Great Basin Café

Headed for the cave tour we decided to grab a bite. Lots of people in the area but plenty of seating inside and out. We split a fried chicken bacon wrap and some potato salad. We both agreed this was the best wrap of this style we had ever eaten. Potato salad tasted as good as it looks. We had to leave for our tour but we came back for a cherry float to go, definitely the best roady ever! The servers were on fire and having a great time. Which added to the atmosphere. They really enjoy their work. The cafe is at the cave tour checkin, same parking lot. Plenty of space and places to sit to take into the view. While there are not many options for food in the area it was a good thing, this place was great. Highly recommend making time!

Great food and amazing views! Service is friendly, but the cafe gets busy mid afternoon and it's hard to keep up. Good prices compared to other National Park restaurants. The kids grilled cheese was too fancy for our kids, but the chicken fingers were great. Chicken slaw wrap was delicious! Chips were awesome and they gave us a ton of them. Highly recommend!

This café is amazing. Without a doubt the best place to eat in Great Basin and I would definitely recommend you try it at least once if you are touring the Great Basin. First off, the food is homemade. All of the food is delicious and the homemade soup is amazing. The food also doesn’t take too long to make and only takes 10-15 minutes. The coffee here is also very good and they have a decent selection of beverages to choose from. The ice cream here and shakes are phenomenal. If you order an ice cream cone they give you a more than generous serving of amazing ice cream. If you order the thick-shakes, you will not be let down. These too are amazing with the perfectly thick texture and amazing selection of flavors. The customer service is also amazing and the employees make you feel at home. They will check on you and ask you how you are doing and make conversation if you want to. Overall, I would highly recommend this café. Also, the gift shop has an amazing selection of board games and competitive prices.

If you're looking for a quick bite to eat near the visitor center, there's a small, no-frills roadside cafe with a gift shop nearby. While the cafe may not be fancy, it offers a great view and is a convenient spot to grab a bite to eat. The gift shop, however, may be a bit disorganized - during our visit, products were not properly shelved or organized, giving the impression of a somewhat forgotten cafe lost in the middle of the desert. That being said, the shop still offers some great products, so it may be worth checking out if you have some time to spare.

It’s a wonderful change to get good food at a National Park. We ate there several times. We tried the salads, and grilled cheese. The ice cream was really high quality and the toppings were excellent. The food was a little pricey but the ice cream was very reasonable.

Friendly staff and clean place. We don't ever get food when we get here, but that is available. We like the souvenirs that are available. They have a wide variety of things to purchase to show off your trip to the great basin.

Basic little gift shop and snack bar mostly. Not really a Cafe. Got a great latte though. Food is chili, hot dogs, nachos and salad bar....They have beer on tap. Coffee as well. Souvenirs were so expensive here. T-shirts were $30! The view is nice from a table in there.

The cinnamon crunch muffin is amazing. But whatever you do, do not get a Cafe drink. It was really bad. I tend to be critical of coffee drinks, but even my girlfriend said it was awful, which I've never heard her say about a latte.

Hard to beat craft beer from nevada, good prices on food in a National park, and a gift shop. Staff was super friendly. I was grateful to find a good meal after a long day hiking.

My husband and I shared a good lunch here prior to our Lehman Cave Tour. Service was fast and the price was reasonable. We shared a yummy chicken wrap and fries.

Quick, friendly service. Loved the crispy chicken bacon wrap! Very tasty! Great price especially considering we are in a national park!

It was great to find a lace to get a little bite right at the entrance of the Lehman Caves located in the Great Basin National Park. Because I'd eaten earlier on my road trip, I just had a simple bowl of their homemade style potato soup, which was like a clam chowder without the clams. It hit the spot and was very tasty. Nice little place with a lot of souvenirs too. And, surprisingly, they serve wine and beer. It's good the Great Basin National Park is in Nevada and not 30 miles to the east where it wouldn't be possible to get a drink in a place like this!

Most NP restaurants I've seen are very overpriced for no reason. GBNP had classic breakfast options and fairly expansive lunch menu. The enchilada nachos were so good after a long hike and their ice cream flavors were plentiful.

If you have come to The Great Basin National Park, you should come here. The food was sooooo good and the waitress very friendly. With a few spots to sit inside and some outside (I didn't see where) but it has a Cafe feeling to it. With different milkshake choices and even some very delicious roasted nuts. The lady at the register was very kind and very funny. We had a great time.

Considering where you're at? 5 star lol. Well worth it to wait and eat here if you're visiting the Great Basin national park or driving through (and you're driving through a lot of emptiness). They let us sit and chill while we waited for our Lehman Caves tour. Food is made to order. They put a lot of love into their breakfast burritos. P.S. the Great Basin hot sauces are amazing too, try them!

What more could you want at the mouth of Lehman Caves? Hot, cooked to order, fresh, and tasty. Do not be afraid to bring your appetite to this location and enjoy just before you go into the caves. But do plan accordingly because everything is cooked to order and it may take longer than you've allowed yourself. We had a great visit, as it was snowing on April 22, 2022 and we had come along way to enjoy the Caves. This establishment helped enhance our visit.

Please turn down the music. I know it might be your favorite song, but "I don't want to miss a thing" when it comes to conversing with my family and planning out our day at the park. Even the kids complained they couldn't hear themselves think. :-) Good service, good food, and huge portions! Would love if there was an outside shaded eating area too. The view is five stars!

This place is cute & cozy. Stopping to camp in the park for a couple nights after visiting SLC, I made sure to eat my last breakfast at the café. My meal was simple, yet delicious, and the staff was quite friendly. A restaurant, gift shop, and game store rolled into one, I found out that the establishment is privately owned and not technically run by the park, but that each tenant is contracted to occupy the space for a certain amount of time. I loved the selection of T-shirt's, souvenirs, stickers, first aid items, toys, snacks, and even board games they had to offer. They also have a full-service coffee bar with espresso drinks, for those millennials (or boomers, or Gen-X'ers, or Z's...) like me who CAN go without their coffee, but appreciate having the option in the middle of nowhere, too ;) Will definitely be back next time I visit Great Basin!

This is the best cafe I've ever been to in a national park. No Xterra here, no Costco burgers, no lousy food this place could easily get away with. I had a smoked brisket sandwich--smoked by the head chef--and homemade potato chips, all eaten while looking over this beautiful vista. They also make some nice-looking milkshakes as well as their own bread to accompany the salads and soups. Really nice service, and be sure to check out the excellent sticker and game selection.

Just what we needed after our hike! A place to sit down, gulp down some ice cold water and enjoy some food. It is conveniently located at Great Basin National Park, next to the visitor center. There aren't many food options in Baker, NV, so it's a good idea to stop here.

You wouldn't think that there would be such good food being served out of a visitors center in a national park :) forget the info in Yelp, this cafe is located inside the Lehman Caves visitor center at Great Basin National Park. They serve up a great green Chile breakfast burrito (SPICY) and the coffee is legit too (actual coffee machine not just drip). Super good and super convenient too if you're headed there for a cave tour (also HIGHLY recommend, but book a month in advance). They also sell cool souvenirs like shirts, magnets, stickers, etc. and the stuff is actually cool (as a millennial I considered them cool). They must have had some good graphic artists design them.

It's pretty good for an isolated location. We had the bbq chicken sandwich and the bacon chicken wrap The cole slaw and potato salad are good We loved both items BUT the bbq chicken sandwich is itty bitty and the wrap is huge. And they are the same price! The bbq chicken sandwich is a rip off in comparison We did the Lehman Caves Tour, 90 minutes, and it was fabulous,

Our lodge/retreat recommended this place for breakfast. Got a really tasty green chilli breakfast burrito that was very filling. We ended up coming back for lunch. Draft beer!!!!! My wife got a blonde beer which was excellent. The mugs were sizeable and ice cold. I got an ipa which was decent (but was having beer jealousy over the blonde ale being so delicious.) My wife got the chicken bacon wranch wrap with fries. It tasted like America, just sayin'. But no joke, the chicken bacon ranch wrap was on point and the fries were perfectly crunchy. I had some type of fried hotdog with sauerkraut and man oh man was it soul fulfilling. There was so much sauerkraut fit on that bun. So much. If you're a pickled / vinegar fiend like me, you'll be in heaven. The bun itself had a really good glutinous bite texture to it and did not get soggy one bit. Dog was a good full beef mix that stood up well to the kraut powerhouse. There are hot sauces behind the counter you can ask for. I got the Carolina reaper one and it was surprisingly very tasty. Super hot, but somehow it did not give me a stomachs ache. I put a lot on my breakfast burrito. For my lunch meal, the hot dog and dill slaw, I poured a green habanero sauce all over the slaw. Tasted great but hurt like hell. I ended up buying some sauces at the gift store. They have the Great Basin label on them. Guess I'm a sucker for national park swag and good hot sauces.

Nice little cafe located at Great Basin National Park, next to the Lehman Caves visitor's center. They carry a full menu, a great selection of beer/cider/wine, and an assortment of packaged candy/nuts/snacks. Since there aren't many choices for restaurants for many miles, this was an obvious choice for us after our cave tour at Lehman Caves. But their food is really good and all of their prices are super reasonable! Would highly recommend this cafe to anyone visiting the Great Basin/Lehman Caves area!

My husband and I had lunch at Great Basin Café when we were in Great Basin National Park. It was about the only place open in the area. Don't count on much, if anything, being open in the adjacent town. I had the vegetarian nachos which were good, but not great. You might want to try something else.

We ate breakfast and dinner here, the french toast special was great! Friendly staff, reasonable prices, and food made to order. The root beer float and raspberry shake were a great way to finish the day! There was no problem splitting checks. It was the best food in the area!

Hard to believe that there is good inexpensive food at a National Park! Don't hesitate to eat here!

This cafe is located next to the Lehman Caves Visitor Center at Great Basin National Park. The food was surprisingly good. I was expecting very basic fare, but the sandwiches and homemade chips had some gourmet flare to it. Don't skip it!

Lovely people serving comfort food at the national park. Excellent curly fries, hot dogs and wraps. And very reasonably priced bottles of wine. A great stop after a long hike.

Great food, friendly service. We especially love their french fries, made fresh from a whole potato right at the moment! The kids are also enamored with the soft-serve ice cream on a hot afternoon. Soups are yummy. A breakfast favorite is the green chipotle burrito and the cheese danishes.

Yummy food! Wraps, fries, dill slaw and the best huckleberry shakes around! Cafe has a super cute gift shop with the best shirts and stickers. Plus lots of board games and fun toys for kids. It's located in the Lehman caves visitor center so it makes it super convenient to grab lunch or dinner after you take a tour... Or some ice cream

This is a cute little cafe at the Lehman Caves Visitor center. When we visited Great Basin National Park, the visitor center was closed but cafe was still open. I was so grateful that it was open because there were so few lunch options available in the area. What a great meal! My husband had Smokehouse Salad. I ordered the Fried Chicken Wrap. A friend ordered the Smokehouse Wrap with brisket. The food was simple, fresh, and delicious. We really couldn't have asked for a better lunch. Unexpectedly good and much appreciated. The cafe also had an ample supply of board games for purchase and to borrow if you wanted to play at the cafe during your visit. We played 13 clues board game, which was a nice way to spend the afternoon. Since we visited in September during COVID-19, we chose to sit outdoors. The cafe had ample seating for both outdoors and indoors.

I have been to 20 National Parks in the US and this has been my favorite food stop this far. The staff is really friendly. The food is awesome! I got the BLTA and my boyfriend got the buffalo chicken sandwich. We both finish every bite. Also the fries are delicious! They also sell interesting items that you don't find at a generic NP gift shop. And the view is incredible!

A Mazing! The food was delicious and the service was excellent! Plenty of choices on the menu and can't rave enough over the taste and quality of the food! Best place to eat for 200 miles!