Newport town centre restaurant Charter Lounge – based in St Thomas’ Square – has shut its doors for good after being in business for just 3 months. The restaurant has apparently closed due to ‘issues with kitchen equipment’. The eatery – which opened in October 2023 – was the brainchild of Pete Greenhalgh and Jake Rigby: landlords of Calbourne’s The Sun Inn. The pair succeeded former landlords Kate Goldson and David Whittaker, who had managed the business for the previous 17 years. In its 3 months of operation, Charter House provided affordable street food, from Mexican tacos to Asian cuisine. It offered customers the choice of an eat-in or takeaway menu. On opening, the owners made the bold claim that Charter Lounge would be:
“One of the sexiest places in Newport to hang out”.
Pete Greenhalgh and Jake Rigby will continue to cater for customers at the Sun Inn in Calbourne – a business they took over in May of last year.
Surely any “issues with kitchen equipment” could have been fixed!
They have the sun at calbourne,”had” the kings head in yarmouth for 5 mins,and got this place for 5 mins
i think they took on too much all at once,and they are enterprise inns owned if not mistaken,so extremely high rents and overpriced food and drink= no customers
now probably deeply in debt and tied to a contract they cant get out of.
dont bite off more than you can chew springs to mind.
Ooh check you! Everyone be sure to consult Jonny. He knows.
The track record of this pair bears testament to their achievements, you don’t have consult Jonny although he’s spot on
Also “pop up eaterys are great places for washing money”!!
Sign of the times, businesses are being forced to close
with extortionate Bill’s etc
It’s so hard for businesses like this, people have simply just not got the money to use these places. at the rate they need to be used to survive let alone make profit .
More and more business that are deemed not to be for ,,survival will be closing.
People must prioritise and I’m afraid keeping the roof over your head is number 1 .
Heating or eating especially this time of year is hard enough .
I was working at a persons house today who pops into her neighbours every day and she said that the neighbour only had a portable bottled gas heater lives in one room and uses the kitchen,and the bottle was nearly empty I actually got the bottle put it in my van a bought her another .
It’s so sad to see this going on but it’s reality.
I do the same for my elderly neighbour,when her gas bottle runs out,i pay to get her another one,she literally has nothing.
It’s so sad that our older generation cannot afford to put their heating on I think we should look after them, who cares about the pub they are just greedy bit off more than they could chew!!
To be honest i didn’t even know it was there i must have walked passed it twice a week.
What is wrong with them two can’t they run more then one pub, well stop trying your putting people out of work.
Greed has cost them dearly. No matter Mc don’s and Whether spoon feed the masses.
Shame, no sexy places anywhere to eat on this island:(
That’ll be converted in to swanky flats. That was always their agenda.
You heard it here first
Fur coat and all that. If you get what I’m saying.
Odd. Owners did the same with Kings Head in Yarmouth. That was a shame as it was very good for the short time they had it.
Another cursed location Newport that closes
We had pubs and clubs and I did refurbishing and re-opening publicity for 2000 Whitbread pubs in the south. There’s an old saying in the trade that the only thing harder than running a pub is running two, and the only thing worse than running two is trying to run three. If you have a fair few pubs you can set up a system and have a proper manager to oversee them all. When you try and split yourselves between a couple, each site invariably loses out. Shame but that is usually how it works.
I can never understand why people open businesses like this & don’t have a big sign pointing you in there & big signage on the outside. Who knew it was there? I had to go looking for it & it never looked open. Makes you wonder if they have another agenda & didn’t want it to be a success