Elko Restaurants

The service in Elko is for the birds. The people are so incredibly rude. Even the manager's seem to not care if you go back or not. They always forget something, and you are lucky if they greet you with a hello, or even a thank you. Next time I am just passing by.

Basque food (ample, homestyle, meat and veggies) and plenty of it in a traditional, 'family style' Basque hotel. Enter through the bar and bring an appetite!

Favorite Dish: Dinner steak.

At any of the Basque restaurants, one orders the entree - and everything else just arrives: first, hearty soup and bread. Next, Basque salad. Then the entree arrives on its own plate, with platters of vegetables: beans, french fries, spaghetti, green beans. These are served 'family style' so be ready to pass the plates.

coffee or tea 'comes with' and so does a dessert: your choice usually of ice cream, spumoni, flan or sherbet, sometime tiramisu - nobody leaves hungry from the Star. But you better like garlic.

Wasn't that impressed. In fact, I was far from impressed. I had to ask for water. There was something wrong with all three dinners. I had to ask for bread. Then I had to ask for butter. The later came when I was half-way through dinner. The manager got really bugged because we did complain about all three orders being wrong in some way. Just wasn't a fine dining experience. Far from it. Could hear the other people having to ask for stuff as well. Must have been understaffed, our waitress was helping set tables.

Favorite Dish: The asparagus that came with my prime rib was about the only part of dish that tasted interesting. In fact, the prime rib itself was the worst example of this dish that I've had in years. This dish ended up giving meaning to the phrase, it was "repeating on me". Might as well have been horse meat rather than beef.