DACAPO’S DECAMPS FROM ITS 11TH ST. CORNER NEXT MONTH 
A Friday afternoon Facebook post from the owners of Dacapo’s Pastry Cafe broke the news that they’re closing on September 29 and skipping town for Tahlequah, Oklahoma where they’ll be “retiring a little early†after 14 years in the storefront pictured above. Of all 4 structures at the intersection of E. 11th St. and Studewood — including the catty-corner Ruggles-Green-turned-Bellagreen, along with Liberty Kitchen and Someburger’s longstanding fast-food shack — the bakery is the oldest; it went up shortly after the surrounding North Norhill subdivision filled up with homeowners in the ’20s. Six years after Dacapo’s moved in, its building became part of the pistol-shaped Norhill Historic District. Situated in the district’s southwest corner — at the end of its original commercial center along 11th — it’s one of the few retail structures left over from the neighborhood’s early days. [Dacapo’s Pastry Cafe; neighborhood history] Photo: Dacapo’s Pastry Cafe
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It’s a great zero-setback commercial building. Would be perfect for a restaurant, but they’d need to find 30 off street parking spaces.
Will miss DaCapo’s…a Heights institution…walking in feels like Old Heights of which sadly little remains.
Fitzgeralds, then Hickory Hollow, now Dacapo’s. What a shitty week for old school Heights establishments.
Going to miss this place. The cakes, cookies and other pastries are top notch. But I’ll miss taking off from work early and stopping in for a sandwich on my way home.