4 Best Restaurants in Death Valley National Park, California

Next to the clubhouse of the world's lowest golf course, this open-air spot serves hamburgers, hot dogs, chili, and sausages. The bar has a rotating selection of draft beers.

Built in the 1930s, the diner-esque Crowbar—where antique photos adorn the walls and mining equipment stands in the corners—serves enormous helpings of regional dishes such as steak and taco salads. Home-baked fruit pies make fine desserts, and frosty beers are surefire thirst quenchers. Grab a table in the air-conditioned saloon or on the patio, where you can watch time tick by on the streets of Shoshone. 

This is a great place for a beer and a steak, though the menu also has burgers, chicken tenders, fish and chips, pasta dishes, and salads. In summer, dinners (reservations suggested) are served out on the porch, which has spectacular views of Panamint Valley. A limited breakfast and lunch are also served.

Built as Randsburg's Drug Store in 1896, this popular biker and family spot is one of the area's few surviving ghost-town buildings with original furnishings intact, such as a tin ceiling, light fixtures, and a 1904 marble-and-stained-glass soda fountain. You can still enjoy a phosphate soda from that same fountain, or lunch on slow-roasted barbecue sandwiches and blueberry milk shakes along with chili, hamburgers, and breakfast.