After eight years in business, Carlyle Bland said he was forced to make the painful decision on Sunday to shutter his downtown Hampton bar and grill, Brown Chicken Brown Cow.

“It’s not one thing that happened,” Bland said. “It’s just a culmination and maybe we did not have the correct concept.”

Bland, along with his wife, Christina Bauhof, have also co-owned Venture Kitchen & Bar for the past 12 years and Marker 20 for 23 years. Those two ventures, also on East Queens Way in downtown Hampton, continue to thrive, Bland said.

The business owners relayed the closure news to customers via the restaurant’s website : “After eight years of firing up the smoker, flipping burgers, scooping floats, trading jokes with guests, and working side-by-side, laughing (and sometimes crying) with co-work

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