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David Dubois, owner of the Franklin Café
He was well ahead of the South End-as-diningdestination trend when he opened his first restaurant on Shawmut Avenue with partner Maureen McLaughlin in 1996. A few years later, he took the wildly successful concept — comfort food in a cozy but chic setting — to the fishing port of Gloucester. And this year, David Dubois brought the Franklin Café into yet another neighborhood: Franklin Southie shook up the South Boston dining scene late last fall, delivering what hip young professional types in the area were craving. Dubois isn’t a player simply because his trio of restaurants is a culinary triple threat. And it isn’t just his uncanny sense of where the next “it” neighborhood is going to emerge. His ventures aren’t intentionally trendy, hot, hip, or any of the other buzzwords associated with them. They just are. Seemingly effortless
vision? Now that’s what makes a player.
