Bob Taylor's Ranch House Restaurant Info and Reservations

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• Steaks
• Historic Las Vegas Restaurants for an Old-School Dining Experience
• Plush daytime spaces and sleek lobby bars make hanging onsite all day and night so easy.
• Travis Kelce buys $6-million mansion in Kansas for privacy. That’s real estate (Taylor’s Version)
• Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House
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The restaurant is indeed a ranch house with western memorabilia adorning the walls. This is one of those places you just know you are going to enjoy. Bob Taylor’s Ranch House offers excellently-prepared, hearty food in a friendly atmosphere. We left full and happy, both for the tender meats and the sense of escape the restaurant provided.

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Jack Webb, who lived in a ranch house four blocks away, liked television so much, he had nine remote-control, 15-inch color sets installed in the south wall of a bungalow in the backyard of his house on Encino Avenue in Encino. After Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash in 1942, Clark Gable lived on the couple’s 20-acre ranch in Encino until he died in 1960. American actor Robert Taylor owned the ranch for several years before his death in 1969.[1] The ranch was then purchased by Steven J. Earle, then sold in 1974 to Ken Roberts, former owner of the KROQ-FM radio station. The ranch is also the setting for most of the 1983 Sam Peckinpah movie, The Osterman Weekend. Both appetizers were hot and very flavorful, the definition of comfort food. The Texas toast made me smile, thick-sliced Wonder Bread with garlic and cheese.

Dining Pick of the Week: Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Dining Pick of the Week: Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House.

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Historic Las Vegas Restaurants for an Old-School Dining Experience

That is evidently what brought Broderick Crawford, who played the tough-talking cop on the TV show “Highway Patrol,” to the Valley. His 1935 ranch-style house on Magnolia Boulevard in Encino had a stable and a riding ring. Sultry actress Veronica Lake, who made famous the wavy peek-a-boo-bangs hair style and starred in the film “The Blue Dahlia,” rented a modest Reseda house on Jamison Avenue in the early 1950s. When Sabu, the boyish Indian actor whose films included “Elephant Boy,” lived in the Valley in the mid-1940s and early ‘50s, he had at least one elephant, said Mulholland, whose brother lived one block away from Sabu’s estate.

Plush daytime spaces and sleek lobby bars make hanging onsite all day and night so easy.

By the time our meals arrived, we had forgotten about them, only to be remembered when the dish arrived a few minutes later. The buttery, beefy taste of the mushrooms complimented our meat, while their earthy texture provided an interesting contrast to the beef. What seemed like a small addition was well worth the extra few dollars.

The grounds were always lush with greenery and roses and were designed to tailor to Elizabeth’s children and grandchildren  as she wanted “Grandma’s house” to be all about family and fun. Andy Devine, who lived on Kester Avenue in Van Nuys, was also a “gentleman’s farmer with a stables and horses,” Mulholland said. Less than a mile away, at a home on Fruitland Drive in North Hollywood, matinee idol John Garfield installed an Olympic-size pool made with Mexican tile as well as the long bathtub, said Steve Kelly, who lives in the house now. Walking his elephant wasn’t the last of Sabu’s problems. The actor, whose full name was Sabu Dastagir, was charged in 1950 with hiring two men to burn his house down to collect insurance money; he was sued by two insurance companies and a jury ruled that Sabu did not set the fire. When Mary Astor lived on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino from 1943 to 1956, she had a pool built in the shape of a turtle.

Bob Taylor’s Ranch House is unapologetically a steakhouse. The carnivorous flair begins with the appetizers, all but one of which, the sautéed mushrooms, features meat. Smothered in a creamy, spicy Creole sauce, the dish contained four shrimp, a nice size given the vast scale of our dinners to come. The waitress offered us extra bread for dipping in the sauce before we even asked for it. The complimentary garlic cheese bread itself is a treat, warm and soft with a crunchy layer of cheese and spices.

Established in 1955, Bob Taylor’s Ranch House is widely accepted as the oldest operating restaurant in Las Vegas. Original owner Bob Taylor would barbecue for his friends and neighbors in the middle of nowhere off the Tonopah Highway (now U.S. 95). When word got out and demand for his barbecue grew, he turned his ranch house into a supper club. On Saturdays and Sundays he would host trap-shooting competitions, where shooters from all over the world would come to win trophies and prizes like silver belt buckles, then settle in for a hearty meat-centric meal. My prime rib was cooked on point, with just the right amount of light smokiness to enhance the tender meat, and my creamy, twice-baked potato was stuffed with bacon and garlic.

Opened in 1955, Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House is the oldest steakhouse in Las Vegas. Situated in the suburban northwest, the restaurant still feels “out in the country,” and diners will find a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere in which to enjoy excellently-prepared grilled meats. Customers may dine in the Western-themed main dining room or the sports bar.

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In the 1940s and ‘50s, dozens of Hollywood celebrities chose to make their homes in the San Fernando Valley, avoiding trendy and expensive Beverly Hills and Bel Air, where many other stars lived. In November 1961, Taylor and his family fled when the devastating Bel-Air/Brentwood wildfire threatened the property. “I grabbed my passport and shaving kit,” Taylor said at the time. “We drove to Ronnie Reagan’s house.” The ranch survived unscathed.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald was working on “The Last Tycoon” in 1939, he lived in a white guest house on Amestoy Avenue in Encino behind a huge manor house that belonged to comedian Edward Everett Horton. “We really need to get it to the next owner who will live there and enjoy it and bring the property back,” said Laura Brady, president of Concierge Auctions. Learn more about Nevada’s history with an original production by Rainbow Company Youth Theatre, “Adventure in the Sagebrush.” The whole family can enjoy this lively, tuneful, entertaining peek into the history of the Silver State.

Yet, with clever landscaping, the Ranch House still manages to seem “out in the country.” We breathed a little easier as we pulled into the gravel lot and traversed the tree-lined walk into the restaurant. Since 1955, our Western-themed restaurant has been serving sizzling steaks to legions of fans who want a get-away-from-it-all experience. Western memorabilia including John Wayne posters, saddles, and a decorative collection of spurs owned by a number of Hollywood cowboys covers the walls of the large cocktail lounge and bar. For the best houses for sale, places to eat, wine to drink, things to do, and untold histories of Los Angeles's brightest stars and their Hollywood homes. By allowing Opie into her home, Elizabeth allowed adoring fans access to parts of her life that up to that point had been off-limits to everyone outside her friends and family.

For the Las Vegas resident, the Ranch House offers the rare quality of being located neither on the Strip nor in a strip mall. For the tourist, it offers the chance to see a glimpse of Las Vegas past. Happily, the tradition of good steaks at Bob Taylor’s Ranch House seems a bit of the past that will continue for a long time. Soup or salad precedes every entrée, and despite the Las Vegas summer heat, my guest and I could not resist the soup of the day, French Onion. Unlike other French onion soups, this version had shredded cheese and toast already cut up, rather than a solid layer of cheese and bread.

I just want to tell ya folks, the food and service couldn’t have been any better, and the place was filled to the rafters. I must warn you, the parking lot is a dirt lot (never was anything but dirt) and it has a touch of off-road in the parking section for extra parking. The barren desert and tumbleweeds that surrounded the Ranch House back then have now been enveloped by development, but the wood-paneled house covered in Western memorabilia still serves great mesquite-grilled meat. The parking lot is desert dirt, feral cats roam the surrounding property and white Christmas lights still trail the walkway up to the restaurant. Notable diners include Strip headliners like Siegfried and Roy, Mayors Oscar and Carolyn Goodman and members of the Rat Pack. After our seafood appetizer, we opted for house specialties for our entrees.

In his words, “I’ve only ever had a better steak in Texas.” The lean meat had just enough spice to bring out its full flavor. The steak was garnished with an excellent, yet sadly solitary, onion ring. Upon further inquiry, we discovered that onion rings are only listed on the bar menu, but can be requested as an appetizer or side dish in the main dining room. William Bendix, the film actor who later starred as Chester A. Riley in the television show “The Life of Riley,” built a mansion on Encino Avenue in Encino in the early 1940s.