{"id":195103,"date":"2026-03-17T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:27:10","slug":"the-chattaway-st-petersburgs-longest-running-restaurant-will-close-this-summer-after-more-than-90-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195103\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chattaway, St. Petersburg\u2019s longest-running restaurant, will close this summer after more than 90 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Greg Kitto, Frers\u2019 son and bartender who has spent roughly 40 years behind the bar, has been tied to the restaurant since childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI started coming here when I was about 12 years old\u2014burger, chili, and a Coke,\u201d he said. \u201cI fell in love with it right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Even Frer\u2019s grandchildren, Leah Foe, Leri Foe, Annabell Stancil, Danielle Freeman, and Chad Pearson, have all played a role in the business over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Manager Mary Carpenter said that connection between family, staff, and customers is what defined the Chattaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe have really loyal customers,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cSome come in once or twice a week, and others drive from miles away just to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Known for its straightforward menu of burgers, fried chicken, seafood baskets, and sandwiches, the restaurant built a reputation on consistency rather than reinvention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Kitto, Frers\u2019 son and bartender who has spent roughly 40 years behind the bar, has been tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-195103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}