Champagne Patio serves last lunch before closing

Joseph Swafford’s home away from home for nearly three decades has been The Wine Shop in the Sea Towne Shopping Center, but he and wife Christina, who has been running the Champagne Patio restaurant for many of those years, have finally decided to retire. (Photo by Dennis Anstine)

For Joseph and Christina Swafford, most of their 31 years of living in Newport have been about intimately sharing good wine and food with their friends and clientele.

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