Capps Club in Kenmore is opening May 13 and owner Dawna Capps is hoping to impress.

Standing in a large lounge room, with a wrap-around bar and towering industrial inspired Italian Gothic decor, Capps boiled down the club’s philosophy.

“We want it to be kind of a comfortable place to hang out,” she said.

The lounge area sits in the front of the building where the old Mia Roma dining room used to be. This will be a room filled with couches, soft chairs and some tables for patrons to hang out and order drinks and food.

Interior pillars that used to be brick were replaced with stone, and dark wood lines a wall where art from Seattle artist Kim McCarthy will hang.

The theme of the club, from art to business cards, is blackbirds and crows, inspired by the birds which can be seen in the area at dusk as they make their way to wetlands in Bothell.

But the crowning jewel of the club is the music venue.

The massive room has space for some 250 seated patrons, and more and standing room for more than 400. Capps said it was roughly the same size as The Crocodile or the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, and she hopes to give Eastsiders a similar experience.

The club will be running three shows on the weekends, and acts for May include Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (May 27 and 28), Howie Day (May 13), Sophie B Hawkins (May 14), Bethany Joy (May 15), Emily West (May 20), the Bitter Root Band (May 21) and more.

Eventually the club will have live music nightly.

Capps, 53, opened the club with her husband and son, who recently graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in sound engineering. Capps and her husband live in Redmond.

“It’s kind of been our dream for a long time,” Capps said. “We always wanted to do something on the Eastside.”

The musical lineup for now include a lot of Americana musicians, but Capps hopes to expand that to include a wide variety of music, ranging from punk to country to metal.

Food at Capps Club will be what she describes as “elevated comfort food” and a tenative menu listed items like gourmet nachos, jumbo shrimp with honey glaze and a roasted vegetable platter.

Veteran chef Erik Carlson was hired on after years of working at Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle.

The bar will specialize in gin-based craft cocktails, accentuated by local craft beers and wine, Capps said.

Capps and her husband are originally from Pennsylvania where they were high school sweethearts and married 30 years ago.

They moved to Seattle around 10 years ago for a job and fell in love with the region.

The Capps Club lounge and kitchen will be open seven days a week, with the venue opening as needed for shows.