Algarve Restaurants

If you buy the McKittrick Hotel in western Kern County, part of your down payment is on the bar. And the walls. And the floor. And just about every flat surface in the building’s restaurant and bar.

And assuming you would want to scrape them off, the estimated one million pennies carefully glued there over the years by owners Mike and Annie Moore would take care of part of the $50,000 down payment on the sale.

The unusual decorations have put the steakhouse restaurant and bar on the map, being featured in news stories and a PBS television report.

The Moores have put the hotel up for sale with an asking price of $1 million. None of the 14 rooms, however, is open; the Moores just operate the restaurant and bar.

They’ve owned the hotel since 1999 and now say it’s time for them to retire.

“The daily overflow lunch crowd from the oilfields and the destination for motorcycle and car clubs also includes people who just like great steaks,” says the sales pitch from LoopNet.com, a commercial real estate Web site.