Open Table News

Last year Apellis Pharmaceuticals packed and delivered 100 Thanksgiving bags to Open Table. This year, with the pandemic, it was impossible to assemble the bags in person - so they took their generous spirit virtual AND increased their goal to 150 bags. The Apellis community stepped up and donated the…

Turkey are coming - turkey dinners, that is! Thanksgiving week we have special pantry on Tuesday (11/24) from 10am-6pm to distribute pre-ordered prepared Thanksgiving meals. We will not have standard pantry that week. We are closed to the public the rest of the week, but volunteers that are scheduled for…

We are very excited to announce our Family-to-Family Holiday Food Drive! The holidays may be quite different for many families this year. Come together as a family to assure that other families have food on the holiday table and other items to make this season as festive as possible. Please…

Open Table mourns the loss of Michael Tobin, founder of Mt Calvary Community Supper of Acton. Many of our guests attended both their dinners and ours, resulting in synergy between our two organizations. Michael cared about feeding people while giving them a comfortable place to socialize. We will miss this…

We are sending a big Thank You to our friends at Kerem Shalom - Vineyard of Peace for their drive-up food drive this past week. Special thanks to Nancy Kaplan and Susan Brager Murphy for their organizing skills. Donors gave a total of 835 pounds of food about $900 in…

This Thanksgiving we have volunteers creating special Holiday Splurge Bags to be distributed to our guests before Thanksgiving. These bags have high value holiday items in them that Open Table can't normally provide; things that make holiday time special, such as fancy nuts, dried fruits, dried sausage, sparkling cider, etc.…

Open Table will be OPEN this Veterans Day (Wednesday, November 11, 2020). We will be running the drive-thru pantry at the Concord Carlisle High School (open to Concord, Carlisle and Boston families) as scheduled, 1:00-2:00pm. And while we do not have any pantry service at our 33 Main Street location…

We are sending a big thank you to our friends from the Nashawtuc Hill neighborhood in Concord for their donation of 1310 pounds of food and a generous cash donation. Traditionally known as the Red Wagon Food Drive where neighborhood kids would go door to door collecting, this year the…

On November 2nd, Elizabeth Cronin dropped off a donation of 165 pounds of food from the employees at Emerson Hospital, Lincoln Physician Group, Orthopedic Affiliates, and Emerson Primary Care of Bedford. donated 165 pounds of food today. We love help from our friends!

We are thankful for our friends at Tea Forté who donated canned goods and delicious Tea Forte products to warm our guests on these brisk autumn days. Many thanks to Jessica Lubets and her colleagues for their thoughtfulness.