Heading to Joshua Tree? Eat at Pappy & Harriet’s

The Cowboy Combo, with tri-tip and a half-rack of ribs with an optional side of mac and cheese, plus coleslaw, cheese fries and a cold Corvette Summer drink at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown. “Business is better than it’s ever been,” said Lisa Elin, who owns the restaurant and music venue with her partner, Joseph Benjamin “J.B.” Moresco. Their daughter Harriet and her husband, Claude “Pappy” Allen, took over the building and opened Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace restaurant and live music venue in 1982. “What the pandemic showed is that this is a music venue, but it’s a restaurant first,” Moresco said, referencing the period of time when entertainment venues were not allowed to operate due to COVID-19 mandates.