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Wool Growers Restaurant

Name: Wool Growers Restaurant
Address: 620 East 19th Street, Bakersfield, CA, US
Telephone: (661) 327-9584
Price range: $22–$46

Bakersfield, 1954. The Maitia family's dining room behind a cocktail lounge on East 19th.

Where it stands, and the nearest room to it. Town centroids, not doorways.

Where

620 East 19th Street, Bakersfield, CAcited

Phone

(661) 327-9584

Its own site

https://woolgrowers.net/

Opened

1954 · J.B. and Mayie Maitiacited

Status

open
checked 2026-09-16cited

Seating

your own table · reservations required
The house site puts it plainly: tables by reservation, walk-ins at the counter. Two people get their own table if they call.cited

Picon Punch

yes · $8cited

Dinner

Fried chicken	$22
Scampi	$24
Vegetarian penne	$28
Oxtail stew	$30
Lamb chops	$32
Shrimp a la planxa	$34
Filet mignon	$46

Each carries the relish tray, soup, beans and bread that arrive with every dinner.

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Week

MTWTFSS
Tue–Thu 6pm–11pm · Fri–Sat 1–3:30pm and 6pm–midnight · Sun 1–4pm
checked 2026-09-16cited

Calls its kitchen

“Basque, in the sheepherder line, with a French Basque hand”inference

Now

Three generations of one family have run it: J.B. and Mayie Maitia opened in 1954, their daughter Jenny took it on, and Jenny's daughter Christiane works it now. The bar takes walk-ins; a table is a phone call ahead.

At the table

A relish tray lands first — pickled tongue, salsa, beans, bread — and keeps landing. The entree is what you ordered; the rest of the meal is not.

Kin

The relish traydishwhat arrives before you have ordered anything← the room this directory can document it at

Picon Punchdrinkpoured at the bar here for $8← pours one for $8 Pyrenees Caféroomeight blocks east, and older by half a century← the other Bakersfield room still serving

A 2011 dinner menu for Noriega Hotel in Bakersfield, California

Noriega Hotelroomthe Bakersfield room this one outlived← eight blocks away, and still open

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

Californiaregionthe state this room sits in← the Bakersfield room with the fullest record here Garlic fried chickendish← prints it at $22

Sheep herders wagon from the Yakima Valley.

Lamb chopsdish← prints them at $32

Coda alla vaccinara – Schmorgericht der römischen Küche aus Ochsenschwanz.

Oxtail stewdish← prints it at $30

Pickled tonguedish← serves it The Maitia familyperson← three generations in the same room Benji's French Basque Restaurantroom← the older Bakersfield room across town Chalet Basqueroom← fifteen years older, two miles east Wool Growers Restaurantroom← shares the name and the trade it is named for, 230 miles south

Sources

Wool Growers Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge — the restaurant, the house's own site · read 2026-09-16
Bakersfield Basque — Visit Bakersfield, visitor bureau · read 2026-09-16
The Beauty of Bakersfield's Basque Cuisine — PBS SoCal / KCET, public television · read 2026-09-16

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