Nick Peyton of Cyrus is The MICHELIN Guide California 2025 Service Award Winner

"In Sonoma County, California, I experienced an antidote to traditional snooty fine dining at Cyrus, where maître d' and owner Nick Peyton and Chef Douglas Keane present a One-MICHELIN-Star tasting menu. An evening is modeled like a dinner party: guests are led through rooms by a welcoming host and even encouraged to nibble in the kitchen. The service is formal and precise in its mechanics but disarmingly warm and unpretentious — we were treated to a friendly, relaxed interchange rather than pomposity. Peyton, who recalls the imperious maître d's of the 1970s, has shaped a hospitality approach that earned Cyrus this year’s MICHELIN Guide California Service Award, and every meal is theatrically capped by an eight-foot chocolate fountain." - The MICHELIN Guide