Basque Tables

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The Basque Block

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Grove Street between Sixth and Capitol, Boise. A pub, a market, a dining room, a club and a museum — and the museum is the boarding house all of it came out of.

A bench outside the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise, Idaho
A bench outside the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise, Idaho
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One block, five doorscited

Bar Gernika on the Capitol corner. The Basque Market halfway down, cooking paella on the pavement on Wednesdays and Fridays. Leku Ona at the Sixth Street end, with a hotel over it. The Basque Center, which is the club. And the Basque Museum & Cultural Center, in the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga house.

The house came firstcited

Cyrus Jacobs built it in 1864. It became a Basque boarding house, the Uberuagas ran it from 1917 and owned it from 1928, and it took boarders until 1969. Sixteen years later Adelia Simplot opened a museum in it. The block assembled itself around a building that had been feeding Basque men for half a century.

What this does to a dinner for twoinference

In Winnemucca or Gardnerville the boarding house is the restaurant, so the long table comes with the meal. On the Basque Block the boarding house is a museum, and the restaurants beside it seat you at your own table. Same descent, different arrangement — and two people who want a room to themselves will find one more easily on Grove Street than on Highway 395.

Every five years it fills upcited

Jaialdi runs six days and draws 30,000 to 50,000 people to these streets. The last was 29 July to 3 August 2025; the next is 2030. Anyone planning a quiet dinner in Boise that week should know it.

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A sign outside the Basque Museum and Cultural Center
A sign outside the Basque Museum and Cultural Center
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Former Anduiza Hotel building (1914), 619 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Housed a Basque social club and frontón court.
Former Anduiza Hotel building (1914), 619 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Housed a Basque social club and frontón court.
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A Basque center in Boise, Idaho
A Basque center in Boise, Idaho
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Berrizko (Bizkaia) bolatokia, zabaleko hiru txirlotara jokatzen
Berrizko (Bizkaia) bolatokia, zabaleko hiru txirlotara jokatzen
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Looking down the Basque Block in Boise towards Capitol Blvd in early spring.
Looking down the Basque Block in Boise towards Capitol Blvd in early spring.
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Bola jokoa
Bola jokoa
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Erromeria eguneko bola jokoa Errenteriako Foruen plazan 2026-07-18
Erromeria eguneko bola jokoa Errenteriako Foruen plazan 2026-07-18
Birasuegi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
A historical home located on Boise's Basque Block.
A historical home located on Boise's Basque Block.
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Laiak, Basque Block, Boise, Idaho. A plaque commemorating Basque Americans in Idaho.
Laiak, Basque Block, Boise, Idaho. A plaque commemorating Basque Americans in Idaho.
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Senideak

Graves belonging to Basque immigrants and their descendants buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho, USA.Idahoestatuathe state page, with the shorter version← the long version of this pageThe Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House, and it is part of the Basque MuseumBasque Museum & Cultural Centererakundeathe building at the centre of it← the block grew around itA Basque center in Boise, IdahoLeku Onajatetxeathe dining room on it← one of the five doors on itBar Gernikajatetxeathe pub on it← the corner door of it56th International Paella Contest of Sueca, 2016.The Basque Marketjatetxeathe counter on it← the shop door on itJoaldun is a traditional carnival character the the Basque Country that wears fur and cow bells to ward off evil.Jaialdiekitaldiawhat fills it every five years← the streets it centres onA cider-maker house inside Igartubeiti Farm Museum in Ezkio-Itsaso village. Guipuscoa, Basque Country.The long tableistorioathe question this block answers differentlySolomoplatera← where it is easiest to findDan Ansoteguipertsona← three of its doors are hisBasquenesejatetxea← two blocks from it

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Record provenance: cited · confidence high · updated 2026-09-16