Now Boarding · Wilmington, North Carolina
Caffeine at the speed of sound.
Front Street Inn has always belonged to travelers. A historic house with a century of arrivals and departures already written into its walls. We gave it a runway.
Chapter 01 · The Inn
Front Street Inn gave us the runway.
A century of arrivals and departures already lived in these walls. The brick stays. The brass stays. The coffee and the cocktails are new chapters on an old street, written for the kind of traveler who likes to take their time.
Chapter 02 · The Name
Then Concorde came to us, and everything clicked.
The fastest plane ever built gave us a name that promised the whole world from a single seat. Every great city, every most-loved cup, just a short flight away. Not a place you travel to, but one that travels.
Caffeine at the speed of sound.
Our mantra and our compass
A Brief History
The world's first supersonic passenger jet.
Concorde was one of only two supersonic airliners ever to fly commercially. Born from a 1962 treaty between Britain and France, its name means agreement, in both languages. It crossed the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, high enough that passengers could see the curvature of the Earth.
Mach 2
Cruise Speed
1,350 mph
Over the Ground
60,000 ft
Cruise Altitude
Under 3 hrs
London to New York
20
Ever Built
An Anglo-French Machine
British Aircraft Corporation and Sud Aviation split the work between them. The prototype first flew in March 1969 out of Toulouse. Commercial service opened on January 21, 1976, with British Airways and Air France launching the same day.
Built Like Nothing Else
A slender ogival delta wing. Four afterburning Rolls-Royce Snecma Olympus engines. A hinged droop nose that lowered for takeoff so the pilots could see the runway. At cruise it flew so high passengers could make out the curve of the planet below.
Never Replaced
The fleet retired on November 26, 2003. More than twenty years later, nothing has taken its place. No passenger has crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound since. That absence is exactly why the mystique still holds.
The most beautiful idea aviation ever had. The spirit our bar is built to honor.
Chapter 03 · The Board
Every item is a destination.
Our menu became a flight plan. Rather than invent drinks for the sake of it, we serve the world's most beloved ones, the coffees and cocktails a city is genuinely known for.
Chapter 04 · The Cabin
One location lets you imagine the journey. The other lets you step aboard.
At Porter's Neck we asked, why describe the plane when we could build it? So we did. The interior of a private aircraft, a cabin you walk into. You are no longer at a bar waiting to fly. You are already in the air. Already somewhere. Already in the most beautiful part of the world.
Welcome aboard