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You have seven weeks left to get a drink at the Thoroughbred Club. After Dec. 31, that bar stool goes into storage until 2028.
The Charleston Place is shutting down both of its remaining restaurants, the Thoroughbred Club and the Palmetto Cafe, when the year runs out. The hotel's own dining page already says bookings are closed for January 2027 as it heads into what it calls the final phase of renovations.
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What comes next is three new spots, due in 2028, the Post & Courier reports: a signature restaurant, a casual pub-style place and a lobby bar built as a tribute to the Thoroughbred Club. No names yet. No menus. The paper says the big room will finish dishes at the table, which is a very specific thing to promise at least 14 months before anyone can sit down.
Now do the math on the gap.
The hotel opened in 1986. Charleston Grill moved in three years later and served its final dinner on Aug. 23, 2025, after a 36-year run. Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park took the room for a 12-month pop-up with Resy, five courses for $135 a head. That run is over. Come New Year's Day, the dining lineup at the hotel shrinks to the rooftop bar Perch, room service from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. and a lobby coffee cart that shuts at 3.
For a hotel with 419 rooms, that is a lean menu for a long stretch. Club-level guests still have their two-story lounge. Everyone else gets the roof.
None of this is a surprise to anyone keeping score. Ben Navarro's Beemok closed on the property in October 2021 and said work would start within 18 months. Since then, the overhaul has passed $150 million: a rebuilt club level with 75 rooms on the seventh and eighth floors, a saltwater rooftop pool for guests, a new front drive (the bronze horses stayed) and a refresh of every guest room set to wrap this year. Back in August 2025, the hotel told reporters the Palmetto Cafe, the Thoroughbred Club and Meeting at Market would all get new names over the next few years. Restaurants were always going to be the last domino.
The Thoroughbred Club is the hotel's English-style lounge: craft cocktails, small plates, dessert and live music every night. The Palmetto Cafe does French and Lowcountry plates in a garden room, and its Sunday brunch has a following. Counting from this Sunday, there are seven Sundays left on the calendar in 2026. Check holiday hours before you count on all seven.
Both still take reservations on Resy. A December tradition at either one gets exactly one more run, so book it this week.
Doors close Dec. 31. The replacements open in 2028, names to be announced.
Sources: The Charleston Place (venue lineup, January booking freeze, interim hours), Hospitality Net ($150 million overhaul, room counts), Business Wire (2021 purchase), Robert F. Moss (Charleston Grill history, Humm pop-up price), What Now Charleston (2025 renaming plan) and the Post & Courier (2028 timeline, three new concepts, tableside service)
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