The Capers Caper

This morning Your Boulevardier visited Rudy's Donut Shop, as he is too often wont to do. But this time he arrived by car, having driven Madame Boulevardier to the airport for an early flight to visit her sisters in Florida.

Rudy's is a much more difficult approach by car than on foot. Its parking lots are crowded and rutted. Driving there now is especially difficult due to backhoes and excavation. If you have driven near Rudy's lately, you know that its cross street -- the unpronounceable Yeandle Avenue -- is torn up. The road work is suspected to be related to construction at the former Capers Restaurant.

Capers, the reader probably already knows, has relocated to Castro Village, where it replaced a seafood restaurant (its name escapes Your Boulevardier). Meanwhile, the former Capers building on Yeandle is, reportedly, being remodeled into a 50s-style diner. The Gemignani Brothers -- champion pizza-tosser Tony and his brother Frank -- are behind the venture.

The building itself has taken on an interesting angular shape on the end toward Castro Valley Boulevard. One hopes that an interesting choice of siding -- that is, not stucco -- will accompany this daring design.

Your Boulevardier does not yet know if the restaurant will offer car service, but the fact that the historic Capers awning-cum-sun shade has been retained is a good sign. (Roller-skating carhops would be a bonus, albeit an unlikely one.) And if the Gemignani Brothers' track record at Pyzano's is any indication, the food should be very good. (Now one can only hope that the restrooms will be maintained to a higher standard than those at Pyzano's, which are often a disaster.)