Only open on Sat but well worth it. They got never ending amounts of vintage and antique items. Truly something for everyone can be found here. There is even a little section with items just for kids to enjoy. New items seems to show up weekly it an awesome place to visit each weekend.
2. The Mother Lode
Address: 121 Piute Dr, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Love this place, but they need new chairs and a deep clean. Almost all the chairs pinch and scratch my legs when I sit down..
This place is really nice it has a lot of seating around the bar the bartender name Crystal knows how to make a good drink and is very sweet and patient the only issue I have is sometimes it gets a little out of control with the violence the last time I was there there was a bunch of women fighting and throwing bar stools and what not and it got a little out of hand so sometimes I feel that it’s not always the safest place to be even though they have a bouncer and he was nowhere to be found they make good drinks the alcohol is a good price and they have karaoke and it’s in the center of Kernville so you can’t beat that
If you like dark , loud bars where all the older locals hang out this is the place to go
$33 for 2 of the worst drinks I’ve ever tasted in my life. Nice remodel but not worth that
A bar for smokers, really. Hope you like nothing but country music.
6. Piazza’s Pine Cone Inn
Address: 13383 Sierra Way, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
A lovely, charming place. The staff was wonderful, many nice touches.
Nice place to stay, reasonable prices near restaurants beautiful views.
Great place to stay if your in the area.
sehr nettes personal, saubere zimmer, schöner pool… einfach gemütlich
I called around a month away from a trip to Kernville to get a reservation. I was told by “Bo” that they only took reservations 2 weeks in advance. So, two weeks in advance I called back and was told again they did not take reservations that far in advance. Upon me telling them that Bo had said I could, there was some cussing in the background and Bo came to the phone and told me nothing was available. Unbelievable!!!! I am going to show up there on the day I was going to reserve and see how booked they are.
7. Kernville Saloon
Address: 20 Tobias St, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Great bar! Atmosphere and music was great.. Lots of fun!!!
friendly atmosphere pool tables and lots of space to get something to eat and drink
Nice late scene..cold drinks..local hangout..
So so
Great place for a cold beer. One of the locals bought us a round (Thank You!).
Nice place for an old by myself until this past weekend. Now I’m dirt to this place over an old girl who forgot what she did her backpack. It was outside cause it had beer in it. Needless to say a girl found it outside where I left it. It turned into a disaster with owner and security guard rousted me. Jim owns the bar security changes toilet paper in bathrooms, only person I’ve seen evicted was me. It was his fault and owner, not to see exactly was going on. I will never go and be man handled again. I’m 62yrs old, good job old man’s .k saloon
One of the bartenders Took About $12 from me she thought I was drunk sad!!
Hamburgers pitoyables servis en une heure. Endroit sûrement typique pour boire entre americains mais à fuir si vous voulez manger..
8. That’s Italian
Address: 9 Big Blue Rd, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Great place. Service was fantastic and the food was excellent.
Muy rica la comida
Great food and amazing staff!
Vriendelijke bediening maar de Italiaanse keuken is heel Amerikaans. Kip met pasta in botersaus? Het was lekker maar toch liever met tomatensaus.
Great food amd atmosphere
The soup- claim chowder was delicious but the main dish was just okay. 5/10.
Do not go here if your looking for real Italian food. Gave it a shot because it was 1 of 3 options open. I was left with a extreme case of buyers remorse. My Spaghetti tasted like a can of SpaghettiO’s. The entire discussion home though The Canyon was about how dissatisfied we were with our dinner.
Worst try at Italian food that I have ever had. The service was awful. The staff was extremely rude and seemed to have better things to do than be at work. Its apparent that this place is in business to make make money and not put out decent food. Keep driving people, its not worth the headache!
I have some issues with pepper and I asked for something without it. It seams that the only option was the chicken marsala (that I love). The lady gave me two little pieces of chicken that she said were grilled but the taste was like boiled chicken with no taste at all. The marsala cream was everything but not marsala. The vegetables were over cooked and with no flavor. I send back the dish and I said that they should change the restaurant name because as an Italian I feel a little offended for this “Italian food”. The lady told me that was sorry but she didn’t care about what I was thinking about their food, she also commented that she has customers that went to Italy and the food in their restaurant is better. She also charged me for the dish that I sand back. Not a great “Italian” experience.
9. Ewings on the Kern
Address: 125 Buena Vista Dr, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Absolutely phenomenal burgers, all half pound high quality ground, massive and reasonably priced- and, of course, the views are unbeatable.
Buena comida en un gran ambiente
Upscale. Pricy. A good place for a nice dinner.
Good experience. Had some live music as well and a very nice location.
Ordered a dish that appeared to be sold out, got the soup that came along with that dish from the house for that reason.
Would for sure recommend!
Filet Mignon was soooo good! Atmosphere was good Kernville fun! Ok for the kids too but husband and I had a very nice romantic dinner.
Host is impossible about providing specific time for a table and are not making guest feeling welcome. After waiting double the time they told us, we did not want to spend our money in an establishment, so we left.
This is going to be a long review because of the 1 star given but I feel it needs to be justified. Took my wife for her birthday, made reservations was there on time and seated promptly. We ordered appetizers the appetizers shut up after we had already ate our salad. We both ordered the steak and lobster which is about the most expensive item on the menu. They were both ordered medium rare, when the food finally arrived they were both medium well done. I decided to go ahead and eat mine but my wife’s was sent back to be redone, Unfortunately they were out of that cut of steak and she chose a another cut, I ate my dinner as slowly as possible to make up for my wife not having her food, about 25 minutes later they bring a piece of steak to the table, she cuts into it and it was the rarest piece of meat either one of us has ever seen. Needless to say almost two hours later my wife said she doesn’t want to eat anything anymore we got our check and we left. I do want to mention our waiter Christian did everything he could to ease the issue and did not charge for my wife’s dinner but I still tipped him $40. Because he was very polite and seem to be understanding.
I know it’s Saturday and all, but we got seated, it’s only outdoor seating, that’s fine too. (Covid and all) there was only 6 other people at 1 other table, I had seen the pictures and wanted to go. I took my husband and we took a couple pictures, waited. And waited. And 5 or 6 minutes later, no server, no water when its 100 degrees out. Another couple came in, got seated and they brought water right out. Then the server took drink refill orders for the other table. Then we waited 5 more minutes. Then we left. So I don’t know how the food or drinks were. And I guess i won’t know cause now I don’t want to go back.
10. Cheryl’s Diner
Address: 11030 Kernville Rd, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
True Americana dining at its most authentic! I can recommend the chili, the Rueben, beef hash, and probably anything else on the menu. Good wifi, and spectacular service. You won’t find this quality of Americana in a chain restaurant!
Always good food and service!
Food is good but it’s too expensive for simple sandwiches. Not sure if I would be back.
Food was good. Service was great! I’ll be back!
Down home goodness!
Had dinner here….with so so service and food. Staff was more interested with banter between themselves and the food quality was, well, less that what you get at Denny’s. Head over to The Cracked Egg across the street for better food and service.
L.O.U.D! Food was very slow to come out. No refills on ice tea. Overall experience was… We wished we had gone somewhere else.
Simple dinner style restaurant with classic dishes. Nothing special, but decent meals are available here. Not the best quality ingredients.
Parking: Available
11. Redbox
Address: 5885 Wofford Blvd, Wofford Heights, CA 93285 , Kernville , California , United States
Wasn’t able to get a movie cuz I had left my card at-home but the kiddos and I got all r weekend movies picked out ahead of time, lol. This lol town needed a movie box, it’s a perfect choice!
12. The Kern Lodge
Address: 67 Valley View Dr, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Address: 10 Kern River Dr, Kernville, CA 93238 , Kernville , California , United States
Assessment: ★★★★½
4.7/5 based on 606 evaluations.
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I refuse to go to the park in Lake Isabella. Cant stand the sight of some of the mothers in town running after their kids while sucking on a cigarette. Repulsive. So we always go to Riverside Park!
Great place for kids and families to float down the river and walk back up.
Beautiful and clean many places to sit. It’s also on the river. Many people go rafting on the river but you can also find many calm areas for the kids. The park it’s self has a small play ground area and exercising equipment. The whole area is clean from the river to the park. It’s also located right on town so many places to eat.
In the summertime we can’t use it pact with visitors and camper in the winter time it’s actually too cold to go there so we really don’t have a park for the locals
Riverside park holds many events throughout the year. Jazz concerts, rubber ducky races, kayaking races, river rafting, whiskey flats day etc. Something for young and old alike.
Muy bonito pero demasiadas piedras adentro de el río no podías ni pararte las piedras demasiado filosos
Honorable
Trashed. People see a trash can over flowing it just goes on the ground. I grew up since 60s fishing here. It has been taken over by migrants with know respect for America’s natural resources or beauty. The change in demographics in California is evident by the trashing of our national parks and natural areas.
Not in usable condition. The park just started getting worked on. People are still going, though. I saw a guy in an inner tube and a little guy on his lap in the river. I see that people have moved big rocks into a makeshift tide pool again. I love it when nature is natural, especially the rivers banks.
14. Jeff’s Music
Address: 342 N Porter Rd, Porterville, CA 93257 , Kernville , California , United States
Lots of guitars and guitar paraphernalia.
Limited selection of other instruments and accessories on the shop floor.
Still, a well maintained and a nice store all round!
Jeff went out of his way to assist my church, Zion Lutheran, in Terra Bella, with purchasing a keyboard. He brought it out to test it with our speaker system! We purchased it a few days later & it’s perfect! Since our purchase our services have been outside & it works beautifully with our portable speakers as well. Our whole congregation is SO THANKFUL!
Great service! I would recommend this place to anyone.
It’s o.k a little pricy but no choice unless going to visalia..
Found some custom volume knobs for my Dad’s guitar
Every time we’ve been in that store the staff act like we’re an inconvenience and they want us to hurry up and leave. It sucks that it is the only store in town. Besides that, fair prices.
I am not satisfied with Jeff’s Music store at all! In December of last year, I purchased a set of Peavey mics as a gift to our church. During our first worship service, we noticed that the one mic kept going off. Thinking it was probably the battery, we replaced the battery. Did fine for a short while and then went off again. The repeated changing of the battery caused the cover to break. I took the Mic back to Jeff to see if they would replace 2 weeks later. He kept the mics for 2 weeks while he said he would contact Peavey to see if they would replace it. After repeatedly calling and going by to check on it, I was told that the button on the Mic was broken and Peavey wouldn’t replace it. My thing is that I purchased the Mic from Jeff and not Peavey! I returned it within 30 days of purchase and was told “Sorry, there’s nothing I can do.” I’m sorry I ever spent the $513 for the mics there! And the $500 drum set last Christmas! And also the $85 a month drum lessons I spend on every month. I will not be purchasing anything more from Jeff’s Music. He does not stand behind his products that he sells. I will go to Visalia next time.
15. Mark Mcguire Piano & Organ Services
Address: Wofford Heights, CA 93285 , Kernville , California , United States
