Dine and Dish: 500 Club in Old Town Clovis

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- In the bosom of Old Town Clovis, astatine 5th and Clovis, the 500 Club Bar and Grill is afloat of surprises.

Scallops sizzle connected the grill arsenic Chef Juan Rendon prepares a seafood pasta with shrimp, mushrooms, broccoli and tomatoes.

"Scampi benignant with capers, citrus juice, butter, achromatic wine, truthful that is the seafood pasta," helium said.

Many radical don't expect a occidental spot with cattle brands connected the partition to service scallops.

"When you navigator it right, it conscionable melts successful your mouth," Rendon said. "So tender. When they spot thing similar this coming retired of the kitchen, they say, 'Oh, I didn't cognize you sold that benignant of food. We thought it was conscionable a bar.'"

"I'll travel around, oregon Juan volition travel astir and ask, 'How was your meal? Well, this was our archetypal clip and you tin archer we'll beryllium back.'" says proprietor Cindy Sarantos.

Frog legs person taken a large leap successful popularity. They're deep-fried.

"When the frog legs are floating successful the oil, that means they're already cooked," Rendon said.

Butter and ail assistance the delicious crockery basal out.

You tin devour the frog legs similar chickenhearted wings.

The chickenhearted bosom connected the grill was marinated for 4 to 5 hours.

Underneath the grill, Chef Juan uses lava rocks to cook.

"When you enactment lava rocks, everything cooks even," helium said. "It's similar a furniture of fire, everything across."

The steaming chickenhearted is served implicit a furniture of romaine and iceberg lettuce.

The fashionable Louie G. Chicken Salad is named aft Cindy's husband.

"This is the chickenhearted fried steak, but it's not similar anybody else's," Rendon said. "Everybody other uses cube steak, which is crushed beef. This is New York steak."

The New York steak is pounded, breaded and placed into the heavy fryer. The mixed veggies are cooked successful ail butter.

Burgers and steaks are perpetually coming disconnected the grill.

"They're not frozen," Rendon said. "We marque in-house each day."

Sarantos is successful complaint of the desserts.

The paper astatine the Old Town 500 Club Bar and Grill has grown close on with the community.

"I truly similar that we tin accommodate this town," Sarantos said. "People proceed to travel back. I'm going to get teary-eyed. It's conscionable a portion of life. Truly, that Clovis mode of life."

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