Danville Boulevard Lost Two Restaurants This Year. Neither Closed the Same Way.
Drive Danville Boulevard through downtown Alamo this month and you will pass two restaurant spaces that both changed hands in 2026. One did it overnight. The other is still, as of early September, working out what it wants to be. If you eat on this stretch of the boulevard with any regularity, the difference between those two timelines tells you more about what to expect next than either closure does on its own.
Peasant's Courtyard served its last meal as Peasant's Courtyard on Sunday, April 19. By Monday morning, the same address at 3195 Danville Boulevard was open again, under a new name and new ownership, with barely a day of downtime between them.
Rodney Worth and The Worth Group had run the cafe for almost 17 years, since opening in August 2009. Before that, the building spent nearly 25 years as the original Courtyard Cafe. Two restaurant eras, one location, and now a third: The Courtyard Restaurant, taken over by the family behind East Bay Artisan, the bakery known for its stand at the Danville farmers market, and Cafe 1277, which the same family runs out of Treat Towers in Walnut Creek.
The new owners kept at least one familiar staff member on and announced the change with a short statement posted by chef Rodney Worth.
With some familiar faces and a fresh new feel, we are excited to serve our Alamo community!
Worth is not stepping away from the East Bay entirely. He still runs The Peasant & The Pear in downtown Danville and The Bourbon Pear in Livermore. His Walnut Creek spot, The Little Pear, closed in January after less than three years, and he has been developing a new concept called The Golden Pear, inside Rossmoor, the senior community in Walnut Creek. The Alamo location was the one he let go, quickly and with a plan already in place for what would replace it.
A few blocks up the same street, at 3160 Danville Boulevard in the Stone Valley Center near the CVS, a different kind of turnover has been unfolding all summer.
Forli Ristorante, the longtime Italian restaurant known for live entertainment and a neighborhood bar crowd, had already gone through several ownership changes over its long run before closing for good. In its place, signs went up in early August announcing a new restaurant called The Post. As of that reporting, workers were still visible inside past 8:30 at night, and the restaurant's own website was still running placeholder menu items rather than real prices.
The concept behind The Post is built around an early-1900s post office theme, described on the business's own site as combining "sophistication with comfort." The company behind it, Alamo Restaurant & Bar Group LLC, was formed in September 2025, which makes this its first real project. Public filings list Ali Reza Ghasemi as CEO, with Danville-based Lala Hospitality Inc., led by Ghasemi and Lauren Ghasemi, as the managing entity.
Where Peasant's Courtyard handed off to an operator who already had a bakery, a cafe, and years of farmers market goodwill built up, The Post is a brand-new company betting on an unproven concept in a space that spent decades as Italian.
| The Courtyard Restaurant | The Post | |
|---|---|---|
| Previous tenant | Peasant's Courtyard, 17 years | Forli Ristorante, decades, multiple past owners |
| Last day to first day | Zero-day gap: closed Sunday, reopened Monday | Weeks of visible construction, still incomplete in August |
| New operator | East Bay Artisan / Cafe 1277 family, an established local food business | Alamo Restaurant & Bar Group LLC, formed less than a year ago |
| What carried over | At least one familiar staff member, the building's cafe identity | A new concept in a building that had one identity for decades |
A restaurant closing and reopening the next morning is not really a closure. It is a continuation with a new name attached, and the new owners had every incentive to keep it feeling familiar fast, because their own bakery brand and their farmers market customers were already walking distance away. If you had a standing Saturday breakfast order at Peasant's Courtyard, the honest read is that you will find most of what you remember still there, just relabeled.
The Post is a different kind of bet. A newly formed LLC taking over a shopping center space that had one identity for decades is not continuing anything. It is starting over, and the slow, visible construction timeline through the summer is what that actually looks like from the sidewalk. A concept built around an old post office, aiming for American comfort food rather than the Italian menu Forli's built its reputation on, needs a season or two to find its footing before anyone can say whether it sticks the way its predecessor did.
Both changes are real. But if you are deciding when to actually go try the new place versus when to just expect your old order to still be on the menu, the calendar tells you which is which. One reopened before most people noticed it had closed. The other is still becoming itself.
Both addresses sit on a stretch of Danville Boulevard that already carries a lot of the town's weekly routine. The Alamo Certified Farmers' Market runs year round, rain or shine, every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Bank of America parking lot at the Alamo Plaza Shopping Center, with free parking next to the stalls and a rotating vendor list that has included Achadihna Cheese Co. and Bay Area Harvest this year alongside seasonal produce sellers. The Iron Horse Regional Trail runs through the same part of town on its way between Walnut Creek and Danville, giving anyone walking off a Sunday market haul a shaded, paved route home.
None of that changes because two restaurant spaces changed hands. What changes is smaller and more specific: which door on the boulevard still feels like it did last year, and which one is worth a second look once the construction tape comes down.
If you have opinions about either spot, or you are watching what else turns over along this stretch of Danville Boulevard, that is the kind of neighborhood detail Black Rose Real Estate pays attention to, restaurant by restaurant, block by block. Let's Talk if there is something in Alamo you want a second opinion on.
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