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Idaho Statesman
4 openings, closings and changes on the Boise-area food-and-drink scene
Boise-area restaurants are churning, with a longtime Eagle Italian spot bowing out of its space soon, and a Hawaiian chain planting its flag in Kuna. Here’s a quick look at what’s changing on local menus. Italian restaurant daVinci’s will exit at the end of the year at 190 E. State St. in Eagle, and Eagle Bank Club will take over the landmark building next spring under owners Scott Slater and Todd Ketlinski, with a tavern-style menu featuring a Giant Chicken Parm, Bank Club Burger and Idaho finger steaks. Mo’ Bettahs Hawaiian Style Food opened Friday at 1460 E. Deer Flat Road in Kuna , the Utah-based chain’s 10th Idaho location, joining Jimmy John’s, Wingstop and Panera Bread among national brands moving into the fast-growing suburb. Nowadays Coffee, a family-owned shop at 4295 W. Chinden Blvd. in Garden City, opened Oct. 24 to glowing early reviews , with a red-and-white retro look, in-house flavor syrups and specialty drinks like the Pumpkin Short Stack and The Nowadays latte. The Meridian location of the Capri Restaurant at 1407 W. MacMillan Road closed Sunday “until further notice” five months after owner Nick West sold it, though the original Capri on Fairview in Boise —
Idaho State Journal
Idaho Press
Eagle families build sanctuary for grief and remembrance
EAGLE — The second installation phase of a Dry Creek Cemetery monument, intended as a place of healing for all who mourn a loved one, was commemorated Saturday. An Angel of Hope — one of nearly 200 such statues, mostly in the United States — came to the Treasure Valley earlier this year thanks to the Eagle Lions Club and a group of local residents who have experienced devastating grief. Now, a brick plaza and amphitheater will be erected around it, and its construction was kicked off with a Nov. 7 groundbreaking. “The angel is going to be totally surrounded,” said Gary D’Orazio, one of the bereaved parents who spearheaded the project. “We’re going to have memorial plaques. We’re going to have benches with engravings.” D’Orazio was instrumental in constructing the country’s second Angel of Hope statue in Nevada three decades ago. After reading the novella “The Christmas Box,” which inspired the movement, he learned that author Richard Paul Evans was erecting an Angel in Salt Lake City and wanted to do the same for his own son, Mario, near Elko where he died. The death of a second son, Rocco, in 2024 strengthened his resolve for bringing the Eagle