Frank McClelland is a chef and restaurateur in the

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area who received a

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in 2007 for Best Northeast Chef.

Culinary career

In 1988, McClelland bought

L'Espalier ''L’Espalier'' was a French restaurant located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Back Bay neighborhood, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The chef and owner of L'Espalier was Frank McClelland, who received a James Beard Foundation Awar ...

, a fine dining French restaurant in the

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, from Moncef Meddeb (chef) before closing it in 2018. His second restaurant was Sel de la Terre on State Street. In 2016 he opened the

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restaurant Riverbend. While at L’Espalier, he was the founder and CEO of New France which was a holding company for his restaurants. Along with Daniel Bojorquez with whom he had worked at L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre, he opened La Brasa in

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. The eponymous Frank opened in 2019 in

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Awards and honors

He is the only one in Boston to have earned seventeen consecutive Five Diamond Awards from AAA while at L’Espalier. In 1986, ''

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'' named him of the top 25 new chefs in the US to watch.

Personal life

He grew up in

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on his grandparents’ farm and has lived in

for more than forty years.

References

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