Providence · Open
Mare Rooftop
The East Side of Providence. A rooftop that keeps its table all year.
Mare — Italian for the sea. A room on the roof, above the city.
Not everything in the portfolio is a building to live or work in. Mare is a room to be in — a rooftop restaurant on the East Side of Providence, serving elevated Mediterranean plates above the skyline, and named, simply, for the sea.
A rooftop that keeps its table through February.
The difficulty of a rooftop is never the view. It is the calendar. Anyone can fill a roof in July; the test is the other nine months, and it is the reason so few of them last. Mare was built for the whole year — heated, with enclosed igloo pods set out along the terrace — so the room over the skyline stays open when the city has gone indoors.
That is the hard, unglamorous part of the idea, and the part that makes it rare. A view is easy to sell once. A rooftop you can book in February is a business.
The building
Address
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229 Waterman Street, Providence, RI
Use
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Rooftop restaurant — Mediterranean
Setting
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Above the East Side, over the Providence skyline
Season
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Year-round · heated igloo pods on the terrace
Service
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Dinner · private events
Strategy
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Held — owned and run in house
Status
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Open
Mare, at dusk
Elevated, and Mediterranean.
The kitchen is Mediterranean — the sea the room is named for, served in plates meant to be lingered over rather than rushed. The setting does the rest: warm light, the skyline held at arm’s length, and a terrace that turns an ordinary evening into one worth keeping.
It is the one address in the city with a room quite like it, and it belongs to the neighbourhood it sits above.
Named for the sea — and kept, like everything else, in house.Mare Rooftop · 229 Waterman
The terrace, after sunset
The one piece the firm does not lease, but runs.
Mare is the project Premier operates rather than rents — an open business, not an asset held for its income. It is the softest edge of a firm known for brick and buy-and-hold: a rooftop, an Italian name, and a table that stays set through the cold.
The mills are held for the long term. Mare is held the same way — and opened, most nights, at five.