7 Best Restaurants in Death Valley National Park, California

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Inside the park, if you're looking for a special evening out in Death Valley, head to the Inn at Furnace Creek Dining Room, where you'll be spoiled with fine wines and juicy steaks. It's also a great spot to start the day with a hearty gourmet breakfast. Most other eateries within the park are mom-and-pop-type places with basic American fare. Outside the park, dining choices are much the same, with little cafés and homey diners serving up coffee shop–style burgers, chicken, and steaks. If you’re vegetarian or vegan, BYOB (bring your own beans).

The Inn at the Oasis at Death Valley Dining Room

$$$$ Fodor's choice

Fireplaces, beamed ceilings, and spectacular views provide a visual feast to match this fine-dining restaurant's ambitious menu. Dinner entrées include salmon, free-range chicken, filet mignon, and seasonal vegetarian dishes; breakfast is also served here. Try the signature prickly-pear margarita, or head to the pool bar for casual fare. 

19th Hole Bar & Grill

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Next to the clubhouse of the world's lowest golf course, this open-air spot serves hamburgers, hot dogs, chili, and sausages. The bar has a rotating selection of draft beers.

Hwy. 190, Furnace Creek, CA, 92328, USA
760-786–2345
Known For
  • Smoked sausages, veggie burgers, and house-made chili
  • Shaded patio
  • Full bar
Restaurant Details
Rate Includes: Closed mid-May–mid-Oct. No service after 7 pm

Crowbar Café and Saloon

$

Built in the 1930s, the diner-esque Crowbar—where antique photos adorn the walls and mining equipment stands in the corners—serves enormous helpings of regional dishes such as steak and taco salads. Home-baked fruit pies make fine desserts, and frosty beers are surefire thirst quenchers. Grab a table in the air-conditioned saloon or on the patio, where you can watch time tick by on the streets of Shoshone. 

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Last Kind Words Saloon

$$

Swing through wooden doors and into a spacious dining room that re-creates an authentic Old West saloon, decked out with a wooden bar and furniture, mounted animal heads, fugitive wanted fliers, film posters, and other memorabilia. The traditional steak-house menu includes ribs, filet mignon, flat iron steak, along with crab cakes, salmon, pizzas, and pasta.

Panamint Springs Resort Restaurant

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This is a great place for a beer and a steak, though the menu also has burgers, chicken tenders, fish and chips, pasta dishes, and salads. In summer, dinners (reservations suggested) are served out on the porch, which has spectacular views of Panamint Valley. A limited breakfast and lunch are also served.

Randsburg General Store

$

Built as Randsburg's Drug Store in 1896, this popular biker and family spot is one of the area's few surviving ghost-town buildings with original furnishings intact, such as a tin ceiling, light fixtures, and a 1904 marble-and-stained-glass soda fountain. You can still enjoy a phosphate soda from that same fountain, or lunch on slow-roasted barbecue sandwiches and blueberry milk shakes along with chili, hamburgers, and breakfast.

Toll Road Restaurant

$$

There are wheels in the yard and Old West artifacts on the interior walls at this restaurant in the Stovepipe Wells Village hotel. A full dinner menu with steaks and pasta is served year-round, as are box lunches and a breakfast buffet. Quench your thirst and fuel up on lunch and snacks in the full-service saloon specializing in burgers and sandwiches. 

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