Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen

Established by Cindy over 25 years ago, Mustards Grill is a Napa Valley institution. Mustards is well-known for its famed wood-burning grill, as well as its list of “Way Too Many Wines”. Its two-acre organic garden supplies much of the restaurant produce used to create its American Farm-to-Table cuisine. Mustards favorites include the addictive Onion Rings, Cindy’s famous Mongolian Pork Chop...

Fun Fact: Chef Cindy Pawlcyn is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author.

What to Drink: Along with a wine list consisting of mainly Napa Valley vintners, the restaurant also has a small selection of brews and specialty cocktails, such as the "Buddha's Bliss" with Hanger One Buddha's Hand Vodka and a candied lemon peel rim.

Chef Cindy Pawlcyn (Mustards) uses Backstreet as her home-away-from-home kitchen. Regulars come to relax after work with a cocktail from an impressive drinks menu, and to chow down on wood-oven mushroom potpie, fish ‘n’ chips with dill cucumbers and tartar sauce, rabbit tostada or the Backstreet burger with the works, house-made pickles and Dutch-style french fries. Also irresistible: seared...

At her St. Helena outpost, Cindy Pawlcyn serves variations on the comfort food she made popular at Mustards Grill, but spices things up with dishes influenced by Mexican, Central American, and occasionally Asian cuisines. Along with mainstays such as meat loaf with garlic mashed potatoes and beef and duck burgers served with flawless fries, the menu might include a rabbit tostada or chicken...

Cindy Pawlcyn may be the poor man's (and Napa's) answer to Alice Waters, but her reach stretches far beyond the three area restaurants she founded and runs -- Mustard's, and the most-recent Go Fish, rounds out the trio. It is at her namesake, literally tucked into a backstreet, where her personal touch is perhaps most keenly felt. From the conversational tone of the "wine picture book,"...

Patrons out on the patio or inside the pleasantly homey, dollhouse-cute dining room feast on comfort food with international flair at this St. Helena favorite from acclaimed Chef Cindy Pawlcyn....

Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen, Saint Helena, California. 2,810 likes · 1 talking about this · 18,169 were here. Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen combines a classy supper club with the flair of a speakeasy to...