on the top floor, a combination of private rooms and small dormitories sleeping several men, while the ground floor consisted of a bar and a dining room where the boarders eat together at long tables.

Many of these Basques worked as shepherds. The hotel was also a base of operations for the Basque sheepman in town on business. Since it was opened, the Santa Fe has been involved in the business of helping clients earn a living. It is the focus of local employment information. Sheepmen in need of herders usually began the search here.

As with all things, change has come to the Santa Fe Basque Restaurant. After serving as the proprietors of the Santa Fe for over 11 years at it's original location, the Santa Fe Hotel in downtown Fresno, we were forced to find a new home. After relocating our boarders to new homes, we relocated our 76 year old business to it's present location. First built as the famous Casa Canales and later known as The Players, both well known in their time, it is our home for at least the next 76 years.

WE would like to express our gratitude to all of you who have supported us through the years and during our move. We have been very well received here and hope to serve you for a very long time.



Hours
Lunch served Mon - Sat 11:00 - 2:00
Dinner served 5-9 Mon.-Sat.
Open Holiday Sundays and Private Banquets
Bar Open 7 days

KARAOKE
EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY
7:00PM-11:00PM OR LATER

Reservations:

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