Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen

I’m glad we got to go there, as the food was wonderful, and I understand they are closing soon

We were celebrating our wedding anniversary and our daughter’s birthday. The food was great as was the service. We first dined at Cindy’s years ago and were excited to return. It was one of the best meals we had during our day visit to the Napa Valley!

Sadly, this was our last dinner at Cindy’s since it is closing on We’ve been patrons since and it was our go-to place for celebrations and out of town guests. The food was excellent, as usual, but with the restaurant only half-full at PM Sunday, the service was slow. It took minutes to get drink orders. A second round sat on the bar with no one paying attention. Inexplicable. Courses arrived promptly. We’re sad to see Cindy’s close. It was a Saint Helena institution.

We have been to Cindy's a handful of times and wanted to go one last time before they closed. I'm not sure if the staff was new or part time help, but our service was absolutely terrible. First, the bottle of wine that we ordered, they said they didn't have, then they found it minutes later. Our server was nice, but it took him a long time to event greet our table. Another person ended up taking our order, and then our server came over and asked what we wanted for dinner. The menus were cleared from our table and we weren't sure who was actually taking care of us. We had to ask for our water to be refilled and we waited for our food for over minutes! The only saving grace was that the food was good, but living in Napa for the past years, I have never experienced service this bad before. I couldn't recommend this place to any of my clients.

Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen was one of our favorite Napa restaurants. Sadly it closed for business on July We enjoyed many great meals there, and were always happy to take our out-of-town guests there. See you at Mustard's!