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Cheddie Opens Klassik Cafe & Catering
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Famed local multifaceted sculptor, artist and businessman, Cheddie Richardson, has added another enterprise to his growing line of successful endeavours. On Wednesday, this week, he officially opened his new Klassik Café & Catering service just outside his Driftwood Haven Gallery at The Cove, West End.
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Cheddie (2nd from right) and brothers with Mother’s Memorial
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“It is a business that I dream about for a long time,” Cheddie told The Anguillian. “We have been doing catering for two years for a number of small and big businesses. We have opened the café to provide local and other Caribbean cuisine and are serving breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by Anguillian chefs among them being my brother.”
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Klassik’s Chefs at their presentation
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The restaurant service is provided in a cluster of beautifully-constructed and breezy huts created by him with a West Indian look. The unusual wooden structures, with peak thatched roofs, are nestled among the indigenous vegetation which includes the historic thatch palms for which West End is well known. “I wanted to create something different from the norm with a special look and offering a tasty menu,” he said. “I must say that my mom [the late Yvonne Adella Richardson] inspired me quite a bit during my business years and this is something that I would have liked her to see. When I told her I was doing this café and restaurant, she wanted to be here to show the chefs some of the traditional conky dumplings, corn soup, potato pudding and a number of other local dishes.” As a tribute to her memory, the dutiful son unveiled a plaque of his mother in the middle of the garden area of the food service facility.
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A section of the unique restaurant
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“You can eat and relax at this restaurant and at the same time patrons will have an opportunity to go for a nature walk,” he stated. “I have a little area where you can see land turtles, cactus and a place for bird-watching. It is a nature trail from within the restaurant that goes right down and then back up at the entrance.” Cheddie is of the view that Klassik Café & Catering ties in well as an added feature of his gallery and among other things reveals all of his driftwood collections and artistic offerings including attractive rock work.
Cheddie is an extremely talented and creative artist with a sharp eye for varied arts and crafts possibilities and the ability to turn them into tangible and beautiful pieces of sculpture and carving. “My success comes from hard work,” he said. “I am still working up to16 hours a day and most of my success came at an early age and with encouragement from my mom. I think any young person can do the same and keep at it.”
Asked to list his enterprises, Cheddi who is also a keen sportsman, named his local gallery which features his own creations as well as regional arts and crafts; two gift shops with various items designed by him including shirts and caps; a personalised award industry of crystal and glass carvings; a monument service featuring marble and stone tombstones; a pool tech business selling swimming pool products; cool deck, a tent, table, chair and cooler rental service; a sand-blasting enterprise and two nearby upscale villas which he designed and built. What this crafty young man will dream up next is anybody’s guess.