BY JOHN CROPLEY, The Daily Gazette

SCHENECTADY — The wait for a table is over on Yates Street.

Hundreds of diners sat down at the soft opening of Daley’s on Yates last week, and the partners behind the long-running project will officially cut the ribbon Thursday.

The new restaurant draws heavily on decades of experience accrued by the owners — from running restaurants and a catering service — and from enjoying meals at other operations.

Their wish list ran up the cost of converting an old taxi garage to $1.6 million and ran the timeline nine months longer than expected.

“If you look around, you can see why it took us so long,” said Marty Keary, one of the partners. “Every time we started to do a new element, we look around and go, ‘Wouldn’t this look great with this?’ It’s kind of our way.”

The cast that designed, owns and operates Daley’s on Yates is large and extends through marriage and friendship; most are connected in some way to Old Daley Custom Catering or The Old Daley Inn at Crooked Lake.

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