Most of the summer looks the same as last year. The oaks at Livorna Park still shade the same slope, the Sunday farmers' market still runs out of Alamo Plaza's Bank of America lot, and Hap Magee is still where the dogs go. What quietly shifted in 2026 is the timing and the tenancy. A landmark restaurant changed hands overnight in April, the farmers' market compressed its Sunday window by a full hour for the summer, and the Friday concert series booked a lineup that leans harder into tribute acts than usual.
If you have lived in Alamo for a while, the summer reads like muscle memory. This post is for the residents who want the 2026 version of the map, with the small changes marked.
The Peasant's Courtyard is gone. What sits at 3195 Danville Blvd. now.
The most consequential change to the everyday Alamo loop this year is not on the calendar. It happened on a Sunday in April. The last day in business for the Peasant's Courtyard in Alamo was April 19, 2026, and the space was rebranded under new ownership as The Courtyard Restaurant starting the next day.
If you have been reading it as a quiet rebrand, the reporting from a local food writer who visited on opening morning suggests otherwise. The Courtyard Restaurant has totally new owners, a new name, a new chef, and will soon have a new menu. The new restaurant is tied to East Bay Artisan, the local bakery and prepared-food business known for its farmers market presence, including in Danville, as well as Cafe 1277 in Walnut Creek.
Context on how long a fixture this was: Rodney Worth took over the popular cafe spot at 3195 Danville Blvd. on the edge of downtown Alamo in 2009, opening The Peasant's Courtyard that August, and the building had been the Courtyard Cafe for nearly 25 years before that. Two operators over four decades, then a same-day handoff. For anyone whose weekly breakfast lived in that courtyard, the practical read is to give the new team a few weeks. The reviewer noted that for Alamo diners the space may feel familiar right now, but by early May customers should start to get a clearer sense of what this new ownership group has in mind.
The old Peasant's operator has not disappeared from the region. Worth still operates The Peasant & The Pear in downtown Danville and The Bourbon Pear in downtown Livermore. If you were loyal to the chef more than the address, the two nearest legacy locations are a short drive south.
Friday nights at Livorna Park
The summer concert series is the closest thing Alamo has to a standing weekly event, and the 2026 booking is heavy on tribute acts. Here is the July run in one place, since the flyer graphics on social media have been circulating in pieces:
| Date | Act | Style |
|---|---|---|
| July 10 | Sun Kings | Beatles tribute |
| July 17 | Fourjour | Foreigner / Journey tribute |
| July 24 | Highway Vagabonds | Miranda Lambert tribute |
| July 31 | Fog City Swampers | Classic rock covers |
All four Friday concerts run 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Livorna Park, at Livorna Road and Miranda Avenue, admission is free, and food trucks park in the lot. Bring chairs, a blanket, and a picnic dinner. The 2026 season runs Fridays July 10 through July 31.
Two things worth knowing if you have not been in a couple of years. The grass slope near the front fills first, so if you want a spot up close, aim to be set up by six. And because the whole run is only four Fridays, missing two of them is missing half the season.
The Sunday market lost an hour
The Alamo Certified Farmers' Market is the same market it has been for years. What is different this summer is the closing time.
The market runs summer hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from 6/28 through 9/27/26.
That is a compression from the usual Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. schedule the market keeps the rest of the year. The market is open year round, rain or shine, located at 120 Alamo Plaza in the Bank of America parking lot in the Alamo Plaza Shopping Center. If your habit was to swing through at 1:15 after a late start, that no longer works between late June and late September. Set an earlier alarm or move the trip to a Sunday outside the summer window.
The vendor mix in July has been unusually deep for a small-town market. A recent Sunday included Achadihna Cheese Co., Bay Area Harvest, Bay Fresh Berry Producer, J&J Ramos Family Farm, J&M Ibarra Farm, Kem Organic Farm, Los Tamales Foods, Pastarey Foods, Pete's Gold Honey, Resendiz Family Farm, Santa Rosa Seafood, Silq Coffee, and Taza Pan Asian, plus a rotation of returning bakers and a new prepared-foods vendor called Prime Food Dip & Chips. That is a wider assortment than the market carried two summers ago, and it is the practical reason the earlier close matters. Popular vendors sell through by noon, so the last-hour crowd already lost stock even before the schedule tightened.
Hap Magee, and the two rules the sign does not tell you
The dog park at Hap Magee Ranch is technically in Danville, but for Alamo residents on the west side of the freeway it is the default off-leash option. The park's ownership arrangement is unusual. It sits under a joint powers agreement dated May 22, 1987, between the Town of Danville and Contra Costa County acting on behalf of Alamo, which is why Alamo residents pay the resident rate on facility rentals rather than the outside rate. The address is 1025 La Gonda Way, and the site is about 16.3 acres.
Two operational quirks catch newer residents:
- The off-leash area is closed until noon on Tuesdays for turf maintenance. If your dog's routine is a 10 a.m. Tuesday run, plan on the perimeter path instead of the corral that morning.
- Summer gate hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The corral is fenced and split into a large-dog side and a small-dog side, with mature oaks and sycamores providing the only real shade during the weeks Alamo pushes toward triple digits.
The park itself is not new, but the timing constraints trip up anyone who moved here in the last twelve months and has been going on assumption.
Putting the weekend on one page
If you strung the four together, a full Alamo summer weekend in 2026 looks like this:
- Friday, 6:30 p.m. Livorna Park lawn, one of the four July tributes, food-truck dinner in hand.
- Saturday morning. Iron Horse Trail before the heat hits, then a coffee stop while The Courtyard Restaurant's new menu settles in.
- Sunday, 9 a.m. Alamo Plaza market with the earlier close in mind. Pete's Gold Honey and Silq Coffee tend to be the first stops that thin out.
- Sunday afternoon. Hap Magee for a late walk once the shade lengthens, with Tuesday morning ruled out for the dog park.
Four anchors, three of them changed something material this year, and the fourth is the concert booking. That is more turnover in the weekly rhythm than Alamo usually sees in a single summer.
A note for residents thinking one or two years ahead
If your household is starting to talk about a downsize, a Rossmoor move, or a single-story trade inside 94507, the Alamo market has its own timing that does not match Danville's or Walnut Creek's. Summer listings behave differently here than fall listings, and the small pool of buyers who want to stay in this ZIP code shapes pricing in ways the aggregate portals miss. When you are ready to talk numbers, the team at Aliloupour Real Estate Team lives in this market week to week and can walk you through what a realistic 2026 sale looks like for your block.
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