Kasey’s eatery to shut doors on June 30
Owner, spouse head to Denver for unborn child’s medical care
Another Nob Hill area eatery is closing, but not for the usual reasons.
Kasey’s, which opened its doors in late 2014 in east Nob Hill, will serve its last steak on June 30.
Owner and chef Casey Armstrong-Lange, who is pregnant, and her husband, Gary, recently learned their child will be born with a rare congenital heart defect, hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
“We were lucky,” said Armstrong-Lange. “We had a really great ultrasound tech who caught it right away.”
After her husband did extensive research online, the couple decided to move to Denver so they could be near the Denver Children’s Hospital. Armstrong-Lange said the hospital has an 86 percent success rate in dealing with the syndrome.
The treatment will begin just three days after the child, Katherine June, is born, when she will undergo her first surgery. The second surgery will happen at four months, and the third will be at 3 years old. The post-surgery prognosis is very positive, said Armstrong-Lange, but Katherine June will live the rest of her life with half a heart.
The couple is worried about the future, but they are keeping an optimistic attitude. ArmstrongLange said they plan to return to Albuquerque after the surgeries to reopen Kasey’s.
“We love Albuquerque,” said Armstrong-Lange. Her father and uncle currently own the roughly 1,800-square foot building that Kasey’s occupies and, according to Armstrong-Lange, they intend to lease the property while they’re gone rather than sell. She hopes they can reopen in the same location.
“But if not, we will definitely be close by,” she said.