In 2020, when The Dorrance in Providence shuttered its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, patrons of the establishment lamented the loss of the fine dining establishment. After several years of laying dormant, owner Michael Lester is about to make his restaurant revival.
In October, Lester will open Mémère’s, a French-inspired restaurant that pays homage to Lester’s family and honors his grandmother. The new restaurant will open inside Neptune, the downtown Providence hotel previously known as The Dean.
“It’s going to be New England comfort with a French twist,” said Lester in a statement shared with the Boston Globe. “We kind of have Montreal during the week and Paris on the weekends. We’ll jazz it up and go from a refined rusticity to more glitzy.”…