Cap's Place restaurant traces its history back over seventy-five years at the same location. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, it is a South Florida landmark, albeit a secluded one.

The restaurant's website includes a detailed history of the establishment and the people who owned and worked there, including "Cap" Knight, Al Hasis and Chef Sylvester Love (who started work at Caps' as a dishwasher).

A lot of well-known people have dined at Cap's, but none more so than the group that ate there during the darkest days of World War II:

Perhaps the most famous visitors to Cap's Place arrived in January, 1942. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt held a series of secret war conferences at the Hillsboro Beach estate of then Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius. Among those attending the strategy sessions were General George Marshall, Lord Beaverbrook, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and other high officials. The Stettinius Villa was located across the Intracoastal, on the ocean side, just a short walk from Cap's boat landing. Cap was asked to cater food and deliver groceries to the dignitaries. On one occasion, Churchill and Roosevelt dined at Cap's Place. Captain Bruce Bennet supervised the logistics of transporting Churchill, Roosevelt (and his wheelchair), and the rest of the entourage in a boat to the restaurant. Bennet's greatest fear was overloading the boat or tipping it over. The guests dined in the "yellow room" and enjoyed a meal cooked by Sylvester and served by Cap in his bib overalls and denim shirt. No doubt Cap offered Roosevelt and Churchill a refreshing change from the stress of a world at war.

I imagine if that august group was to magically appear this evening for dinner at Cap's Place, they would surely recognize it as much the same place they had visited so many decades before.