Capri Italian Bakery

President’s Day today. Yes we are OPEN

Monday after Super Bowl is not yet a National Holiday. We are so slow it is not worth being open. Therefore, we will be CLOSED Monday February 12th.
OPEN Tuesday morning with your favorite Paczki!

We will be CLOSED Monday January 15th See you Tuesday!

Open regular hours this week. Saturday 23rd 7:00 - 3:00. CLOSED Sunday - Wednesday Dec. 25 - 27 Open Thurs 28th

We give a GIANT thank you to everyone who stopped and shopped at our 50 year celebration open house Friday, December 1. It was a huge success. Family, neighbors customers, former employees as well as new folks all came to visit and celebrate with us. Our staff work their butts off. We appreciate everyone who walks in either the front door or the back door. We will post photos as soon as we receive them from Tom and Nancy with Berris Video Productions. #50

If you missed it, look for Jason Carr Live yesterday 9 AM at Capri Bakery. See you tomorrow at our 50 year celebration open house 10:00-4:00. Listen to Gary Errigo play guitar and sing. Drawing for prizes every half hour, giveaways, 50% off pep rolls, pizza, bread, & cannoli.

FIELD TRIP ALERT! 9am this morning at Capri Italian Bakery in Dearborn — live on-location Jason Carr Drive presented by Ven Johnson Law — See you there!

Tune in. Facebook live with Jason Carr. This morning 9:00am

Our brother- Gary will be playing Friday at Capri Bakery as we celebrate 50 years in business!
Open House 10:00 - 4:00
Gary plays all over the metro Detroit area and has quite a following. You should come listen to him.

Wednesday 29th morning Jason will be Facebook live at Capri Bakery 9 AM.
Tune in for some good stuff. Or stop by and watch in person.

Everyone knows Virg. When she moved into Oakwood Commons, it's like she was Hollywood.
Capri founder reveals origin of local bakery’s pepperoni roll
OCTOBER 20, 2016 BY TIMES-HERALD NEWSPAPERS

Virginia Errigo is a familiar face behind the counter at the Oakwood Common store.
Photo courtesy of Oakwood Common
Virginia Errigo is a familiar face behind the counter at the Oakwood Common store.
DEARBORN – When Virginia Errigo rings up a sale and makes change for customers in the community store at Oakwood Common senior living community, it’s second nature for her.

Uneasy talking about herself, it’s not unusual for longtime Dearborn residents to soon recognize the petite lady behind the cash register. They know Errigo better as the founder and baker of Capri Bakery, 4832 Greenfield Road.

Born as the youngest of Hugo and Algeria Imperi’s five children, it was Errigo’s father, Hugo Imperi, who started Detroit’s beloved Roma Bakery in 1930. Roma was famous for its aromatic breads, pizza and the first pepperoni rolls in Detroit. Imperi baked and sold bread wholesale to restaurants and markets, along with making deliveries to local homes.

Business was so good that he was able to expand and sell his baked goods retail.

Like her siblings, Errigo learned the business early.

“I started helping at the age of 10,” she said. “I was the ‘jumper’ from the bread truck and delivered bread directly to the doors of customers’ homes. I also learned how to make the dough. Those were the days when we didn’t measure anything. Everything was made in batches.”

The bakery is also where she met her husband, John Errigo, who was a regular customer of Roma. An employee of Ford Motor Co., he helped her start Capri Bakery in 1973.

“We opened for business on Dec. 3 and it was packed,” Errigo said. “It never slowed down.”

Only six months before, she had helped her brother Gino Imperi start the Italia Bakery, 5717 Schaefer. He opened his doors at Easter, another very busy season.

With four children at home, the Errigo family kept an activity-filled schedule with Virginia arriving at the bakery by 3 a.m. to start making the dough.

In addition to the Capri bread, customer favorites were pepperoni rolls and fresh made pizzas that people took home to bake.

Errigo is quick to point out that while her dad used Romano cheese on his pizzas, she used mozzarella.

“Every day I’d make a different kind of pizza,” she said.

Keeping up with a demanding schedule, Errigo worked until she was 70.

“I hadn’t even thought about retirement,” she said.

She and husband, John, were married for 63 years until he died in 2014. Soon after, she moved to Oakwood Common to be close to home and their children, including twin sons Gary and Greg Errigo, daughter Annette Boccarossa, and son John Jr., the baker who carries on the family legacy at Capri Bakery with his wife, Ronda, and son, Caleb, the fourth generation.

No longer needing to get up each day before dawn, Errigo now finds time to volunteer at the community store, play bunco and bingo, and socialize with friends.

“Sometimes I struggle remembering certain events, but I’ve always been good with numbers,” said Errigo, who doesn’t need a calculator to give customers the correct change.

People closest to her would also likely tell you that she’s never forgotten how to make her famous dough and pepperoni rolls.

Italian - New Yorker - Panini - Round - Sicilian - Hobo
Making bread for 50 years!
Open Tuesday 28th 7:30 am
Wednesday 29th live on Jason Carr Facebook
Friday Dec. 1st 10:00 - 4:00 50 yr celebration open hose

25 years and 36 years next week……. 50 years

Happy Thanksgiving!

We still sell specialty groceries. 🙂 We do not sell beer and wine. 😂
Who remembers the grocery aisles? Or buying a slice and a beer and drinking it in the parking lot.
Open Wednesday till 5:00
CLOSED Thursday - Monday
Open Tuesday 28th
Wednesday 29th filming with Jason Carr early in the morning so he can capture the bakers work
December 1st 10:00-4:00 open house celebration 50 years

Let us make dressing for your Thanksgiving dinner. Order Tuesday pick up Wednesday Thanksgiving weekend hours Wednesday open till 5:00. Closed Thursday through Monday open Tuesday the 28th Wednesday the 29th. We will be live on Jason Carr’s Facebook Friday Dec 1st 50 year celebration 10:00-4:00

Night before Thanksgiving Capri ubake pizza is a tradition for many families

Customers talk about the “old building” up front. John and Virginia built a much larger building in 1990. Celebrate 50 years with us December 1st 10:00 - 4:00

“Home of the original pepperoni roll”
Celebrate 50 years with us December 1st 10:00-4:00