Called to make dinner reservations, was told only reservations for 5 or more people. Told the employee it was for two people, she stated reservations could not be made and just to walk in as it was open. Arrived and was turned away, needed a reservation. WTF!? No stars read more

Amazing dinner! Had the Chicken Marsala and loved it. The meal was homestyle on the soup, salad and sides! Amazing flavor and friendly staff! read more

Probably the worst service I've had. We didnt get any service for 15 minutes. Then we waited 30 minutes just for our drinks. We never got any refills.The tables who showed up after us recived salad and we were told they had none. She brought out our dinner and didn't bring any of the sides. When I asked for them she said "oh shit, yeah." She checked on us once after we received our food and it was to ask if we wanted our ticket. We had to ask the busser for boxes. When I told the manager/owner he said "okay." Gotta love local businesses. read more

Taking a chance on basque in Elko Nevada. I wish one of the other two basque restaurants in Elko had been open on a Sunday. I don't have much to say that other reviewers haven't said. Tons of sides as is usual with basque style. The soup tasted like canned Campbells, the salad had too much dressing and the dressing wasn't flavorful, the green beans were mushy, almost certainly from a can, the spaghetti... yeah, as a side... was mushy, bland and also tasted like it came from a can, the bread was soft and squishy and flavorless, the wine had to be ordered separately instead of included in the basque style, the rice was like rice-a-roni. The steak we shared was gristly and fatty and undercooked... The staff was extremely friendly, attentive and sweet and I liked the Italian wine we ordered. We actually had fun and laughed a lot. But I think we were just giddy to be out of the car after 9 hours. 3 star experience in a 2 star restaurant. We won't be back, but we may think back on it fondly now and then. read more

Every decent restaurant in Elko is closed on Sunday. Woe to the traveler here on a Sunday night. I had the singularly most unattractive, bad tasting meal at Toki Ono. My dinner companion, whose taste runs toward bad diner food overcooked, even he could not eat this slop. read more

This place was recommended by several locals and they were right. Excellent food and service. Perla is an awesome waitress and make sure to order the stuff shrimped with crab and mushrooms. read more

Well, it was pretty bad... Maybe it was a wrong choice and something else would be better but... The bread and butter ( I guess from a store) was the best thing over there read more

I honestly never write Yelp reviews (this is actually my first), but I felt like I had to as I felt very misled by glowing local reviews. As I came in having read those reviews, I was expecting the family style plates beyond just the entree--but these were the worst parts of the meal and the meal would have been way, way better with just the entree and without the extras. They brought the meal down to two stars because of their unpleasantness; if I had received the entree alone, I would have given it 3 or 4 stars. First, the family style "extras": The salad consisted entirely of JUST lettuce (no other vegetables at all) absolutely DRENCHED in ranch (?) dressing. I didn't touch it. The soup was *clearly* canned Campbell's soup. The green beans again were clearly canned, and tasted unseasoned. The spaghetti also looked canned--it legitimately looked like Chef Boyardee. Again, I didn't touch it. The bread was soft and rather flavorless, and more disappointingly it was room temperature when I was expecting something warm. The baked potato was definitely on the overcooked side. The vegetable rice was okay, but on its own it just didn't redeem the other plates. The idea of a family-style meal with extra plates is exciting, but when all you offer is subpar to inedible dishes that, at best, come from a can, it not only doesn't improve the meal, but brings it down. Way down. The entree: I ordered the crab-stuffed shrimp. This was actually pretty good! I thought it was tasty and only had one complaint--but it was a MAJOR complaint. The dish came with 6 shrimp, and 5 of those were absolutely delicious and they are the reason I am giving the restaurant 2 stars instead of 1. But the sixth HAD NOT BEEN DEVEINED. I practically needed a pooper scooper. That is DISGUSTING and ANY chef should know better. Lastly I ordered dessert. The waitress recommended the bread pudding. It had unfortunately clearly just come out of the fridge as it was unevenly reheated--the edges were warm, but the center was still very cold. I ate around the edges and then gave up on it. For the meal I just described above, I paid $40 with tip. It is extremely overpriced for the very poor quality food that you receive. I would not recommend this restaurant. read more

Overpriced and they serve too much food. I'd rather have a reasonable portion of food that's good, than a huge piece of dried out meat, iceburg lettuce swimming in dressing, and spaghetti that looks like it's seen better days. Very nice waitresses and hostess, a unique setting as well. However, I would stop in for a drink, not a meal. read more

Fast and good service. Try the prime rib french dip. Excellent add horse radish. My wife had a california club and loved it. Beef and barley soup is amazing. Very fresh, huge portions for the money. Coming back asap! read more

Great food and service, give this one a try. I went on a Sunday at noon time. This place had all the locals, plus some travelers like my wife and I. I had a Patty melt with Fries and my wife had a bltt. Service was fast and perfect...Oh and the food was delicious. I highly recommend this spot as the best stop for eats between Reno and Salt Lake City. read more

This was closest to the hotel I was staying at and I didn't feel like driving, so my choices were walking across the parking lot to either this or a Chinese joint also serving AYCE sushi. The latter choice sounded less appealing, so I went with this, even though the "family style" nature of things gave me pause, being a single diner and all...that and the reviews I saw were not particularly glowing or especially credible. I have no reason to lie, so I'll be honest that most of my knowledge of Basque cuisine comes from a couple things: Basque chorizo, lamb and chile peppers. However, not going out too much on a limb here, I don't think that things like spaghetti really comprised much of a traditional shepherd diet. We'll explore this further, but first, let's go through what I wound up getting. The first thing was chicken noodle soup, heavily based on the condensed and concentrated salty flavor typical of canned broth. It came with a side of soft white bread, which was on the colder side. The pats of butter seemed to be of slightly higher temperature. The soup was ok for what it was, but aside from the pearl noodles, was not unusual in any respect. I suspect its traditional nature to be dubious. Next came the salad, which was iceberg lettuce, sort of soggy, coated in some sort of dressing (did not get a choice of dressing), which was excruciatingly awful. That was a pass. It was followed by the main course of Sarandeado shrimp. Now, if I think a restaurant is questionable, I find shrimp to tend to be a fairly safe dish and I recognized Sarandeado as a sort of a roasted chile base. What I got was seemingly grilled that way, then covered in what appeared to be the pinkish chile mayo that one frequently sees at cheap sushi places. It tasted about the same level of offense and I tried to get most of it off on yet another piece of iceberg. I was only successful to a limited extent. The sides were another story. The fries would not stay vertical. They were of the shoestring variety and literally as limp as their namesake. I wondered briefly if they had been boiled after being fried. Probably the grease was not hot enough. Either way, those were another pass. Rice was one of the better parts, though the bits of peas and carrots I found a bit curious. Additionally, I got canned green beans reheated and sprinkled with almond slivers. So, all in all, for a "family style" dinner, there was a lot of stuff put on the table, with less than a third of it edible and a tinier fraction from there of what I would consider remotely enjoyable. Nothing was actually good except for the Sam Adams longnecks, but that has nothing to do with the restaurant. I was hoping this would be a stealth place that would win me over, but instead it was a wave of underwhelm. Next time, if there is one, I'll be trying to hit one of the other Basque places as this one seemed distinctively much more Upper Midwest Americana than anything else... read more

The only redeeming part of the place- attentive wait staff and the juicy meat. However, after paying $12.50 plus tip, and being served tons of food, I didn't eat most of it and left hungry. The menu consists of you choosing your selection of meat/chicken/lamb/seafood, then receiving this selection with the sides chosen by the restaurant. Every single one of the SEVEN side dishes I was served were flavorless and tasted like they came out of a can. The green beans were literally dumped out of a can, into the serving dish, and presented without spices. The salad was torn iceberg lettuce drenched in flavorless dressing. The spaghetti tasted canned. The rice with mixed veggies had absolutely no spices or pepper in it, and hardly any salt. Don't go, unless all you want is a large portion of juicy meat. There may be few good options in Elko, but avoid Toki Ona's, read more

I like supporting local places and specifically restaurants in towns that lack them. It's hard to imagine that most of america doesn't have access to quality food. I digress... This place is bad, real bad... Actually, the pictures accurately portray the food so look at them! I didn't have time, pulled off the highway. The salad was drenched with dressing. The soup made me remember college and eating for a week on a $1 box of pasta and a few bullion cubes. The sides and entree were pig trough size. Hello type 2 diabetes... everything was fatty, salty, artificial or out of a can. Most was inedible. The service was great and the place was clean but I still can't bring myself to give the extra star...I wished I had gone for fast food read more

So the one plus is you get lots and lots of food. All the sides come family style. Now the bad part. Most of the sides are from a can or microwaved. The green beans are from a can. The spaghetti is from a can. The rice had the texture of microwave rice. The one thing that wasn't from a package was probably the ana potato. A friend got the Chicken Marsala and the gravy had clumps in it. Turns out the clumps was the powder used by the restuarant that wasn't fully mixed out. I ordered the NY steak medium rare which came out incredible rare. It got sent back to the kitchen and came back medium rare, but now you can definitely taste that the meat wasn't very high quality. The texture was basically beef chuck. read more

Pork chops were very good, place was packed. Service was very slow and there were people who left after 10-15 minutes waiting for a menu.

We came in on Christmas Eve and made reservations two hours prior to our arrival and we had to wait 30 minutes when we got there. People do go out on Christmas Eve so I feel like you guys should have been more prepared. Also out of baked potatoes, are steaks were burnt. Our waitress was attentive and good to us. We just expected a lot better service. I hope this review helps with future Christmas eves. read more

* Way overpriced for the quality. * The rice was severely overcooked. * The meat was good quality, but the preparation was substandard. * The service was below average. I wouldn't call it horrible, but there was a good deal of inattention by the staff. As we were checking out, the lady behind the register was busy coordinating personal calls for the wait staff, rather than operating the register. * Not even close to 4 stars. read more

Wow. Portions were plentiful! Had chicken Marsalis and the filet. Chicken was moist, especially in the sauce. The sauce was very upright with a nice wine back to it. Veggies were well represented. Kid did not appreciate the amount of sauce. I was impressed with it actually. Filet was massive. Garlic on top. Shorter kid had the strip off the kids menu, thank you!!!!, and it was larger than all chain steakhouses. Sides were potatoes fried, ana, and baked. All were off the chart! Green beans were simple and ought to be with the total table. Rice dish was like Chinese rice soup.....interesting. Bread was soft and very fresh. Salad was literally lettuce and dressing. Simple. Spaghetti was soggy but the sauce rocked. Overall for a Sunday in Elko when all Basque places are closed and you feel like a Donner Party member, it is solid. Great service. read more

Basque and American food We were driving through on a Sunday and was lucky to find this place open as the star was closed. Our server recommendeddd the steak Sammy that comes with a 10 oz top sirloin, she asked do you want garlic. (stupid question). Of course I want garlic. Well the steak came out on a French roll cooked perfect rare with sliced grilled garlic and Fries. As far as steak Sammy's go this is one the best I have had. read more

Toki Ona - Basque Near Me - Elko, Nevada

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Good service, good food makes Tiki Ona a solid place to eat. You will not be disappointed. However, nothing stands out as exceptional.

It seems the better restaurants (per the usual sources) take the weekend off in Elko. We were over nighting here with the GD (picky eater) and we wanted Italian but both were closed. One of the Mexican places had been open but closed at 6:00 PM. The other Basque restaurant is also closed on weekends. Having lost out on everything on our list, we were driving by when the wife spotted Toki Ana and, in an extremely hungry voice, declared we were going to be eating HERE!! They have a decent kid's menu which appeased the GD. The wife had the hot turkey sandwich and I did the lamb chops (it is sacrilegious to eat at a Basque restaurant and not eat lamb). The chicken soup with orzo was tasty. Even the picky one gobbled it down. The salad lettuce was cold and fresh although the mayo dressing was bland and needed help. The French fries were great, the baked potato was -well a tinfoil wrapped baked potato, and the recommended Ana potatoes were fine. The wife liked her turkey sando and my lamb chops were cooked perfectly plus they were accompanied with a traditional heap of sautéed garlic slices. We opted for the senior's menu as there is no chance we could have also eaten the spaghetti and green beans which come with the standard order. Don't forget there is a basket of fresh bread and butter to help fill you up. This was good choice particularly considering the choice available on a Sunday night in Elko and we would return if ever return. read more

It was nice to dine in as COVID restrictions are still being observed. The staff were exceptional. The filet mignon was huge and the lamb chops were very good. We wish we would have gotten the smaller sizes. There was more than we could eat. The steaks and chops were like eating in a fine dining restaurant and the sides were like a good home cooked meal with a diner like atmosphere. read more

Went for dinner on a Wednesday night recently and was very impressed. I have previously ate (and Yelp'd about Biltoki in Elko) and wanted to try another Basque place in Elko. Well, we hit up Toki Ona and I was very impressed with the food and service. Far better than BilToki. Like most Basque places, the amount of side dishes is ridiculous, but the quality on some of them was outstanding. I had some sort of potato that was a "au gratin" like with cheese and baked in an oven. Much better than french fries. Our soup was a bean/chili type of soup that was quite good. The meat was Lamb Chops, and I am not one to normally order Lamb, but thought I would give it a shot. I chose the 2-chops instead of the 3-chops and I definitely made the right decision on size. 2 chops was plenty adequate. The lamb was tender and flavourful. I think my entree was about $14-16 and was a good value for the meal received. Service was fast and efficient. I will be be back. read more

Went 5 weeks later and not good at all. Pork chops burned. Salad watery. Spaghetti awful. Drink was good, but husband had to go to bar to get it. No one interested in helping us. Wait staff and manager very scattered. Had a belly ache all night and not from overeating. read more

Stopped in from a local's recommendation. I was it disappointed. Friendly service, and good choices for breakfast. The portion size was filling, and glad they had a togo cup for coffee. Thank you, and I will return when back in town. read more

We are blessed with Kendra has our waitress one person in our party was in a wheelchair and she accommodated us first class all the way around but will you walk in and your place smells terrific was very hard to hide but with your expert help we were able to choose a very nice dinner PS as/400 as your server if you want a great meal and a good time read more

Toki Ona - Basque Near Me - Elko, Nevada

Delicious food, generous sizes and great service, for fair value. Had the lamb chops meal, each and every part of the meal was a delight. The only suggestion I have for the staff: when packing for take-away, place the fries in a paper container instead of styrofoam, or stuff some paper napkins inside - otherwise the fries are ruined by the time they are consumed (get soggy from the steam condensation) - which is a pity. read more

Our first time here. Priced was what I expected. The food was well.prepared the wife hade the Lamb chops medium rare and was excellent. I had the Basque pork chops which were very good. Service was ecellent considering we were early and they were not up to full staff. The salid dressing was the house and something niether of us had tasted. Love it. Sides are a family style. Go hungry. read more

We've ordered to-go meals, and it's always so much food! The steak sandwich is seriously amazing! Order it medium rare with garlic! It's super tender, and it's huge! It comes with fries, and make sure to get the side salad with the Basque dressing. Best salad dressing I've ever had! Dining in is a fun, welcoming experience. The staff is really nice, and anything you order will be great! read more

Alas, Toki Ona is simply not good. The Star Hotel across town is one of my favorite places anywhere, and sets the bar for Basque-American food in the West. Sadly, Toki Ona is not even worthy of mention in the same category. I came here for dinner because the Star Hotel is closed on Sundays, and dinner was just a dreary, greasy experience with no ambience at all. (The Star has a friendly bar.) My pork chops were overcooked nearly to the point of inedibility. Any other place I would have sent them back, but it seemed like there was no point. The side dishes were generous, but appeared to come right out of a can or the freezer. Only the salad was good, but the vast majority of people would consider it way over-dressed. I ate the salad, a little soup, one of the two pork chops, a few bites of the veggies, paid, and left. If you're in Elko and it's not Sunday, eat at the Star Hotel. If it is Sunday, skip the Basque food (the third Basque place in town, Biltoki, is no great prize either, although probably better than Toki Ona) and try something else. read more

It seems typical diner lunch food. The waitress said they have Basque style dinner. The dressing was good, but there was way too much. The patty melt and tuna melt were good, but nothing special. The fries were ok. It's a nice place to stop on the road, but nothing I'd go out of my way for. read more

Toki Ona - Tuna melt - Basque Near Me - Elko, Nevada

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Good food - friendly service. The chorizo sandwich is quite good! Nothing fancy here, but certainly a worthwhile stop. read more

Toki Ona - The Basque's have a nnice presence in Northern Nevada. - Basque Near Me - Elko, Nevada

Ribeye, prime rib, and roast chicken all got rave reviews from my finicky clan. Such a casual atmosphere with quality food. Near perfect

Best breakfast and lunch in Elko. Food consistently of high quality. Service always great.

This is my favorite local restaurant for breakfast. Lunch is great too as well as dinner. The staff is always pleasant and the Good second to none!! Spicy Bloody Mary's!! read more

So here is my review. I have been coming to this please for over six years now and keep coming back. I have been at competition in this town and have to say that this place has the best steaks. However it seems that steaks are somewhat seasonal this town. Most of the time they are real good but sometimes they are just average. I don't understand why. If you need a good steak or any other part from a cow than this is the place to go. Staff is also awesome. Also try the Anna potato.it's really good. read more

Three descriptors: Worst. Food. Ever. This review has nothing to do with Basque food because this restaurant has nothing to do with Basque food. It was the worst tasting, most poorly prepared restaurant food I've ever had. Really. The service was friendly and efficient though. read more

I have come here practically every weekend since living in Elko and have received excellent service every time. I didn't even have to ask for coffee from the start, they just started bringing it to me right away as if they knew exactly what I wanted. Each time I have ordered an egg white garden omelette with no potatoes and no toast sub spinach and they have been more then just accommodating. I've yet to have anything but breakfast but am sure I will at some point as my experience has always been good; good food, good service, good company, good times. See you this weekend Toki Onas. read more

Stopped here for dinner during a recent roadtrip and we're pleasently surprised! I ordered the Basque pork chops and my wife had the baked lamb. Our server Pearla started us out of with a large bowl of homemade chicken soup and bread and it was excellent! We were next served a very fresh salad. Both entree's were large and great tasting and the sides were also very tasty. My baked potato was fresh and done perfectly but my wife ordered the "Ana Potato " and it stole the show as far as sides go. All in all a great local place with wonderful food and perfect service by a friendly staff. read more