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Jody Adams has been feeding Boston for decades. She’s worked for and with big Boston restaurant names like Lydia Shire and Gordon Hamersley before she went on to run the award-winning Rialto in 1994. Now she’s busy running the kitchens at Trade, Porto, the fast-casual Saloniki, and La Padrona.
The latter received a four-star review from The Boston Globe’s Devra First last month. “From the time we opened the doors [at La Padrona], the feedback has been, ‘Oh my God, where has this restaurant been?’” Adams told Boston.com.
When this James Beard Award-winning chef isn’t baking cacio e pepe focaccia or cooking lobster and uni risotto, she eats close to home in Dorchester . Boston’s biggest neighborhood is so large that it has culinary pockets within its borders (Little Saigon, the Irish presence of Adams Village, the Polish Triangle, and the southern soul food and Cape Verdean cuisine in Uphams Corner). Then there’s neighboring Quincy, where some of Greater Boston’s most exciting restaurant openings have been popping up.
I chatted with Adams about her go-to places right now in Boston, so here’s your chance to explore Dorchester and Quincy more and eat like an award-winning chef while you’re there. Breakfast What Jody Adams loves about living in Dorchester.
