Newton in the Kitchen
Newton Native Kathy Sidell "Met" with Success in Food and Film
Kathy Sidell, owner of the Metropolitan Club in Chestnut Hill and four other MET restaurants, talks about how being from Newton has shaped her career as a film producer and restaurateur.
The word metropolitan can mean “characteristic of a metropolis in accepting and combining a wide variety of people and ideas.” So it’s no wonder Kathy Sidell chose to name the restaurants in her “collection” (she prefers this term to “chain”) with variations on Metropolitan Club. The group includes the original on Route 9 in Chestnut Hill, MET Bar and Grill outposts at The Natick Collection and at Legacy Place in Dedham, MET Back Bay, and the newest member, MET on Main in Nantucket. But as diverse as the locations of the restaurants are, they all reflect Sidell’s upbringing on Baldpate Hill Road right here in Newton. “I worked extra hard at being accessible, real, earthy,” Sidell explains. “I didn’t want the fact that I came from a wealthy…
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Wendy Schapiro
11:03 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Factual corrections: Neither Kathy nor Todd English were involved with Pomme Frites (there was an error to that effect in an article on a tribute to her father that was held a couple of years ago). Sorry for the mistake! more ›