Cyrus knows how to throw a good dinner party.
After nearly three years in Geyserville, the fine-dining restaurant is still referred to by many as the “new” Cyrus—as the restaurant reopened at its location off Highway 128 in 2022, a decade following its 2012 closure at its former Healdsburg address. The respite allowed time for owner-chef Douglas Keane and longtime business partner Nick Peyton (who serves as maître d’) to re-envision what they’d like to see in the haute cuisine experience—both from the standpoint of clientele, as well as staff (Keane is vocal about the importance of living wages and work/life balance).
For hungry Cyrus fans, meanwhile, the result has been what the restaurant refers to as “the dining journey,” a multi-course meal that progresses between four rooms, mirroring the flow of visiting a friend’s house for dinner: drinks in the lounge, tastes and chit chat in the kitchen, main courses in the dining room, followed by dessert and leaving with something sweet for the ride home. By and large, it’s how any decent dinner party should unfold, with one exception: Cyrus is exponentially better than dinner at Rob and Linda’s…