FORT BRAGG, 4/11/23 — A chef-artist is working to open a new kind of eatery and wine and beer bar in the old Caspar Inn, the Mendocino’s Coast fabled roadhouse bar. The opening is planned for Thursday with full opening by summer, as the coast’s hospitality business remakes itself. Unlike many of the corporate buying of inns from Fort Bragg to Albion, the former Caspar Inn once again promises to be the eclectic creation of individuals. The Caspar Inn is one of the last of am American cultural institution- The Roadhouse. Roadhouses offered upstairs rooms, dancing, music and food downstairs. They were important to many American musical and cultural traditions.
In this case, the inn is seeking its roots as a venue for the about to be famous and the used to be famous, along with some bonafide celebrities showing up. Peter Lit, now 79, oversaw the inn’s heyday in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “It’s not like we ever had the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. But we had some very well known musicians either coming up or going down who played there,” Lit said in a recent interview. He owned the Inn for two decades.
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