Legendary Boise diner with food stuff ‘to die for’ opens new Meridian area. Far more is coming.

Jan. 20—The proprietor of two iconic Boise dining places uncovered designs this summer time to extend both to Meridian — at a single location.

A several months in the past, the very first lastly opened.

The Capri Restaurant has officially welcomed the entire world at 1407 W. McMillan Highway. If all goes in accordance to strategy, the 3,700-square-foot making also will be household to a new Delsa’s Ice Cream Parlour in March.

The Capri in Meridian serves home-fashion breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day. Consider the well-known biscuits and gravy ($6.45 smaller, $9.45 big), with fresh new-baked biscuits and housemade sausage gravy. When Delsa’s joins the Meridian operation, it will consider more than at 3 p.m. each individual working day, serving ice cream and meal into the evenings.

The Capri has fed Idaho clients at 2520 W. Fairview Ave. in Boise considering the fact that the early 1950s. Operator Nick West took in excess of the diner-model eatery in 1998. In 2016, he gave it a further typical contact by putting Rudy the Rooster from now-defunct Jim’s Espresso Shop on the roof.

Delsa’s, which opened at 7923 W. Ustick Street in 1961, became a West venture soon after he revived it pursuing a quick closure just in excess of a 10 years in the past.

Delsa’s in Boise presently serves Capri’s whole lunch and supper menu. So it created perception to continue that procedure at the new two-in-one spouse and children cafe in Meridian.

“Our burgers are really superior, and our Philly cheese steaks are to die for,” West told the Statesman in July. “Our Philly is like you get in Philadelphia. Our rolls appear from Philadelphia. We Cheez Whiz ’em like they do.”

Combine that with new, hand-crafted ice product — Delsa’s concocts about 300 flavors of “genuinely awesome stuff,” West reported — and he thinks the new Meridian location is destined to “be a hit.”