La Padrona

About

Occupying two floors of the Raffles Boston hotel in Back Bay, La Padrona serves regional Italian cooking from chef Jody Adams — long of Cambridge's Rialto — with her A Street Hospitality partners Eric Papachristos and Jon Mendez, and executive chef Amarilys Colón running the kitchen since the May 2024 opening. Pasta is rolled on site and many main courses arrive in portions meant for the table, alongside plates such as scallops seared and sauced with saffron butter, preceded by cheese-and-fennel breadsticks. A lounge and bar sit at street level, while a grand staircase leads to the busier upstairs dining room, where a U-shaped bar stands beneath globe lights amid gold trim and tall windows; the restaurant carries a Michelin Selected distinction.