Hudson Table | OUR PHILADELPHIA TEAM

Our Team

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.

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.

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.

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.