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Centro Basco

Name: Centro Basco
Address: 13432 Central Avenue, Chino, CA, 91710, US
Telephone: (909) 628-9014

Chino, 1940. A boarding house that still sets a boarders' table one Saturday a month.

Where it stands, and the nearest room in another town. Town centroids, not doorways. Basemap: Natural Earth, public domain.

Where: 13432 Central Avenue, Chino, CA, 91710cited
Phone: (909) 628-9014
Its own site: https://www.centrobasco.net/
Opened: 1940cited
Status: open
checked 2026-09-16cited
Seating: both, depending on the night · reservations taken
Ordinary nights, your own table and separate courses. The last Saturday of the month, one long table at 12:30.cited
Picon Punch: not publishedcited
Week: MTWTFSS
Lunch Wed–Fri 11:30–2 · Dinner Tue 5–9, Wed–Sat 4–9, Sun 12–8 · Boarder's Table, last Saturday, 12:30
checked 2026-09-16cited
Calls its kitchen: “Basque, from the Pays Basque side of the Pyrenees”cited

Now

Dinner comes in separate courses, not all at once. On the last Saturday of the month the house sets the Boarder's Table at 12:30 — one sitting, everyone together, the way the building fed men who worked the dairies.

Before

It opened in 1940 as a boarding house for Basque immigrants.

Kin

The Boarder's Tableeventthe monthly sitting this house keeps← the house that keeps it

Basque cupboard with lauburu (=basque cross), (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France).

Ostatuawordwhat the building was in 1940← opened as one in 1940 Taylor's Caféroomthe other Basque room in Chino← the other Basque room in Chino, five minutes away

The Hotel Padre has long been a landmark in downtown Bakersfield, California, USA.

Californiaregionthe state this room sits in

Sources

Centro Basco — the restaurant, the house's own site · read 2026-09-16
Basque Restaurants — Southern California — Euskal Kazeta, directory · read 2026-09-16

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