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    Memento Mori

    4.3 (49 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    The hamburger with fries.
    Shirley C.

    The service and food is very great. The restaurant is very nice. I highly recommend this restaurant.

    No flavor
    Desteny B.

    We spent $150 worth of food and drinks. I will never go back and none of us finishedour food. The food was flavorless and the drinks were small. The heater wasn't working, the owner offered us a shot for being cold but never brought it to our table. The place is nicely decorated but that's about it.

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    Laura N.

    Traveling out of town and found this spot! Fresh. Spicy and delicious food! The cocktails were super good too!

    Ceviche de camaron

    A very great new restaurant to check out in Bakersfield! You definitely get a bang for your buck on drinks and food (drinks are strong and food tastes great). The owner actually remade my sister's and I's horchata drink bc it was too strong for us and made it into a different drink with coffee and coconut cream. It was delicious! Owners and staff are friendly and welcoming! Ambience is great with a good sound system for music in the dining area & bar. Very pretty inside.

    Jasmine R.

    My husband and I were excited to hear about this new restaurant. We are foodies and we love trying new places, especially seafood restaurants. This is not your typical ceviche place, I could tell the chefs and the owners put in a lot of thought into the flavors of the dishes. I also like that they didn't copy the Tulum hype that restaurants have been doing here in Bakersfield. The vibe felt a little bit more elegant and classy. Be ready for smaller portions than you're used to, that are a little bit pricey, but as our waitress said, it's quality not quantity. Additionally, our waitress was knowledgeable about where the food was sourced from! I got a rainbow colored drink, and it was one of the best drinks I have ever had. Looking forward to visiting again!

    Ana P.

    Beautiful restaurant and friendly staff. We went on the day the A/C went out which might have made the experience a bit less enjoyable due to it being over 100 degrees outside. We were unaware that if you order two drinks before 7pm you get the Botanas Camarones Al Veneno on the house which was a great treat. Their chef was out that day as well so we had to lean on trying their ceviche and aguachiles since their kitchen was down. Which was a bummer. The ceviche was okay but the camarones al veneno were great.

    Pink Long Island

    The food and the drinks at this place are absolutely fantastic, and the service is equally impressive. Junior Parra (staff) was very attentive and friendly, making the whole experience enjoyable from start to finish. Whether you're out with friends or having dinner, this spot offers plenty of room to relax and enjoy your meal. Not to mention they have live band and dj certain days out of the week. Must visit if you haven't yet.

    Mezcalito

    I was there with a couple of friends having a couple drinks the atmosphere and service there is very amazing. Their food is very good too. When we were there they were having a Mixology class looked very fun. We for sure. Will be back to join a class. We also seen they had books there in case we brought our kids they could read and play the games they have their available

    Steak pasta

    Very nice and thought out restaurant. It is beautiful inside and the owners are very hands on and welcoming. The first time my friends and I went we had made a reservation but upon getting there we were informed their kitchen was down and they apologized for the inconvenience. We still stayed and lounged, played games, and took turns reading poems from the little library they have in the lounge area. One of the owners, the wife, came out to apologize to us for the kitchen being closed. She noted we had a reservation so she offered us a $100 voucher for the next time we'd come. She also gave us a free bottle of imported mezcal. It was delicious. We had a great time. We returned two weeks later and they honored the voucher. The food was tasty. The pastas are a big serving size. I ordered the steak pasta. Definitely hearty and filling. The other owner, the husband, gave out free shots of a seasonal drink he created made from guava. It was very good and refreshing. I ordered their horchata liquor drink, it was definitely very strong for me. It's made with mezcal and you could definitely taste the smokiness. Although I will say you get a good amount of alcohol for the price. I couldn't drink it and they gladly remade me a new drink. It was a coffee liquor drink, it tasted less strong and tasty. The restaurant is definitely still growing and I see it becoming a hot spot. Great layout, nice waitresses, good food, amazing drinks, and attentive owners. I am definitely coming back to try their other dishes and for brunch time.

    Can see the plane from our table.  Also right at the departure end of the airport.  Love watching planes take off
    JamesandGloria C.

    Great fly in restaurant destination at the Bakersfield Municipal Airport. Great food, great service, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to coming back to explore the dinner menu. Today we came early for brunch and everything was excellent, including dessert. Our server Biri, was outstanding. (I told her I'd mention her lol)

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    Jose M.

    Excellent service and great vibes! Food was amazing and had a great experience celebrating my friend's bday :) Will definitely be coming back more often.

    Cheescake with blueberries on top
    Carlos S.

    This place is great Good food, drinks and has a little area with some games and books. The service here is a 10/10 i love the cheescake they have here its wonderful and their drinks are outstanding

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    CLOSED. Arrived at 12:30pm on a Tuesday, and it's a ghost town. Looks shut down, even tho it states open 24 hrs a day..

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    2 years ago

    Hidden Gem! Excellent menu with outstanding service. I enjoyed the Red Snapper and my wife had Ribeye

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    Food is amazing here!! Good atmosphere, the drinks where good. Family restaurant. Definitely recommend!

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    Had such a great time! The bartender junior parra had wonderful service! Definitely recommend for good drinks!

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    3.3 mi
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    Nobody plans to spend an evening in Bakersfield. You pass through it on the way to somewhere else…read more-- Mammoth, the Sequoias, the long flat grind up the 99 to Sacramento -- and if you stop at all, it's for gas or a bathroom or because your BMW's brakes have decided, somewhere around the Grapevine, that they'd rather not. Thank you, Weatherford BMW of Berkeley, for the near-death experience and, inadvertently, for one of the best nights out I've had in years. Stranded and waiting on repairs, we checked into The Padre, the only hotel in Bakersfield that feels like someone with a subscription to Dwell had a hand in it, and set out walking through a downtown that time has treated with more kindness than reputation suggests. There's a Woolworth's luncheonette still hanging on. There are old brick facades and wide sidewalks and the particular quiet of a Central Valley evening when the heat finally breaks. And then, on 18th Street, there is Tiki-Ko, and suddenly you are no longer in Bakersfield at all. You are, instead, inside someone's magnificent obsession. Tiki-Ko is a proper tiki bar -- not a tiki-themed cocktail lounge, not a place that bought some bamboo at a craft store and called it atmosphere, but a genuine, committed, floor-to-ceiling shrine to mid-century Polynesian fantasy. The carvings are real. The lighting is correct -- which is to say, barely there. The mugs are serious. There are pufferfish lamps and carved totems and the whole glorious taxonomy of tiki ephemera, accented here and there with a skate-culture edge that keeps it from feeling like a museum. It's reverent without being precious. The drinks are the real thing. Mai Tais built with actual orgeat. Zombies that earn the name. The bartenders make them with the kind of care and enthusiasm that tells you this isn't a gig -- it's a calling. They want you to be here. They want to talk about rum. They want you to try the Painkiller. In a city that most Angelenos regard as a punch line, somebody built a world-class cocktail bar and filled it with joy, and the regulars clearly know it. You will not plan a trip to Bakersfield. But if you find yourself there -- by mechanical failure, by accident, by the peculiar mercy of a bad brake job -- walk downtown. Find the tiki bar. Order a second round. Stay longer than you intended. Bakersfield has been underestimated, and Tiki-Ko is the proof.

    Tiki bar located in Downtown Bakersfield that kind of acts as two locations or spaces. There's the…read moremain bar at the corner and if you go outside and walk a bit down the sidewalk, there's 'The Sinking Ship' with a more heavy nautical and speakeasy vibe (where you enter and walk down some stairs and find a lush decor). I only had a drink upstairs at the original bar and I ordered my default go to when I visit new tiki bars and am unfamiliar with their menus and that was the painkiller. The service or person behind the bar was chill and super friendly. I came in on the earlier side of a Friday evening, so although people were trickling in, the place wasn't packed. Since I was only able to stay for a drink, I just wanted to walk down and check out 'The Sinking Ship' and was thoroughly impressed by the decor (well pretty much for both spaces). Definitely a place I'd love to grab drinks with friends or spend more time at.

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    Interior booth

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    Sunken Ship

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