To be closer to home, family, Wareham residents open Marion restaurant

MARION — Toast breakfasts each bearing the names of Rochester, Marion and Mattapoisett can be found toward the middle of the menu at Tri-Town Market.

There’s no particular reason how the towns were assigned to the different toast options, other than just to “go with the flow,” co-owner Kim Jorjakis said.

But she still had explanations for why the trio of sliced bread dishes at the newly opened Marion business bore the names of the trio of municipalities that make up the Tri-Town.

The toast with protein-rich peanut butter got Rochester, like the student-athletes at Old Rochester. Marion, the safe and nice little country town, got the butter, cinnamon sugar and honey toast that reminded Kim Jorjakis of her grandmother. And it was just collectively agreed that Mattapoisett would get Nutella, strawberries and bananas, according to Jorjakis.

Kim runs Tri-Town Market with husband Kosta and his brother Petro Jorjakis. The restaurant opened about three weeks ago inside what used to be the Tri-Town Barber Shop.

Petro also runs Santoro's Pizza next door, one of the locations of a chain started by his and Kosta’s parents in the 90s. But for Wareham residents Kosta and Kim, the new business is a return to food after more than two decades.

Kosta and Kim met at the Carver Santoro’s Pizza in 1999. Kosta was a carpenter commuting to towns like Westwood and Falmouth. Kim has been a nurse’s aide for 22 years.

It made Tri-Town Market “a good opportunity for something new,” Kosta Jorjakis said.

“We just started thinking about it,” he said. “What can we do? Stay closer to home. Stop driving. Stop wasting all these hours away from each other. I like being with my wife. I like being with my family, so this makes the most sense.”

The pair also has an interest in a “healthy style of living,” according to Kosta Jorjakis, who said his parents dying in 2016 opened their eyes to “healthy choices.”

“This is kind of the end result of that,” he said. “Full circle at this point and just trying to make sure that everything we do is as healthy as we can.”

Tri-Town Market has food items like breakfast and lunch sandwiches, acai bowls, oatmeal, yogurt, smoothies and pastries. Owing to the Jorjakis’ Greek heritage, the restaurant also sells baklava, spanakopita and juices imported from Greek islands.

They landed on the name Tri-Town Market in part going off of the name of the previous tenant of the Route 6 building, Tri-Town Barber Shop, while also expressing the versatility of what the restaurant offers, according to Kosta Jorjakis.

“We like doing this kind of stuff,” he said.