![]() ![]() The Owl Cafe’s long history, however, was also a complicated one. Those limited capacity restrictions continued through the Owl’s last days, with fewer tables on the restaurant floor and spacing requirements keeping fewer customers from getting served. Brad Little issued stay-home orders last spring, restaurants across the state closed their doors for more than a month before re-opening to curbside-only take-out and diminished capacity seating. That number would come in handy for take-out orders in the decades to come, but never more so than in 2020.īefore COVID-19, the Owl was one of the busiest breakfast restaurants in the area. Robert Singletary of the Museum of North Idaho checked the museum’s records and found a phone number tied to the Owl Cafe dating back to the early 1960s. The owner added a small restaurant in the early '50s, and it became what it is today in the late '50s.” “They’d converted it to a restaurant in the 1950s. “It started out as a gas station,” he said. Corcoran, the Coldwell Banker/Schneidmiller Realty listing agent for the property, said the Owl Cafe dates back to 1940. In actuality, the restaurant had been open far longer. Those 26 years represent the latest stretch from the current ownership. ![]() Out front, a message from the window reads, “Closed, Thank you for 26 years.” A sign by the parking lot entrance announces the property is for sale. Ownership did not reply to requests for comment, and the phone number listed for the restaurant rings without answer. The usually full parking lot that accompanies the bustling crowd inside the breakfast beacon is now empty. The Owl Cafe, a longtime fixture on Government Way, is quiet. One of the landmark go-to restaurants in Hayden has shut its doors in the hopes of selling. ![]()
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