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
- Re-Take That - Friday 24th February at 8:00pm. Dinner from 6:00pm More Info...
- Cold Comfort Farm - Saturday 25th February. More Info...
- Roger Hind - Friday 2nd March at 7:30pm. Dinner from 6:00pm More Info...
- Musicality 4 - Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th March. More Info...
- Festival of Dance - Thursday 22nd March at 4:30pm. Lunch from 2:30pm More Info...
- Oliver! - Saturday 14th April. More Info...
- Maureen Galea - Piano - Tuesday 17th April at 1:30am. Dinner from 11:30pm More Info...
- Jazz Cafe - The Sussex Jazz Kings - Thursday 19th April at 7:00pm. Dinner from 5:00pm More Info...
- Swan Lake - Thursday 26th April. More Info...
- Jazz Cafe - Thursday 10th May at 7:00pm. Dinner from 5:00pm More Info...
- The Flying Ship - Friday 11th to Friday 18th May. More Info...
- Ivor Humphreys - Piano, Flute and Clarinet - Tuesday 22nd May at 1:30pm. Lunch from 12:00pm More Info...
- VB Dance - Saturday 26th May. 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...
- 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...





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.













