Qualla: Cyrus https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cyrus https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant Cyrus: Introduction https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ The last course arrives in a room you did not know existed. Behind a concealed door in a converted prune-packing plant in Geyserville, California, a small chamber reveals itself -- dim lighting, close walls, and a chocolate waterfall cascading in the corner. This is the finale of Cyrus, a restaurant where dining is not a seated affair but a migration. Groups of twelve move through four distinct spaces over the course of twenty dishes, beginning with champagne in the Bubbles Lounge and ending here, in a space designed to feel like a secret shared among friends. That the restaurant exists at all is its own unlikely story -- one of landlord feuds, a decade-long closure, a public declaration that it would never return, and then a pandemic-era resurrection in a town of fewer than 900 people.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/b/s/cyrus-restaurant-wp/9qbs-cyrus-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cyrus: Named for a Pioneer https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ Chef Douglas Keane opened Cyrus on March 4, 2005, at Hotel Les Mars in Healdsburg, with Nick Peyton as partner and maitre d'. The name honored Cyrus Alexander, the 19th-century pioneer who gave the Alexander Valley its identity. Within eighteen months, the restaurant had climbed ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/b/s/cyrus-restaurant-wp/9qbs-cyrus-named-for-a-pioneer.mp3 0:06 2 full Cyrus: The Unraveling https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ Success did not insulate Cyrus from the friction that comes with operating inside someone else's building. When Hotel Les Mars was acquired by new owners, a dispute erupted between Keane and the landlords -- a conflict that played out in the San Francisco Chronicle under headline...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/b/s/cyrus-restaurant-wp/9qbs-cyrus-the-unraveling.mp3 0:06 3 full Cyrus: A Prune Shed's Second Act https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ A year later, the improbable offer arrived. In 2020, Keane was shown the ground floor of a live-work property in Geyserville -- a former prune-packing plant that Jensen Architects had adapted into a mixed-use building, roughly eight miles from the old Healdsburg location. The COV...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/b/s/cyrus-restaurant-wp/9qbs-cyrus-a-prune-sheds-second-act.mp3 0:06 4 full Cyrus: Stars and Struggles https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ Recognition followed quickly. Cyrus earned a Michelin star in December 2022, just three months after reopening, and retained it in subsequent guides. The AAA Five Diamond Award arrived in 2023. Reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle noted Asian influences threading through the mo...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/b/s/cyrus-restaurant-wp/9qbs-cyrus-stars-and-struggles.mp3 0:06 5 full Cyrus: Roots and Reinvention https://qualla.com/cyrus-restaurant/ In June 2024, a group of private investors purchased the property, including six acres of surrounding land. With Keane, they plan to convert the apartments above the restaurant and the caretaker's cottage into a six-room hotel, and to add a herb garden, orchard, and live-fire gri...

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