Couple continues to add to businesses on the Midland Trail
Chimney Corner, W.Va. – When Jim Campbell drove to a Beckwith store in his black and silver Shelby Mustang, Scott MacGregor couldn’t help but notice.
“Nice car,” he said to the store’s owner. The owner replied, “That’s Jim Campbell, and he’s building a restaurant.”
That chance meeting led to MacGregor’s hiring as executive chef at the Chimney Corner Cafe, Campbell’s new restaurant. Campbell had considered cooking for the restaurant himself. “But [MacGregor] is bringing my vision for the restaurant to a new level,” he said. MacGregor, who brings what Campbell calls an “East meets West” menu to the restaurant, had cooked for country clubs and restaurants in the Baltimore area. He had moved to the area to work for another restaurant.
The restaurant, and a gift shop owned by Campbell and his wife Debbie, sit at the intersection of U.S. 60 and W.Va. 16 near Hawks Nest State Park, a couple of miles west of Ansted.
About two years ago, the Campbells bought the historic Page-Vawter House, which also sits along U.S. 60 in Ansted.
