The sign at 3195 Danville Boulevard changed on Monday, April 20, and the kitchen behind it never went dark. The Peasant's Courtyard served its last breakfast and lunch the day before, on Sunday, April 19. The Courtyard Restaurant opened the next morning under a different owner, a different chef and a different name. A second familiar address, 3160 Danville Boulevard, is also changing hands. Workers were still renovating the old Forli space in the Stone Valley Center after 8:30 p.m. in early August, and "Coming Soon" signs announced a restaurant called The Post.
Two turnovers in one year read like a run of bad luck for Alamo dining. The history of both addresses says otherwise. Each has held a restaurant for about four decades, and neither has kept the same restaurant the whole time. The address is Alamo's fixed institution. The restaurant inside it is the part that changes, and the current handoffs are shifting which meal of the day each address serves.
One Patio, Three Restaurants
The building at 3195 Danville Boulevard sits on the edge of downtown Alamo, and the outdoor seating is most of its identity. Diablo Magazine describes the Courtyard Restaurant as a largely outdoor space and says the new owners have embraced it for its peaceful feel.
The timeline runs like this. The space was the Courtyard Cafe for nearly 25 years, until it closed in March 2009. Chef Rodney Worth opened The Peasant's Courtyard there that August, and The Worth Group ran it for nearly 17 years. Add those together and the same footprint has fed people for about four decades under three names.
The new operator is the family behind East Bay Artisan, the bakery known for its farmers market booths, including the one in Danville every Saturday. Danville San Ramon reported that the Courtyard is the family's first brick-and-mortar location in the San Ramon Valley. The group also has ties to Cafe 1277 in Walnut Creek.
Bay Area Telegraph pointed out that this was a full change of ownership and not a rebrand, with a new chef included. The Worth Group has not left the area. It still runs The Peasant & The Pear in downtown Danville, and as of April it was preparing to open The Golden Pear inside Rossmoor, with no debut date confirmed at that time.
On the plate, the Courtyard's own menu page describes a locally sourced, scratch-made kitchen, with weekday breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Diablo Magazine's write-up mentions lunch items such as an Asian chicken salad, hot pastrami and a sandwich called Mushroom Madness built on roasted Fungi Farms mushrooms, and it notes beer from nearby Danville Brewing Co. The write-up also describes breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. That last detail matters, and it comes back below.
The Space Next to CVS Has Been Here Before
The Stone Valley Center sits at the corner of Stone Valley Road and Danville Boulevard, and the Forli space at 3160 has the longer and more twisting record of the two. Patch reported in 2011 that Forli had been a local favorite for fine Italian cooking since the early 1980s, and that Gabriele Davanzante, its fourth owner, bought it in 2006.
Diablo Magazine's later review tells the next chapter. In 2013 new owners bought and razed the much-loved Forli. Its replacement, Izzy's, closed after two years, and so did the Alamo Grill that followed. Then Forli came back, and Diablo reviewed the return in 2018, praising a dining room with red leather booths and one of the county's more inviting lounges. Bay Area Telegraph, reporting in August 2026, described Forli as a longtime Alamo dining institution known for Italian food, live entertainment and a popular neighborhood bar, and said it had since closed. That report did not give a closing date, and neither did anything else the research turned up.
| Address | Restaurants over roughly four decades | Operator now | What is changing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3195 Danville Blvd | Courtyard Cafe (nearly 25 years, to March 2009), The Peasant's Courtyard (August 2009 to April 19, 2026), The Courtyard Restaurant | East Bay Artisan family | Seasonal menu announced for May 4, dinner promised after the handoff |
| 3160 Danville Blvd, Stone Valley Center | Forli (since the early 1980s), Izzy's, Alamo Grill, Forli again, The Post | Alamo Restaurant & Bar Group LLC, managed by Danville-based Lala Hospitality Inc. | American comfort food concept, with hours posted on its website |
The Post's paperwork is easy to read. Public business records tie the project to Alamo Restaurant & Bar Group LLC, a California company established in September 2025 with its principal address at 3160 Danville Boulevard. Its manager is Danville-based Lala Hospitality Inc., which Ali Reza Ghasemi and Lauren Ghasemi lead, according to California corporate records. Both new operators, in other words, come from the East Bay's own food and hospitality circles.
The concept, per its website, draws on an early-1900s post office and centers on classic American dishes made with high-quality ingredients. The space is 5,460 square feet according to the center's own tenant listing, more than six times the 815 square feet Subway occupies next door in the same building.
Each New Operator Is Filling the Hour the Last One Left Empty
Set the two addresses next to each other and a pattern shows up in the clock. The Peasant's Courtyard ended its run serving breakfast and lunch, and the new owners said in April that dinner would be coming soon. Forli, in the listings from its later years, opened in the late afternoon. The ALIVE Magazine profile gave its hours as 4 p.m. to close, with happy hour from 3 to 6 on weekdays, and its Yelp listing shows the same 4 p.m. start.
The Post's website lists something different. Monday through Thursday it shows 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. If those hours hold, the old Forli room becomes a place that can serve a Saturday breakfast, and the old daytime cafe becomes a place that serves supper. The two addresses are trading day parts.
That matters most on Sundays. The Alamo Plaza farmers market runs Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot near Bank of America at 200 Alamo Plaza, according to the plaza's listing with its owner, EDENS. The Post's posted Sunday opening at 9 a.m. lines up with the market's opening bell. The Iron Horse Regional Trail also passes through downtown Alamo and the Alamo Square shopping center on its way toward downtown Danville, per the East Bay Regional Park District, so a market run, a walk and a table on Danville Boulevard all fit inside the same few blocks.
The Post's opening date is the open question. Bay Area Telegraph reported in August that the restaurant had not announced a firm opening date, final menu or reservation schedule, and it said the concept's website menu looked like unfinished template content. The site now shows business hours, but nothing this research found confirms that the doors are open. Hours on a website tell a diner what the owners intend, and only an announcement from the restaurant confirms that tables are being seated.
Before You Go
The Courtyard Restaurant is at 3195 Danville Boulevard, and its phone number is (925) 362-0088. Its menu page lists the current breakfast hours, and checking that page first will confirm what is being served when. The Post's hours are on thepostalamo.com, and the restaurant has launched an Instagram account.
Both of the current changes came from operators with East Bay roots. The restaurants at these two addresses have changed over the decades, and the addresses have stayed the same.
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