Michela Larson Explained
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.”[1]
Larson was partners with Jody Adams in opening Rialto in Harvard Square.[2] With Gary Sullivan, she owned Rocca in the South End of Boston. Tiffani Faison was the executive chef when it closed.[3]
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[4] and was one of the first women owned restaurants in the city,[5] was a solo venture at first. The group was part of Rialto (and Jody Adams was part of the group).[6]
In 2014, she opened a restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida called the blue.[7] And in 2019, she opened Mod Espresso, a European style coffee bar.
References
- News: Baskin . Kara . From Rialto to Rocca, Michela Larson changed Boston’s restaurant scene. Now she’s doing the same for coffee . 9 November 2022 . The Boston Globe . December 24, 2019.
- News: Mariani . John . Rialto . 9 November 2022 . Esquire . October 10, 2006.
- Web site: RIP Rocca . Boston Chrfs . 9 November 2022.
- News: Palmer . Sharon . The Boston Food Revolution . 9 November 2022 . Today’s dietician . October 2010.
- News: 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 . 9 November 2022 . The Boston Globe . November 1, 2006.
- News: Krummert . Bob . Gem of a Setting . 9 November 2022 . Restaurant Hospitality . August 1, 2007.
- Web site: Boca Raton Resort & Club Opens the blue Restaurant . Club and Resort Businrss . 9 November 2022.