Frank McClelland
Frank McClelland is a chef and restaurateur in the Boston area who received a James Beard Foundation Award{{cite news |last1=Cain |first1=Jacqueline |title=Frank McClelland's Riversbend Is Now Open in Essex |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2016/07/26/riversbend-essex-open-frank-mcclelland/ |access-date=3 September 2022 |publisher=Boston Magazine |date=July 26, 2016}} in 2007 for Best Northeast Chef.{{cite web |title=Chef Frank McClelland |url=https://www.bostonchefs.com/restaurant/frank/chef/frank-mcclelland/ |website=BestChefs.com |access-date=3 September 2022}}
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.
While at L’Espalier, he was the founder and CEO of New France which was a holding company for his restaurants.{{cite news |last1=Knight |first1=Rebecca |title=From sous-chef to restaurateur |url=https://www.ft.com/content/bc8dc138-36c7-11df-bc0f-00144feabdc0 |access-date=3 September 2022 |publisher=Financial Times |date=March 23, 2010}}
Along with Daniel Bojorquez with whom he had worked at L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre, he opened La Brasa in Somerville.
The eponymous Frank opened in 2019 in Beverly, Massachusetts.{{cite news |last1=Coffey |first1=Jeanne O’Brien |title=Chef Frank McClelland Opens "Frank" in Beverly |url=https://www.nshoremag.com/eat-drink/frank-mcclelland-to-open-frank-in-beverly/ |access-date=3 September 2022 |publisher=Northshore Magazine |date=November 14, 2019}}
=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,{{cite news |last1=Leighton |first1=Paul |title=L'Espalier chef to open restaurant in Beverly |url=https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/lespalier-chef-to-open-restaurant-in-beverly/article_a6f13a6d-acd1-5381-a5db-32b4043f409a.html |access-date=3 September 2022 |publisher=Salem News |date=March 7, 2019}} Food & Wine named him of the top 25 new chefs in the US to watch.{{cite news |last1=Coffey |first1=Jeanne O’Brien |title=Acclaimed Boston Chef To Launch Fast Casual Empire |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanneobriencoffey/2019/04/30/frank-mcclelland-gets-casual-after-lespalier/ |access-date=3 September 2022 |work=Forbes |date=April 30, 2019}}
Personal life
He grew up in New Hampshire on his grandparents’ farm and has lived in Essex, Massachusetts for more than forty years.