Since we announced Chartier’s closure, the response from this community has blown us away. Our reservation book has been full and our staff have been working as hard as ever to serve our guests—we even had to call in support from folks in the restaurant industry, the community, and Chartier alumni.

Through it all, our team has stuck with us 100 percent. They doubled down, knowing we wanted to go out with a bang. We cannot thank them enough.

And members of this community: you’ve shown up and told us what we’ve meant to you. Because of this overwhelming response, we are able to pay all of our staff and our vendors. We wouldn’t have been able to do that without you. Beaumont is a great place to do business where people vote with their feet and wallets—this month has shown that more than we could have ever imagined.

Last week, something unimaginable happened. Something that means Chartier will continue on.

An investor—a community member right here in Beaumont who wishes to remain anonymous—stepped forward and invested enough into Chartier to allow us to keep moving forward and keep feeding Albertan families.

This investment was not only an act of extraordinary generosity, but a powerful demonstration of faith in the connected strength of this wonderful community.

We will be closed for a short period after September 30th, to give our staff the chance to rest and to do a deep clean of the space. We will also be retooling our menu based on the feedback we’ve heard from you, our guests, over the last six weeks.

We will open our doors to you again at the end of October. And we cannot wait to welcome you back. To host and feed you. To celebrate with you. To continue this journey with you.

Jusqu'à ce que nous nous revoyions!

-Sylvia, Darren, Tamara & Crystal