This fall, Back Bay prepares to welcome Rosa y Marigold. The Peruvian restaurant is the latest concept from the team behind Somerville’s Celeste and Cambridge’s La Royal.
Heralded as masterminds behind some of the best ancient-inspired Peruvian cuisine in the area, JuanMa Calderón and Maria Rondeau are hard at work on their newest project, Rosa y Marigold, set to open at Lyrik, Back Bay this autumn.
Rosa y Marigold is the couple’s first restaurant in Boston proper, bringing their signature dinner-party atmosphere and vibrant Peruvian cuisine to the city. The duo takes experiential dining to new heights, literally.
Esmeralda, their restaurant stationed at their Vermont home serves Peruvian cuisine in intimates settings from their mountainside home. Their ancient Peruvian cooking techniques gained national headlines, with Esquire naming Esmeralda one of the “best New restaurants in America.”
Filmmaker and Chef JuanMa Calderón helms the open kitchen with a menu of tiraditos (cured fish), anticuchos (grilled skewers) and causas (a traditional Peruvian layered potato dish), along with specialties such as oxtail ossobuco, whole fried branzino and several Peruvian-Chinese chifa dishes, a nod to his heritage. Maria Rondeau, an architect by trade, designed the 100-seat space, their largest to date.
Together, they intend for Rosa y Marigold to capture the magic of their journey through the world of hospitality, from their early days hosting a pop-up out of their Cambridge home to now running a family of respected and entirely unique restaurants.
The name, Rosa y Marigold, is inspired by the final work, Marigold and Rose, written by their late friend, Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning autobiographical poet and essayist Louise Glück, who frequented Celeste and La Royal.
Rosa y Marigold opening Fall 2025 at Lyrik Back Bay