Melissa Kelly (chef)

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Melissa Kelly is an American chef in Rockland, Maine in the United States. She received the 1999 and 2013 Best Chef in the Northeast honors in a James Beard Award. She co-founded Primo restaurant and is its executive chef preparing Italian cuisine and Mediterranean cuisine with a focus on local ingredients. She graduated first in class from the Culinary Institute of America and worked with Larry Forgione at An American Place and Alice Waters at Chez Panisse.^[1] Chef Kelly currently owns/operates PRIMO Restaurants in Rockland, ME, the Marriott Resort Grand Lakes in Orlando, FL and the Marriott Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, AZ. She will be opening another outpost of PRIMO at the Ritz Carlton Resort Grande Lakes in Orlando, FL^[2] in the Fall of 2021. Chef Kelly is also expanding the PRIMO brand into the "delivery-only" space by opening multiple locations of Melissa Kelly's PRIMO Delivered in the Spring/Summer 2021.

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