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Northshore October 2025
  For such a high-profile chef, Frank McClelland is surprisingly introverted. In addition to owning one of Boston’s iconic restaurants, L’Espalier, he received a James Beard Foundation Award in 2007 for Best Chef Northeast. He’s written a cookbook, Wine Mondays; been featured in copious national food magazines; and been heralded for his farm-raised ingredients and in-field dinners at Apple Street Farm in Essex, which he managed until this past July when he opened Riversbend restaurant in his hometown of Essex. Yet, despite all this, the 59-year-old remains extremely modest, almost bashful. “To a certain exte
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