Chantal Necchi inherited La Lombarda’s from her father Fabrizio in 2014, but before she reopened as Gio’s by La Lombarda in 2023 after returning from the US, she had a career in the oil industry. Starting out at the age of seventeen with a temporary admin job and ending as Global Product Manager for Subsea Safety Systems at Halliburton, she hadn’t always imagined becoming a third-generation restaurateur. Although running a business in the Castlegate today can be a challenge, she is hopeful for the future, and enjoys hearing her customers’ memories of a restaurant and café that has been at the corner of Castle Street and King Street since 1922.