La Kiva Restaurant & Bar

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Talk about your underground restaurants. This quirky place specializing in barbecue and grilled meat is literally right underground – just look at those rock walls. There's frequent live music, and happy hour is from 5pm to 6pm, when the house margaritas are $3.50. Buns, bread and pizza dough are all homemade. This place is worth checking out.

Although the kitchen closes at 2pm (lunch) and 10pm (dinner), the bar is open until 3pm (after lunch) daily, until midnight Sunday through Friday and until 1am Saturday. It's about 3 miles west of Hwy 118.

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