Loza Wine & Crepes brings brunch to a former Main Street house, with a courtyard and a family story rooted in honey, wine and local farmers markets. Sweet crepes are only one part of its menu.
Updated 2026.
Loza today: a daytime restaurant
The business’s official name is LOZA Wine & Crepes. Find it at 601 E. Main Street, Turlock, toward the eastern end of downtown. For questions, text 209-652-5839; its Toast ordering page also offers pickup.
The restaurant’s current home page posts 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Wednesday through Monday, closed Tuesday. This is a brunch and lunch destination, so plan around the daytime hours. The home page says no reservations; an older reservation-policy page still gives weekday booking instructions, so use the newer walk-in guidance or text about a larger party.
Sweet crepes, savory crepes and a broader brunch
The restaurant’s food menu offers several distinct routes through a meal:
- Sweet: The Classic combines Nutella, strawberries and bananas; Bananas Foster adds caramel and vanilla ice cream. Berry Butter Delight takes a different direction with berries, butter and cinnamon.
- Savory: spinach-and-mushroom crepes use pesto, while the California Salsa crepe includes linguica, bacon, ham, eggs and jalapeño. A chicken-and-mushroom version comes with cream sauce.
- Beyond crepes: the breakfast section includes Portuguese French toast, chilaquiles and a B.E.C.A. sandwich with bacon, egg, cheese and avocado. The wider menu includes sandwiches and spicy chicken pasta.
The wine and drinks page lists mimosa flights, wines and cocktails. For a direct connection to the family behind Loza, the ordering menu includes a Tsymbal red blend and mead. Coffee, tea and other nonalcoholic drinks are available as well.
From a family’s market booth to a restaurant
Loza’s own introduction to the restaurant describes European and Ukrainian influences and dates the business’s establishment to 2016. The name refers to a grapevine. It says the family grows some of its ingredients on a farm in the Turlock countryside; that connection sits alongside the farmers-market background that inspired the restaurant.
The Modesto Bee’s 2017 opening story fills in the family connection. Yelena Tsymbal and her sisters Oksana and Anya started the restaurant after years of family involvement in local markets, selling honey and wine. Their father, Tony Tsymbal, had developed the family winery, and the building was initially purchased with a tasting room in mind.
By the time the restaurant opened to the public, crepes and other food had become central to the plan. The Bee reported a September 2017 grand opening and described beehive boxes used in the counter and bench bases, with honeycomb-shaped kitchen tile.
The house behind the courtyard
According to Yelena Tsymbal’s account in the Turlock Journal’s opening profile, the building was constructed as a house in 1919. It later served as an Emanuel Medical Center thrift shop and a real estate office before its conversion into a restaurant. The family carried out the remodeling and installed a commercial kitchen, making tables and the sign themselves.
The city’s 2016 planning archive adds a small piece of that conversion story: an approved September application proposed nine parking spaces on an existing rear slab.
A small restaurant in a larger food community
Loza has also appeared in community events beyond its dining room. The Journal’s report on the first Turlock Top Chef competition describes chef Abraham Leon representing Loza in a fundraiser for the Turlock Gospel Mission. His dishes at that event included salmon over zucchini noodles and a brown-butter pumpkin cake.
The courtyard and the converted house give Loza a different setting from a conventional storefront restaurant. For the surrounding shops and streets, continue with the Main Street guide. For lunch or dinner in the central downtown blocks, see Bistro 234, or browse the Shopping & Dining directory.
