Michela Larson

Michela Larson is a Boston area chef. The Boston Globe called her one of the city’s “trailblazing female restaurateurs in an era when they were few and far between.”{{cite news |last1=Baskin |first1=Kara |title=From Rialto to Rocca, Michela Larson changed Boston’s restaurant scene. Now she’s doing the same for coffee |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2019/12/23/lifestyle/rialto-rocca-michela-larson-changed-bostons-restaurant-scene-now-shes-doing-same-coffee/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=December 24, 2019}}

Larson was partners with Jody Adams in opening Rialto in Harvard Square.{{cite news |last1=Mariani |first1=John |title=Rialto |url=https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/reviews/a3602/rialto1107/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |publisher=Esquire |date=October 10, 2006}} With Gary Sullivan, she owned Rocca in the South End of Boston. Tiffani Faison was the executive chef when it closed.{{cite web |title=RIP Rocca |url=https://www.bostonchefs.com/news/2011/01/03/rip-rocca/ |website=Boston Chrfs |access-date=9 November 2022}}

With Gary Sullivan and Karen Haskell, she was a principal of the Sapphire Restaurant Group. Her eponymous restaurant, which opened in 1985 in the Carter Ink Building{{cite news |last1=Palmer |first1=Sharon |title=The Boston Food Revolution |url=https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/100610p34.shtml |access-date=9 November 2022 |publisher=Today’s dietician |date=October 2010}} and was one of the first women owned restaurants in the city,{{cite news |title=She's the boss Boston has a recipe for success that even a restaurant mecca like New York has not yet discovered: women running the kitchen |url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2006/11/01/shes_the_boss/?__goto=loginpage |access-date=9 November 2022 |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=November 1, 2006}} was a solo venture at first. The group was part of Rialto (and Jody Adams was part of the group).{{cite news |last1=Krummert |first1=Bob |title=Gem of a Setting |url=https://www.restaurant-hospitality.com/mag/rh_imp_17548 |access-date=9 November 2022 |publisher=Restaurant Hospitality |date=August 1, 2007}}

In 2014, she opened a restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida called the blue.{{cite web |title=Boca Raton Resort & Club Opens the blue Restaurant |url=https://clubandresortbusiness.com/boca-raton-resort-club-opens-blue-restaurant |website=Club and Resort Businrss |access-date=9 November 2022}} And in 2019, she opened Mod Espresso, a European style coffee bar.