Henflings of Ben Lomond — Restaurant in California

2025 UPDATE: New, newer owner(s), same as Aroma Restaurant just a block down the road, is doing an exceptional job bringing this legendary roadhouse venue back on its feet after a 2024 fall down. Live music weekends, trivia Tuesdays, Flingo Wednesdays, and dare I say the crowd is friendlier and happier now that a few certain patrons are no longer present. Kitchen is open late ever night, despite what Google Maps says. And the food is genuinely delicious. 'Nuff said...

The new renovations in late 2018 really brought this place up to par. It looks basically the same, but the bathrooms are much nicer, the floor is much more level, and the place is just all around cleaner and feels more "solid", while still retaining the distinct, cozy, mountain cabin charm that has always been an intrinsic characteristic of Henflings (aka "Chicken Toss"). Upgrades to the kitchen and bar were welcome and due, and 8ts nice to sit on new, padded, upholstered, swivel barstools. I went on a "soft open" Wednesday shortly after they reopened, and had a good time playing "Flingo" (Henflings Bingo). Of course, mostly everyone else there knew everyone else, but it wasn't my first time at that rodeo, and both my smile and my cowboy hat seemed well received. And everyone just seemed happy to be back in their local after almost a year closed. BTW, I have seen some GREAT musical performance at Henfings. The mountains are rife with talented and seasoned musicians, and this is a great, tiny venue to experience them, while practically dancing on their toes and...

Updated as of 2022 The staff is much friendlier and more responsive. The general vibe is still imo exclusionary and not particularly welcoming but that is a function of our locals that frequent the place, not the business. I'm local, I get it Grill continues to be my go-to for dinner when I need to eat after work and I don't have the energy left to do anything but eat then go to bed. Great folks on the grill.

UPDATED: After thinking about the reply from the owner, I can agree that my review is not fair to what will be a different business, same name. I endured the place for many, many years as it was. If the owner is sincere about being mindful of their upcoming staff, and I have no reason to think they are not, then they deserve a chance to bring to our town their vision of Henfling's without being tainted by old baggage.

I changed this one star to three. When you open, I look forward to meeting you. I hope to give a stellar review one day. Not for the review's sake, but, because good communities thrive when they have good businesses. Closed, currently, while ownership is transferred and required repairs completed, Henfling’s is rumored to reopen in September or October of 2018. When it does, I hope they implement something called customer service, preferably through employees that aren’t consistently unpleasant and hostile. The food here is over the top good. The women behind the bar are the worst of the...

It's the quasi - local dive joint, and once upon a time biker bar in Ben Lomond. If you are lucky you may spy one of the last living mountain hippies, looking like he just rode down the mountain on a red 1967 BSA Lightning with a sidecar draining a glass of Jameson's at a dark corner table, but don't try and take his picture if he's already drunk. It might get nasty. But the times they are-a-changing. Now that the WFH gangs from the 101 corridor and LA have anointed the San Lorenzo Valley as their new ShangriLa, the entire landscape is in full blown gentrification. What was once a place where many of the folks were either wanted by a badge or wanted by absolutely no one at all - a place where you could stay lost - is now hardly there. Catch what is left before someone blinks and...