Today, Deaver oversees four Three Kings Public House locations and two Casa de Tres Reyes spots, with one of each at the airport.
When he was younger, Derek Deaver contemplated becoming a commercial pilot. “Then I crashed a plane,” he says offhandedly, “and kind of lost interest.” After a failed restaurant in Reno (“We left St. Louis in a U-Haul on 9/11,” he says. “I should have known.”), Deaver chose a different flight path and now owns six successful local restaurants: four Three Kings Pubs and two Casa de Tres Reyes—one of each, ironically enough, located at the airport.
Derek Deaver of Three Kings Public House & Casa de Tres Reyes
