Cuisine Studio
The Pavilion is home to Cuisine Studio, our in house restaurant and coffee shop and to our theatre bar. By day, Cuisine Studio creates a buzzing atmosphere with diners coming far and wide to enjoy a wide selection of delicious meals, sandwiches, cakes and desserts.
Caterers to Chequer Mead for the past 10 years, Cuisine Studio is a family run business experienced in outside event catering and private dinner parties as well as running the successful restaurant in the Pavilion. Cuisine Studio are available for all your catering needs within the centre offering an excellent choice of options for family events, corporate functions and business meetings alike.
Open daily serving morning coffee, lunches with an all day lunch menu and daily specials, serving afternoon tea with homemade gateaux and pastries, as well as being open on selected show nights- look out for the Cuisine Studio logo next to events to see if the restaurant is open. Alternatively, there is a list at the bottom of this page.
In 2009, Cuisine Studio proudly won the "Delicious Dining" category for the "Best of East Grinstead" awards.
Cuisine Studio also offers a monthly "Jazz Café" evening of dinner and Jazz. For more information, please click here.
Proprietors, Roger and Mandy Newby trained at Westminster Catering College followed by years of experience at Harrods, Knightsbridge and Fortnum and Mason,Piccadilly.
For more information about Cuisine Studio, or to book a table for lunch, Jazz Café or an pre-theatre meal, please call 01342 324860.
Upcoming Pre-Theatre Meal Shows
- Fancy Footwork - Saturday 26th May. More Info...
- Jazz Café - Wednesday 13th June. Dinner and Jazz from 7pm. More info...
- The Great Canadian Songbook - Monday 18th June at 8:00pm. Dinner from 6:00pm More Info...
- Miyuki Kato - Piano - Tuesday 19th June at 1:30pm. Lunch from 12:00pm More Info...
- Diamonds - Friday 20th July at 7:30pm. Dinner from 6:00pm More Info...
- Jazz Café - Thursday 26th July. Dinner and Jazz from 7pm. More info...
- The Blunter Brothers - Classic Funk and Soul - Saturday 1st September at 7:45pm. Dinner from 5:45pm More Info...
- John Noyce - Songs of Yesteryear - Tuesday 18th September at 1:30pm. Lunch from 12:00pm More Info...
- Jazz Café - Thursday 20th September. Dinner and Jazz from 7pm. More info...
- Miss Saigon Schools Edition - Tuesday 25th to Saturday 29th September. More Info...
- Seasons of the Heart - Sunday 30th September at 8:00pm. Dinner from 6:00pm More Info...
- Cinderella - Friday 21st to Sunday 30th December. More Info...





Chequer Mead is proud to host, support and provide a variety of educational schemes for children and adults of the local area. These include drama summer schools, work experience and theatre tours. For more information, choose an item from the list on the left.














