By Damien Jaques Senior Contributing Editor Published Aug 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM

Charro Brookfield will close Saturday as its owners, the SURG Restaurant Group, prepare a new restaurant to open at its location in the fall.

"I am excited about our new concept, which will include beef and pork raised at Hidden Creek Farms," SURG co-owner Mike Polaski said in a statement. He also owns Hidden Creek, which is in New London.

"We feel this will be better suited for the suburban market and look forward to unveiling it to the community," he added. Details about the new eatery will be announced at a later date.

The change does not affect Charro's Downtown restaurant. The Brookfield Charro opened in 2009.

Aaron Patin, the executive chef at Charro Brookfield, will head the kitchen at the new restaurant.

SURG also owns Carnevor, Distil, Mikey's, Umami Moto and Ryan Braun's Graffito. The group announced that Justin Carlisle has been named executive chef at Umami Moto. Among his credits are Harvest Restaurant and executive chef at Restaurant Muramoto, both in Madison.

Damien Jaques Senior Contributing Editor

Damien has been around so long, he was at Summerfest the night George Carlin was arrested for speaking the seven dirty words you can't say on TV. He was also at the Uptown Theatre the night Bruce Springsteen's first Milwaukee concert was interrupted for three hours by a bomb scare. Damien was reviewing the concert for the Milwaukee Journal. He wrote for the Journal and Journal Sentinel for 37 years, the last 29 as theater critic.

During those years, Damien served two terms on the board of the American Theatre Critics Association, a term on the board of the association's foundation, and he studied the Latinization of American culture in a University of Southern California fellowship program. Damien also hosted his own arts radio program, "Milwaukee Presents with Damien Jaques," on WHAD for eight years.

Travel, books and, not surprisingly, theater top the list of Damien's interests. A news junkie, he is particularly plugged into politics and international affairs, but he also closely follows the Brewers, Packers and Marquette baskeball. Damien lives downtown, within easy walking distance of most of the theaters he attends.