Table Talk Restaurant Now Open for Dinner

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Table Talk restaurant, an institution in Old Town Alexandria, is now open for dinner. In business since 1976, the restaurant is widely known for its “comfort food” menu and its regulars who frequent the Mom ‘n Pop business for breakfast and lunch.

Starting last Friday, the eatery, located at 1623 Duke St., began opening its doors for dinner and it has also added a Web site, where you can peruse the menu and read about the location’s beginnings as a Tastee Freez back in the 1940s, a Dunk ‘n Dine in the 1950s and Hamlet Restaurant in the ‘60s.

Today, the restaurant is under new ownership by Jeffrey Yates, who also recently bought Hunting Creek, a steakhouse on King Street and has plans for Generous George’s as well as the Old Town Theater. The restaurant employs five waitresses (one who has worked there for 32 years) and four in the kitchen.

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Mo Movahed, who opened Table Talk in 1976, sold the restaurant last year to Yates; Movahed’s stepson, Nick Kapetanakis, is managing the restaurant. “It’s kind of like ‘Cheers,’ where everybody knows your name,” he said Wednesday,

Kapetanakis’ brother-in-law, Chris Elcavage, who has worked for years in the restaurant business, is helping Yates manage his restaurant businesses; Elcavage’s wife Stella is also in the restaurant business.

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The Table Talk dinner menu features meatloaf, butterfly shrimp, cherrystone clams with linguini, homemade chili, New York Strip Steak, a turkey dinner, pulled pork, chicken wings and much more.

Currently the restaurant is closing for lunch at 3 p.m. and then reopening for dinner, and closing at 10 p.m. Plans eventually call for the eatery to be open without closing between lunch and dinner, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

PHOTO of Table Talk restaurant courtesy of business