Executive Chef James Hackney has helmed the culinary team at Wequassett for the past decade. He is credited with elevating the status of twenty-eight Atlantic to its coveted Forbes Five-Star status. Originally from Leicestershire, England, Hackney was inspired to begin a career in the culinary world by working at his parents’ Garden Hotel, a quaint inn residing in the English countryside. Prior to Wequassett, Chef Hackney served as Chef de Cuisine at Boston’s legendary L’Espalier and other notable restaurants such as Blantyre in Lenox, Massachusetts and Charlie Palmer’s Aquaterra in Palm Beach, Florida.

Chef Jody Adams says her priorities are working with people, working with food, and building a community. Currently balancing chef and co-ownership roles at seven, (soon to be eight) restaurants in Boston, Jody’s priorities and passions have driven her long career in the kitchen, in her philanthropic work, and in communities here and abroad.  She is a partner in A Street Hospitality, the restaurant group founded with partners Eric Papachristos and John Mendez, growing new, innovative concepts in Mediterranean dining.  The team opened TRADE in 2011, which serves elegant, Greek-inspired cuisine steeped in the warmth and comfort of that region. In 2016, they opened Porto with a large vibrant patio serving coastal Mediterranean Italian fare, and in the same year, the first of five Saloniki restaurants, offering fast-casual, scratch-made Greek food.  Jody’s currently devoted to La Padrona, a fine-dining Italian restaurant the group is developing for the new Raffles Hotel in Boston.

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