Its current owner told the Licensing Commission that new management doesn’t plan to change much about the Cambridge institution.
Charlie’s Kitchen in Harvard Square is getting new management, and potentially new owners that reportedly have plans to bring the Cambridge institution “into today’s time,” said current co-owner Paul Overgaag.
The news broke at a License Commission meeting last Thursday, when Overgaag told the body that David Toraji Oshima and Derek Luangrath — both with industry experience at places like Cafe Sushi and who recently turned the former R.F. O’Sullivan & Son into The Cornerstone — would take over as operators with the board’s approval and eventually as owners.
“After 28 years, the interest from the Overgaag brothers to run got less and less,” Overgaag said. “We couldn’t keep up with the new times and the new ways things are being done.”