Mae’s Market and Café
Mae’s Market and Café is an all day food market where you can enjoy a high quality, made-from-scratch selection of coffee, baked goods, salads and gourmet sandwiches. For meals enjoyed at home you'll find an edited grocery and bodega filled with house-prepared food & pantry items, produce, freshly baked bread, charcuterie and cheese, craft beer, wine and more.
About Nicole Jones
Nicole’s cooking style is rooted in, but not limited to, her love of southern biscuits and her diverse culinary upbringing. A military brat, she spent her childhood in the Chicago suburbs enjoying her great-grandmother Mae’s Lithuanian cooking. As a tween, she moved to Paulding County, Ga. where she begrudgingly fell in love with the charmingly perplex small towns of the Deep South. She fondly remembers grubbing on Martin’s biscuits, late-night Waffle House debauchery and cooking with her family.
After graduating from the University of Georgia, Nicole started a marketing career at an art nonprofit in Atlanta. At 25 years old, she became the youngest executive at the local Atlanta NPR affiliate.
Chasing her dreams, she moved to Alexandria, Va. where she took a short post in the Whole Foods marketing department. Realizing that cooking had been her true love all along, she began night courses at L’Academie de Cuisine. She completed her apprenticeship at Blue Duck Tavern where she was promoted to a line cook after graduation. From there, Nicole worked as a private chef for busy Washington D.C. executives and their families.
www.maesmarketandcafe.com | Instagram | 277 S. Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 | (703) 664-0445 | manager@maesmarketandcafe.com