Zini’s Diner

I only had coffee and Swedish pancakes but they were delish!
Warning to the vegetarians and kosher:
They cook these on the bacon griddle so they are fabulously meaty.

Good food. Wicked FAST service!

We often end up stopping at Cloverdale on the way to Mendocino or farther north. Coming back from Ukiah recently we were looking for a breakfast spot and happened upon Zini’s Café based on Unilocal reviews. Unilocalers were right about this one: a great breakfast place. We all had the Swedish Pancakes and they received a universal thumbs up. Some of the sides we had were excellent, especially my side of ham. Best ham I’ve had in quite a while! The hashbrowns also were quite good.
I had thought this was just a breakfast place, but the website says they are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They mention blackberry shakes — on my list to try!

Restaurant is clean and food is very well prepared. Service was great with nice smile. I will be back.

The food is good, but management sucks. We have been customers since the restaurant opened, and it has been our primary eating place in this town. We are going to cut back eating here, and if her bad attitude continues, we will find somewhere else.

Stopped by for breakfast around 2:30pm, the Swedish pancakes were very tasty. Service was excellent and food was very good, I will be back.

Want great food and service? Eat here.
Solid breakfast food with a professional waitstaff.
Very family friendly.
What more could you ask for?
Oh yeah, and get the Swedish Pancakes… with powdered sugar. You won’t regret it.
Side note:
The space is a bit odd for a restaurant – it’s located in a strip mall and is strangely sectioned off for whatever it was originally purposed. This means they have lots of seating and they are able to turn over tables relatively quickly.

EXCELLENT breakfast: quick service, fair price, and hash browns done well when ordered!

Taking some much needed rest and relaxation in Cloverdale, CA!
This quaint and sweet corner restaurant has a great breakfast menu…
The French toast and egg/​bacon was delicio’.
Perfect start to a good day:)
Polite service…

The food varies, as does the service. Something’s I have had there are great (Swedish pancakes, eggs benedict), and other things not so much. I really want to like this place more, and always have high hopes for it to get better, but it just kind of stays so-​so. Do not go here if you are in a hurry, not even if you call ahead. Your experience really is going to depend on the staff that is working. Sometimes you get drink refills, and sometimes you get forgotten about. Sometimes you get a smile, and sometimes you don’t. They are almost there, just more effort needed.

I always like an argumentative server, poorly cooked bad-​quality ingredients, oh and cock roaches in the bathroom.
YAY! Way to go guys!

I had the frenchtoast with eggs and sausage while my mom had the the pancakes. Both are really good. The place is very relaxing and a great stop by for breakfast

Great breakfast! Even though we appeared to be the only people not from here in the restaurant they didn’t treat us like lepers! Can’t say well Be back cause I don’t anticipate we will ever be in Cloverdale again but if u r here, I would recommend this spot to you! Great pancakes!!!

Great cook and people…
The Breakfast fruit is worth the Stop…
Ask for the Russian River Water…
Thank You…/:-)

This place is awesome! We drove from NorCal to Oregon on Wednesday and had an amazing early dinner of chicken fried steak and roast beef. All made from scratch. Then finished with delicious homemade fruit pies and ice cream.
We timed it right on our return today (Sunday) to grab a late lunch. Same entrees. Extra green beans for me and then homemade chocolate cake and ice cream. Thanks to Nancy for the great service.
This is a fantastic diner/​café. Friendly service. Great food. Worth every star and your patronage.

Good food, coffee and service at a fair price
Very spacious and clean too
The hollandaise is not good so skip the eggs benedict
They say the chicken fried steak is great but the gravy is a pure white almost tasteless flour mixture.
Stick to the basics

Very nice place, people, food.
We stopped by 15 minutes before closing on our way through this town. Although we were nicely warned that they were closing soon, they were glad to serve us.
We had sandwiches and drinks. All were prepared nice and fresh. My club sandwich had real turkey and the bacon was hot and crispy. We all enjoyed our meal and the good service.

I wish I could rate this no stars. I am writing this review weeks later but we still cannot get over the horrible meal we had here. My husband and I went in Zini’s for lunch. I ordered the French dip and he ordered the fish and chips. The French dip tasted like packaged meat with a horrible au jus also made from a package. My husbands fish and chips tasted like bad fish. Restaurants can pull off using a frozen product for fish and chips but this was inedible and made him feel sick for hours after. I wish I could say I would go back and have breakfast which most Unilocalers rave about but I cannot bring myself to do so. I could say the service was good (they were polite) but when you leave half the food on your plate and the server does not bother to ask then it is not so good either.

Met our needs as passers by in this wonderful town!
Amazing breakfast
Great soup. And definetly try to chili gods hot sauce even for your breakfast not just your dinner

I just a restaurant not only on food but cleanliness. The plastic table cover was sticky, the salt and pepper shakers were dirty. Bathroom needed to be cleaned. I checked the kitchen and it looked OK. Food was just Ok. Hopefully they do some house cleaning.
Service was good