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New owners for Capital City Gastropub

As of 12:15 pm today, the Capital City Gastropub in Albany has new owners. Though if you stop in for dinner you may not know anything has changed.

Adam Baker, the gastropub's longtime manager, and his best friend Daniel Silver have purchased the restaurant from chef Kevin Everleth, who also owns theWine Bar and Bistro on Lark. Everleth founded the Capital City Gastropub about two years ago in the former Pasquale's space on New Scotland Ave. Baker has been managing the place for much of that time.

It's the first time either Baker or Silver has owned a restaurant, thought they each have plenty of experience in the food business. Baker has worked in restaurants for 16 years and left a job at DeJohn's two years ago to help start the Gastropub, and Silver studied at Johnson Wales College of Culinary Arts and has been working as a private chef in Aspen for the last five years.

Baker says they have no plans to change anything. Chef Ian Brower is staying on and the menu will look pretty much the same.

"We're 85 percent farm to table now," he says, "and we want to stay that way. If we can do more of that, we will."

Most important -- ok most important to us -- the half-price burge special on Wednesdays isn't going away. Yay.