We had a paddy melt with fries, and roast beef gravy, mashed taters and a dinner salad. It was all amazing! The salad was very fresh the meat just the right texture and the gravy so flavorful. It is so hard to find a paddy melt made right! But this one was! Just the right amount of grilled onions Swiss cheese, on marbled rye and a perfect burger. The fries were hot fresh and cooked to a golden brown giving them just a little crunch. Nothing was greasy!Our waitress Kaylee was a beautiful young lady who was personable and refreshing. She did a wonderful job waiting on us with just the right amount of attention and timing. Thank you Golden West for a fantastic meal on a long lonely highway. Next stop Hotel California! read more

The service is delightfully friendly and the food at this establishment is well worth the stop. My party and I enjoyed the little restaurants charming simplicity and we were grateful for delicious food on our drive across the state of Idaho. I recommend trying the Grilled Cheese Hamburger with bacon added. Tasty Food. read more

Golden West Cafe - The Grilled Cheese Burger - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

If you are visiting Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserves and looking for a place to eat, drive to Golden West Cafe in Arco. It's about 16mins drive from Craters of the Moon. Nice and clean diner with friendly staff. Service was fast too. My husband ordered finger steaks with fries with salad and fried dough. I'm vegetarian so I ordered salad and grilled cheese. The foos was delicious. Hubby enjoyed his meal. The fries tasted fresh. They have clean bathroom too. A nice place to grab lunch/dinner after exploring Craters of the Moon. read more

Golden West Cafe - the name of the restaurant - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

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Very good food and friendly service! We got the kids corn dog, the BLT and the burger combo. All good. Loved the fry sauce.

Best food I've had in a while. Not to much to look at in the outside but yummy food inside. We asked the waitress her best dishes and we ordered them and was so pleasantly surprised. Open faced roasted beef sandwich, nice tender slices of roast beef (not sandwich meat) and the steak fingers were great and the crispy steak fries were great. Hamburgers were just as good. read more

Friendly staff, pleasant and clean atmosphere. Food is good. I recommend this restaurant if in the area.

Such wonderful people and Food. I manage one of the local Motels and I send guest there all the time. Never have I had one guest say that they did not have a wonderful dinner. Go get the pot roast dinner. It's to die for. Well all their food is but this is my favorite reminds me of Sunday night dinners with Grandma read more

Cleanest place we ate in Arco. Side salad was delicious and hit the spot with all the toppings! Open face hot beef sandwich was good, loved the mashed potatoes. Cracker basket had a big selection was a nice touch! read more

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The reviews as compared to Pickles are right. Go here. Every time. This is a quality, home-cooking-style family restaurant that will definitely treat you right. Old fashioned, and uncaring about high-brow, big-city BS. Great service from the young lady who took care of our table. read more

Employees were great. She was able to help us and others. Burgers were a little small but there were amazing. Loved the fries. Great vibe to the place. Overall it was great read more

Nice clean restaurant with pleasant staff. Cheeseburger and fries were great and the ribeye steak was cooked just right. If you want a treat, the milkshakes and think and delicious. Stop in for good food read more

Excellent burgers, fries, and service, 4 stars, plus another half star for allowing you to bring in a six pack from the gas station.... read more

Golden West Cafe - the sign for the golden west cafe - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

Great food! Good service! Clean restrooms! The waitress was very attentive, and extremely polite! We ordered the Ham and Cheese melt with the salad, and the breaded chicken sandwich, with fries. Large portions! The place is easy to miss unless you're looking for it! This is a family run restaurant, and was well worth the stop! read more

Really great sirloin with mashed potatoes and gravy. Yum. A bit understaffed due to Covid but great service anyhow.

Stopped here yesterday on our way back from a long driving tour day and it was a great little place! The server was absolutely the best very sweet and attentive. Their soup was the bomb on a cold day. We shared a meal they are large portions and it was very filling. No they don't require masks or any other bs because there is no mandate in this state. If you feel unsafe about that don't go here. It was lovely seeing faces again! It's close to Craters of the Moon park. read more

Stopped at this small restaurant because it had 4.5 stars. We were first disappointed and shocked that the booth benches had no support like they were Brocken and we were sitting on springs. The waitress was attentive but she was the only one serving the entire dining room. When the food arrived it was ok meh and bland. Would not recommend this place for out of towners. read more

On our way to Montana and saw this hole in the wall. Great atmosphere, great food. I ordered the Denver Omelette and it's huge. Great tasting too! Enough to share. The sign outside is a little worn out so don't miss it! It's right beside the gas station. Definitely worth the stop. read more

Golden West Cafe - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

Great burgers, fries, and sandwiches. Not a fancy place for those looking for arugula salad and crostinis. Just simple, inexpensive solid food. Impeccably clean! read more

We ordered a grilled ham/cheese sandwich, hot beef and mashed potatoes, and finger steaks with fries. All three were very tasty!!! Great service. We'll definitely stop in again when traveling thru. read more

When driving through Arco make a point to stop here. Great food, great service and large portions. Also, the prices are more than reasonable. What more could you ask for? read more

Golden West Cafe - Open faced beef sandwich - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

A Diamond in the rough‼ Great little cafe, we stopped for lunch and was not disappointed‼ I had a cup of homemade chicken noodle soup, and salad! My husband had a patty melt, both were very good the service is wonderful and prices are reasonable, we will definitely stop here again! read more

Service was great I had the steak fingers and fries w a side of gravy... Fries were under cooked still hard in the middle steak fingers and gravy were good and the people next to us ordered pie that looked amazing read more

Golden West Cafe - Steak fingers and fries w gravy the gravy is brown food was great would come back service was friendly - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

Great find on US 20 in Arco ID. I imagine if you live locally you already know it's a welcoming restaurant with outstanding service and delicious fresh meals at a great price. I just had the freshest BLT I've had in years at this restaurant/cafe. Think of it especially if you're in the area and going to the Idaho National Laboratories 'Atomic Museum' (Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 = EBR-1) or Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. read more

Golden West Cafe - Golden West Cafe - Cafes Near Me - Arco, Idaho

It was brighter and cheerier and therefore cleaner looking and feeling than Pickles Place where I visited a couple weeks ago with teenaged children. Service tonight was a 5. It was slow though. I was told the clam chowder was homemade so I tried a bowl. It was more like a vegetable cream soup with a little clam. I've eaten clam chowder in New England and homemade clam chowder in Idaho made by me or my neighbor from Maryland lol, so maybe I shouldn't have bothered... difficult to compare to after that lol. I give it a 3 cuz it did taste like fresh celery in the soup. I got a bowl for $3.25. The main decision-maker for the soup was I am pretty broke and needed something filling for cheap and it was served with a smile and speed so I can't complain! I poured the leftover ice water in my own cup to go and got back on the road quickly. I felt compelled to give $1 tip even though my budget/ funds are low. But it's a sit down restaurant and the service was good and waitresses aren't getting rich off the legal $3.50/ hour plus tips (or at least minimum wage per hour if it doesn't equal or exceed that amount), or whatever the current legal waitress rate is now in southern Idaho. May God bless all waiters and waitresses! read more

I stopped in for lunch while passing through last week. I had the open-face Hot Beef Sandwich and it was wonderful - very thick, tender roast beef with real, hand-mashed potatoes. The salad was fresh and crisp, too. It was even better than the photo that Todd uploaded, IMHO. Fresh ice tea and friendly wait staff. read more

Clean and delightful cafe with great, friendly service and relaxing atmosphere. We brought our brood here for a surprisingly good down home supper. Excellent roast beef and soup! Generous servings! We really enjoyed it! read more

Fine patty melt. Finer people. Such gracious hosts. Very kid friendly.

What a gem of a cafe! Don't let the outside fool you! We shared an order of the open face meatloaf sandwich with mashed potatoes, brown gravy and a side salad, a bowl of the tomato mac soup, and a "small" order of fries. Everything was awesome, right down to the smiling service from Lexi! You can't beat homemade ranch, and we were stuffed for less than $20. Hungry? Don't pass this cafe by. read more

We needed a place to stop on the way back from Craters of the Moon. We tried this Restaurant because of the good Yelp reviews. So glad we did! We had a party of 8. They had a round table large enough to seat us. All our meals were good. The waitress was friendly. Service was good. I had the patty melt. Skip the $1.75 upgrade for a salad. It wasn't worth it. The fries were good. The pies are Marie Callender's and are delicious a la mode. read more

Nondescript building but the food is homemade and good! Portions are plentiful Wait staff was courteous and attentive. We had the baked halibut and hamburger steak with gravy. Homemade mashed potatoes and gravy. Delicious! The bread pudding was definitely worth the splurge read more

Fries are top notch! Only one vegetarian option as expected (grilled cheese), but overall it was a good place for a quick lunch! Service was excellent! read more

This is a cosy family restaurant. The service was friendly, and prompt. The food was amazing and fresh and abundant. We all took left overs home. I ordered the roast beef with a salad. The beef was fork tender seasoned perfectly. The salad was deliciously fresh and crisp. Then, homemade tapioca pudding came with the meal. The restaurant was extreme clean. read more

We tried this place for dinner on our first night in Arco. The service was really good. We were pleased with the food, and the portions were huge. The scones were very good, and all of the dinner entrees come with desert. read more

Sweet little place to pit stop at when driving through this town! Staff is small but super sweet to you cause it's small town atmosphere.

The food was plentiful and very good. The service was excellent. Highly recommend a stop here.

Very nice place, with friendly servers and hometown atmosphere. If form the east on 20, just before you get to town. If west bound on 20, it's almost all the way out of town. You'll see advertising signs. The portions are big and the prices are reasonable. My wife got a 1/2 chef salad and it filled the platter. read more

Perfect place for a late lunch. We had. Party of 15 that was served with grace and kindness. My BLT was absolutely great, and everyone was very happy with the food and service. read more

They have great food, good burgers, it's a damn good place to eat my friends, so don't hesitate stopping and getting a bite to eat when your passing bye. read more

This place is a great place to eat if you're passing through Arco. Serving you are young people trying to be great but the prices are high for residents to eat here often. The food is plated well. Food is good. Not much to do while waiting for your meal but then again, they serve you faster than others read more

Standard local restaurant food. Service is good. Clean and comfortable. For dessert try the Zina's pudding. Very good. I like mine with cream vs ice cream. read more