In 1956, before Tiburon was an actual town, a bon vivant by the name of Kirby Atterbury opened a tiny French restaurant on Main Street.   He named it after his daughter who entered this world on a Caprice. In 1962, the owners of the house at 2000 Paradise (a couple of well-known hairdressers from San Francisco) moved out and Kirby and his crew moved right in. 

Amidst California's version of Scylla and Charybdis The Caprice is perched atop the gnarled stones of Elephant Rock near the epic currents of Raccoon Strait (which got its name from the H.M.S. Raccoon, a 26 gun sloop that was shipwrecked on Angel Island in 1814).  The main dining room’s opulent view encompasses the Tiburon Harbor, Corinthian Island, Belvedere Peninsula, Angel Island, the Campanile at U. C. Berkeley, The Palace of Fine Arts, Coit Tower, and the entire expanse of The Golden Gate Bridge.