Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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141 always crowded during the six months it is open. It has been fea- tured in Food and Wine magazine, and celebrities have been known to stop in when they are in town. Though The Market opened in 2010, Nico and Amelia's story starts years earlier in a different restau- rant in California. Nico grew up in Berkeley, just up the street from Chez Panisse, the famed restaurant owned by chef Alice Waters, who is widely considered to be one of the trailblazers of the local food movement. (Waters is also Mon- day's godmother.) By the time he was 13, Nico was bussing tables at the restaurant. After high school, he traveled through France and Italy, working in as many kitchens as he could—"That was my cooking school," he says—before returning to cook at Chez Panisse. Amelia is a Gloucester native. While attending college in coastal Maine, she turned to cooking as a way to occupy herself during the long, snowy winters. When she graduated, she headed to culinary school in the Bay Area. She secured an internship at Chez Panisse. "Ba- sically, I forced myself upon them," she says. And that position eventu- ally evolved into a job. It was at the restaurant that Nico and Amelia met and fell for each other. They worked together for about five years, absorbing Waters's simple, ingredient-driven approach to cooking. "That really shaped how we think about food and look at food," Nico says. Eventually, though, they decided it was time for something new. The couple, not yet married at the time, set their sights on Europe, lining up jobs in Spain. But at the last minute, their visas fell through and they found themselves adrift without a plan. They considered Above and middle, The rustic shanty shack-like restaurant sits on Lobster Cove in Gloucester. Below, the chef sources from local farms to create a variety of seasonal dishes.