Conde NasteTraveler: 50 States, 50 Cuisines

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There are similar places in the California Central Valley. There was a thread with several posts about it. In fact I wondered if that was the thread you were thinking of in your recent query.

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

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.