New Kansas City sports bar will have bierocks, banoffee pie and parking lot parties
Even as he was enjoying himself dining out, Derrick Bachman would often mentally revamp the restaurants.
In his two decades in the industry, he planned to have his own spot one day, and wondered if the spaces would fit his vision.
Finally, one did.
Nearly a year ago, Brady’s Public House decided not to renew its lease. Now Bachman is gutting the building at 5424 Troost Ave. for his new Gaels Public House & Sports. He plans a summer opening.
Gaels (for a Gaelic-speaking inhabitant of Ireland or Scotland) will have a full-service dining room, and two bar areas inside as well as another on the patio. It plans to have live music and entertainment including DJ/karaoke nights, fundraising events for nonprofits, watch parties for sports games, and parking lot parties — from dinners to concert events — for holidays such as St. Patrick’s Day.
The menu will include veggie hand pies, cider-roasted colcannon chicken, honey whiskey salmon, bierocks (meat and cabbage pies), pancake trifle, and banoffee pie. It will have such specialty cocktails as the Blackberry Smash, with Maker’s Mark and blackberry mash.
A Saturday and Sunday all-day menu will include Scottish oat French toast, bierock casserole, Scotch eggs, mimosa fruit salad, and berry yogurt breakfast bowls with granola.
Gaels will have lunch specials for students, including those at the nearby University of Missouri-Kansas City and Rockhurst University, as well as burger and beer specials during major league and collegiate games.
Bachman, who left nursing school for the restaurant industry, said he likes everything about it — the food and drink, the social interaction. His two decades in the industry includes time with locally owned and corporate owned restaurants. He most recently was on the opening team of Ragazza Food & Wine, just north of the Country Club Plaza.
He also has been a residential real estate developer in the Rockhurst and West Plaza areas.
He could see the Gaels building from his former home on The Paseo and is a big fan of the area and the building, which he said is about 100 years old.
It will serve lunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m., and dinner from 4 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. It will be open for the all-day menu from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Brady’s Public House closed in May. The owners said they were in negotiations to renew their lease, but the building needed repairs and the rent was going to increase. Instead, they put Brady’s top sellers on the menu at its sister restaurants, the three Conroy’s Public House locations.