WELCOME TO OUR TABLE JAMESTOWN

We are very proud to announce Our Table Jamestown, a small-town restaurant with a big heart. Here you'll find comfort food, kicked up: fresh ingredients, locally sourced whenever possible, for dinner and late afternoon snacks all year long. We aim to provide Jamestown a new and welcoming gathering spot with affordable, creative, and delicious food.

If you've never been to Jamestown, we can't wait to welcome you.

And if you know Jamestown, we can't wait to give you another reason to love it.

There’s a stalwart band of year-rounders here, outnumbered in the summer by visitors and seasonal residents from around the world, attracted by Jamestown’s beaches, boating, pastoral farms, and beautiful coastline.  We’re eager to cook for all! Rhode Islanders (and no doubt some of you non-Rhode Islanders) are food lovers, and we’re eager to provide those who cross a bridge to get here a reason to keep coming back.

OUR TABLE, OUR STORY

We met in a kitchen: Marc was a Sous Chef at the premier catering company in Washington, DC. Marla was working there as part of pastry school– a break in her long career in rough and tumble politics that included a stint in the White House. We found a recipe for laughter and love that we’ve shared for more than a decade; cooking, talking, cooking, running our own catering company, cooking, creating a dinner delivery service here in Jamestown, dreaming of a restaurant, and, along the way, getting married – we cooked for that, too.

OUR JAMESTOWN JOURNEY

We moved to Jamestown in the Spring of 2016. Marla continued helping great candidates get elected and baking – cookies for the Jamestown Farmer’s Market, birthday cakes, and party desserts. Marc helped conceive and run a brew pub restaurant to great reviews. He helped re-imagine a Providence restaurant to meet the challenges of the pandemic. All the while, we dreamed of a place to call our own, and to welcome you in and cook for you.

Our Table to Your Table

In January 2021, our answer to all the COVID-19 closings was to open Our Table to Your Table, a weekly dinner delivery to our Jamestown neighbors. Lucy DiNaro joined us, proving to be terrific at everything, from meal prep to social media, even to dinner delivery.

We’ve delivered hundreds of meals, celebrating with Jamestowners on Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, Passover, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, and the Fourth of July – not to mention a few birthdays, anniversaries, and special events. We loved it!

All the while, we continued to gather friends at our table as we made Jamestown our home, and we continued to dream of a restaurant of our own.

Our Table Jamestown

Our restaurant dream comes true at a spot Jamestown locals know as the former Baker’s Pharmacy. For us, it’s a gem of a space, lots of room, smack in the center of town, a walk to the water and the Newport Ferry. And, unusual for Jamestown, there’s plenty of onsite parking.

SHARING OUR TABLE WITH YOU

We bring to Our Table every bit of our culinary experience, creativity, and skill -- Chef Marc on the savory, Chef Marla on the sweet. Our menus will change to highlight the freshest vegetables, produce, and tastes of each season, offering familiar, favorite dishes with the highest quality ingredients and new culinary twists. 

And we will be open all year. We want to serve the summer crowds but it is important to us to build a place for the people of Jamestown who are here all year. We feel very lucky to have landed in this welcoming island community, and we very much want to give something back.

HARD WORK WILL BRING OUR VISION TO LIFE

The pharmacy building needs a lot of work. It’s going to take major renovations to get in the plumbing and power needed for a kitchen. Then there’s all that kitchen equipment. Even used equipment requires serious investment.

The total start-up budget is more than $300,000. We’re committing everything we can in savings and all our determination. But we can’t do it alone. We need your help.

JOIN US AT OUR TABLE

• Get on the Our Table mailing list by clicking here, so we can keep you posted on our progress toward opening day. We’re aiming to open late Fall, but certainly by the end of the year. (Think about Our Table for your holiday celebrations!)
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Thanks for joining us on this journey! We’ve felt your support and love all along the way and we are so delighted to have your partnership in making this dream come true.  

See you at  Our Table! 

Marc & Marla

Executive Chef Marc Alexander has spent his career preparing extraordinary meals in extraordinary settings. After graduating from the acclaimed culinary program at Johnson & Wales College, Marc cooked in Europe and the Pentagon as a Personal Chef to a three-star General. Chef Marc returned to Washington, DC, where he served for a decade as a Sous Chef at the city’s leading catering company, Occasions, managing major events in and around the capitol. Chef Marc and Chef Marla founded Dreamz Catering, providing fine dining experiences to clients across the Washington, DC metro area. In Rhode Island, Chef Marc has served private clients and helped launch the Apponaug Brewery as the Executive Chef, developing the menu and leading kitchen operations to rave reviews. Marc also helped the Providence G-Pub and Rooftop meet the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pastry Chef Marla Romash began baking professionally after working in politics and media as a newspaper and television reporter and producer, press secretary to U.S. Senators and Communications Director for Vice President Al Gore. She’s helped elect U.S. Senators and Governors from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nevada and more. She’s run four marathons and worked hard to deadlift more than 200 pounds. She took a break from politics and graduated with honor from L’ACADEMIE DE CUISINE in Maryland, one of the nation’s top ten culinary schools. She created Marla’s Magic, The Political Cookie Company and with Chef Marc, Dreamz Catering. Her unique confections have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post and on the Today show and she has been delighted to create special cakes for Barbra Streisand and treasured clients celebrating special occasions. 

Assistant General Manager Lucy DiNaro brings to Our Table Jamestown a broad array of skills. Her first job on Mike’s Fries food truck (she was 15 years old!) was the catalyst for years of experience in food service, with time spent at Gillette  Stadium, Russell Morin Catering, and finally, as a Barista and Manager at Brewed Awakenings. A graduate of Rhode Island College (Political Science and Public Administration), she was Managing Editor at the college’s newspaper.  She interned at the Rhode Island State Legislature, where she helped promote legislation to reduce food waste and increase composting. Now, she loves to find creative ways to merge her digital media skills with her passion for community outreach and engagement.