L’Espalier was a French restaurant located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Back Bay neighborhood, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
[1] Chef Moncef Meddeb opened L'Espalier on Boylston Street between Arlington and Berkeley in 1978.
L'Espalier is known locally as a popular place for marriage proposals and celebrity sightings.
[2] On March 27, 2013 McClelland celebrated their 35th anniversary with a specially designed six course tasting menu including Jonah crab bisque, branzino and rack of lamb.
[4][5] L'Espalier served locally grown produce prepared in classically French ways, offering lunch in the afternoon and dinner nightly with tea service on the weekends 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.