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Twentynine Palms Inn
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- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
13 reviews for Twentynine Palms Inn
Who would have thought you could find a nice little gem like this in the middle of well... no where....
Food was great. Atmosphere was very laid back. Guy playing some music, nice view of the pool, and great food and large portions. Don't know if I'll ever be back to 29, but if I am, its a definite stop.
Hands down the only NICE option both food wise and charming ambiance wise in Deuce Nine. Good memories of lovely breakfasts with friends here!
I remember a group of us jumping in the Pool afterwards too. In our clothes mind you ;)
A must if you MUST go to 29.
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I think I read once that California has every climate zone in the northern hemisphere except rain forest. Even if that's not true, if you really explore the state you will find that it does at times feel like 10 or more totally different places. This past weekend leading up to Thanksgiving found us in one of the most incredible spots inCalifornia - Joshua Tree National Park.
It's an amazing and beautiful landscape with strange Seussian Joshua Trees. And of course, the star attraction - huge vertical granite outcroppings that at times look like dribble castles. We spent three fantastic days there with a couple of ropes, some climbing hardware and rock shoes, and got to know some of that rock very well. Most of the climbs here are fairly short and intense, and they look impossible, but the unique coarse granite is incredibly sticky and you'll find yourself doing things you didn't really imagine possible.
Twentynine Palms is a little town that sits right at the edge of the park. When visiting Joshua Tree, you can camp in the park, you can sleep at one of the generic Holiday Inn/Best Western type places or you can check out the Twentynine Palms Inn.
This is truly the most eclectic of places. Every room is different, and equally funky. We stayed in the Old Frame 1 & 2, which is a little cottage consisting of two rooms with a bath in the middle. There was a porch with a hammock, leading out to a boat dock on a pond where a small houseboat sits!
This is not the Four Seasons or the Ritz, or even the Sheraton. If you come here looking for luxury, you will be disappointed. But if you keep an open mind and forget about past hotel experiences, you will love it. For every sticking door and drippy faucet, there is a unique lamp carved of Joshua Tree. For every smoke detector hanging loose from the ceiling there is a beautiful hand painted window. For every bathroom with no outlets, there is a magnificent antique dresser. The bed - the one thing that does matter - was supremely comfortable.
The restaurant is indisputably the best place to eat within 100 miles. All the bread is baked on site and most of the fruits and vegetables are grown in the on-site Faultline Farms garden, where guests are also free to roam and eat what's ripe. We spent a little time at the bar, where they were serving pomegranate cocktails made from pomegranates grown not 20 yards from the bar where they were being consumed. The place is teaming with staff, and everyone - with no exception - was incredibly friendly and accommodating. All of the food was excellent and by the end of the weekend - despite spending 6 or 7 hours a day getting a good workout on the rock - my pants were actually tighter.
I am already planning next year's visit.
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This is pretty much the nicest restaurant in the Deuce Niner.
The food has always been awesome and the servers are super nice and accommodating. They grow some of their own veggies and you can definitely tell the difference! I once had a salad here with tomatoes that nearly took my breath away...and I'm not a huge tomato fan.
They have live music at the pool and the crowd is very eclectic but its a good time. Definitely worth checking out if you're in the area,
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Being stationed in 29 Palms sucks because 29 palms sucks. As a San Francisco native, the really crappy part about being away from home is the lack of a decent place to dine. I've been here 5 times in the last two years with some fine company. The first time, I was abruptly awoken on a Sunday morning and couldn't get back to catching ZZZZZs. I told my buddy that he was to take me out for brunch for waking me from my sunday sleep-in. He and his room mate took me to the Twentynine Palms Inn and what a pleasant surprise it was!
As mentioned by Esther K., they do grow their own vegetables and I am a huge tomato fan. And when I'm lucky, they have a newly stewed pot of tomato basil soup available for self-service while you wait for your entree. On Sundays, they bring out freshly baked muffins with butter. The brunch food is excellent and filling and dinner is always good. My favorite drink here is their white sangria, fresh and summery for those hot desert days.
Four out of five times I've been here, they had live music. Cool, kickback spot to enjoy the heat in. Every-so-often, they change the art in the dining area from local artists. Probably the only place I'll miss when I leave the stumps.
We've been stationed at 29 Palms TWICE, so if anyone can write a review for the area, it's ME. The Twentynine Palms Inn is a great place to stay if you want a quiet, beautiful room with a view. We rented the Tidy Tips bungalow, which has a queen bed and a twin-over-full bunkbead. Perfect for two adults and two kids. It also has a fireplace and a nice bathroom with a shower. My favorite: the completely enclosed, private patio with chairs. We 4 days at the Inn and enjoyed every minute of it. This place is NOT a high-speed motor lodge. It's the place to get away from it all, relax, and kick back to enjoy the beauty of the desert and the mountains. There are no phones or clocks in your room. There IS A/C. The TVs are 13" and gently hint, "Get out of here and get some fresh air!" The rooms are clean, cozy, and tidy. Our adobe bungalow was the original one built in 1934 and we loved it. We had a short walk down a dirt road to the main restaurant and pool, which gave us a chance to watch the roadrunners zip past (really!) and the Gamble Quail with their peeping 8 babies scurry behind the creosote bushes. Jackrabbits, too! We heard, but never saw coyotes. The food at the inn is simple, home-made, and very good. Breakfast is assorted breads and sweet breads, boiled eggs, and fruit with coffee or OJ. Lunch and dinner menus vary and the Inn's garden supplies wonderful veggies and fruit. There is a REAL oasis nearby and the pool is clean and a fun place for afternoon cool-down. You can also take advantage of the full bar within walking distance to your room! For our dinner, a guitar and fiddle combo played folk tunes and classic American music. We could drive to Joshua Tree National Park, hike a few trails, and come back for a siesta and a swim in the pool. Very convenient. There are summer rates (check online at: http://www.29palmsinn.com) that make visiting VERY affordable. If you want a unique, quiet, off-the-grid type of hotel with good food and laid-back, nice employees, this is the Inn for you. As a former 'local' I recommend it. As a current visitor, I am coming back for more!
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My first visit to 29 Palms Inn Restaurant was a pretty good one. The setting is very nice. We ate outside next to the pool.
The waitress brought out bread and olive oil (but no balsamic vinegar). In another small dish, they served an assortment of vegetables like celery and jicama. I guess it's a standard appetizer there. My dinner also came with a choice of soup or salad. I had the chicken and wild rice soup. It was good, but luke-warm in temperature.
I had one of the dinner specials--Yellowtail with Hawaiian pineapple salsa. The pineapple salsa was quite tasty. I don't think the yellowtail had much flavor on its own (does yellowtail usually have flavor on its own?). I chose the side of rice thinking that it would be some kind of rice pilaf or similar. It turned out to be sticky white rice cooked with onions and red bell peppers--something new to me, but I think it went OK with the fish.
They had live entertainment, which was actually quite nice. A female singer on the keyboard along with a male trumpeter. The atmosphere was friendly and relaxing.
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given its surroundings, i can understand the allure of dining at the twentynine palms inn, but, in truth, the best thing that can be said about this small restaurant is that it is one of the few independtly owned options in town, and as such, it stands at the top of an unimpressive heap.
on the plus side, there is the possibility of poolside dining, besides two very majestic fan palms that waver quietly beneath a desert evening sky. the restaurant sits besides many of the faux adobe hotel bungalows, and at night, there is a definitive charm to the place.
as such, the interior décor could best be described as quaint, homely and colorful with the most noteworthy features reserved for the bar.
on the down side, the menu is rather pedestrian and old-fashioned. after observing a serving tray of chicken mcnuggets (apparently the chicken tenders that are highlighted on the menu), iceberg lettuce, and baked potatoes covered in sour cream pass our table, we lowered our expectations, ordering the shrimp scampi (the only seafood option available), a chicken piccata and a spinach salad. all of the dishes were proficiently prepared but offered nothing that stirred the senses. we surmised that the shrimp was frozen, reheated in its accompanying butter sauce.
the spinach salad, with its candied pecans and bleu cheese, provided us with the evening's dining highlight, which should say enough about the chef's aptitude. if i ever visit the restaurant again, i might instead opt for the hormone free angus new york strip while tempering my appetite and expectations with a selection from their decent winelist.
though a local aquaintance praised the restaurant for being "the in spot" in twentynine palms, on a friday night, the restaurant was dominated by the presence of an ad-hoc local ladies auxiliarry club (about twenty women in their late fifties and up), sprinkled with an assortment of aging hippies and backpackers donning fleece tops, shorts and sensible shoes, counterbalanced by a couple of emaciated and dishelleved twentysomethingish locals (who looked like one of the many tweakers that populate this part of the country). nonetheless, according to our contact, the hoi polloi of the arts and entertainment worlds, who fly in from los angeles and new york, have been known to frequent the restaurant but after tonight, i have my doubts.
furthermore, it is mildly alarming to walk into a restaurant and find that there is not a single non-white person present, and this impression held until we noticed that the kitchen staff employed a few latin americans. not much of a consolation. change has not yet come to all corners of america.
in an attempt to find more positive things to say about the restaurant, it is a mom and pop operation, family owned since the late 1930s. that's good. one should keep supporting these kinds of independent operations. i just wish that the family would send someone to the world outside of twentynine palms and nearby wonder valley, so that they might learn a thing or two about twenty-first century cuisine.
A nice exceptional restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Kinda of hard to find in the dark of winter without directions or a map, but a nice little secret place. We just ate dinner-- can't say anything about the hotel. The dining room is pretty ugly, 1960s cafeteria style with cheap chairs and formica faux wood tables. The wooden bar itself was neat, and we got to eat dinner on the bar. We had an excellent, extremely flamboyant gay waiter/bartender rave about the menu and helped us pick the lobster cream ravioli, which was very good. The food is definitely much better (4 stars) than the environs (1 star). It was also interesting to people watch the spectrum of people there, obviously some well-to-do locals, international students and middle aged rock climbers.
You may want to get a reservation for this place. We didn't have one, but we had to eat at the bar.
nice location, cool bartenders, great food, "cheers"-esque atmosphere.
I suppose if you base your review of this restaurant in terms of its competition, then this place is awsome. There is nothing close to fine dining within 50 miles. The meals just aren't that good. But the people are nice and there was live music. So I guess beggars can't be choosers.
Definitely the place to eat dinner in 29 Palms.
Good food and nice atmosphere.
Try the "Night Sky".
Also good for breakfast.
Although we weren't staying there, we ended up eating both dinner and breakfast there twice during our 4 night stay.
If you are visiting Joshua Tree and you like funky places, this is it. 29 Palms Inn has a great little restaurant, every room is different and it is very close to entrance of Joshua Tree Park. We stayed in the 'Faultline Room', ttp://http://www.29palmsinn.... which had a private porch with a hammock, cable TV. There are also cottages around the property, all described on their website http://www.29palmsinn.... There is not much to do in 29 Palms in the evening so nice to have a restaurant on site. They also have a swimming pool, a small resource library with a computer available for checking email. We found it to be very comfortable and relaxing, a little Oasis (in fact it really has an oasis with palm trees and a pond!). They serve delicious bread, coffee and juice in the morning, have a lunch/dinner menu and a cozy bar area. check out the menu http://www.29palmsinn....
