The 1889-built Ghost Building, at 800 18th St., will soon be a restaurant haunt again.
B W Holdings LLC, a joint venture between the Wynkoop Brewing Co. and Breckenridge Brewery, will open Ghost Plate & Tap (nicknamed “The Ghost”) in early July in the building where the Rocky Mountain Diner ruled the roost for 20 years.
The lunch, happy-hour and dinner spot will feature menu items from other B W-owned eateries such as the venerable Cricket in Cherry Creek (the green chili, not the burgers), Goosetown Tavern, the Wynkoop Brewing Co. and Wazee Supper Club (sandwiches, not pizza).
“The key to our success will be getting a happy-hour crowd and retaining some of those people in the evening,” said Lee Driscoll, a B W partner. “There’s a desperate need for moderately priced good food down there.”
Dinner will be served seven days a week, with lunch Monday through Saturday and Sunday brunch. Plans include serving 24 craft beers on tap, mainly from Colorado. Denver’s Infinite Monkey Theorem wine will also flow from a tap system.
Driscoll said his team is also toying with inventing cocktails named after deceased Denver notables.
“We really want to make it a Denver restaurant and celebrate the history of Denver,” Driscoll said.
Transition.
In the wake of the recently announced closure of Isaacson Rosenbaum, a law firm that’s been doing business in Denver for 50 years, roughly 20 employees have landed new jobs.
Twelve attorneys are moving to Ryley Carlock and Applewhite after Isaacson closes June 30, as first reported by Law Week Colorado.
Ryley Carlock has also hired eight professional support staff, according to Jon Tand ler, spokesman for Isaacson, who’s making the move to RCA.
The law firm Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell also announced Wednesday that Isaacson partner William Silberstein will join that firm as a partner July 1.
“It’s been a very challenging environment for our firm, given the recessionary economy combined with market forces on our practice,” Tandler said about the firm’s decision to close. “It’s an unhappy time at the firm. We’re working hard to do the right thing by everyone.”
Tandler estimated that Isaacson employs roughly 60 people, a number that has been shrinking over the past few years.
McDaniels’ pad on market.
Former Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels will likely take a hit when he sells the Tuscan-style home in Greenwood Village that he bought in May 2009.
McDaniels and his wife, Laura, originally paid just less than $2.5 million for the four-bedroom spec home, but the asking price is now $2.2 million, according to Brian Nelson, the listing agent with Re/Max Masters.
The home was recently appraised at $2.65 million, Nelson said. McDaniels left Colorado after he was fired by the Broncos in 2010. He now works as the offensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams.
Furniture is not included, but the coach left behind four flat-screen TVs that are part of the package. For more information on the 8,444-square- foot spread in the swanky Preserve neighborhood, call Nelson at 303-915-0377.
Eavesdropping
on two men at LoHi Steakbar: “I thought we were friends.”
“We are friends. We’ll sing together later.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on “Caplis & Silverman” between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
