room
Pyrenees Café
Bakersfield, 1901. A boarding house by the rail yard that never stopped feeding people.
- Where
- 601 Sumner Street, Bakersfield, CA, 93305cited
- Phone
- (661) 323-0053
- Its own site
- https://thepyreneescafe.com/
- Opened
- 1901
Other accounts put the house at 1899; the café's own site says 1901.cited - Status
- open
checked 2026-09-16cited - Seating
- a long table, with strangers · reservations taken
Long tables, dishes passed. Reservations by phone.harvested - Picon Punch
- not published
The bar runs until 9 or 10 most nights; the site does not print a drink list.cited - Week
- MTWTFSS
Mon and Wed 8am–9pm · Tue dining to 3pm, bar to 9pm · Thu–Fri 8am–10pm · Sat 7am–10pm · Sun 7am–9pm
checked 2026-09-16cited - Calls its kitchen
- “Basque, out of a boarding house”cited
Now
It opens for breakfast, which almost no Basque dining room does, and runs through to a late bar.
Before
It went up near the Bakersfield train station in 1901 and took in Basque men who arrived by rail and left for the hills with a flock. The boarders are gone; the long tables stayed.
Kin
Ostatuawordthe word for what this building was first← was one, by the Bakersfield tracksWool Growers Restaurantroomthe other Bakersfield room still serving← eight blocks east, and older by half a century
The long tablestorywhy two people here sit with four strangers
Californiaregionthe state this room sits inBenji's French Basque Restaurantroom← the oldest oneOpen on this page
- the 1901 date against the 1899 one that circulates
- whether the bar makes a Picon Punch
Sources
- Pyrenees Cafe — the restaurant, the house's own site · read 2026-09-16
- Basque Restaurants — Southern California — Euskal Kazeta, directory · read 2026-09-16
- Bakersfield Basque — Visit Bakersfield, visitor bureau · read 2026-09-16
Record provenance: cited · confidence medium · updated 2026-09-16