K C Steak House

Bakersfield · Steakhouse · $$

In Kern County the Basque boarding houses set the local table manners, and steakhouses that were never Basque inherited the habit: here the beans and salsa arrive before the menu does. Open on F Street since 1938, the room is dark wood, low light and deep booths, the kind of place where the porterhouse remains the correct answer and the lobster mac and cheese is the newer argument. Most tables end up settling it by ordering both.