ALLEN BARI

Founder | CEO | CFO

A New Jersey native, Allen has proudly called Hoboken home for over nearly 2 decades. His journey is defined by his drive to follow his passions, including a successful career as a professional poker player that took him around the world and earned him a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2011. However, it was during this time that Allen realized his growing interest in the culinary industry. While taking a cooking class, he identified a gap in the market and decided to shift his focus from poker to hospitality and food education. Leaving behind his poker career, Allen enrolled in the French Culinary Institute, leading to the founding of Hudson Table in 2014. What began as a local venture has since expanded to include additional locations in Stamford, CT, Brooklyn, NY, Philadelphia, PA, and Princeton, NJ.

ALLISON BARI

Owner | Creative Director

Allie has been a Hoboken resident for 10 years. Always having a passion for cooking and food, she and Allen took numerous cooking classes before urging him with the idea to open Hudson Table. Together, they have opened 3 locations in the last few years with her guidance on design while helping make all things HT aesthetically pleasing. She manages all social media accounts for Hoboken, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia locations.

ANNA ZUCK DOWNS

COO

Anna was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and spent much of her early career in the travel industry running operations for international travel programs, living in places like Hong Kong and South Africa, and eating her way around the world. Landing in New York in 2014, she spent 6 years in the wine industry before joining the team at Hudson Table. You can find her sourcing exciting new wines from wine regions across the globe, leading the day to day operations at hT, managing private and corporate events in Brooklyn, Hoboken and Stamford, and sharing her passion for food and beverage with our staff and guests across all of our locations!

ERIC CLEMENTE

Vice President Of Operations

New Jersey native Eric has been cooking for over 15 years. While his professional culinary journey began in Parma, Italy at the prestigious culinary academy, Alma, his obsession with food began long before that. Growing up in an Italian-American family, food was always pivotal and often the entire reason for gathering. Childhood summers spent with family in Japan eventually led him to live and cook there professionally as an adult. Since 2019 Eric has been the Executive Chef and a partner at Fork Hill Kitchen in Union City.

SARA KARTZMER FRY

Director Of Kids Programming

Chef Sara Kartzmer Fry is a health-supportive chef who graduated from the Natural Gourmet Institute and shares her passion for wholesome cooking with children and adults, as a personal chef, chef instructor, and educator. She’s been working with children in the kitchen for 13 years in various teaching kitchens including Sylvia Center, Wellness in the Schools, Stone Barns, and 92Y. Sara now leads our incredible kids and teen programming across all locations!

ANNE STRONG

General Manager | Chef

Anne is a native New Yorker whose culinary career brought her to Philadelphia. From a young age, Anne has loved food and the role it plays in making people feel welcome. While working in the publishing industry, Anne enrolled in culinary school at night and landed a job at her externship restaurant. Over the next decade she worked in restaurants all over Manhattan and Philadelphia, including The Modern, Momofuku Ko, Serpico, Morimoto, The Dandelion, and The Love.

Anne joined Hudson Table in January of 2021 and enjoys teaching adult and kids classes, battling it out in chef competitions, and executing private catered events.

DOUG BROWN

Assistant Manager

Doug is a native of South Jersey, growing up on a farm in Mickleton.  From an early age the passion for cooking took hold, starting as a dishwasher at a local restaurant at 15. He studied culinary arts at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, followed by work at resorts, restaurants and corporate catering for over 15 years.

Doug enjoys cooking with locally sourced ingredients and values clean, simple flavors. Through his most recent endeavor, Farmhouse Flavors, he makes small-batch, seasonal preserves and shrubs, which combines those passions and celebrates his farming roots.

JARED COHEN

Lead Chef | Kitchen Assistant

Jared has been in the food industry for over 20 years, having worked for restaurants in Philly (Tangerine, Max and David’s, the Wine Thief), Colorado (Vesta Dipping Grill, Dazzle Jazz Club), Florida, Southern California (BiCE), and the US Virgin Islands (Seafood Jungle). He has done every job in a kitchen, from dishwasher to executive chef, personal chef, restaurant owner, and now competitive chef and instructor. Jared also an instructor for our children’s programming, utilizing his experience as Krinsky Camps Culinary Program Director. His passion for food and travel has allowed him to visit 48 states and 34 countries. He creates his favorite dishes by combining flavors and techniques picked up along the way.

THOMAS DAY

Lead Chef

Chef Thomas Day III has worked in the restaurant industry for 25 years, most recently as a super yacht chef in the Caribbean and the Bahamas for the past 5 years. Prior to that he has been the executive and sous chef of multiple restaurants here in Philadelphia. On down time he freelances as a private chef and enjoys time outdoors with family.

JUSTIN O’HANLON

Lead Chef

Chef Justin joined our team as a Kitchen Assistant in 2022 and has become an indispensable member of the team, now as a Chef Instructor and competitor in our Chef Competitions. Prior to working at Hudson Table, he spent time in kitchens throughout Philly such as Little Fish and Stina.

JUSTIN SHUDA

Kitchen Assistant

MEREDITH ROSENTHAL

Kids Class Instructor/Kitchen Assistant/MC

ALLY HUDAK

Kitchen Assistant

IVAN TLAPECHCO

Kitchen Assistant

ERVIN VARGAS

Dishwasher