California Food Journalism and News 2020 [SF Bay Area, Los Angeles and the rest of California]

https://www.bakersfield.com/news/robert-price-noriega-hotel-closing-now-it-s-really-hitting-home/article_7039ac06-871c-11ea-b118-97b0888ee7f4.amp.html

From the article -

The area’s oldest Basque restaurant — and, so it is said, the world’s last surviving establishment of its kind — was founded in 1893 by Faustino Noriega, a Basque immigrant who beat the railroad here by six years. The hotel, which Noriega ran with partner Fernando Etcheverry, catered to young Basque men engaged in what was then a common vocation for imported workers from the Pyrenees mountain range of northern Spain and southwestern France: sheepherding.

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