Company Description

Specialties: Country Western Saloon featuring a full bar, BBQ menu, dance lessons and live music. Unique private event venue. Established in 1963. Taverns flourished along Santa Ynez's Sagunto Street since 1906. Sixty years later, four busy bars Last Chance, the Bum Steer and Parker's have faded into history, the legendary Maverick Saloon remains a lively constant in Valley life.

In 1963, Jerry and Diane Thompson bought nine bare lots from publisher tycoon Hastings Harcourt and drew up plans for a museum, restaurant, two-story hotel and the Maverick Saloon, which they named after the TV series starring James Garner. The barn came later (approx. 1968) at the behest of Buddy Dean, a Santa Maria DJ who was convinced that given a dance hall, Santa Ynez could become "the Nashville of the West." To achieve an antique look, the Thompsons used materials salvaged from demolished Victorian houses. Before the Maverick Saloon took over the barn for a Dance Hall, it was at one time "Lulubelle's" Restaurant and a Tool Rental Facility. It became part of the Maverick Bar in 1992.

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