The Caspar Community Center's fourth-Sunday breakfast has one date left this year, Nov. 22. When it ends, the Center moves its regular get-together to the evening. Pub Night returns on the second Friday of each month from December through March. That puts the Center on the same night that the old Caspar Inn, now Caspar Bread and Wine, has spent all year building up. Between now and the end of December, the village's calendar shifts from Sunday mornings to Friday nights, with one busy mid-November weekend in between.
The Last Breakfast of 2026
The Caspar Community newsletter dated Oct. 30 calls the Nov. 22 breakfast the "grand finale breakfast for 2026." It runs from 9 to 11 a.m., with Caspar chef Dana Fox cooking. The Center calendar lists dishes at $17 to $18 and cinnamon rolls at $7, and it notes there is no breakfast in December. After Nov. 22, the next fourth-Sunday breakfast will come in the new year.
Before that, the Center's biggest dinner of the fall falls on a Sunday evening. The Fall Fundraising Dinner and Silent Auction is on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 6 to 9 p.m., and seats are $80. The newsletter says the event "always sells out." Guests reserve a seat and pick an entrée online, then pay at the door. The dinner raises money for the Caspar Community's ongoing work and for the Community Center.
The newsletter also gives the next open Caspar Community Board meeting: Friday, Nov. 6, at 9:30 a.m. It meets at the Community Center this time, not at its usual venue, and anyone who wants board notices can email [email protected].
Friday Already Belongs to the Old Inn
Friday nights in Caspar already have a home. The Caspar Inn spent years as a late-night music room and then housed the family-friendly Good Bones Kitchen. In March 2026 it became Caspar Bread and Wine, which The Mendocino Voice reported on in April. Owners Connor Geraghty and Emma Katz moved to the coast in 2024. Katz worked in sourdough bakeries in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and Geraghty spent about 15 years in natural wine, including co-owning wine-focused places in San Francisco. Geraghty told The Mendocino Voice that live music would stay: "The music will continue. A big thing that we wanted to make sure of was that we had continuity with the previous versions, even though what we're doing is a little different." The same article says the business's license allows minors on site, and the owners want to keep it family-friendly.
The building runs on two schedules. According to the Caspar Bread and Wine website, the cafe is open Thursday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., with whole-grain sourdough and seasonal pastry baked daily. The bread uses stone-milled flour from the Mendocino Grain Project. The bar opens Thursday through Sunday from 5 to 10 p.m., and the kitchen closes at 8:30. All of the wines are fermented with native yeast, the draft beers are local, and the bottle shop sells at retail all day, to drink there or take home.
Friday gets something extra every week. Friday Flight runs from 5 to 10 p.m. and offers four wines for the price of a glass. The next two Fridays both have shows on the stage:
- Friday, Nov. 6: Hannah Mayree, 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
- Friday, Nov. 13: Elliott OK. Doors open at 5 p.m., music starts around 7, and door admission is a $10 to $30 sliding scale.
The Center's board meets at 9:30 on the morning of Nov. 6, and Hannah Mayree plays that evening, so Caspar has something on at both ends of that Friday.
One Crowded Saturday in Mid-November
The weekend after the Elliott OK show is the busiest of the season, and most of it happens at the Community Center. The Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club holds its third annual Fungi Festival and Cultural Convergence there on Nov. 14 and 15. The Center is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Admission covers the presentations, activities, exhibits and the marketplace. The club lists these on the program:
- Presentations "from a diverse array of perspectives and cultures"
- A wild mushroom display, mushroom identification, and a Mushrooms for Color exhibit
- Spore print making and activities for kids
- Sewing in Redwood Time
- Workshops on mushroom propagation, paper making and dyeing, each with limited seats and a separate ticket
- Guided forays, capped at 50 people, with a separate ticket
- Sauna sessions on site from MendoSauna, which is new this year and priced separately
On Saturday evening, the club hosts an after-hours Forager's Feast cooked by Chef Chad Hyatt.
On the same Saturday afternoon, the Jug Handle Creek Nature Center holds "Creatures That Spook Us – Owls!" from 1 to 2 p.m. The program brings live owls through a partnership with Native Bird Connection, with support from Mendocino Coast Audubon. Taken together, Nov. 14 in Caspar has fungi in the morning, owls after lunch, and a forager's dinner at night.
December Hands Friday to the Center Too
The breakfast series ends in November and Pub Night picks up in December. The newsletter describes Pub Night as entertainment, food, games and socializing for the winter months. It runs on the second Friday of each month from December through March, 6 to 9 p.m. The first one on the calendar is Friday, Dec. 11. Caspar Bread and Wine's Friday hours run 5 to 10 p.m., so on that night the village has two Friday-evening rooms open at once.
Saturdays at the Center keep their own pattern. Monthly English Country Dances start at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 28 and Dec. 26. The Mendocino English Country Dance calendar lists Dan Kozloff and Lea Smith as callers and gives admission as free to $15. The sixth annual Makers and Bakers Winter Fair fills Saturday, Dec. 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with local makers and food.
| Date | Day | What | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 6 | Friday | Board meeting, 9:30 a.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Nov. 6 | Friday | Hannah Mayree, 7 to 10 p.m. | Caspar Bread and Wine |
| Nov. 8 | Sunday | Fall Fundraising Dinner and Silent Auction, 6 to 9 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Nov. 13 | Friday | Elliott OK, doors 5 p.m. | Caspar Bread and Wine |
| Nov. 14–15 | Saturday–Sunday | Fungi Festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Nov. 14 | Saturday | Live owl program, 1 to 2 p.m. | Jug Handle Creek Nature Center |
| Nov. 22 | Sunday | Final fourth-Sunday breakfast of 2026, 9 to 11 a.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Nov. 28 | Saturday | English Country Dance, 7:30 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Dec. 5 | Saturday | Makers and Bakers Winter Fair, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Dec. 11 | Friday | Pub Night, 6 to 9 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
| Dec. 26 | Saturday | English Country Dance, 7:30 p.m. | Caspar Community Center |
Between the Weekends
The weekday schedule at the Center stays the same through the change. On the Center calendar, yoga runs Tuesdays from 9 to 11 a.m. T'ai Chi Chih meets Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. for a $15 to $25 donation. On Thursdays, a walking club leaves at 4 p.m., and cribbage runs from 6 to 8 p.m. for $2.
There is also a new place for a short walk close by. In summer 2026, the Mendocino Land Trust opened the Caspar Pond Trail. It is a gentle 0.3-mile birding path off Fern Creek Road, east of Highway 1, and the Land Trust looks after it. Dogs are not allowed. For a longer walk, the Ecological Staircase at Jug Handle State Natural Reserve runs 2.5 miles inland, and dogs are not allowed on that trail either.
Anyone planning a December Friday can find both Pub Night on the Caspar Community calendar and the evening stage lineup on the Caspar Bread and Wine events page.
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