Frank McClelland

Frank McClelland is a chef and restaurateur in the Boston area who received a James Beard Foundation Award in 2007 for Best Northeast Chef.

Culinary career In 1988, McClelland bought L'Espalier, a fine dining French restaurant in the Back Bay, 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 Essex, Massachusetts restaurant Riverbend.

Along with Daniel Bojorquez with whom he had worked at L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre, he opened La Brasa in Somerville.

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, Food & Wine named him of the top 25 new chefs in the US to watch.

Personal life He grew up in New Hampshire on his grandparents’ farm and has lived in Essex, Massachusetts for more than forty years.