Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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158 | NOVEMBER 2015 nshoremag.com BY JEANNE O'BRIEN COFFEY For 28 years, the chef/owner of Palmers Restaurant & Tavern has been pleasing diners with top-quality food and warm hospitality. Good Taste in-depth photographs by Sarah Jordan McCaffery John Palmer Ingalls loves to cook. A broad smile spreads across his face while thinking about the menu at his Andover eatery, Palmers Res- taurant & Tavern. "What do I enjoy cooking?" Ingalls asks. "Everything!" Ingalls is in the kitchen almost daily, making all the soups and doing much of the prep work, but admits that he seldom works the line during meal service these days. "I fill in when needed, but I'm not as young as I used to be," says the deeply tanned and fit Swamp- scott native with a shrug. Ingalls graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked in some of Boston's top restaurants, including the storied Locke-Ober, before opening the original Palm- ers in Swampscott in the late 1980s. DINE Crab cakes are a traditional favorite on Ingalls's menu.