Legendary Boise diner with foods ‘to die for’ opens new Meridian locale. More is coming.
Jan. 20—The operator of two iconic Boise eating places unveiled designs this summertime to grow both equally to Meridian — at a single location.
A handful of weeks back, the initial at last opened.
The Capri Cafe has formally welcomed the globe at 1407 W. McMillan Highway. If all goes in accordance to prepare, the 3,700-square-foot constructing also will be property to a new Delsa’s Ice Cream Parlour in March.
The Capri in Meridian serves property-style breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. day by day. Check out the common biscuits and gravy ($6.45 tiny, $9.45 substantial), with clean-baked biscuits and housemade sausage gravy. When Delsa’s joins the Meridian procedure, it will consider above at 3 p.m. each individual day, serving ice product and dinner into the evenings.
The Capri has fed Idaho prospects at 2520 W. Fairview Ave. in Boise given that the early 1950s. Proprietor Nick West took around the diner-design and style eatery in 1998. In 2016, he gave it another traditional contact by placing Rudy the Rooster from now-defunct Jim’s Espresso Shop on the roof.
Delsa’s, which opened at 7923 W. Ustick Street in 1961, grew to become a West enterprise right after he revived it following a short closure just more than a ten years back.
Delsa’s in Boise by now serves Capri’s full lunch and dinner menu. So it manufactured sense to go on that operation at the new two-in-one household cafe in Meridian.
“Our burgers are definitely fantastic, and our Philly cheese steaks are to die for,” West advised the Statesman in July. “Our Philly is like you get in Philadelphia. Our rolls come from Philadelphia. We Cheez Whiz ’em like they do.”
Blend that with new, hand-crafted ice cream — Delsa’s concocts about 300 flavors of “actually amazing things,” West mentioned — and he thinks the new Meridian spot is destined to “be a hit.”
